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Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > shell scripts also are executable (no suffix).
>
> Yes, but the testcase specifically tries to induce a conflict between the
> current conflict executable (i.e., $BIN/conflict.exe) and the newly
> created script (i.e., /tmp/conflict). This doesn't work unless the
> "-t.exe." argument is supplied.
yes, I saw that (eventually). I made some changes to the script & code
and am retesting those.
> You could use the following, which should be more portable:
>
> DIR=/tmp/conflict.$$.`od -An -N4 -tx4 /dev/random|cut -d" " -f2`
> mkdir $DIR
I suppose so (perhaps on a later patch - /dev/random in turn isn't
portable ;-)
> So, when can we expect the new version out? Once the above issues are
> fixed, I should be able to release the Cygwin package. FWIW, I'll
> maintain it if you won't.
tonight or tomorrow (my cutoff on Sundays is 9pm since I'm at work before
5am).
for the package - sure (it's not required that much maintenance in the
past)
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