Re: du reports half of correct file sizes

Ross Boulet wrote: > I do not have POSIXLY_CORRECT set. I tried the -b and -k > options. The -b option reports correctly, but the -k still > seems to report half. > > $ ls -l a* > -rw-r--r-- 1 rossboulet None2 Dec 25 17:24 a > -rw-r--r-- 1 rossboulet None 3740 Dec 25 10:58 aaa > > $ du -

RE: du reports half of correct file sizes

> Ross Boulet wrote: > > > > I saw some old items in the archives (circa 2001) but there > > was not much there about this problem. The most recent > > version of coreutils seems to have broken du. The listing > > below illustrates my point: > > If you have POSIXLY_CORRECT set in your environme

Re: chmod on named pipes

On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 04:28:36PM -0800, Jeremy Lin wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to get a program running on Cygwin, but this program depends >on being able to change permissions on a named pipe. chmod doesn't >actually seem to work for this, but it doesn't return nonzero either. > >From what I can s

chmod on named pipes

Hi, I'm trying to get a program running on Cygwin, but this program depends on being able to change permissions on a named pipe. chmod doesn't actually seem to work for this, but it doesn't return nonzero either. >From what I can see, the mode argument in the initial mkfifo call is respected, but

Re: du reports half of correct file sizes

Ross Boulet wrote: > > I saw some old items in the archives (circa 2001) but there > was not much there about this problem. The most recent > version of coreutils seems to have broken du. The listing > below illustrates my point: If you have POSIXLY_CORRECT set in your environment then the defa

du reports half of correct file sizes

I saw some old items in the archives (circa 2001) but there was not much there about this problem. The most recent version of coreutils seems to have broken du. The listing below illustrates my point: $ ls -l a* -rw-r--r-- 1 rossboulet None2 Dec 25 17:24 a -rw-r--r-- 1 rossboulet None 3740

Re: X11-only expectk

On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 02:50:52AM -0500, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: >See inline... > >On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 07:00:33AM +0200, Vladimir Levijev wrote: >> >> Hello Sebastien, >> >> > Hi Ariel, >> > >> > If you can bare with me a couple days, I can provide you with the >> > necessary patches