On 11/16/11 09:27, Eric Blake wrote:
> That's what I get for pasting into a Thunderbird compose window
Here's how to shut that annoying feature off:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Flowed_format
On 11/16/2011 10:21 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> Sure. Here's the current state of things in patch format; any last
>> objections before I push this?
> ...
>> Subject: [PATCH] sort: clarify wording on -k syntax
>>
>> * src/sort.c (usage): Use KEYDEF instead of POS, and call out t
On 11/12/2011 06:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> POS is F[.C][OPTS], where F is the field number and C the character position
> in the field; both are origin 1. If neither -t nor -b is in effect,
> characters
> in a field are counted from the beginning of the preceding whitespace.
> OPTS is
> one or mo
On 11/15/2011 10:09 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Still debatable. POSIX explicitly states that the condition of errno
> after a successful call to a standardized function is unspecified; that
> is, a successful geteuid() may pollute errno, but it's okay, because the
> user shouldn't be inspecting errno
On 11/16/11 09:25, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> prlimit --stack=1000 --memlock=10 --rss=1000 sort -u /dev/zero
>
> Well, mostly (4/5 times) sort got correctly "Killed",
> but a segfault smells.
Sorry, I don't have prlimit and don't know what it does.
Can you reproduce the problem with a stand
For the new support of util-linux' prlimit to allow a command to be run
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/5039
I tried to find a useful example for the manpage.
I found a nice, huge file to feed sort with - /dev/zero, and
my first try was to let the command be killed af
Eric Blake wrote:
> Sure. Here's the current state of things in patch format; any last
> objections before I push this?
...
> Subject: [PATCH] sort: clarify wording on -k syntax
>
> * src/sort.c (usage): Use KEYDEF instead of POS, and call out the
> specific OPTS that can occur in KEYDEF.
> Based
On 11/12/2011 02:29 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/12/11 05:54, Eric Blake wrote:
>> -k --key=KEYDEF control where a key starts and ends, and give
>>ordering specific to the key. See KEYDEF below.
>>
>> KEYDEF is F[.C][OPTS][,F[.C][OPTS]], where F is a field number and C
>> a
On 11/15/2011 07:35 PM, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 November 2011, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> From e36e6f2c6e95d6e23be805f7bab6c596b1818d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
>> [...]
>> -SIZE is an integer with an optional suffix (example: 10MB).
>> Suffixes are:\n\
>> -KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 10
Linda A. Walsh wrote:
...
>But that's not the bug db interface...thats just a log...where? the bug
>db intface for the bug in the bug database?
>
> References
>
>1. http://bugs.gnu.org/10055
Here's a description of the interface:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/
Jim Meyering wrote:
Linda A. Walsh wrote:
Hmmm Dang strange processes on bugs... can't submit directly bug
can just by
emailing it to the email list? ... (bureaucracy!)
Linda Walsh wrote:
This should be filed under bugs, not under support, but it seems that users of
the core utilis
Here are proposed patches for the other coreutils applications
that invoke getuid et al.
port to GNU hosts, where getuid and friends can fail
* src/groups.c (main):
* src/install.c (need_copy):
* src/su.c (log_su):
* src/test.c (unary_operator):
* src/whoami.c (main):
Don't assume that getuid and
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