Re: coreutils and i18n

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> As for i18n, some students nearly took on the project of implementing a >> palatable solution recently, but that's been deferred for a few months. > > Interesting... In 2001 you set out the following requirements for such > a solution

Re: coreutils and xattr

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> On Sunday 20 April 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > ha

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-21 Thread Didi
> If by "unknown" you mean nameless, that's not what the patch does. > Such a patch would not even have been considered. I agree that hiding this information in some cases might not be optimal, but the main problem is that through this the 'groups' command becomes utterly useless and confused qu

Re: coreutils and i18n

2008-04-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > > - Processing in unibyte locales should not become significantly slower > > than before. > > - Code duplication should be avoided, for maintainability. > > - Macros which expand to one thing in the multibyte case and to another > > thing for the unibyte case are

Re: coreutils and i18n

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> > - Processing in unibyte locales should not become significantly slower >> > than before. >> > - Code duplication should be avoided, for maintainability. >> > - Macros which expand to one thing in the multibyte case and to

coreutils-6.11 gmake check errors on Solaris 10 SPARC

2008-04-21 Thread Allen Hewes
Solaris 10 SPARC uname -a SunOS sparky 5.10 Generic_127111-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 cc -v cc: Sun C 5.8 Patch 121015-06 2007/10/03 Looks like there isn't an equivalent to a Linux 'mount --bind' on Solaris? SKIP: deep-2.log PASS: deep-1.log SKIP: hash.log PASS: dangling-symlink.log PASS: v-

Re: coreutils and i18n

2008-04-21 Thread Pádraig Brady
Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >>> - Processing in unibyte locales should not become significantly slower >>> than before. >>> - Code duplication should be avoided, for maintainability. >>> - Macros which expand to one thing in the multibyte case and to another >>> thing fo

Re: coreutils-6.11 gmake check errors on Solaris 10 SPARC

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
"Allen Hewes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Solaris 10 SPARC > uname -a > SunOS sparky 5.10 Generic_127111-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 > > cc -v > cc: Sun C 5.8 Patch 121015-06 2007/10/03 > > Looks like there isn't an equivalent to a Linux 'mount --bind' on > Solaris? > ... > FAIL: one-file-syste

Re: [PATCH] Make comm check order of input files

2008-04-21 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi, Pádraig pointed out that there's no reason to copy data around here. This version avoids the copies. Thanks Pádraig, Bo From 49ec3883efc8a89e8a4260f25bb50178aced1be4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:24:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Make c

Re: [PATCH] Make comm check order of input files

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
"Bo Borgerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pádraig pointed out that there's no reason to copy data around here. > > This version avoids the copies. > > Thanks Pádraig, Thanks from me, too. If you guys can help by reviewing others' changes, that would help me. In the run-up to 6.11, quite a few l

Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-21 Thread Elbert Pol
Hoi Jim, I used the lzma and after that i untar the tar file I attach the log Hope it's fixable :) Jim Meyering wrote: Elbert Pol<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hoi Jim, and the rest I try to debug some things for os2 and it seems a hell of a job :( Espicely if you have no backgrounds about t

wordcount (wc)

2008-04-21 Thread Almer S. Tigelaar
Hello, I have been using the 'wc' program (version 5.97) to manually verify some counts outputted by a component part of an application I am developing. I noticed that: echo "12345" | wc -m Gives me '6' as output. But I don't entirely understand why. On multi-line input 'wc' seems to add

Re: wordcount (wc)

2008-04-21 Thread Brock Noland
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Almer S. Tigelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using the 'wc' program (version 5.97) to manually verify > some counts outputted by a component part of an application I am > developing. > > I noticed that: > echo "12345" | wc -m >

Re: wordcount (wc)

2008-04-21 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:27:35PM +0200, Almer S. Tigelaar wrote: > I have been using the 'wc' program (version 5.97) to manually verify > some counts outputted by a component part of an application I am > developing. > > I noticed that: > echo "12345" | wc -m > Gives me '6' as output.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Didi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If by "unknown" you mean nameless, that's not what the patch does. >> Such a patch would not even have been considered. > > I agree that hiding this information in some cases might not be > optimal, but the main problem is that through this the 'groups' > comman

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:23 , Didi wrote: If by "unknown" you mean nameless, that's not what the patch does. Such a patch would not even have been considered. I agree that hiding this information in some cases might not be optimal, but the main problem is that through this the 'groups' command

test revamp pushed: new snapshot available: coreutils-6.11.8-a6894

2008-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just pushed a big change to the test infrastructure. It eliminates most of the test/*/Makefile.am files and also solves Bruno's problem where tests fail if "." is too early in PATH. coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz8.7 MB http://meyering.net/cu/co

Re: coreutils and i18n

2008-04-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > I'm open to all reasonable solutions, especially when accompanied > with sample code. This is the proposed sample code: the 'expand' program. Here the core of the program is in the single function expand(). The proposed solution is like this. It uses a set of macros, which -