Hint for users of AdaControl (-m, -o, -r and -w options)

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Hi happy AdaControl users,

Don't know if this was already noticed somewhere, but I've just noticed  
some care must taken when one use the “-w“ in a specific circumstance:  
this option direct the adactl command to overwrite the output file  
specifies by the “-o <file>” option. If you do so *with* the “-r” option  
*without* the “-m” option, you will a get an output file looking like  
truncated. The output file will be overwritten for each processed units  
spec' and body. When the “-m” option is specified, this undesired behavior  
is not exposed.

Conclusion: if you use the options “-o” “-r” and “-w” all together, always  
serve it with an “-m” option (this will also prevent you from erroneously  
suspecting a bug in adactl ;-) ).


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