supporting deterministic 'ar'
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Wed Feb 11 15:12:00 GMT 2009
Hi Chris,
> new flag 'D' to ar, which invokes deterministic mode. In this mode,
> timestamp of all incorporated archives is set to 0, as are uid/gid.
A great idea!
> * Am I totally crazy to want to do this?
Nope.
> * is there a better way to get LONG_MAX in archive.c?
#include <limits.h>
> * is this appropriate for a BFD flag, or a bit in the bitfield? (it
> seem closer to being a flag...)
Well the bit-field/flag thing you already have seems fine to me.
> * any preference about flag name?
Well I did think that "deterministic" was slightly off, because it
implies that non-deterministic archives are random somehow, but I could
not come up with a better suggestion. So lets keep it as deterministic.
Cheers
Nick
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