linux-kernel - Re: .version keeps being updated

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Message-Id: <2bb47a77ba69186f793f57b86c003ebd@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:39:09 +0100
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: .version keeps being updated

>>   ../drivers/char$ objcopy -j .modinfo -O binary sonypi.ko
>>   objcopy: stvfMiji: Permission denied
>>
>> Why does it want to create a file there? This one works better:
>
> objcopy works in-place when only one file argument is passed.

Yeah.  The >(...) syntax in my example provides such a file;
of course it's horribly broken in bash 3.x like so many other
things, but that's a different issue ;-)


Segher

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