Hi,
I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying
to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition.
I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
before giving up. Could it not give up on each block after say.. 1 or 2
tries?
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> This indicates a bug in the underlying code, which GCC was right to
>>> warn us about, and which we should not have worked around by inserting
>>> casts blindly.
>> As I said in the patch the casts were to c
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Each sorter's portion of input is delineated along line boundaries as
> detected by the main buffer-filling routine. I don't think any
> multi-byte character set problems should have been introduced.
I see.
James Youngman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If all inputs are regular files then SORTERS read directly rather than
>> being fed by an extra process.
>
> Does that work with multi-byte character sets?
Hi James,
Each sorter's portion of inpu
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If all inputs are regular files then SORTERS read directly rather than
> being fed by an extra process.
Does that work with multi-byte character sets?
James.
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Loris Rinaldo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think there should be anther option for the nohup command, in order to
> quit a command previously launched:
>
> nohup OPTION
> --quit: terminates previously launched nohup command)
>
> I launched a 100GB copy command wi
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> diff --git a/src/truncate.c b/src/truncate.c
>>> index 02d4102..fd321c6 100644
>>> --- a/src/truncate.c
>>> +++ b/src/truncate.c
>>> @@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ do_ftruncate (int fd, char cons
Heiko Marr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> there seems to be a mistake in the description of SYNOPSIS for mkdir.
> You wrote:
>
> mkdir [OPTION] DIRECTORY...
>
> but it has to be:
>
> mkdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...
Thank you for reporting that.
The same problem affects several other programs.
Here's
sergio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 6.10-3
>
> % touch qwe
> % chmod 640 qwe
> % umask u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
> % ls -l qwe
> -rw-r- 1 sergio sergio 0 Июн 25 22:53 qwe
> % cp --no-preserve=mode qwe asd
> % ls -l asd
> -rw-r- 1 sergio sergio 0 Июн 25 22:54 asd
Thank y
