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majke on April 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Memoize – a replacement for make relying on strace

Isn't it sufficient to just track open() and stat(). Maybe access()? That shouldn't be too slow.

thechao on April 11, 2015 [–]

Rename tracking is what undoes a lot if the more naive variants.

emelski on April 11, 2015 | [–]

Hard links as well, which are nastier because they introduce aliases for the things you want to track.

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