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| -rw-r--r-- | miscutils/crontab.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/crontab.c b/miscutils/crontab.c index c71d914fc..411a18a50 100644 --- a/miscutils/crontab.c +++ b/miscutils/crontab.c @@ -165,8 +165,12 @@ int crontab_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) close(fd); xlseek(src_fd, 0, SEEK_SET); } - close_on_exec_on(src_fd); /* don't want editor to see this fd */ + close(src_fd); edit_file(pas, tmp_fname); + /* The src_fd needs to be reopened to handle editors that do + * save the buffer as new file and rename it to tmp_fname (so + * for example vim). */ + src_fd = xopen3(tmp_fname, O_RDONLY, 0600); /* fall through */ case 0: /* Replace (no -l, -e, or -r were given) */ |