Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 21:17, Eric Blake wrote: > Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > > The cost of stat'ing a known symlink (which may involve spinning up a disk > > or > > doing a network access) just to color its target was deemed too expensive > > for > > the default. Coreutils 6.11 is due out this week,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > The cost of stat'ing a known symlink (which may involve spinning up a disk or > doing a network access) just to color its target was deemed too expensive for > the default. Coreutils 6.11 is due out this week, with no change in behavior, > but perhaps for 6.12,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > These are the changes noted in the changelog. However, what I see now > is that the target of a symlink is not colored anymore at all. According to the upstream maintainer, this was a deliberate change (even though it was not mentioned in NEWS). http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-coreutils] According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/11/2008 11:10 AM: | | I think I just found a bug in ls(1) from the latest coreutils 6-10-1. | | | I have a custom LS_COLORS setting: | | $ echo $LS_COLORS | ex=1;31:ln=5;32:di=1;34 | | Non

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Eric, I think I just found a bug in ls(1) from the latest coreutils 6-10-1. On Feb 3 14:02, Eric Blake wrote: > [...] > ls --color would mistakenly color a dangling symlink as if it were > a regular symlink. This would happen only when the dangling symlink > was not a command-line ar

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-02-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 6.10-1, has been promoted to current (it had been available as experimental). This means 6.9-5 is now the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new stable upstream release. It adds a few new utilities: arch performs a