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

2009-04-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > You might want to do something similar to what I did in fts.c > with this change: > > http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=97d5b66578be507 Oh cool, thanks for that. I'll also look at documenting the ls SElinux options in the info docs as I couldn't see them o

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

2009-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: ... > I'll also look at documenting the ls SElinux options in the info docs > as I couldn't see them on a quick search. Nice. That will we welcome. If you feel really industrious, mktemp needs info documentation, too. ___ Bug-core

[PATCH] maint: remove compiler warnings from randint and randread modules

2009-04-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
A small patch to remove compiler warnings I noticed while compiling these modules for the shred speedups. cheers, Pádraig. >From 94135b46056b93590cce603950db5a3f4e33aa15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:23:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] maint: re

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

2009-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Just a quick follow up to this now archived bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472590 > > The last message there mentioned selinux query overhead. > On my system with selinux disabled, there is currently > a significant overhead in doing the selinux looku

Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG

2009-04-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: > So in summary I would do: > > 1. by default always use internal PRNG seeded with getpid() > 2. if --random-source specified read all random data from there > > Note 2 will allow one to specify /dev/zero if desired. > We could seed our PRNG with /dev/urandom if available, bu

Re: how do i give a working comand in console after "sudo su" let me be "#" under ubuntu 8.10 to copy entire folder "desktop" to another partition with the folowing:

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to groza Florin on 4/5/2009 7:22 AM: Hello Florin, > how do i give a working comand in console after "sudo su" let me be > "#" under ubuntu 8.10 to copy entire folder "desktop" to another > partition with the folowing: > source(right click

Re: Parallelizing sort

2009-04-06 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Glen Lenker wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:12:42PM -0800, Nima Nikzad wrote: >>> Hello coreutils community, >>> I am new to the exciting world of open source development and thought I >>> should introduce my self and get some feedback on what I am working on. My >>> na