Re: makefiles writing to $@ should first write to $@.new

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:41:49PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 09:23:05PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > If the rule is interrupted (due to ^C or ENOSPC), foo can be 0 bytes or
> > partially written, but won't be rebuilt until someone runs distclean or debugs
> > it and removes the individual file, as I did for errcodes.h.
>
> Honestly, I am not sure that this worth bothering about. This comes
> down to a balance between the code complexity and the likelihood of a
> failure, and the odds are not in favor of the later IMO. Now, it
> could be perhaps possible to make such a change simple enough while it
> avoids a lot of technical debt, but we have a lot of custom rules
> particularly in src/bin/, so changing all that or even require that in
> future changes is not really appealing.

I agree, it doesn't seem worth it.