Re: chown should catch null owner:group

eference when you typed -R - you get what you typed. But ultimately, since this problem doesn't seem to bother anyone else, you'll get more results if you provide a patch than if you just complain. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EM

Re: chown should catch null owner:group

ondering whether this is a cygwin porting bug or an upstream documentation bug. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Publi

Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

tree back in a workable state after updating gnulib but before re-running ./bootstrap. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~e

Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

oid warning on broken symlink source files if the resulting aclocal still manages to provide every needed macro? Meanwhile, I still think coreutils' bootstrap should delete these broken symlinks before trying to run aclocal. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Re: GNUmakefile missing from build dir in VPATH build

work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHutv

Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

x27; in detecting just the broken symlinks? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

ile BSD find has some of the same extensions, it does not have them all. And Solaris find is just too poor in features to find broken symlinks in the first place. So once you assume GNU find, you might as well assume it in multiple aspects. I'll leave it up to Jim what to put in the bootst

Re: rename("symlink-to-dir/", "name") behavior

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 1/28/2008 6:28 AM: | According to Geoff Clare on 1/28/2008 2:57 AM: | |> | |> My strict reading of the current wording in draft 4 does not permit | Linux' | |> behavior (even though it is more useful, in my o

Re: rename("symlink-to-dir/", "name") behavior

to invent a new one, maybe ESLASH "trailing slash on symlink"? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: nohup breaks logname and tty commands

, relying on a tty input to survive nohup is inherently non-portable. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: how to apply for adding a change or a patch in gnu-coreutils-6.9 and whom to contact for the same

-trivial, you will also have to assign copyright to the FSF. By the way, we prefer patches against the latest git checkout (6.9 is old; 6.10 has been released and more patches have been applied in the meantime). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric

Re: date +%s ignores TZ

to ask, since coreutils does not maintain the shell. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

[PATCH] GNUmakefile build tweaks.

* GNUmakefile: When Makefile is not present, make common targets depend on all to trigger nicer error message. * configure.ac: If autoconf is new enough, link GNUmakefile into VPATH builds. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- GNUmakefile |5 + configure.ac

Re: [PATCH] GNUmakefile build tweaks.

hat I would have remembered that I added AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION post-2.61: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-03/msg00117.html) -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: shellutils

, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:/

Re: Bugreport 'sort'

account that adds such a disclaimer on your behalf - some people refuse on principle to reply when such a trailer is present, even though the directions in the trailer cannot be feasibly enforced. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

rule in Makefile.am that removes the GNUmakefile symlink in VPATH builds, but is a no-op in in-place builds?) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.

Re: Bugreport 'sort'

ice thought. But it would violate POSIX if done by default, and doing it by other that default would require the invention of a new option - and what are the chances that a newbie is going to be aware of the existence of a new GNU- specific flag? I think we're stuck with

Re: Bugreport 'sort'

comply with POSIX all at the same time. True, we could key off of POSIXLY_CORRECT, but I'd rather minimize the (ab)use of that environment variable. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

intless waste of time, if you ask me, since the tree is about to be nuked. From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:08:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Reinstate GNUmakefile patch, but with workaround for automake. * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Use shell variable to bypass au

Re: utimens.h:2: error: conflicting types for 'futimens'

imens' Thanks for the report. However, this was previously reported, and fixed for coreutils 6.10, which is the latest stable version. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (

Re: New colorls.sh doesn't work with DIR_COLORS.xterm

s --sh "$COLORS"`" - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - ht

Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash

5399/utilities/du.html (where ' ' implies an arbitrary amount of whitespace characters). I don't think we can arbitrarily add / to and still comply with POSIX. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash

hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH0cJX84KuGfSFAYARAon

Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

| +-include $(srcdir)/GNUmakefile.cfg | | include Makefile But once you fix that, it looks okay to me to install. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Publi

Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

o where gnulib-tool will dump it in build-aux. Ultimately, a tarball must have GNUmakefile in the top-level directory if it is going to issue the helpful reminder to run configure for users that have GNU make and just unpacked the tarball. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun

Re: [PATCH] Allow long-options to accept more long options than one.

