Re: install-sh patch for compatibility with recent coreutils

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

 Paul> coreutils CVS recently added -t and -T options to the install command,
 Paul> to avoid certain race conditions when installing, and I thought it'd
 Paul> be a good idea to add this to install-sh as well, to encourage the use
 Paul> of these options.  Here's a patch to do this.  While I was at it, I
 Paul> removed some other incompatibilities between install-sh and GNU (and
 Paul> BSD) 'install': -c is now ignored (because copy is the default), and
 Paul> as far as I know the -t= and -b= options have not been used for a
 Paul> decade or so by Autoconf (and they wouldn't work anyway if you're
 Paul> using the system 'install' command), so they should go.

 Paul> This patch also adjusts the documentation to warn about one of the
 Paul> potential race conditions in question.

Hi Paul, 

This looks fine to me.  It would be nice to augment tests/instsh2.test
with a few lines, though...
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz