Mark H Weaver wrote:
>You could make the same complaint about 'make', 'rsync', or any number
>of other programs.
Not really. make does use this type of freshness check, but it's used
in a specific situation where the freshness issue is immediately obvious
and is part of the program's visible prim
tags 16361 + notabug wontfix
close 16361
thanks
Zefram writes:
> The automatic cache of compiled versions of scripts in guile-2.0.9
> identifies scripts mainly by name, and partially by mtime. This is not
> actually sufficient: it is easily misled by a pathname that refers to
> different files
The automatic cache of compiled versions of scripts in guile-2.0.9
identifies scripts mainly by name, and partially by mtime. This is not
actually sufficient: it is easily misled by a pathname that refers to
different files at different times. Test case:
$ echo '(display "aaa\n")' >t13
$ echo '(
