Re: rm -rf calls rmdir() prior to close(), which can fail

Eric Blake wrote: > POSIX is clear that attempts to rmdir() a directory that still has > open descriptors may fail. Of course, on Linux, this (rather > limiting) restriction is not present, so we don't notice it; but on > Cygwin, there are certain file systems where this is a real problem, > such

[PATCH] maint.mk: don't maintain a second build-aux variable.

Hi all, I was wondering why 'make stable' would always use a stale version unless I manually updated my .version file first. It turns out that if you use a non-standard build-aux location, you have to tell GNUmakefile by setting _build-aux to get the .version dist-hook machinery, and that you als

Re: [PATCH] README-release improvements

Hi Gary. On Sunday 23 October 2011, Gary V wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > In practice, I prefer to: > > git status > > git clean -f -x -d > ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib && ./configure --disable-nls > > This is way faster, but relies on my discretion. Like Jim, I'm leary of > recommen