Gray Wolf 051665ef69 crontab: Fix -e with editors saving using renaming strategy ...

Some editors (like vim) use renaming strategy to save file. That means
they save a file to some random name and then rename it to final
location. The advantage is that such save is atomic.

However, crontab -e holds open fd to the temporary file, meaning it
never sees the changes. The temporary file needs to be re-opened after
the editor terminates for the changes to properly save.

Fixes #12491

Signed-off-by: Gray Wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

2020-07-11 17:02:37 +02:00

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