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bug#68808: subsecond mtime discovery code insufficient


From: Zack Weinberg
Subject: bug#68808: subsecond mtime discovery code insufficient
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:34:16 -0500
User-agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.11.0-alpha0-144-ge5821d614e-fm-20240125.002-ge5821d61

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024, at 6:32 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> test "$[*]" != "X conftest.ts1 conftest.ts2" ||
> ..
> test "$[]2" = conftest.ts3 &&
> ..
> etc.
>
> I've never seen anything like that before. 

Oh! Those square brackets are M4 quotes to prevent M4 from expanding $* and $2 
itself.

zw





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