Re: Autotest: make test dir writable before removing

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:17:54PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Why do you need the "-type l -prune" here?  Can't that be omitted?
> "find" doesn't follow symlinks.

the question is whether `-type d' can be true for symlinked directory,
on some system.

> Also, as a minor efficiency thing, if $at_suite_dir is not a directory
> then you don't need to invoke rm at all;

Yes.

Can we use `-perm -700' to avoid most of the chmod's?
That would be a bigger optimization.

A proposed patch attached.

Stepan

autoconf-20051005-at-init.patch
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