Re: cp -up forever

2004-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # stat -c %y m o > 2004-10-10 01:56:36.561517778 +0800 > 2004-10-10 01:56:36.561517000 +0800 > which must be the key to why cp -up will update repeatedly. Yes, that most likely explains it. Here's a patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutil

Re: cp -up forever

2004-10-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Here on debian sid coreutils 5.2.1-2 we see back digits are not tended to: # touch -r m o # stat -c %y m o 2004-10-10 01:56:36.561517778 +0800 2004-10-10 01:56:36.561517000 +0800 which must be the key to why cp -up will update repeatedly. Some lines from the strace you wanted: fstat64(4, {st_dev=m

Re: sort -nu

2004-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Although not a bug, sort's documentation might be wise to explicitly > mention that -u's behaviour is effected by options like -n. The CVS version of coreutils says this in its Texinfo documentation: The commands @code{sor

Re: changelog out of order

2004-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > changelog is out of order here: > $ zgrep ^2 /usr/share/doc/coreutils/changelog.gz|head > 2002-07-01 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2002-04-10 Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2004-03-12 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Most l

sort -nu

2004-10-09 Thread 2004
Although not a bug, sort's documentation might be wise to explicitly mention that -u's behaviour is effected by options like -n. The following example was not what I expected, though I now understand why. -u's behaviour being effected by other options is powerful if understood, but dangerous if n

Re: cp -up forever

2004-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps fixed already? I don't get that behavior with my copy of coreutils 5.2.1 (which I built myself under Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1). Can you investigate why it's happening for you? Try running "strace -v cp -upv g h" and looking at the last few lines o

Re: Coreutils-5.0 make check failed on Solaris

2004-10-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Alexandre Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a report of the test failed when doing 'make check' for > coreutils-5.0 on Sun Solaris. I suspect that bug is fixed in the current coreutils version, here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz _

Re: TERRIBLE sort performance in RedHat 9.0

2004-10-09 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mike Westall wrote: >Thanks for replying, but I was complaining >about the performance of > ><> > >and not grep. Does the same disease afflict >both Sorry, my mistake; it is the same disease though, and I think this describes the problem you're seeing: http://bugzilla.red