[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Template resource: default value for mode attribute?

[Brian Akins < >]

On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Faiz Kazi wrote:
> 
> One of the most frequent use cases is to automate
> the editing of config files - something that without
> chef, is done using a text editor. I'm guessing most
> editors simply do an open() with WRONLY|TRUNC, then
> write out the new contents. This is not any worse
> than cp.
> 

Don't a lot of them write to a tmp file then mv it over?  Also, mostly we 
used to rsync files around, which can be made to do updates atomically.

To me it seems lame to claim "it's no worse than <x>"  when the correct 
behavior is not incredibly hard to implement.  My $.02 worth.

--Brian