In the future, please send patches in a MIME format that allows inline reading. I'm lazy enough that I don't like saving attachments to disk just to review them. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: stat -f output standpoint

d since those quotes aren't active shell characters, copy-n-paste is less likely to cause accidents), and on less capable terminals, the output is transliterated to "\"" and "\"" rather than "`" and "'". - -- Don't work too

Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

checkout of autoconf. I went ahead and applied this. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG wit

Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

ght thing to the patch file to pick up this rename: Created commit 4aeb45a: Sync GNUmakefile with gnulib. ~ 7 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) ~ rename Makefile.cfg => cfg.mk (95%) ~ rename Makefile.maint => maint.mk (98%) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fu

Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

k too generic? I think this would be a good opportunity to change | the name. Did you mean maint.mk, not main.mk? But I'm okay with the name cfg.mk. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: [PATCH] Generalize GNUmakefile, ...

.renames true' to make renaming patches default to their more compact representation. |> Once gnulib is further |> fixed to dump GNUmakefile into the top directory, stage 2 would be using |> the gnulib module rather than synchronizing the files. As follows. - -- Don't work too

Re: od bug

refuse to reply to such mail on principle. Consider using a free email account. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericb

Re: Problems on darwin with coreutils-6.10.133-677610

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 3/25/2008 3:47 PM: | - user_name = pwd ? pwd->pw_name : NULL; | + user_name = pwd ? xstrdup (pwd->pw_name) : NULL; Doesn't this leak memory? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fu

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

a violation of POSIX; perhaps someone should report this to the busybox maintainers. Meanwhile, I'm documenting it for future reference: - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8

Re: Error : Cannot create directory 'usr/local/nagios': permission denied

t --prefix when configuring, into a directory that you do have access for, and consider putting the bin subdirectory of that location in your PATH. For example, I often use './configure --prefix ~' since $HOME/bin is in my PATH. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Re: FYI: bootstrap dangling symlink tweaks

ype l -delete > /dev/null 2>&1 Except that doesn't delete dangling links in lib/*.[ch]. You need something like: find "$m4_base" "$source_base" -depth \ ~ \( -name '*.m4' -o -name '*.[ch]' \) -type l -xtype l -delete - -- Don't work too

Re: cp -u vs. vfat's TWO seconds

bothers you that much, then consider submitting a patch that provides a replacement fpathconf for systems that don't yet implement _PC_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION, and which then teaches cp to use fpathconf to get the truncation right even with your 2-secon

Re: Printf does not display version

ry '/bin/printf --version' or '(exec printf --version)' to see the difference. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.c

Re: Feature Request - prepend to file

nce if you want to be portable to other machines. Finally, what syntax did you have in mind? It is probably possible to write a shell script that has that exact same syntax, but uses existing commands, to achieve the task without needing to add a new coreutil. - -- Don't work too hard, make some t

Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src

cygwin rm works OK That sentence didn't make sense. What version of coreutils are you complaining about, and on what platform? Maybe it is time for you to do an upgrade; the latest stable version is 6.10, with 6.11 due out soon. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun

Re: Thoughts on cut

2 out, then field 1. | | Thoughts? Sorry, but POSIX requires the current behavior of cut. Besides, it is easy to use awk to do this sort of work. $ awk '{ print $2, $1 }' - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src

instead (see cygwin.com), which has no problems with this example, and which is actively maintained to the current stable release of 6.10. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cy

Re: BUG rm -rdf */*/src

question of the best Windows port to use, and the windows-specific mailing lists are a better resource. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at hom

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

robably an upstream bug. But I will try to investigate further. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: U

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > | None of my symlink targets have a color anymore: > | > | Reverting to coreutils 6.9-5 shows the link targets in color again, > | and an strace on `ls -l y' shows the stat call for x.exe. > > Thanks for the report; this is probably an ups

