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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 01:07:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160731010732.GA31840@whir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160731001532.GA23146@starla>

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +test_expect_success FREEBSD 'Work around lazy mtime update' '
> > +	ls -ld . >/dev/null
> > +'
> 
> 	stat . >/dev/null

If there's some older FreeBSD w/o stat(1); "test -x ."
ought to work, too, and it's faster being a shell builtin.

I suspect some shell might be clever about optimizing away
a more-obvious "test -d .", so I choose "test -x ."

> would be more to the point of what is going on, here.   But I
> also wonder if untracked cache itself could/should be doing this
> internally.

Still wondering :>

> (I'm not familiar with that code, of course)
> 
> Thanks again for looking into this.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-31  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18 22:30 t7063 failure on FreeBSD 10.3 i386/amd64 Eric Wong
2016-07-18 22:54 ` Eric Wong
2016-07-19 16:12   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-20  3:02     ` Eric Wong
2016-07-20 14:57       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-27 17:33     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-30 13:31       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-30 13:54         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-30 18:20 ` [PATCH] t7063: work around FreeBSD's lazy mtime update feature Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-07-31  0:15   ` Eric Wong
2016-07-31  1:07     ` Eric Wong [this message]
2016-07-31 14:30       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-01  1:37   ` Torstem Bögershausen
2016-08-01 17:10     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-01 21:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-02 15:37         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-02 17:17           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 16:05   ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-08-03 16:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 16:25       ` Duy Nguyen
2016-08-03 17:45     ` [PATCH v3] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-08-03 17:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 19:07         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-04 15:46           ` Duy Nguyen

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