Paul Eggert wrote: > It'd be good to add something like this, thanks. Thanks, James.
I like your idea, too. Those definitions are duplicated in far too many packages. > A few comments: > > The time-related stat macros are already broken out into > stat-time.h. Perhaps these size-related macros should > be broken out into stat-size.h? That way, we could > leave stat-macros.h alone. Many programs that need > CHMOD_MODE_BITS (in the current stat-macros.h) don't need > the heavy artillery used to configure the size-related macros. > If we make this change, the module should be renamed to > "stat-size" of course. In the spirit of dependency minimization, it does sound like a good idea to put this in a new module.
