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Re: auto-update of Info dir file?
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: auto-update of Info dir file? |
Date: |
Tue, 16 May 2006 14:44:39 -0400 |
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>> It's probably OK if we only do the check when the mtime of the parent dir is
>> more recent than the mtime of the dir file (and only under Unix, of course,
>> since this presumes POSIXy semantics).
> Is it indeed guaranteed that the mtime of the directory is always
> _after_ the last file modified in that directory?
No. POSIX only says that the mtime of the dir reflects the last time a file
was added/removed from the directory, which is pretty much exactly what we
need here. Lucky for us: if updating the dir file would cause the dir's
mtime stamp to be changed would lead us to lalaland.
Stefan
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, (continued)
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/16
- RE: auto-update of Info dir file?, Drew Adams, 2006/05/16
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/16
- RE: auto-update of Info dir file?, Drew Adams, 2006/05/16
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/16
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/16
- Re: auto-update of Info dir file?,
Stefan Monnier <=