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > It looks like this commit is the culprit: > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a74437 > > It looks like a true regression. The change was introduced because of this > thread: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/

Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz

is less than DBL_EPSILON off. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Moz

ls -l --color [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1]

; And I agree with you that this can wait until after 6.11 to figure out the best approach for such an option. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments] $ (exec printf --version) | head -n1 printf (GNU coreutils) 6.10 Doesn't this also mean that you need to patch mknod.c to print USAGE_BUILTIN_WARNING? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

od --version' | head -1 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.g

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

o with nice. Sounds nice to me (sorry, couldn't resist :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.g

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

xample - it is a POSIX-mandated utility, not on the special list of required utilities, but often implemented as a builtin; even if it is a builtin, this statement says it must also exist on PATH. > I'm looking at SUSv3, by the way. As am I. > > * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Apr

Re: RM disregards file level permissions and uses directory permissions instead.

, all you need is write access to the directory (and your directory is world writable); with the sticky bit set, you must also own the directory and file. To set the sticky bit, use: chmod a+t dir or chmod 01777 dir - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: PATCH: md5sum --check did not work with "\r\n" and "\r" line endings

lines, but it hasn't ever percolated to to the top. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comme

Re: Enhancement request -- performance improvement

multi-threading will help an I/O bound process. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG wi

Re: Bash vs. sh

iting bootstrap.m4sh, and running it through autom4te to get the shell selection code from autoconf with minimal effort on your part? You'd still probably want to check in the generated bootstrap script, though. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: FYI: 3 small patches

h be stored in cfg.mk instead? Second, what happens if a typo correction is made in the old NEWS? I guess that means manually updating the hash to account for the intentional changes (or maybe running 'make update-NEWS-hash' after ensuring that all I changed was a typo fix). - -- Don'

Re: md5sum is sensitive to line terminator of md5 file

e now, but never percolated to the top. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozi

Re: PATH and security

ee that any important program (like /bin/ls) cannot be inadvertently replaced by a malicious /tmp/ls. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.

Re: date bug

ng a different email account, such as a free web-based one, or a news gateway such as gmane, for posting to lists. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Pub

[bug #23030] tr doesn't support multibyte strings

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #23030 (project coreutils): This has been a frequently posted issue. Read more about the current state of things in this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-04/msg00231.html ___ Reply to

Re: Bash vs. sh

lib's bootstrap file is run? At this point, I'm more throwing around ideas than committing to write patches, so don't hold up your improvements while waiting for me to do something :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PR

Re: date,,,

since your mail wasn't even gpg signed. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: date bug

l, and I am not volunteering for the work. | | I found the workaround solution by using '31 days ago' if it is the 31st | day of the month. And that is what the manual recommends, too, since it does not result in an ambiguous date that needs normalization. | | I will certainly move to

Re: date,,,

o that, so hopefully someone else can step in and give more advice. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment:

Re: ls --color=tty

Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enig

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

./bootstrap: ./bootstrap: m4/xsize.m4 overrides ._bootmp2/m4/xsize.m4 Undefined subroutine &Test::test_vector called at tests/mk-script line 44. ./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4 ... and am not yet sure if it is from one of these patches or from an external change of upgrading from perl 5.8

Re: Feature request - base64 Filename Safe Alphabet

an option, or a file that is hidden by default from fnmatch? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

u please pull the latest to see if Bo's patch fixed it? > Yes, the warning went away with a ./bootstrap on the latest pull. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Feature request - base64 Filename Safe Alphabet

perfectly fine: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#File-System- Conventions Besides, think of 'g++', as an example of using + in file names. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

speed up getndelim2

$ cmp data1 data2 $ And all I did was make getndelim2 smarter to process data in blocks instead of bytes, by exploiting freadptr and memchr2, and cut is roughly 40% faster. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: equalize permissions with chmod?

