[PATCH] Improve quality of format-checking code for seq.

* src/seq.c (validate_format): Remove. Migrate its checks into... (long_double_format): Report an error and exit if an error is found, instead of returning NULL. All callers changed. Use a more-consistent format for diagnostics. * tests/misc/seq: Adjust to the more-consistent format for diagnostic

Re: RFC: changing the "+" in ls -l output to be "." or "+"

On Saturday 25 October 2008 00:19, Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > > A desire for compatibility makes "+" look good. > > "." is appealing for SELinux-only because it's inconspicuous. > > Speaking as a fairly new SELinux user/admin, having a "." > next to every file

Re: RFC: changing the "+" in ls -l output to be "." or "+"

Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2008 00:19, Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >> > A desire for compatibility makes "+" look good. >> > "." is appealing for SELinux-only because it's inconspicuous. >> >> Speaking as a fairly new SELi

Re: [PATCH] Improve quality of format-checking code for seq.

Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * src/seq.c (validate_format): Remove. Migrate its checks into... > (long_double_format): Report an error and exit if an error is found, > instead of returning NULL. All callers changed. > Use a more-consistent format for diagnostics. > * tests/misc/seq: Ad

Re: pwd doesn't support -L or -P

Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a suggestion that would be a lot simpler to implement: have pwd > implement -P as a no-op, and document the lack of -L, and the conflict > with the POSIX default behaviour. I'd be happy to write a > documentation patch. > > That will enlighten users

[PATCH] tests: seq: check for today's extended long double fix

FYI, here's what I've pushed. >From b4ec994b26662f890da855c8a1914aff4d2d3faa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:34:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: seq: check for today's extended long double fix * tests/misc/seq-long-double: New file. Test

Re: [PATCH] install: new option: --strip-program to specify the program used to strip binaries

Hi. I'm dealing(struggling) with translation in French of coreutils. Could you explain to me what is meant by "strip binaries"? Is that extract? By the way i wait for any comment on the translation, that i guess is very poor. tks. Kamil Dudka wrote: > > Hello, > > as requested in TODO, new

Re: [PATCH] install: new option: --strip-program to specify the program used to strip binaries

ykerb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you explain to me what is meant by "strip binaries"? "strip" is the program that removes (strips) the symbol table from a binary. It's a technical term, so unlikely to be directly translatable. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]