bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Bernhard Voelker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/10/2017 09:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Please fix the double 'the the' while moving, if I don't beat you to it on my > end, since syntax-check also flags > that. Thanks for the review. As you already fixed the sc_prohibit_doubled_word failure,

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/10/2017 02:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/10/2017 01:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > >> But I haven't pushed it, since I'm still getting other unrelated >> syntax-check failures: >> >> $ make syntax-check >> ... >> gitignore_missing >> /lib/Makefile >> maint.mk: Add above entries to .gitignore

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Paul Eggert
On 01/10/2017 11:11 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > okay to push? Sure, that sounds fine, and thanks.

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/10/2017 01:11 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 01/10/2017 12:18 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> Instead, I documented it in the coreutils manual (which is the primary >> documentation for 'ls' anyway) by installing the attached. The first >> patch is a minor cleanup, the second the real doc change.

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/10/2017 01:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > But I haven't pushed it, since I'm still getting other unrelated > syntax-check failures: > > $ make syntax-check > ... > gitignore_missing > /lib/Makefile > maint.mk: Add above entries to .gitignore > cfg.mk:781: recipe for target 'sc_gitignore_missing

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/10/2017 01:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/10/2017 01:21 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> On 01/10/2017 12:18 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: >>> The first patch is a minor cleanup [...] >> >> ... which makes the syntax-check fail: >> >> maint.mk: you have modified old NEWS >> maint.mk:1074: recipe for

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/10/2017 01:21 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 01/10/2017 12:18 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> The first patch is a minor cleanup [...] > > ... which makes the syntax-check fail: > > maint.mk: you have modified old NEWS > maint.mk:1074: recipe for target 'sc_immutable_NEWS' failed > make: *** [s

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 01/10/2017 12:18 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > The first patch is a minor cleanup [...] ... which makes the syntax-check fail: maint.mk: you have modified old NEWS maint.mk:1074: recipe for target 'sc_immutable_NEWS' failed make: *** [sc_immutable_NEWS] Error 1 Have a nice day, Berny

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-10 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 01/10/2017 12:18 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Instead, I documented it in the coreutils manual (which is the primary > documentation for 'ls' anyway) by installing the attached. The first > patch is a minor cleanup, the second the real doc change. I like it, although I'd avoid to place such a gener

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 01/09/2017 10:32 AM, Scott Deerwester wrote: > This behavior should be > prominently documented in the man page for ls under the -u option. Thanks for mentioning the issue. Although it's worth documenting I'm not sure it belongs in the ls man page, which is supposed to be quite terse. Instead,

bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

2017-01-09 Thread Scott Deerwester
The -u option to ls is documented as sorting by and printing the access time of a file instead of the modification time. This has been the (correct) behavior for decades. In modern distributions, however, file systems are routinely mounted with either relatime or noatime replacing atime, which caus