Re: [PATCH] tempname: new try_tempname function

2015-02-04 Thread Andreas Grünbacher
2015-02-03 17:19 GMT+01:00 Paul Eggert : > Thanks, that looks good; please install. Done, thanks. Andreas

Re: [PATCH] lib/parse-datetime.y: Add ability to parse output of GNU date(1)

2015-02-04 Thread Bruce Korb
On 02/02/15 09:27, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 02/02/15 16:41, Chris Lamb wrote: We are currently in a funny situation where GNU date can't parse its own output: $ date --date="$(date)" date: invalid date ‘Mon 2 Feb 16:37:46 GMT 2015’ I don't think this will work as the output from date(1

Re: [PATCH] lib/parse-datetime.y: Add ability to parse output of GNU date(1)

2015-02-04 Thread Jim Meyering
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: > On 02/02/15 09:27, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> >> On 02/02/15 16:41, Chris Lamb wrote: >>> >>> We are currently in a funny situation where GNU date can't parse its own >>> output: >>> >>>$ date --date="$(date)" >>>date: invalid date 'Mon 2 F

Re: [PATCH] lib/parse-datetime.y: Add ability to parse output of GNU date(1)

2015-02-04 Thread Bruce Korb
True. It was mostly a plea for some (findable) documentation. In truth, my most common usage is more like: touch -t $(date --date@$(( $(stat -c %Y file1) + 10 )) +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S ) file2 Still, I use such constructs rarely enough that I don't know what's reasonable. An example for use in "touc

Re: [PATCH] lib/parse-datetime.y: Add ability to parse output of GNU date(1)

2015-02-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 04/02/15 18:44, Bruce Korb wrote: > True. It was mostly a plea for some (findable) documentation. > In truth, my most common usage is more like: > > touch -t $(date --date@$(( $(stat -c %Y file1) + 10 )) > +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S ) file2 Note +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S is ambiguous on distributed systems (no

Re: [PATCH] Initialize the entire obstack struct [BZ #17919]

2015-02-04 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 12:25:18AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > This sounds a bit like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308427 "s390 > memcheck reports tsearch conditional jump or move depends on > uninitialized value". But that bug got fixed some time ago and should > not be in the latest ver