Re: Wrong behavior of ``readlink -f''?

Hello! On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ readlink -f a/../a/f > > $ echo $? > > 1 > ... > > readlink (GNU coreutils) 5.97 > > > > Why doesn't it resolve the latter

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

Hello! On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:30:57PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to Jim Meyering on 4/16/2008 2:33 AM: > > | This test would fail not only because the built-in mknod > > | doesn't support -Z, but because it doesn't know about 'p' pipes. > >

Re: possible bug?

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:05:53AM -0500, Duane Cox wrote: > Hello, I'm not sure if this is correct operation, or a bug... > using: coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz > > I'm in my home dir, changing permissions on hidden files > and folders in my home dir. Apparently chown also grabs .. > all the way up to

Re: a suggestion for rm

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:00:40AM +0300, M Atakan G?rkan wrote: > Would it not make more sense for rm to fail completely > if one of the files on the command line is not found? For > example if I intend to delete the file foo1 and type > rm foo 1 > and by chance have a file named "foo", it will be

Re: feature-request: add "banner" to coreutils as a standard GNU/Linux utility

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:22:36PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I don't find the BSD one very useful, who has continuous tractor feed > paper printers these days? :-) A... Bzzzzrzzrzrzrzzrzz zrzzrzzrrzzr. Week. Bzzzrzzrzzr rzzr zrrzrrrzzrzrrzrzrzz. Weee

Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

error; please apply the attached patch. Regards, Thomas 2006-07-20 Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/copy.c (set_author): Correctly access SRC_SB's element ST_AUTHOR. Index: src/copy.c === RCS fil

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:58:55PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > [...] Immediatelly (i.e. especiall that there was no ``long failure period'' like said in the bounce message) after sending the mail I received the attached bounce. I'm ccing this very email to anothe

`touch' broken on GNU

Hello! Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' broke? #v+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ src/touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas users 0 Jan 1 1970 foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ unam

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:24:19PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #v+ > > 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher > > > > * src/copy.c [!HAVE_FCHOWN]: Define fchown(...) to -1. > > (set_owner, preserve_

Re: `touch' broken on GNU

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:41:02AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' > > broke? > > Thanks for the report. Which version of 'touch'? T

Getting a file_t from a file descriptor (was: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05)

[Cced to bug-hurd.] Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:45:37AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks for the fix. Sure, sure. :-) > By the way, is there some way in the Hurd to change the author of a > file, given only its Unix file descriptor? I'd like to fix the FIXME > about 5 lines before yo

Re: Getting a file_t from a file descriptor

Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 04:08:44PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please tell if you (or anyone else, of course) need access to a GNU/Hurd > > system. > > I'm afraid it's a lot to learn all at once; That

Re: Bug - report

Hello! On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:28:28PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The command, who > when used with any two arguments like > who am am... > displays the result of who am i. #v+ $ who --help Usage: who [OPTION]... [ FILE | ARG1 ARG2 ] [...] -monly hostname and user ass

Re: logical paths (was: (no subject))

Hello! Not an answer to the question, but it might be interesting nevertheless. On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:48:11PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kartik K. Agaram wrote: > > Does POSIX require that coreutils commands use only physical path rather > > than pwd to resolve relative paths? When pwd con

Re: FYI: new test for a hard-to-detect race fix, using gdb(!)

Hello! On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:21:34PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > [...] > +( gdb --version ) > gdb.out 2>&1 > +if test ! -s gdb.out; then > + echo "$0: can't run gdb. Skipping this test." 1>&2 > + (exit 77); exit 77 > +fi #v+ $ ( nonexistent ) > out 2>&1 $ test ! -s out && echo can\'t ru

``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

Hello! Please tell me if that has been discussed before -- I couldn't come up with good search terms to check myself. Automake section. I was thinking about the following: when in a package P1 (using Automake) e.g. C header files are installed via ``make install'', they are installed unconditio

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

[I added the patch's author, Akim Demaille, to the cc list, as it was not sure if he's still reading the list.] Hello! On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 04:21:50PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-10/msg00070

Re: LC_ALL=C bug

Hallo! On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:16:22PM +0100, Michael Heinzinger wrote: > sorry dont can write in english > hope i can help I will translate to English once we figured out what the actual issue is. > Aufruf: uname [OPTION]... > Bestimmte Systeminformationen ausgeben. Ohne OPTION dasselbe wi

Re: a coreutils release is imminent

[Cced to .] Hello! On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:41:42PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz > http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz.sig > > Please build it and run "make -k check" on a few unusual > systems today or tomorrow and report any problems

Re: [FAQ] ARG_MAX and POSIX

Hello! On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:06:53PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Isn't the Hurd also one of the systems that does not have an ARG_MAX > limit? Correct. #v+ $ uname -a GNU flubber 0.3 GNU-Mach 1.3.99/Hurd-0.3 i686-AT386 GNU $ getconf ARG_MAX undefined #v- [glibc]/manual/process.texi #v+ [...

Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long

Hello! On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:06:29AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Manickam Muthuraman on 11/21/2007 4:47 AM: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/HHpred/scop_hmm> cat *.hhm > scop70_1.72.hhm > { echo *.hhm | xargs cat; } > scop70_1.72.hhm.tmp I was looking at these two command lines and wonde

Wrong behavior of ``readlink -f''?

Hello! I'm a bit stumped with this behavior of ``readlink -f'', as it doesn't match what I had expected. #v+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ mkdir a-long [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ touch a-long/f [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ ln -s a-long a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ readlink -f a/f /home/thomas/tmp/a-long/f

Re: Test failure tests/date/date-tests with current CVS

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:44:36PM +0100, Ed Avis wrote: > I configured and built the current CVS HEAD of coreutils, but 'make > check' fails with > > make check-TESTS > make[3]: Entering directory > `/home/ed/cvs_working/coreutils/tests/date' > ./date-tests: line 777: ./utc-1.I: No such file or

Re: loss of ascii-betizing?

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:13:58PM -0500, Paul Garrett wrote: > > Dear GNU.org, > > In the new RedHat/Fedora, "ls" no longer ASCII-betizes, but > alphabetizes, and even ignores leading dots, so dotfiles are mixed in > among other files. > > Is this a feature? Yes it is. You can control ls' (and