Re: proposed patch to mktexlsr

Thomas Esser writes:

>> - if we don't have write permissions to the directory, but the file
>>   exists yet, we don't skip this directory. Below the script checks if
>>   the file is writeable, anyway:

The way we handle the file update requires write permission to the
directory as well as the file itself.  I fail to see why this change
is an improvement.

>> - The test for the magic can be skipped if the file is empty. It seems
>>   this had occurred to a Debian user under some weird circumstances.

> In Olaf's latest version, I see that "test -s" thing, but not that change
> in permission handling.

> Thomas

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Olaf Weber

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