[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Preventing destroying of symbolic/hard links in Windows OS. (#1270)

[Matthew Brush]

codebrainz commented on this pull request.



> @@ -1955,37 +1961,51 @@ static gchar *write_data_to_disk(const gchar *locale_filename,
 		/* Use POSIX API for unsafe saving (GVFS-unsafe) */
 		/* The error handling is taken from glib-2.26.0 gfileutils.c */
 		errno = 0;
-		fp = g_fopen(locale_filename, "wb");
+		fp = g_fopen(locale_filename, "w+b"); // we can not destroy  symbolic/hard links

Both "w" and "w+" truncate the file and discard it's contents (see [here](http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/fopen/)). If you observe something else, it might be undefined behaviour. Or did I misunderstand?

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