[PATCH] timeout: remove problematic casts

2008-12-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
There is some dodgy casts in timeout.c that are being flagged by `gcc -fstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing` The attached patch hopefully addresses this. cheers, Pádraig. >From 693467d432a4718068137e97c5655b7b8ff0f86c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Tue, 23 Dec

Re: [PATCH] timeout: remove problematic casts

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > There is some dodgy casts in timeout.c that are being > flagged by `gcc -fstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing` > The attached patch hopefully addresses this. > > cheers, > Pádraig. >>From 693467d432a4718068137e97c5655b7b8ff0f86c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=

Re: [PATCH] stty doc enhancements

2008-12-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Well, OK then. > > PB> I think we can imply a computer is involved? > PB> I was worried that the more verbose mentioning of both > PB> the terminal and computer would suggest that stty > PB> was restricted to remote serial terminals. I'm going to push the attached soo

Re: [PATCH] stty doc enhancements

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Well, OK then. >> >> PB> I think we can imply a computer is involved? >> PB> I was worried that the more verbose mentioning of both >> PB> the terminal and computer would suggest that stty >> PB> was restricted to remote serial terminals. > > I'

Re: [PATCH] stty doc enhancements

2008-12-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > @@ -11988,7 +11989,8 @@ empty again. May be negated. > @opindex iuclc > @cindex uppercase, translating to lowercase > Translate uppercase characters to lowercase. n...@acronym{posix}. May be > -negated. > +negated. Note no ilcuc is implemented, What does that mean?

Re: [PATCH] stty doc enhancements

2008-12-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
thanks guys, take 2 attached. Pádraig. >From 0fcf7301049a1db0268337e433932037cb8eac3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:55:46 + Subject: [PATCH] doc: stty: Clarification of some input and output settings * doc/coreutils.texi (stty invo

[PATCH] build: do enable $(WERROR_CFLAGS) for src/ files.

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Meyering
I *did* intend to enable $(WERROR_CFLAGS), but didn't notice a vestigial change set that left it commented out. Thanks, Pádraig. Now, I configure coreutils with --enable-gcc-warnings on modern-enough systems. I'll push this later today. >From 3b3e21f7d4108dcfb1a54b147b29c5b0286918d9 Mon Sep 17 0

Incosistency in doc

2008-12-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, fyi, commit c7e971bee0aa606eef67c0f77711e3feeb5025f3 added: +...@example +...@samp{b} =>512 ("blocks") +...@samp{kb} => 1000 (KiloBytes) +...@samp{k} => 1024 (KibiBytes) +...@samp{mb} => 1000*1000 (MegaBytes) +...@samp{m} => 1024*1024 (MebiBytes)

Re: Incosistency in doc

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > fyi, commit c7e971bee0aa606eef67c0f77711e3feeb5025f3 added: Thanks. That was corrected shortly afterward. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Incosistency in doc

2008-12-23 Thread Jon Stanley
On 12/23/08, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > fyi, commit c7e971bee0aa606eef67c0f77711e3feeb5025f3 added: > > +...@example > +...@samp{b} =>512 ("blocks") > +...@samp{kb} => 1000 (KiloBytes) > +...@samp{k} => 1024 (KibiBytes) > +...@samp{mb} => 1000*1000 (Me

Re: Incosistency in doc

2008-12-23 Thread Jon Stanley
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Jon Stanley wrote: > Sent from my mobile device Gack, cell phone sending e-mails I didn't intend to. Twenty lashings for me :) ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: a fix for color ls with wrapped lines.

2008-12-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Tuesday 2008-10-14 16:57, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Tuesday 2008-10-14 10:17, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> >>> --- ls.c.1 2008-10-14 12:24:39.60505 +0400 >>> +++ ls.c2008-10-14 12:25:48.985396400 +0400 >>> @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ >>>{ >>> { LEN_STR_PAIR ("\033[") },/* lc: L

Re: Providing pointers to more generic help

2008-12-23 Thread jemarch
Hi. The logical thing to do is put a single web page somewhere on www.gnu.org and include in that page things that help users find resources to help them. I've made an outline of such a document below. It would likely be an enhancement to the document currently at