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Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error? |
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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:55:13 +0100 |
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 12 January 2012 02:13, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> - In copy-file.h declare the right function name.
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> Ah yes, I must've missed warnings for this, sorry.
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>> - In the tests I also had to drop the test with /dev/full, since - unlike
>> /dev/null - this device does not exist everywhere. Ex.: on OpenBSD, NetBSD.
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> Is it not possible to annotate that test as non-portable instead?
> Seems a pity to lose a test for GNU systems.
You are welcome to restore that test.
Just guard it with a test for existence of /dev/full
so that it is silently skipped when that device does not exist.
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, (continued)
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Jim Meyering, 2012/01/10
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/10
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/10
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Bruno Haible, 2012/01/10
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/10
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Bruno Haible, 2012/01/10
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/11
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Bruno Haible, 2012/01/11
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Bruno Haible, 2012/01/11
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/12
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/12
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Bruno Haible, 2012/01/12
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/12
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Bruno Haible, 2012/01/12
- Re: copy_file_preserving variant that doesn't exit on error?, Reuben Thomas, 2012/01/12