On Thu, Sep 06 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:02:43AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 06 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>>
>> > +# Create a file named as $1 with content read from stdin.
>> > +# Set the file's mtime to a few seconds in the past to avoid racy situations.
>> > +create_file () {
>>
>> Nit: Would be easier to read in the future as
>> e.g. s/create_file/create_old_file/ or something like that. I.e. so you
>> can see at a glance from the tests themselves what this is doing.
>
> Perhaps; but then I'm not so sure about 'old', because that's just a
> property of the resulting file... I'm inclined to rename it to
> 'create_non_racy_file' to also imply "why" this function is used
> instead of plain old '>file'.
Yeah, that's much better.
