Re: [Bug-tar] Error "Cannot allocate memory" incorrectly reported in some cases.

2005-10-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Sergey Poznyakoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the diagnosis, but the fix isn't quite right in general, > > since the C standard says memcpy can set errno as well. > > > > I installed this patch instead, both in gnulib and coreutils. > > O

bug#13447: ln "" foo gives misleading error message

2013-01-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Blake wrote: > [adding the Austin Group] > > On 01/15/2013 02:58 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > >>> That Solaris behavior is contrary to POSIX 2008 > >>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlink.html > >> > >> Where does it say this? I read it through in detail but I d

bug#15970: [Bug-tar] bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X

2013-11-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Are you using "ignore_value" because of the gcc bug that ignores the official method to tell that the return code is ignored intentionally: (void) write(fd, buf, len); Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de

bug#15970: [Bug-tar] bug#15970: bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X

2013-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 11/26/2013 10:53 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > Are you using "ignore_value" because of the gcc bug that ignores the > > official > > method to tell that the return code is ignored intentionally: > > > >

bug#15970: ignore_value vs (void) [was: [Bug-tar] bug#15970: bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X]

2013-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/27/2013 09:30 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >>> Are you using "ignore_value" because of the gcc bug that ignores the > >>> official > >>> method to tell that the return code is ignored intentionally: > >>> &g

bug#15970: ignore_value vs (void) [was: [Bug-tar] bug#15970: bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X]

2013-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/27/2013 09:53 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> The C standard does not document that '(void) write(...)' is required to > >> avoid diagnostics, so I don't see the gcc behavior as a bug (yes, it's > >> annoying beh