Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:55:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Wojtek Pilorz <> | Subject | Re: Making diff(1) of linux kernels faster |
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:02:22 +0100 > From: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw@axis.demon.co.uk> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>, vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl, > willy tarreau <wtarreau@yahoo.fr> > Subject: Re: Making diff(1) of linux kernels faster > > Horst von Brand wrote: > > =?iso-8859-1?q?willy=20tarreau?= <wtarreau@yahoo.fr> said: > > > Be very careful not to modify a multi-linked file, or > > > it will be damaged in all trees and won't be seen by To be sure it is not possible to modify original tree files, I do chown -R root.root original_tree
before copying it (via cp -lR) to new one, which will be modified with whatever tools by me, logged in as a regular user. For those having root access to a box this might be a useful way of preventing accidents ... (this of course also assumes sane file permissions) [...] > > > diff. your editor must unlink before saving. > > > > Most don't. ed(1), vi(1) and emacs(1) are careful tro write to the very > > same file. jed(1) is the only outlier I'm aware of... > > emacs does mv file file~ before saving file so the edited file will > not be linked byt the backup file will be. You can stop it doing this > by setting backup-by-copying-when-linked. > Best regards,
Wojtek
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