Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 03:58, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Thanks for the report, but I cannot reproduce that. >> Here's what I've done (as non-root, with a 2.6.18-based kernel): > > as Andreas hinted, it's when using the newer *at functions ... my syste

Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 03:58, Jim Meyering wrote: > Thanks for the report, but I cannot reproduce that. > Here's what I've done (as non-root, with a 2.6.18-based kernel): as Andreas hinted, it's when using the newer *at functions ... my system is 2.6.18 with glibc-2.5 -mike pgpI95qBXOgAM

Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-08 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then you must be using libc-2.4 or newer, right? Right. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED

Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> when encountering dirs missing the executable bit, du used to spit out an >>> error but continue on its way ... with the new version though, the error >>> forces

Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-08 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> when encountering dirs missing the executable bit, du used to spit out an >> error but continue on its way ... with the new version though, the error >> forces premature failure with an helpful message :( >> >>

Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when encountering dirs missing the executable bit, du used to spit out an > error but continue on its way ... with the new version though, the error > forces premature failure with an helpful message :( > > for example, this dir structure as a non-root us

Re: du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 06 November 2006 16:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > for example, this dir structure as a non-root user: > rm -rf foo > mkdir -p foo/{a,b,c} > touch foo/a/asdf and `chmod a-x b` of course ... pgpPm6h0Au7z0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Bug-co

du no longer handles errors gracefully

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
when encountering dirs missing the executable bit, du used to spit out an error but continue on its way ... with the new version though, the error forces premature failure with an helpful message :( for example, this dir structure as a non-root user: rm -rf foo mkdir -p foo/{a,b,c} touch foo/a/a