From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:54:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time
Message-ID: <20081029215444.GA19874@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0810290338j1beaa25bx9fb373a69f5dfe7@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:38:32AM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:

> There can be a problem with "-printf": Open Group SUS does not specify
> -printf for find(1), so it is probably a problem somewhere. I just don't know.
> [...]
> +     find extract/a/a -printf "%T@\\n" >b.mtime &&

$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p17-jc1
$ find . -printf "%T@\\n"
find: -printf: unknown option

> There is always a fallback, which is to write a small program which calls
> native stat(2). Or modify test-chmtime to just print mtime when asked.

I think that makes the most sense.

-Peff