[22007] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

Well, making a pextlib call that implements "delete" with multiple  
arguments, where each argument is a filename (or directory), would be  
trivial in the extreme.  Do we want more than that?

- Jordan

On Feb 15, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> Alternately, we could just go back to using rm -rf, but do it  
> correctly this time (so spaces don't screw it up).
>
> This would be easier if the system call from Pextlib followed the  
> exec usage and allowed you to pass each argument separately.
>
> On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:23 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>> While most of these helper functions seem pretty sane, I can't  
>> help but think that the delete function really ought to be written  
>> in C for speed and correctness (following the pseudo code example  
>> at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107884).   The  
>> Tcl function I see below is not going to be particularly fast on  
>> either broad or deep hierarchies of files, and mass deletions of  
>> stuff in cleanup procedures is fairly common place.  I think the  
>> other functions are low-overhead enough that Tcl is a fine  
>> implementation language, but not delete.
>
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