cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1

[Mark Murray]

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?

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