Adrian Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kai> In addition to invoking Perl and the /usr/bin/stat (or > Kai> /bin/stat?) program, which other ways can you think of to > Kai> find the last modtime of a file? > > I have a feeling of Deja Vu - has this come up before or is this just > the same stat conversation that has appeared on other lists over the > years.
I've brought it up in the past. Back then, I asked how to process the output of stat(1). > The stat command varies between OSes. The safest way seems to be to > use the stat system call via your favourite language (whatever is > accessible from tramp I suppose). Ah. Okay, we already have this for Perl. Maybe it's useful to add it for Python, too. (In that case, a Python implementation of file-attributes would be good.) Any other languages you can think of that will probably be installed on the remote host? Kai _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