ls extensions beyond what POSIX requires make this even more flexible). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~e

Re: TEE bug?

other messages. Such an option already exists, and it is outside the realm of coreutils. You merely need to tell your shell to quit ignoring SIGPIPE: trap - PIPE - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: TEE bug?

ted?). | | I do thank you for the information and time! - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.com

Re: Data has undocumented '@' function

e --help output; rather, the info page is the complete documentation, and it mentions the @ syntax. Try 'info corutils "date input"' for more details. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Feat-Req: uniq -c delimiter should be changable

useless use of cat. Why not: sort < textfile | uniq -c ... - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Co

Re: Bug in sort 5.93 Ubuntu dapper

Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - h

Re: bug report : about rm command

to Windows, such as cygwin or mingw; this list does not focus much on the quirks of running GNU software on Windows. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: bug report : about rm command

ctory separator, once rm sees the arguments as collected by the shell. You really are better off asking on the mailing list of wherever you got your pre-compiled rm, rather than on this list. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTE

Re: bug report : about rm command

ike to know rm's version. Please run: rm --version and tell us where you downloaded rm.exe. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at hom

Re: bug report : about rm command

r fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkg0DoEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYB2JACfepBATORgbyE

Re: Is this bug in who?

on principle, to answer such mail. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuP

Re: Is this bug in who?

arguments. | "Who abcd abcd" has | no meaning when the purpose was "who am I", and both throw same output. As designed. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: coreutils-6.11-1 in release-2 area

should certainly consider providing this as a useful extension, and coreutils should be taught to snoop whether systems with futimesat/utimensat support also honor this extension. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: coreutils-6.11-1 in release-2 area

go. | Do you feel like doing it? Yes, I'll be tackling this. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.g

Re: coreutils-6.11-1 in release-2 area

d now is a patch to coreutils and/or gnulib to prefer the standardized names (and fall back to futimesat under the hood when needed), rather than preferring the non-standardized name. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Re: Possible bug in the expr command

02a-3-does-not-work - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.

utimens and non-standardized futimesat [was: coreutils-6.11-1 in release-2 area]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 5/22/2008 6:51 AM: | According to Jim Meyering on 5/22/2008 6:42 AM: | |> |> No need to refer the dir by name: | |> |> | |> |> futimens (dirfd. timespec); | |> | | |> | Btw., even if you don&#

timeout command

eb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=265c4b8#patch4 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG wi

Re: timeout command

list of files touched disagrees with the commit message, although I haven't attempted to do that yet. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Pub

Re: rebased timeout patch

undefined reference to `_program_name' Sounds like a 'make syntax-check' rule on top of this patch would be worthwhile, although I didn't tackle that... >From f714d3c1c2ef5944bb12cf567340f487331987b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: touch and utimens troubles on new/old software combinations

ns=no ac_cv_func_utimensat=no, to force the configuration on the newer machine to use the same fallbacks as the older machines. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Pub

Re: touch and utimens troubles on new/old software combinations

. > > That should be pretty easy, just fall through to the fallback code when > errno == ENOSYS. > > Andreas. > Does this solve your problem? Unfortunately, it bloats code in the case where utimensat works just fine in the kernel. >From b566edc2489a889d97416d2390be7796aa8c

Re: timeout command

is const char *, but error.c uses it only as char *. I wonder if we should worry about that at all? > Should this be a syntax-check? My question, exactly :) -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: touch and utimens troubles on new/old software combinations

rable? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: touch and utimens troubles on new/old software combinations

aiting for a glibc fallback. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG wi

Re: rebased timeout patch

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Re: breaks if no matchpathcon_init_prefix in selinux.h

selinux-at.h:17, ~ from selinux-at.c:21: ./selinux/selinux.h:59: error: redefinition of 'matchpathcon_init_prefix' ./selinux/selinux.h:34: error: previous definition of 'matchpathcon_init_prefix' was here - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for

Re: rebased timeout patch

it is still in scope and has the correct type? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

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