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

2006-11-08 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
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: > 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 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 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: NSK(OSS) compilation problem

2006-11-08 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eh? How is testing if ((1<<1)>>1) == 1 "too strict"? It's not. But it wasn't clear from your earlier posting whether the failure was 1LL<<1>>1 or 1LL<<63>>63. The latter is not required to yield 1 (assuming long long is 64 bits),