Re: reverting `stat --format=FMT'

[Eric Blake]

> As planned, here's the change to revert stat --format=FMT to
> its previous behavior.  Note that with this change, backslash
> escapes in a --format-specified format string are *not* interpreted.
> 
> I'm planning to put the exact same patch on the b5 branch
> (i.e., for coreutils-5.94), so if you have any objections,
> raise them now.

Anonymous CVS access seems to be stuck since the 10th.  Perhaps
your upload from the private repository to the read-only savannah
repository is failing because of something to do with the recent
change on savannah from
:ext:address@hidden:/cvs/project to
:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/project

http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4168

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Eric Blake