From 242079435575fcdaa110791eac58598144fef9e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:59:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] in write_file(), if the original file is unreadable when we
try to save the backup, we can save the original file unless we're
prepending, so do it
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@3360 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8
---
src/files.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/files.c b/src/files.c
index 0d2cec04..d42b8ac7 100644
--- a/src/files.c
+++ b/src/files.c
@@ -1336,9 +1336,15 @@ int write_file(const char *name, FILE *f_open, bool tmp, append_type
statusbar(_("Error reading %s: %s"), realname,
strerror(errno));
beep();
- /* If we can't open the original file, we won't be able
- * to save it, so get out. */
- goto cleanup_and_exit;
+ /* If we can't read from the original file, and we're
+ * prepending, get out, since we won't be able to save
+ * either the backup or the original file. If we're not
+ * prepending, go on, since only saving the original
+ * file is better than saving nothing. */
+ if (append == PREPEND)
+ goto cleanup_and_exit;
+ else
+ goto skip_backup;
}
}
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