Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] `make-archive' and existing directories

On 9/13/06, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In light of the previous comments in this thread, would Ludovic mind to
> > modify the patch so it only creates an archive in an empty directory...
> or I
> > will modify it to make tla to create the archive only if the preexisting
> > directory is empty.
>
> The issue is that this is not easily implementable.
>
> On Unix-like file systems, checking whether a directory is empty can by
> looking at the `st_nlink' field of `struct stat'.
> However, I'm not sure similar features can be used over SFTP, HTTP,
> etc.
>
> Thus, I think we should just forget about this patch.



OK, so let's just keep this discussion in the mail list archive for future
reference...

Thanks,
Andy

Thanks,
> Ludovic.
>