Re: tetex 2.96 beta texlinks uses "nonstandard" access
"George N. White III" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta |
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| Organization | Bedford Institute of Oceanography |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 10 May 2004, ezra peisach wrote: > Irix does not provide the program "access" tetex-src-beta-2.96.1.20040322 had: ./texk/kpathsea/access.c ./texk/kpathsea/access.man ./texk/kpathsea/access.o ./texk/kpathsea/access ./texk/kpathsea/access.1 and (built using gcc), access was installed with the other binaries > texk/texlinks uses the program "access" instead of test in the > search_symlinkdir() function. > > test uses stat() to look at permissions > access uses the access() function... > > Either a simplisting and portable access should be writen - or the > functionaliy rewriten in perl, etc. > > For now - I am using the test program... -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada