Re: [Paco-general] pacoball: symbol links to absent files/catalogs must be archived too

[Sergei B. <se...@bs...>]

Hi,

On Friday 07 September 2007, David Rosal wrote:
> Hi Dan.
>
> 2007/9/7, Dan Nicholson <dbn...@gm...>:
> > I don't really know perl, but it looks like both patches have a
> > problem. The script was changed from
> >
> > ( -e $_ )
> >
> > to
> >
> > ( -l $_ || -e _ )
> >
> > Shouldn't it still be -e $_?
>
> Yes. The patch has a typo. But it has been fixed in SVN.


The patch is right. '_' in '-e _'  signifies "use cached result of previous 
command '-l $_' for test '-e'".

( -l $_ || -e $_ ) - two calls to file system to the same file
( -l $_ || -e _ )  - one call to file system - two times quicker than previous 
clause!

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Sergei Butakov