From 0bd39701b4018896788712ac3e8aa732458b8fe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:05:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Do not remove sudoedit temporary files if we cannot overwrite
 the real file. The warning message says the files were preserved but they
 actually got removed.

---
 src/sudo_edit.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sudo_edit.c b/src/sudo_edit.c
index d99a5658a..0b67ca0cf 100644
--- a/src/sudo_edit.c
+++ b/src/sudo_edit.c
@@ -1110,8 +1110,10 @@ sudo_edit(struct command_details *command_details)
     else
 #endif
 	errors = sudo_edit_copy_tfiles(command_details, tf, nfiles, times);
-    if (errors)
-	goto cleanup;
+    if (errors) {
+	/* Preserve the edited temporary files. */
+	rc = W_EXITCODE(1, 0);
+    }
 
     for (i = 0; i < nfiles; i++)
 	free(tf[i].tfile);