From: "Matthias Guede" <matthias.guede@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:38:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50ba04d20803010838t55713774ge9ed320cfac5386e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C94EB4.1060803@gmail.com>
2008/3/1, Erik <esigra@gmail.com>:
> Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove
> automatically when the file is modified?
>
> Suppose that we have a style checker that checks a lot of source code
> files. Once it examined a file and found it to be clean, it should set a
> property on the file ("style-clean"). Whenever the style checker is
> executed it skips files with this property. Whenever the file is
> modified, the filesystem removes the property.
>
> Is this possible? Which filesystems does it work on?
One solution would be using 'make'. With rules like the following
only modified files will
be proceeded:
timestamp: myFile
doSomthingWidth myFile
touch timestamp
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-01 12:40 [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified? Erik
2008-03-01 14:18 ` Florian Philipp
2008-03-01 15:40 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-03-01 16:38 ` Matthias Guede [this message]
2008-03-01 16:49 ` Erik
2008-03-03 4:25 ` Daniel Iliev
2008-03-03 13:12 ` Erik
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