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Re: touch gets stuck for named pipes


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: touch gets stuck for named pipes
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:16:17 +0200

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> I'll make it say "guessing yes" and still put "yes" in the variable.
>
> Thanks. Here is what the adaptation in gnulib could look like. But frankly,
> I'll prefer to remove the module altogether: The bug it cures occurred only
> on Sequents; the last time I heard about this kind of machine was in 1996.
>
> So, any objections to removing this module?

Why don't we first mark it as obsolete?
I'll stop using it in coreutils right away, and we can
remove it altogether after a reasonable grace period.




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