human interface change?!? [Re: xstrtol.h

2007-07-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I am committing your patch to xstrtol.h, with updated variable names and > comments. Also, a corresponding change to the 'human' module. Find attached > the corresponding coreutils change (untested but obvious). > > 2007-07-25 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-26 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:25:23AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > This would > > mandate an explicit after the program is executed as well. ^ reread / flushing of cached content > The second transfer of active handle occurs when the child exits and > returns control to m4.

Re: human interface change?!? [Re: xstrtol.h

2007-07-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Please revert those changes. > > Reverted. Sorry, I thought the were straightforward and in line with what > you would agree to. Thanks. No hard feelings, of course. The patches are probably ok, but I won't have time to deal with th

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-26 Thread ebb9
[Arrgh - your reply arrived after I left my primary computer, and I'm using nabble to respond which does not understand reply-to-all; feel free to repost this reply to the full cc chain] Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > The missing part above might clarify what I meant. Normally a stdio > implementatio

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/m4]

2007-07-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Joerg Sonnenberger on 7/25/2007 7:59 AM: > OK, I'm still not fully sure I understand all parts of the problem. The > flushing happens in debug_flush_files, right? When the called programs > reads from stdin itself, is m4 supposed to see su

Re: human interface change?!? [Re: xstrtol.h

2007-07-26 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Jim, Jim Meyering wrote: > Please revert those changes. Reverted. Sorry, I thought the were straightforward and in line with what you would agree to. > More importantly, don't you think you should have waited for approval > from Paul (and discussion on this list) before making an _interfac