Misalignment of pinky output: lack of support of multibyte char

2010-01-14 Thread Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes
Hello. I was translating coreutils 8.3 and testing it when I saw that the pinky output was not fine: $ pinky Usuário Nome TTY Ocioso Quando Onde rodolfo Rodolfo Ribeiro Gom tty7 03:07 2010-01-14 18:03 :0 So I tried to see it on english, and it is ok: $ LC_ALL

How does stdbuf work?

2010-01-14 Thread Yang Zhang
Just out of curiosity: libstdubf.c defines fileno_to_name, apply_mode, and stdbuf for LD_PRELOAD-ing, but AFAICT these aren't defined in glibc; where are they called from? -- Yang Zhang http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/

Re: coreutils-8.3: a few tests fail

2010-01-14 Thread Christophe LYON
Hello, Thanks for the report. Can you repeat the tests with the very latest snapshot? http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz 9.4 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 4.0 MB If any of those failures persist, we *might* have time to address one or two before coreutil

Re: coreutils-8.4 released [stable]

2010-01-14 Thread Richard Stallman
Congratulations on the new release.

Re: [PATCH] maint: add missing "post-release push" step to release procedure

2010-01-14 Thread Eric Blake
According to Jim Meyering on 1/14/2010 3:45 AM: > * README-release: Push the automated release and post-release > NEWS-updating commits. > Pádraig Brady reported that I'd pushed the tag without also > pushing the commit it referred to. Pushing a tag DOES push the commit it refers to, it just doesn

Re: [PATCH] maint: add missing "post-release push" step to release procedure

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 1/14/2010 3:45 AM: >> * README-release: Push the automated release and post-release >> NEWS-updating commits. >> Pádraig Brady reported that I'd pushed the tag without also >> pushing the commit it referred to. > > Pushing a tag DOES push the commit

Re: [PATCH] maint: add missing "post-release push" step to release procedure

2010-01-14 Thread Eric Blake
According to Jim Meyering on 1/14/2010 6:25 AM: >> Pushing a tag DOES push the commit it refers to, it just doesn't update >> the HEAD branch. > > I misstated. He actually reported that the usual > post-release NEWS update had not been pushed. Ah, that makes more sense. >> This can also be done

Re: Bug#565218: info boilerplate on man page gives only the hard way

2010-01-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15:48AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: So, that's why I suggested saying __both__ methods. But you already closed the bug before reading to the end. No, I read all the way to the end. I don't think the boilerplate needs to be any longer than it is. Mike Stone

[PATCH] maint: add missing "post-release push" step to release procedure

2010-01-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Thanks again, Pádraig. >From 0df20967fc0fabce1346ce0a5ba64b5a5f5250f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:42:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] maint: add missing "post-release push" step to release procedure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cont