cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 14 03:45:35 PST 2003


+-le 14/12/03 11:36 +0000, Mark Murray écrivait :
| Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
|> It uses Perl directly to compute the numeric mode of a file.  The
|> version in -CURRENT uses a combination of stat(1), bc(1) and shell
|> arithmetic which causes a syntax error in 4.x.
|> 
|> Personally, I think it would be best if stat(1) could gain an option
|> (-m perhaps) that makes it simply print its arguments' modes in octal.
| 
| Does 4.x's stat(1) have the "-s" switch? If so:
| 
| $ ( eval $(stat -s .profile) ; printf "%o %s\n" ${st_mode} ${st_mode} )
| 100644 0100644
| 
| Would that be any use?

I don't believe 4.x has stat(1) anyway.

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Mathieu Arnold


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