Re: bashisms

2010-05-19 Thread Brian K. White
On 5/19/2010 2:30 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Ian, * Ian Beckwith wrote on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:54:52AM CEST: * trap with signal numbers According tohttp://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.html (btw, am I right in saying "The Open Group Base Specifications Issu

Re: chown, cpio: proposed change for userspec handling of USER:

2009-12-02 Thread Brian K. White
Jim Meyering wrote: Hello, While writing a few tests for userspec (below), I was surprised to re-learn that chown USER_NAME: has a special meaning. It is a shorthand for chown USER_NAME:+$(id -g USER_NAME) ... I had expected it to be equivalent to this: chown USER_NAME ... Since the above beha

Re: GNUmakefile: git-version-gen, maintainer-check, install

2008-08-27 Thread Brian K. White
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Re: ncftpput replacement

2008-08-03 Thread Brian K. White
background processes never timeout. wget/ncftp/curl etc are all more robust choices for automated operations even if only for that one reason. -- Brian K. White[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +[>+++[>+>+++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+.+++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBxLinux SCO FreeBSD#callahans Satriani Filk!

Re: fpurge.c, freadahead.c, freading.c make wrong assumption

2008-04-28 Thread Brian K. White
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Re: fpurge.c, freadahead.c, freading.c make wrong assumption

2008-04-07 Thread Brian K. White
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Re: fpurge.c, freadahead.c, freading.c make wrong assumption

2008-04-07 Thread Brian K. White
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