Re: Problem in installing xine

2003-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
umamaheswar B.C. wrote: > Sir, > I down loaded xine-lib-1-rc1 & xine-lib-1-beta4 and when I tried to > configure, both libs give the same out but. When I sought --help I was > told to report to you. Hence I am reporting the out put as bellow:- Thank you for the report. But you were misdirected.

Re: Problems after installing Coreutils 5.0.91 or other 5.0.x on Gentoo 1.4

2003-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Edmund wrote: > I've experienced a very interesting bug with Coreutils. The system is running on > Athlon XP, 1G ram with a 200MB WD IDE drive. My linux is installed at the end of > the drive (past 170GB) with Windows XP at the beginning. In the future it would be most appreciated if you were

rm -f and unexecutable directories

2003-11-07 Thread Ed Avis
% mkdir -p fred/jim % chmod a-x fred/jim % rm -rf fred rm: cannot chdir from `fred' to `jim': Permission denied But since I own the directory I could change the permissions and then remove it. Shouldn't rm do this if I gave the 'force' option? I thought that would take all measures necessa

Re: Problems after installing Coreutils 5.0.91 or other 5.0.x on Gentoo 1.4

2003-11-07 Thread Edmund
Hi Bob, At first I thought it may be a filesystem problem too, but I did several things to verify that. First, if I exited from the chrooted installation environment, I was able to see everything just fine. Also I tried it on both ext3 and reiserfs on two seperate trials, and fsck was fine for b

Re: Optimal buffer size for copy

2003-11-07 Thread neillm
Hello Paul, On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:44:22PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Yes, I'd say a new one. It's more of a pain, but it's the "right way" > to do it. Perhaps the following patch is acceptable? Best regards, -Neill. diff -N -P -r -u --exclude='aclocal*' --exclude=Makefile.in --exclude

Re: Problems after installing Coreutils 5.0.91 or other 5.0.x on Gentoo 1.4

2003-11-07 Thread Jim Meyering
"Edmund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've experienced a very interesting bug with Coreutils.[...] > > With the base installation's fileutils 4.1.11 everything is fine, > but after the system updates itself to coreutils, some of the file > operations are broken. [...] > > ls returns all files with

Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories

2003-11-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > % mkdir -p fred/jim > % chmod a-x fred/jim > % rm -rf fred > rm: cannot chdir from `fred' to `jim': Permission denied > > But since I own the directory I could change the permissions and then > remove it. Shouldn't rm do this if I gave the 'force' option? I >