From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:30:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] stat() for existence in safe_create_leading_directories() Message-ID: <7v7j840wtv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <15788.1139536573@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Thanks. BTW, in an earlier message when I said this: Jason Riedy writes: > And Junio C Hamano writes: > > - Somehow I started to trust your ability to code portably a lot > - better than I trust myself, [...] > > eep. ;) I only have access to three major variations at the > moment (Linux, semi-old Solaris, recent AIX), so I'm not an > authority... Solaris 8 is from before the general Linux/glibc > compatability movement, so it's pretty useful for testing. I was talking more about competence rather than access to various environments to test on. I forgot to mention that.