From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34677 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752084Ab0GNOz7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:55:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4C3DCFB3.1090801@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:54:43 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] implement size_append in perl References: <1279116063-4499-1-git-send-email-virtuoso@slind.org> In-Reply-To: <1279116063-4499-1-git-send-email-virtuoso@slind.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Alexander Shishkin Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?U2ViYXN0aWFuIERhbGZ1w58=?= , Oliver Hartkopp , Michael Guntsche , Jonathan Nieder , Michael Tokarev , Alek Du , Andrew Morton , Michal Marek , Russell King , Albin Tonnerre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/14/2010 07:01 AM, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > +size_append = $(PERL) -e 'print pack("V", (stat "$(lastword $1)")[7])' Why the "lastword"? -hpa