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Re: new module savewd, plus changes to mkdir-p


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: new module savewd, plus changes to mkdir-p
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:11:40 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Hello Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:00:27PM CEST:
> I installed this fix as part of updates to coreutils.

The file modules/savewd does not exist in the current CVS, neither
do lib/savewd.[ch], m4/savewd.m4.

Do I understand correctly that it was intended to have both save-cvd
and savewd, as they have different semantics?

Cheers,
Ralf

> 2006-09-15  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * modules/mkancesdirs (Depends-on): Add fcntl.
>       * modules/savewd: New file.
>       * MODULES.html.sh (File system functions): Add savewd.
>       * lib/dirchownmod.c: Don't include fcntl.h; no longer needed.
>       (dirchownmod): New arg FD.  All callers changed.
>       Use FD rather than opening the directory ourself, as opening is
>       now the caller's responsibility.
>       * lib/dirchownmod.h: Likewise.
>       * lib/mkancesdirs.c: Include <sys/types.h>, for portability to older
>       hosts that require <sys/types.h> before <sys/stat.h>.  Include
>       fcntl.h, savewd.h, and unistd.h, not dirname.h and stat-macros.h.
>       (test_dir): Remove.
>       (mkancesdirs): Return length of prefix of FILE that has already
>       been made, or -2 if there is a child doing the work.  Redo
>       algorithm so that it is O(N) rather than O(N**2).  Optimize away
>       ".", and treat ".." specially since it might stray back into
>       already-created areas.  Use a subprocess if necessary.  New arg
>       WD; all users changed.  MAKE_DIR function should now return 1
>       if it creates a directory that is not readable.  Return -2 if
>       a child process is spun off.
>       * lib/mkancesdirs.h: Include <stddef.h>, for ptrdiff_t.
>       Adjust signature to match code.
>       * lib/mkdir-p.c: Include dirname.h, for IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME.
>       (make_dir_parents): Use a subprocess if necessary.  New arg WD;
>       all users changed.
>       * lib/savewd.c, lib/savewd.h: New files.
>       * m4/savewd.m4: New file.
*snip*




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