I installed this. The cute thing here is that there are two variants
of the module. fts is GPL'ed, and fts-lgpl is LGPL'ed. I haven't
tested the latter, though.
2005-05-20 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* MODULES.html.sh (File system functions): Add fts, fts-lgpl.
* lib/fts.
Paul Eggert wrote:
>>There is one change I know I made that might have an effect. I added
>>the "!defined _LIBC" to the following block because I was unsure what
>>__REDIRECT_NTH was supposed to be doing
>>
>>
>
>I think that one's OK.
>
>
Larry Jones on the CVS team just made a comment th
Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Isn't there some sense to assuming that if or
> define MIN & MAX on a system, then including said header is the
> "correct" way of getting the definition on one of these systems?
Perhaps, if the macros there are correct. Sometimes a header will
define
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes:
> * lib/chown.c (rpl_chown): Return -1 on failure.
> * m4/chown.m4 (gl_FUNC_CHOWN): Correct sense of test for honoring IDs of -1.
Thanks; installed.
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Any review on this patch? I don't have commit privileges, so someone else
needs to commit it.
According to Eric Blake on 5/17/2005 2:36 PM:
> lib/ChangeLog:
> 2005-05-17 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (tiny change)
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> * chown.c (rpl_chown)
Paul Eggert wrote:
> It has other uses, too. For example, tar uses it to efficiently
> remove non-directories while leaving directories alone.
OK, I withdraw the criticism. Nice code-sharing.
Bruno
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Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Reading the comments in
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/coreutils/coreutils/src/remove.c?rev=1.126&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> it seems that the only use of this function is to speed up the removal of
> a non-empty directory.
It has
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Why not add to gnulib a module with a function rmdir_recursive() instead?
> This function would remove a directory, including its contents.
coreutils' remove.c might fit the bill, in that it's robust.
But currently it's not strictly library-clean in th
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I installed this, imported from coreutils. It addresses the issue
> that `unlink ("directory")' works on some hosts (e.g., Solaris,
> OpenBSD) but not others (e.g., GNU/Linux, FreeBSD). Solaris 10 has a
> new wrinkle: you can add/remove the privilege of unlinking a
> director
Jim Meyering wrote:
> What if we were to convert to the const-less signatures you prefer,
> and then an application wants to call hash_insert with a variable of
> type `char const *'? -- of course, the key-freer function is NULL
> in that case. Then, it's not just the relatively obscure -Wcast-qua
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