Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time

From

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>

Date

Oct 31, 2008, 07:00 UTC

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<20081031070003.GA4458@blimp.localdomain>

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Sam Vilain, Thu, Oct 30, 2008 06:29:14 +0100:

> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:38 +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > I could not find what exactly does the ActiveState's Perl use for its stat
> > implementation (and honestly, have no motivation to look harder).
> > It seems to honor TZ, but the produced time does not seem to be either
> > local or GMT.
> 
> See, the difference is that the perl is portable and your patch isn't.

ActiveState Perl on Windows is portable? To another windows, maybe.

> Can you at least reveal how far out the value printed by the perl
> fragment was from the expected value, and what your TZ offset is in
> seconds.  It might be pointing to a deeper problem that could affect
> more than just this test case.