From e5fc9c7188c9fc00a2b0d3c7f7302181b264bdaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pbr <pbr@weneed.beer>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 21:24:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(journal): fail write/append when the temp copy can't be
 written

pmx_write_file and pmx_append_file didn't check the first cat into
the temp file, so a full /tmp returned 0 and left a truncated target.
---
 scripts/global/pmx_journal.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/global/pmx_journal.sh b/scripts/global/pmx_journal.sh
index ca16cecf..d8decbd3 100644
--- a/scripts/global/pmx_journal.sh
+++ b/scripts/global/pmx_journal.sh
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ pmx_write_file() {
     local path="$1"
     local temp before="" after="" existed="false"
     temp="$(mktemp)" || { cat > "$path"; return $?; }
-    cat > "$temp"
+    cat > "$temp" || { rm -f "$temp"; return 1; }
 
     local kept="true"
     if [ -f "$path" ]; then
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ pmx_append_file() {
     local path="$1"
     local temp before="" after="" existed="false"
     temp="$(mktemp)" || { cat >> "$path"; return $?; }
-    cat > "$temp"
+    cat > "$temp" || { rm -f "$temp"; return 1; }
 
     local kept="true"
     if [ -f "$path" ]; then