nano

commit 9ab49658d731e1506942cdf7c96ebd6a90858956
parent bb3d367716561ad6cfa5e6599ce5ac6a8e33ac15
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:05:23 +0200

files: prepending to a fifo makes no sense, so do not try that

Trying to prepend would hang nano until some other process writes
something to the fifo.

This fixes https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61236.

Bug existed since before version 2.2.4.

Diffstat:
M
src/files.c
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5
+++++

1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/files.c b/src/files.c
@@ -1799,6 +1799,11 @@ bool write_file(const char *name, FILE *thefile, bool tmp,
 			goto cleanup_and_exit;
 	}
 
+	if (method == PREPEND && is_existing_file && S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode)) {
+		statusline(ALERT, _("Error writing %s: %s"), realname, "FIFO");
+		goto cleanup_and_exit;
+	}
+
 	/* When prepending, first copy the existing file to a temporary file. */
 	if (method == PREPEND) {
 		FILE *source = fopen(realname, "rb");