Re: (no subject)

2009-02-04 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 17:01:02 Jeromy Keloway wrote: > Good afternoon > > What I have to say is a little bit... hard to believe. > But I think I found a "bug" in the Shell-Command "cp". The command goes > into a endless loop when I do the following: Endless loop? Does the cp process consume C

Re: cp -a refuses to devolve file mode

2009-02-04 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 19:03:33 Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > cp -a refuses to devolve the file mode when I copy a certain file > between two ext3 volumes > > whereas it does not report any error: > > cat syncit > > cp -a /home/./downloads/system/freebsd/bootstrap/etch/debootstrap > /mnt/home-mi

cp infloop(?) when copying a file larger than 4GiB to FAT32

2009-02-04 Thread Jim Meyering
"Jeromy Keloway" wrote: > What I have to say is a little bit... hard to believe. > But I think I found a "bug" in the Shell-Command "cp". The command goes into > a endless loop when I do the following: > > 1) Mount a partition with the filesystem "ext3" ("/media/EXT3drive") > > 2) Mount a partiti

Re: (no subject)

2009-02-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jeromy Keloway wrote: > Good afternoon > > What I have to say is a little bit... hard to believe. > But I think I found a "bug" in the Shell-Command "cp". The command goes into > a endless loop when I do the following: > > > 1) Mount a partition with the filesystem "ext3" ("/media/EXT3drive") >

Re: sort "b" option in pos2 has strange effect

2009-02-04 Thread Davide Canova
Pádraig Brady wrote: I've looked at this a little more, and wow it's confusing. I think the documentation is inconsistent at least wrt -kPOS1,POS2.C For POS2.0 it says that it refers to the end of POS2 field. In fact what the code seems to be doing is referring to the end of field, POS2 - 1. This