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Re: problems with node Utilities in Makefiles


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: problems with node Utilities in Makefiles
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:20:28 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

Hi Karl,

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:32:39PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> It makes no difference operationally, as Ralf said, but I can change
> "most" to "some" for clarity.  I suppose that is more accurate these
> days.

OTOH, as Ralf said, only few implementations are known to be
race-free: GNU coreutils and recent BSD's.  That has convinced me
that it's ok to keep the "most" there.

> As for dist-bzip2, I'm not clear about your concern.

Let me put it this way: would you accept the following patch?
I believe it reflects common practice.

Regards,
        Stepan




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