Re: seq bug -- out of bounds read (off by one)

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply on the ptx bug. > > We have found another minor bug (non-crashing) in seq. An example problem > input > is: > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:src$ ./seq -f %0 1 > ./seq: memory exhausted > -- > > The problem is in seq.c:213 (in 6.10 sour

Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

2008-03-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 3/20/2008 7:58 AM: |> Here's stage 1 of the sync for coreutils. The patch looks big, but that's |> due to how 'git format-patch' handles renames. I just learned 'git config --global diff.renames true' to make renaming pa

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-24 Thread Elbert Pol
Hello all, I wonder why on this question is a verry quick response, and i posted 2 times a same sort of question and i got no response at all... Is this because i use os/2 ? checking for getspnam... no checking for library containing crypt... none required configure: error: internal error

Patch against src/remove.c for correct handling of negative error codes

2008-03-24 Thread Axel Dörfler
Hi, the enclosed patch changes the following (remove.c against HEAD): * write_protected_non_symlink() now returns -1 for error (errno will be set accordingly), 0 for everything fine, and 1 if it's a write protected file. * prompt() now deals with the changed semantics of the above function. It's