Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > >> I prefer to have one change set per year updating all copyright year lists, >> rather than having a copyright-list update as part of the first >> change of the year for files modified in the normal course of development. > > Sounds fine.

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > >> It doesn't affect it at all, if you use a version of coreutils from >> 1980, then the copyright term will be from that date. If you use a >> version from 2100 then it will be from that date. > > OK, but taken separately the

Re: "cannot dereference" error from "chown -RH"

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Meyering
enh wrote: > if i create a dangling symbolic link within a tree, "chown -RH > top-of-tree" gets me a "cannot dereference" error. > > STEPS TO REPRODUCE: > > cd /tmp > mkdir chown-test > cd chown-test > ln -s poop parp > cd .. > chown -RH :nogroup chown-test Thanks for taking the time

BUG in tr when lowercase letters 'o', 'p' & 'e' file names in the same directory

2009-06-26 Thread Gaafer Goreish
Hi, I discovered that if there is a file with the one lowercase letter name 'o' or 'p' or 'e' in the same directory where the tr command is executed it generates an error or unexpected result. Following is the the simple commands used to re-produce this bug r...@mme1-f101-1:# echo hello | tr [:lo

Re: BUG in tr when lowercase letters 'o', 'p' & 'e' file names in the same directory

2009-06-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gaafer Goreish on 6/26/2009 11:43 AM: > Following is the the simple commands used to re-produce this bug The bug is in your lack of shell quoting, and not in tr. To see why this is not a tr bug, you can do: # echo hello | echo tr [:lowe

Re: BUG in tr when lowercase letters 'o', 'p' & 'e' file names in the same directory

2009-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Gaafer Goreish wrote: > I discovered that if there is a file with the one lowercase letter name 'o' > or 'p' or 'e' in the same directory where the tr command is executed it > generates an error or unexpected result. Thank you for your report. However this is not a bug in tr. It is insufficient

Re: [PATCH] sort: Add --threads option, which parallelizes internal sort.

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:33:21PM CEST: ... >> I ran some tests (see below), and got results that look >> similar to Ralf's. I used an otherwise-idle 16-core Nehalem-based >> system with 8GB of RAM. > > Which kernel and glibc? admittedly old kernel: