jeff.liu wrote:
> AFAICS, the tests passed on all filesystems except ext4,
Really?
The vast majority of my testing is with ext4 on Fedora 14, and I have seen
no failure -- otherwise I would have mentioned that as a known problem.
What type of system/kernel are you using?
Was your ext4 partition c
jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> $ 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
OK, so it's late, but I can't resist:
First, 'sleep' does accept one number that's negative
in an IEEE-754 sense, namely, "sleep -- -0.0".
Second, due to rounding error, 'sleep' does accept some
numbers that are negative in a mathematical sense, e.g.,
"sleep -- -1e1000" works.
Third, there's not
> "PE" == Paul Eggert writes:
PE> (Have I written enough to tempt ... to extend 'sleep'
PE> to allow negative numbers? :-)
Right you are young man.
We here at NerdLabs already use
$ sleep -- -100
to give us a few moments to go back and correct errors.
But due to National Security, that's all
Jim Meyering wrote:
> jeff.liu wrote:
>> AFAICS, the tests passed on all filesystems except ext4,
>
> Really?
> The vast majority of my testing is with ext4 on Fedora 14, and I have seen
> no failure -- otherwise I would have mentioned that as a known problem.
I have mentioned this issue at:
http
Paul Eggert wrote:
> OK, so it's late, but I can't resist:
You obviously need to, er... sleep.
> First, 'sleep' does accept one number that's negative
> in an IEEE-754 sense, namely, "sleep -- -0.0".
>
> Second, due to rounding error, 'sleep' does accept some
> numbers that are negative in a math
sune@jekaterina:~$ echo Å|wc -m
2
sune@jekaterina:~$ echo Å|wc -c
3
sune@jekaterina:~$
Expected: 1 and 2 respectively.
wc is the one in Ubuntu Linux 10.10
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Sune Mølgaard
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On 01/25/2011 07:04 PM, Sune Mølgaard wrote:
>> Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug - echo is outputting
>> a newline (which is a second character, and third byte given the
>> encoding of your chosen character).
>>
>> To see the difference, try:
>>
On 01/25/2011 06:18 PM, Sune Mølgaard wrote:
> sune@jekaterina:~$ echo Å|wc -m
> 2
> sune@jekaterina:~$ echo Å|wc -c
> 3
> sune@jekaterina:~$
>
> Expected: 1 and 2 respectively.
Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug - echo is outputting
a newline (which is a second character, and thi
Jim Meyering wrote:
> jeff.liu wrote:
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> jeff.liu wrote:
AFAICS, the tests passed on all filesystems except ext4,
>>> Really?
>>> The vast majority of my testing is with ext4 on Fedora 14, and I have seen
>>> no failure -- otherwise I would have mentioned that as a know
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