Re: Building sharutils 4.13.4 with MinGW

> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:09:49 -0700
> From: Bruce Korb <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> 
>  >    Specifying  the compactor "none" will then disable file compres-
>  >    sion, even for non-text files.  Any other compactor  will  force
>  >    uuencoding  of  files,  and  the recipient must have uudecode to
>  >    unpack the archive.  (Compressed files are  never  processed  as
>  >    plain text.)
> 
> The operative phrase here is "Compressed files are never processed as plain text."

IMO, it's not a good idea to have the operative phrase in parentheses ;-)

> > 	Specifying the compactor "@samp{none}" will disable file compression.
> > 	Any other compactor will force uuencoding of files, and the recipient
> > 	must have @command{uudecode} to unpack the archive.  (Compressed files
> > 	are never processed as plain text.)

I would suggest

 	Specifying the compactor "@samp{none}" will disable file compression.
 	Compression forces uuencoding of compressed files, and the recipient
 	must have @command{uudecode} to unpack the archive.  (Compressed files
 	are never processed as plain text.)

> Immediately above the switch statement above is this code:
> 
> >   if (cmpr_state != NULL)
> >     return 1; // compression always implies encoding

Yes, that's how I understood what was going on.

> > +  char *command = alloca (sizeof(local_cmd) + strlen (local_name) + 2);
> > +  sprintf (command, "%s \"%s\"", local_cmd, local_name);
> 
> OK, I think _my_ eyeballs jumped.  Sorry.  I think this is adequate for this use here,
> but should probably be derived from another variation on the quoting style names:

But then you'd need to pass yet another argument to that function.  It
currently gets the file with and without quoting.  Now you will need a
3rd argument, quoted as appropriate for local commands.  That's
doable, of course.

>    {
>      static char ftime_fmt[] = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z";
> 
>      /*
>       * All fields are two characters, except %Y is four and
>       * %Z may be up to 30 (?!?!).  Anyway, if that still fails,
>       * we'll drop back to "%z".  We'll give up if that fails.
>       */
>      char buffer[sizeof (ftime_fmt) + 64];
>      time_t now;
>      struct tm * local_time;
>      time (&now);
>      local_time = localtime (&now);
>      {
>        size_t l =
>          strftime (buffer, sizeof (buffer) - 1, ftime_fmt, local_time);
>        if (l == 0)
>          {
>            ftime_fmt[sizeof(ftime_fmt) - 2] = 'z';
>            l = strftime (buffer, sizeof (buffer) - 1, ftime_fmt, local_time);
>          }
>        if (l > 0)
>          fprintf (fp, made_on_comment_z, buffer, OPT_ARG(SUBMITTER));
>      }
>    }

ftime_fmt is a static variable.  Doesn't replacing a character in it
make that change permanent for all the following uses?  Or are you
sure this array will never be used more than once in the same run?