Re: two patches

2017-10-11 Thread Paul Eggert
In Steven Pelletier wrote: Below are two patch specific to Apple/macOS versions of rcs. With the release of macOS High Sierra (10.13), Apple is enforcing that printf (and related) format strings that contain a %n specifier must

Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] two patches for --atime-preserve races and other problems

2010-09-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/16/10 15:55, Eric Blake wrote: > Makes sense, and easy enough to fix. It's a gnulib API, so with proper > notice in NEWS, we can add a parameter and adjust all callers. OK; could you do that please? I don't know who else is using it. In the meantime tar can wait until it's in. Thanks.

Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] two patches for --atime-preserve races and other problems

2010-09-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/16/2010 04:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: [Adding bug-gnulib.] On 09/16/10 11:17, Eric Blake wrote: Why not just use the gnulib module fdutimensat instead of reimplementing this yourself as fd_utimensat? Mainly because fdutimensat does not let 'tar' pass AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW to the underlyin

Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] two patches for --atime-preserve races and other problems

2010-09-16 Thread Paul Eggert
[Adding bug-gnulib.] On 09/16/10 11:17, Eric Blake wrote: > Why not just use the gnulib module fdutimensat instead of reimplementing > this yourself as fd_utimensat? Mainly because fdutimensat does not let 'tar' pass AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW to the underlying system call. Sometimes that flag is need