bug#48106: bug: touch utility does not handle file create error properly

2021-04-29 Thread Roland
hello, touch utility telling weird error on file creation on a immutable/ro dir. apparently, it does not catch/report the first error (EPERM) but only the second one (ENOENT), when trying to set the time on the non-existing file. regards roland kletzing sysadmin root@s900:/tmp# mkdir /tmp

bug#44248: Indentation of --help and --version

2020-10-29 Thread Roland Illig
line break in the option description. The line breaks should be computed based on the terminal size or a fixed line width. It's not possible to predict the screen column in which in the option description will start, since that depends on the names of the other options. Therefore, the option descriptions should be wrapped as necessary. See fold(1). Roland

bug#44248: Indentation of --help and --version

2020-10-26 Thread Roland Illig
ot;gnu-" or pretty much any other string. What is the correct way of solving this problem? Roland

bug#37585: Undefined behavior in nl, print_lineno

2019-10-03 Thread Roland Illig
Am 03.10.2019 um 21:43 schrieb Paul Eggert: > Thanks for the bug report. I looked for similar problems involving > integer-overflow diagnostics in coreutils and installed the attached > patches. The second patch should fix the bug you mentioned. Ah, the code looks so much simpler and nicer with th

bug#37585: Undefined behavior in nl, print_lineno

2019-10-02 Thread Roland Illig
The current code says: next_line_no = line_no + page_incr; if (next_line_no < line_no) die (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("line number overflow")); Since intmax_t is a regular integer type, overflow invokes undefined behavior and must therefore be checked using other means.

bug#30878: [PATCH] doc: fix two typos in github templates

2018-03-20 Thread Roland Hieber
* .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.txt, .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.txt: fix typo "coreitils" in the URL to the bug tracker. --- .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.txt| 2 +- .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.txt b

bug#23121: Wrong translation in stty

2016-03-26 Thread Roland Illig
-Translator", among other information. This string should therefore be left untranslated. Greetings, Roland

bug#19142: sort not working with LANG set to language_country.encoding

2014-11-21 Thread Roland Sieker
Hi. I have noticed that sort seems to have problems when the LANG environment variable is set with language and country. As a test case, i tried to sort a b a ⺌ ⺕ ⺌ It sorts OK like this, with LANG just the language.encoding: ( setenv LANG en.UTF-8 ; echo 'a\nb\na\n⺌\n⺕\n⺌' | sort ) a a b ⺌ ⺌ ⺕

bug#10021: [PATCH id] Add error-checking on GNU

2011-11-14 Thread Roland McGrath
I think you can portably detect the failure case with the errno=0 method, rather than relying on #ifdef.

coreutils_5.97-5_i386.deb : install option -m with symbolic modes

2006-09-21 Thread Roland Eggner
On Friday September 15th 2006 10:32 Jim Meyering wrote: > Roland Eggner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > install -m a-x SOURCE DEST > > install -m a-X SOURCE DEST > > both commands reset ALL bits like "chmod 000 DEST", should ONLY reset > > executable bi

coreutils_5.97-5_i386.deb : option -m with symbolic modes

2006-09-14 Thread Roland Eggner
install -m a-x SOURCE DEST install -m a-X SOURCE DEST both commands reset ALL bits like "chmod 000 DEST", should ONLY reset executable bits! -- Roland Eggner A-8020 Graz, Vinzenzgasse 36 Telefon 0043-316-58 66 48 Wer seinen Computer einrichtet, hat die Qual der Wahl: Da

Re: Missing variable quoting in m4 files

2006-05-29 Thread Roland Illig
s.m4?root=coreutils&r1=1.32&r2=1.33>. I assume you're talking about coreutils 5.95. Jim, perhaps this fix should also be propagated into the b5_9x branch? (I just now propagated it into Autoconf CVS.) Thanks. That fix made it onto the branch just in time for 5.96. Thanks fo

Missing variable quoting in m4 files

2006-05-21 Thread Roland Illig
Hi, when using the ls-mntd-fs.m4 file on NetBSD 3.0/i386, I got an error caused by an empty variable ($ac_cv_func_getmntent): test: =: unary operator expected So I patched all variable uses to include the proper quotes. Roland Index: fsusage.m4

Re: euidaccessat [Re: one more openat-style function required: fchmodat

2006-01-05 Thread Roland McGrath
effective-user access checking. int faccessat (int fd, const char *file, int type, int flag); Does that sound reasonable? Thanks, Roland ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: one more openat-style function required: fchmodat

2006-01-05 Thread Roland McGrath
It's a natural, obvious, and useful addition, no matter what Solaris does or doesn't have. I've put it in. If there are any more *at additions that might be useful, right now is the time to bring them up. So rack your brain. Thanks, Roland

Requested change to coreutils/THANKS

2004-05-24 Thread Roland Turner
Greetings. I notice that my name appears in the THANKS file, presumably as a result of a bug report that I filed somewhere, sometime. The header in this file includes "if you'd prefer a different address be used, please let me know" without making clear who "me" is; [EMAIL PROTECTED] seemed an

[rm] feature request: option --interactive-multiple

2003-09-27 Thread Roland Winkler
re was something like an option --interactive-multiple that would turn rm into an interactive command only when it is operating on more than one file so that there is a larger probability that one of the files is erroneously in the list of files I am removing. Is this useful? Or is all this to

Re: [ams@kemisten.nu: ls --translators (coreutils)]

2003-09-19 Thread Roland McGrath
> Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > >> + if (trans_stat.st_mode & S_IPTRANS) > >> +{ > >> + char buf[1024], *trans = buf; > >Is this 1024-byte buffer guaranteed to be large enough? Code like this is using a mig stub feature whereby a larger buffer is alloc