Re: coreutils-6.7: test failures in german locale

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On MacOS X 10.3.9, in a German locale, 3 tests fail because they compare a > localized error message with an expected result in English. Here is a fix. > > 2006-12-28 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * tests/chown/deref: Source lang-default. >

Re: coreutils test failure on MacOS X

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006-12-26 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use mkfifo as a fallback if mknod fails. > Needed on MacOS X. Thanks. I applied this, too. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing

Re: mistake in sort -k argument processing?

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Evan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Very well. In that case, let's edit the documentation to reflect that .0 >> > represents the end of the field, and I'll be happy. >> >> I would welcome a patch (to coreutils.texi) to do that. > > Okay. First kick at the can is below; if you think it's too

Re: coreutils patch to port to hosts lacking fsync

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sync() however /is/ missing from NSK and also (at least as my original bug report indicated) Interix. But coreutils should build on such systems. Its src/system.h has this: #if ! HAVE_SYNC # define sync() /* empty */ #en

coreutils-6.4: mv(1), rename(2) and 9p

2007-01-03 Thread sqweek
Based on the comments I found trawling through the source, you guys have seen this one coming. mv(1) tries calling rename(2) to begin with, and if that fails and sets errno to EXDEV it falls back to a copy/unlink strategy. The issue of filesystems where rename(2) is not supported has arisen - 9p o

Re: coreutils 6.6 fails to compile on IRIX 5.3

2007-01-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What else could I try out? What is the value of HAVE_WCTYPE_CTMP_BUG? It should be 1. For example, what is the output of "diff -c lib/wctype_.h lib/wctype.h"? If HAVE_WCTYPE_CTMP_BUG is wrong, we need to investigate why; please look in config.log to

[Fwd: Re: Patch for touch to make it have a -p option, similar to mkdir]

2007-01-03 Thread Marc Abramowitz
Just curious if there are any comments on how to improve this patch, or is it just a bad idea to add this kind of functionality to a simple tool like touch? -Marc Original Message Subject:Re: Patch for touch to make it have a -p option, similar to mkdir Date: Thu,

Re: [Fwd: Re: Patch for touch to make it have a -p option, similar to mkdir]

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Marc Abramowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious if there are any comments on how to improve this patch, or > is it just a bad idea to add this kind of functionality to a simple tool > like touch? Justification is what's lacking. "It's convenient" isnt' enough. Adding a new option is a p