Re: [Man-db-devel] Database update profiling

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 04:46:43PM -0500, Francis Giraldeau wrote:
> Le 2013-12-06 01:48, Kari Pahula a écrit :
> > None of that code has yet made its way to mandb.
> 
> It's a good start, let's try make it ready.

For what it's worth, I'm actually slightly less interested in the patch
cleanup.  What I'm more interested in, and the reason I hadn't just gone
ahead and dealt with Kari's patch directly (sorry for not explaining
this!) is a more detailed analysis of Kari's comment in the bug report:
"there's something off with the code and it gives false positives on
differing mtimes".  What exactly is going on here?

I would really be more comfortable continuing to use mtimes if possible;
it is the more appropriate stat field to use, as it describes changes to
the file's contents rather than its metadata.  Using ctimes seems to me
to be a mistake.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden