Florian Pritz wrote: > > I've asked a few people, looked at the code used for stripping and I > think it's safe to check only executable files. That cut down the time > needed for sage from 5 min to 19 sec (i7-920, tempfs). > > I've also noticed that the stripping code uses -perm -o+x and not > -executable. The manpage says -executable also checks ACLs and owner, > group, other. Any reason why we don't use -executable? >
If it's not portable, we need a specific case for GNU/Linux. But we already have to do that for other tools.
