Re: patching dd

2003-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Olivier Delhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [25 lines of unnecessary context removed -- please trim context of quoted messages] > Thank you for replying so quickly, > sorry for that mistake, i'm so confused. Here is the patch > against today's cvs sources : Thank you for the patch. Have you

Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Dennis Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to implement the following todo item: > > du and wc: add an option to make them read NUL-delimited > file name arguments from a file. > > I there anything i should know i start, how would you prefer > the option to be called? You should file

Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories

2003-11-09 Thread Ed Avis
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: [rm and unexecutable directories] >>the other way is to chmod every file before doing anything with >>it. >But the directory containing the file would need the chmod, not the >file itself. Sorry - I meant to say chmod every directory before doing anything w

Re: rm -f and unexecutable directories

2003-11-09 Thread Ed Avis
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: % mkdir -p fred/jim % chmod a-x fred/jim % rm -rf fred rm: cannot chdir from `fred' to `jim': Permission denied >>> >>>But by the action of your chmod you have specifically requested that >>>you do not want those files removed! >> >>But by spec

Re: Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Dennis Smit
Heya!, i will look into the papers!, have you already received the -c --total patch for df ? I will think about what kind of option i could use for that file name list option for du and wc. Also i have been looking in the vsclite test, however i will set up an new machine to run the test so i won

Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe `--files-from', since GNU tar uses that, but those names > aren't separated with NUL bytes. > > Other ideas? tar uses --files-from=NAME (-T NAME) to read files from NAME, and a separate option --null to say that the file names are NUL-terminated r

Re: Question about an TODO item.

2003-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe `--files-from', since GNU tar uses that, but those names >> aren't separated with NUL bytes. >> >> Other ideas? > > tar uses --files-from=NAME (-T NAME) to read files from NAME, and a > separate option --null

Re: patching dd

2003-11-09 Thread Olivier Delhomme
Le Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:27:45 +0100, Jim Meyering disait : > Thank you for the patch. > > Have you read the GNU Coding Standards document? No, not yet, but this mistake will soon be patched :) > Run `info standards' on a Linux system. There are > some minor syntactic problems below. Most wou

Failed tests in 'make check'

2003-11-09 Thread Karachiwala, Aslam
Title: Failed tests in 'make check' OS: Solaris 7 (Sun SPARC) The attached file contains the pertinent excerpt of what was reported by 'make check' run as root. --aslam Aslam Karachiwala Online Development, Insurance Thomson Media (Sheshunoff Information Services) One Alewife Center, Sui

Re: du, wc --files-from=NAME

2003-11-09 Thread Dennis Smit
I must admit that my preference goes to eggerts method because it also allows newline terminated filenames within the file which is human readable and editable. We'll use --files-from, -T for the option i assume ? and when agreed upon optionaly an --null flag. _