posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode
Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.
Consider the program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
fprintf(f, "narf\n");
fclose(f);
f = fopen("narf", "a");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
fprintf(f, "troz\n");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
return 0;
}
on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints
5
10
but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints
0
10
By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:
> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().
in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.
$ hg init
$ echo "added file1" > file1
$ echo "another line of text" >> file1
$ echo "added file2" > file2
$ hg add file1 file2
$ hg commit -m "added file1 and file2"
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg commit -m "changed file1"
$ hg -q log
1:dfab7f3c2efb
0:c3fa057dd86f
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f+
$ hg revert --no-backup --all
reverting file1
$ hg diff
$ hg status
$ hg id
c3fa057dd86f
$ hg update
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "changed file1 different" >> file1
$ hg update
merging file1
warning: conflicts while merging file1! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 files unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
[1]
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r dfab7f3c2efb file1
--- a/file1
+++ b/file1
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
added file1
another line of text
+<<<<<<< working copy: c3fa057dd86f - test: added file1 and file2
+changed file1 different
+=======
changed file1
+>>>>>>> destination: dfab7f3c2efb - test: changed file1
$ hg status
M file1
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb+ tip
$ hg revert --no-backup --all
reverting file1
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg revert -r tip --no-backup --all
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip
$ hg update -C
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
dfab7f3c2efb tip