On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. If you can find it in the manpages for our current known-working platforms (FreeBSD, OS X, Cygwin?), then I'm fine with switching to it. Otherwise as Xavier said it might not be worth the hassle.
-Dan
