Re: making fts thread-safe (no more fchdir)

2006-01-19 Thread Jim Meyering
I wrote: > FYI, I did most of the work to add FTS_CWDFD, just to see -- and it's > not so bad, but the result is certainly less maintainable. After saying the above, I figured I should produce the actual code, so here it is. For now at least, I don't plan to check in these changes. This patch re

Re: Final patch version (was Re: [patch #3596] Sort directories before files in "ls")

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Francesco Montorsi on 1/18/2006 1:50 PM: > Hi, >do we really have to wait for FSF copyright paperwork before applying > this patch ? Yes, unfortunately. > > I don't have any info from [EMAIL PROTECTED] since some time. Be patient w

Re: dircolors aliases

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 1/18/2006 10:40 PM: > > You must be using a patched coreutils because none of that alias junk is > in the official tarballs. Check the patches that your distribution > adds. However, some of that distro patch may be wor

Re: making fts thread-safe (no more fchdir)

2006-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 1/19/2006 3:39 AM: > > As I said, I'm reluctant to add this complexity, > without some evidence that it will be used. How about a simpler patch to gnulib: define FTS_CWDFD, then make gnulib fts_open() fail unless FTS_CWDF

Re: fmt gobbles leading whitespace in prefix mode

2006-01-19 Thread Jim Meyering
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim: Any comment on this ? > > $ fmt --version > fmt (GNU coreutils) 5.93 > $ cat fmt-test > tabbed > tabbed-twice > leading-space > two-leading-spaces > >> quoted >> text > $ fmt fmt-test > t