From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:26:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time
Message-ID: <20081030072610.GA1052@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081029215444.GA19874@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King, Wed, Oct 29, 2008 22:54:45 +0100:
> 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.
> 

Ok, will do.