Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla undo feature request

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:38, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
>     > Ben Burns wrote:
> 
>     > > It makes
>     > > sense to me to add the file mode to the inode sigs...  after doing
>     > > this, and rebuilding my revision libraries, I haven't seen any files
>     > > in the revision library with the wrong file permission go unnoticed by
>     > > tla.
> 
>     > Great.  We've been meaning to add that support to inode-sigs, just that 
>     > no one's written the code yet.  Feel like getting Tom's requirements 
> and 
>     > submitting a patch?
> 
> It's fairly trivial.
> 
> The big thing is that when comparing signatures for equality you have
> to be prepared for one of them to have mode info and the other not to.
> In that case, you have to compare them while ignoring the mode info.
> 
> Should be, like, an O(10) line patch

And there should be similar things already - the dev_t and some other
thing we excluded from the signatures way back when.

Rob
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