Re: strange behavior with fread, fseek

2006-01-28 Thread Paul Eggert
I didn't have time to read and understand that puzzle, but for further enlightenment perhaps you could look at the POSIX spec for how file descriptors and streams interact and then, if glibc seems to violate t

How to remove files named "!!!foo"? (Re: help)

2006-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Hao Truong wrote: > How can I remove file listed below ?: > With the name of this file it is probably a problem with your shell. The '!' character in csh expands to a history argume

Re: problem with multibyte constants under Mac OS X 10.3.9 in lib/fnmatch_loop.c

2006-01-28 Thread Paul Eggert
Claudio Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > having no access to such a machine I could not verify whether your > fix is ok or not. Thanks for following up on this. I think it's safe and wise to rename L to L_ anyway, given that other modules use L_ and possibly this is because of the very same

Re: making coreutils depend on c99

2006-01-28 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:51:50PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > >> I expect to provide a patch to convert the initially-few > >> uses of c99-specific constructs to equivalent c89 ones. > >> The manual steps required to build with a pre-c99 compiler > >

changes (bugs?) in date --date=

2006-01-28 Thread Gus Michel
Up through coreutils 5.2.1, date gave the following output: gus$ date +'%a %F' Fri 2006-01-27 gus$ date +'%a %F' --date='sat' Sat 2006-01-28 gus$ date +'%a %F' --date='-4 days sat' Sat 2006-01-28 gus$ date +'%a %F' --date='sat -4 days' Sat 2006-01-28 gus$ In versions beginning w

fold --spaces-have-priority-over-width wishlist.

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
fold has: `-s' `--spaces' Break at word boundaries: the line is broken after the last blank before the maximum line length. If the line contains no such blanks, the line is broken at the maximum line length as usual. Could add a switch to make --spaces have priority over width, guar