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    detect failures in writing to file during final flush of buffers · 4c3712ec
    Alex Dowad authored and Timo Teräs's avatar Timo Teräs committed
    In practice this should fix to e.g. not wipe out /etc/apk/world if
    final flush to /etc/apk/world.new fails.
    
    This was prompted by an incident the other day where I ran the root
    partition of an Alpine box out of space using 'apk add', and apk
    helpfully wiped the contents of /etc/apk/world at the same time.
    
    It might be tricky to try to reproduce exactly the same failure,
    but from an examination of the code, setting 'rc' before the final
    call to fdo_flush rather than after is one possible cause of this
    behavior. (If the entire contents of /etc/apk/world.new are buffered,
    and all get written out in the final fdo_flush call, and that call
    fails, fdo_close will still happily rename /etc/apk/world.new to
    /etc/apk/world.)
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