Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 28, 2009 08:43:56 AM -0800 Glenn Faden > <Glenn.Faden at Sun.COM> wrote: > > > >> I don't understand the advantage of diff vs. -newer. The latter is >> simpler so why not use it? My suggested workaround also deals with the >> case where the copy doesn't exist yet. >> > > If you're doing the unsafe copy, you need a diff because the unsafe copy > might fail in a way that leaves the copy corrupted but with a newer > timestamp than the global version. > OK. I get it. > I don't think I've seen your suggested workaround, unless you were the > author of the one in the bug report. At least, I don't see any previous > messages from you in this thread. >
Yes, I supplied the workaround in the bug report. --Glenn
