cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Sat Dec 13 08:45:17 PST 2003


Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh at starjuice.net> writes:
> Interesting; mergemaster is a shell script.  Do you know which utilities
> that mergemaster uses are perl scripts?

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.

DES
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