Re: [PATCH] cp: ignore obscure failure to preserve symlink time stamps,

Jim Meyering wrote: > The "preserve symlink time stamps" feature in coreutils-7.5 > is causing trouble in Fedora's build system, > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/119834 > > because they use a kernel without utimensat support, yet configured/built > coreutils-7.5 in

Re: [PATCH] cp: ignore obscure failure to preserve symlink time stamps,

Pádraig Brady wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> The "preserve symlink time stamps" feature in coreutils-7.5 >> is causing trouble in Fedora's build system, >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/119834 >> >> because they use a kernel without utimensat support, yet configur

[RFC] new open flag O_NOSTD

Proposal Add a new flag, O_NOSTD, to at least open and pipe2 (and an alternate spelling SOCK_NOSTD for socket, socketpair, accept4), with the following semantics: If the flag is specified and the function is successful, the returned fd (both fds for the pipe2 case) will be at least 3, reg

Re: [PATCH] cp: ignore obscure failure to preserve symlink time stamps,

On Monday 24 of August 2009 10:46:26 Jim Meyering wrote: > Actually, the comment I added above has a typo. > s/ENOTSUP/ENOSYS/. > > The diagnostic reported corresponds to ENOSYS. > The adjusted patch is here: > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-August/msg01220.html s/Kami

Re: [PATCH] cp: ignore obscure failure to preserve symlink time stamps,

Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Monday 24 of August 2009 10:46:26 Jim Meyering wrote: >> Actually, the comment I added above has a typo. >> s/ENOTSUP/ENOSYS/. >> >> The diagnostic reported corresponds to ENOSYS. >> The adjusted patch is here: >> >> >> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-A

Re: [PATCH] cp: ignore obscure failure to preserve symlink time stamps,

On Monday 24 of August 2009 14:45:58 Jim Meyering wrote: > Kamil Dudka wrote: > > On Monday 24 of August 2009 10:46:26 Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Actually, the comment I added above has a typo. > >> s/ENOTSUP/ENOSYS/. > >> > >> The diagnostic reported corresponds to ENOSYS. > >> The adjusted patch is

Re: [PATCH] cp: ignore obscure failure to preserve symlink time stamps,

Jim Meyering wrote: > Kamil Dudka wrote: > > On Monday 24 of August 2009 10:46:26 Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Actually, the comment I added above has a typo. > >> s/ENOTSUP/ENOSYS/. > >> > >> The diagnostic reported corresponds to ENOSYS. > >> The adjusted patch is here: > >> > >> > >> http://www.redh

Re: Bug#505927: just use the date(1) -d library instead of your own poorer date parser

> Regarding http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505927 > "BSB" == Bernd Siggy Brentrup writes: BSB> Hi, BSB> I'm currently evaluating at's wishlist bugs for my 'at' replacement BSB> 'at-ng' which is a complete rewrite from scratch. Uh oh, "at no good"? :-) BSB> On Mon, Nov