On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 12:44:59PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> I approve of removing use of the list form of stat, it's a horrible API.
Agreed, I've appied the suggestion to use -s, like we do anywhere
else.
> If we weren't already using -s everywhere else, I would prefer
> File::stat, which makes stat (in scalar context) return an object with
> methods for the fields, so you'd do stat($file)->size. It's included in
> Perl core since 5.4, and we're already using it in several places for
> other fields (mode and ino at least).
Right, like in 017_shm.pl. I didn't notice that.
> I see another use of stat array positions (for mtime) in
> src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm, but that's on the chopping block, so not
> much point in fixing.
The removal of this code depends on a few more things, hopefully it
will be able to get rid of it during this release cycle.
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Michael