On 9/13/06, Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In light of the previous comments in this thread, would Ludovic mind to
> modify the patch so it only creates an archive in an empty directory... or I
> will modify it to make tla to create the archive only if the preexisting
> directory is empty.

The issue is that this is not easily implementable. 

On Unix-like file systems, checking whether a directory is empty can by looking at the `st_nlink' field of `struct stat'.
However, I'm not sure similar features can be used over SFTP, HTTP,
etc.

Thus, I think we should just forget about this patch.


OK, so let's just keep this discussion in the mail list archive for future reference...

Thanks,
Andy

Thanks,
Ludovic.


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