Re: coreutils-5.1.2: patch for stat command

[Jim Meyering]

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> wrote:
> The question is, when nanosec values are available, should they not
> also appear in the terse output from GNU stat?  They don't in the
> either the old or the new version:
>
>       % /usr/local/bin/stat -t /bin/true
>       /bin/true 312 8 81ed 0 0 ee 380 1 0 0 1070985776 941742458 941742458 
> 65536
>
>       % src/stat -t /bin/true
>       /bin/true 312 8 81ed 0 0 ee 380 1 0 0 1070985776 941742458 941742458 
> 65536

Thanks for noticing that!

It'd be nice to know if/how applications use `stat --terse'.
Otherwise, if I change the output format (in what seems guaranteed to
be an incompatible way for some applications), it'll cause trouble.

On the other hand, I think this needs to be done, so better sooner
than later.  However, I'm going to hold off for a little while.
5.1.3 should have only minimal changes over 5.1.2, and then,
barring the need for significant changes, I plan to make a stable
5.2.0 release.  So this sort of incompatible change will have to
wait in the queue for a little while.