coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Coreutils version 6.11 has been released. This is a stable release. Since 6.10, there have been 200 change sets in coreutils proper and almost 300 in gnulib (most of the files in coreutils/{lib,m4} come from gnulib). Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release. This time, a trio from

coreutils and xattr

2008-04-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
has work on merging Andreas' patch just stalled ? that and the big nasty i18n patch are about the only thing i carry in Gentoo anymore as everything else has been merged ... -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. __

RE: RM disregards file level permissions and uses directory permissions instead.

2008-04-19 Thread James J. Perry
Eric and Bob, Thanks for your quick and concise responses regarding this behavior. The solution will provide the responsible groups with a way to set permissions in the way they want them to work versus the way POSIX specifies. This is one of the reasons why I love Open Source Software bec

anything pending? coreutils-6.11 imminent

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Hello, I'm about to release coreutils-6.11, so this may really be the final call. If you have changes for gnulib or coreutils that you think should be in a stable release, please let me know ASAP (like within an hour or two). Currently, I'm planning to use gnulib v0.0-513-g2e89567, which has unde

Re: Please update my email address in coreutils' THANKS

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jim, > > my email address in the THANKS file (as of the latest snapshot; I did > not check the git repository) is obsolete. While it's currently still > valid, I don't really use it anymore. > > I also noted that Sébastien Marets name is encoded wron

Re: pr buffer overflow

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Cristian Cadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jim, we found a buffer overflow in pr, due to the invalid > processing of backspaces and tabs. > Here is a simple input that our tool generated: Thank you, yet again. FYI, here's a one-liner that consistently segfaults for me: perl -e 'print "a