On Wednesday 11 August 2004 22:55, Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote:
> Hello
>
> I posted my patch to dispatch-conf at http://dev.gentoo.org/~radek/
>
> This patch adds two important (for me :) things:
>
> * Batch mode support, when dispatch updates all possible files (non
> changed etc), and then prints remaining ones and exits.
> * Merge unmodified files, using mtime < ctime comparision. This makes
> unnecessary any md5sum storage/computing, while being (almost?)
> equally safe.

Config files are normally small enough so that md5sum comparison is cheap 
enough. Why then rely on something fragile like mtime < ctime ?

Paul

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