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2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
>From d3ffc5547f1d77131ebdd4641c422072f2743283 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:43:56 + Subject: [PATCH] Implement join --check-order. 2008-02-16 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/join.c (join): Support --check-order

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2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
Sorry, that was a duplicate patch, badly formatted. Apologies. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

[PATCH] Use the gettime module in ls.c.

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
2008-02-16 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Implement TODO list item to make ls.c use the gettime module. * TODO (ls): Now that we use gettime, remove the TODO entry. * src/ls.c: Use timespec.h and the gettime module. (current_time): Change type from time_t to s

TODO entry for getgrouplist

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
The current coreutils TODO file says:- Implement Ulrich Drepper's suggestion to use getgrouplist rather than getugroups. This affects both `id' and `setuidgid', but makes a big difference on systems with many users and/or groups, and makes id usable once again on systems where access restri

Re: TODO entry for getgrouplist

2008-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current coreutils TODO file says:- > > Implement Ulrich Drepper's suggestion to use getgrouplist rather than > getugroups. This affects both `id' and `setuidgid', but makes a big > difference on systems with many users and/or groups, and makes

Re: [PATCH] Use the gettime module in ls.c.

2008-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008-02-16 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Implement TODO list item to make ls.c use the gettime module. > * TODO (ls): Now that we use gettime, remove the TODO entry. > * src/ls.c: Use timespec.h and the gettime module. >

Re: [PATCH] Use the gettime module in ls.c.

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 16, 2008 6:35 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Both of which are checked by running "make distcheck". Thanks. I was unable to do that, because at the moment, tests/cp/acl fails on my machine. I suspect this is because I am using a VPATH build and $PWD includes a symlink, th

Re: Time sync

2008-02-16 Thread Fred .
I was thinking of like running date without a daemon, such as; $ date --sync time-a.nist.gov But maybe you're right. Date should be simple, and I can use ntpd instead. On Feb 16, 2008 7:02 AM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred . wrote: > > Why is there no 'time synchronization' feature

Re: [PATCH] Use the gettime module in ls.c.

2008-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008 6:35 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Both of which are checked by running "make distcheck". > > Thanks. I was unable to do that, because at the moment, tests/cp/acl > fails on my machine. I suspect this is because I a

Re: [PATCH] Use the gettime module in ls.c.

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 16, 2008 9:05 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for reporting that. This patch should fix it. > Would you please confirm? Yes, that works. The effect of the patch on this system is that the test is now skipped instead of failing. James. __

[PATCH] Mention the new join option --check-order

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
--- NEWS |6 ++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index af27aab..0bf8dbb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS-*- outline -*- mkdir and split now write --verbose output to stdout

[PATCH, 2nd try] Implement join --check-order.

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
2008-02-16 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/join.c (join): Support --check-order and --nocheck-order. For --check-order, verify that the input files are in sorted order. (usage): Mention --check-order and --nocheck-order. (dupline): Save a copy of

Re: Time sync

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 16, 2008 8:52 PM, Fred . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking of like running date without a daemon, such as; > $ date --sync time-a.nist.gov > > But maybe you're right. Date should be simple, and I can use ntpd instead. If it's a one-off, you can use ntpdate instead. James. _

Re: Time sync

2008-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Fred . wrote: > I was thinking of like running date without a daemon, such as; > $ date --sync time-a.nist.gov Stepping the time like that is trouble because it means that some system times will be seen twice and other system times will be skipped. Cron tasks that are meant to trigger on a partic

Re: "mkdir -p" new child dirs don't inherit default POSIX ACLs properly

2008-02-16 Thread C. J. Meidlinger
Paul, I modified the C program slightly (just to better understand what's going on) and ran it like this: -mkdir-test.c-- #include int main (void) { umask (022); mkdir ("acl-test/dir-022-777", 0777); mkdir ("acl-test/dir-022-755", 0755);

Re: [PATCH] Mention the new join option --check-order

2008-02-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
James Youngman wrote: > + join now has a --check-order option which causes join to verify that > + the input files are indeed sorted. The option --nocheck-sorted > + turns the check off (the check is currently off by default). I'm not sure it's worth adding this option. If you know to use it,

Re: [PATCH] ls --group-directories-first: symlinks to dirs are dirs too

2008-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > This point I can agree with. --group-directories-first is relatively new, > and since it is currently silent about behavior on links, I have no > problem with changing that behavior; however, I would insist that if we > make a change, we add test cases a

[PATCH] Implement join --check-order.

2008-02-16 Thread James Youngman
2008-02-16 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/join.c (join): Support --check-order and --nocheck-order. For --check-order, verify that the input files are in sorted order. (usage): Mention --check-order and --nocheck-order. (dupline): Save a copy of