coreutils.texi too big

2009-01-17 Thread jidanni
Gentlemen, it dawned on me. coreutils.texi is too big, from a source code management point of view. It should be broken down into logical parts, one for stty, one for sort, etc. Then you can pull it all together via @includes. Anyway, it makes no sense for e.g., edits to stty invocation to conflict

Re: coreutils.texi too big

2009-01-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to jida...@jidanni.org on 1/17/2009 9:37 AM: > Gentlemen, it dawned on me. coreutils.texi is too big, from a source > code management point of view. It should be broken down into logical > parts, one for stty, one for sort, etc. Then you can

Re: coreutils.texi too big

2009-01-17 Thread jidanni
EB> Care to submit a patch? (To tell you the truth I never tested my previous patches worked in textinfo or texinfo or whatever it's called :-) I just did monkey see monkey do) as you see somebody has to be in the ideas department, passing on ideas to the implementation experts... ___

curious behavior in cp --- is it a bug?

2009-01-17 Thread Paul E Condon
This is an directory ownership issue. On a host which I've named 'gq', I am copying a file structure the is rooted a /db2/chkpnt. All the files under /db2/ (and /db2 itself) have ownership root:root I copy the whole structure to an external HD that is mounted at on another computer, hostname 'big