bug#7858: coreutils-8.9 test failed on rh5 amd

2011-01-24 Thread sam sirlin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:07 -0800 Jim Meyering wrote: > sam sirlin wrote: > ... > > This is, I believe the relevant section: > > Thanks for the report. > That is just what I needed. > > > FAIL: cp/cp-parents (exit: 1) > > = > ... > > ++ ls -ld e/d/a > > ++ cut -b-10

bug#7877: sleep 5 -4

2011-01-24 Thread jidanni
$ sleep 5 -4 sleep: invalid option -- '4' $ sleep -- 5 -4 sleep: invalid time interval `-4' No fair prejudicing negative numbers. At least document it. 'However, GNU `sleep' accepts arbitrary floating point numbers (using a period before any fractional digits).' is what it says on Debian.

bug#6131: [PATCH]: fiemap support for efficient sparse file copy

2011-01-24 Thread jeff.liu
Hi Jim, Thanks for your time to help consolidating the code! Is this patchset acceptable to merge into the next official release? AFAICS, the tests passed on all filesystems except ext4, but the result is ok by comparing the file contents, can we take this risk? Another thing is to add solaris