Hello Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:00:27PM CEST: > I installed this fix as part of updates to coreutils.
The file modules/savewd does not exist in the current CVS, neither do lib/savewd.[ch], m4/savewd.m4. Do I understand correctly that it was intended to have both save-cvd and savewd, as they have different semantics? Cheers, Ralf > 2006-09-15 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * modules/mkancesdirs (Depends-on): Add fcntl. > * modules/savewd: New file. > * MODULES.html.sh (File system functions): Add savewd. > * lib/dirchownmod.c: Don't include fcntl.h; no longer needed. > (dirchownmod): New arg FD. All callers changed. > Use FD rather than opening the directory ourself, as opening is > now the caller's responsibility. > * lib/dirchownmod.h: Likewise. > * lib/mkancesdirs.c: Include <sys/types.h>, for portability to older > hosts that require <sys/types.h> before <sys/stat.h>. Include > fcntl.h, savewd.h, and unistd.h, not dirname.h and stat-macros.h. > (test_dir): Remove. > (mkancesdirs): Return length of prefix of FILE that has already > been made, or -2 if there is a child doing the work. Redo > algorithm so that it is O(N) rather than O(N**2). Optimize away > ".", and treat ".." specially since it might stray back into > already-created areas. Use a subprocess if necessary. New arg > WD; all users changed. MAKE_DIR function should now return 1 > if it creates a directory that is not readable. Return -2 if > a child process is spun off. > * lib/mkancesdirs.h: Include <stddef.h>, for ptrdiff_t. > Adjust signature to match code. > * lib/mkdir-p.c: Include dirname.h, for IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME. > (make_dir_parents): Use a subprocess if necessary. New arg WD; > all users changed. > * lib/savewd.c, lib/savewd.h: New files. > * m4/savewd.m4: New file. *snip*
