Lee Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I have found a problem with lib/error.c that I found in the fileutils-4.0
| package when using GNU 'ls' under AIX 4.3.
|
| The block of code causing the problem is...
|
| #if defined HAVE_STRERROR_R || defined _LIBC
| char errbuf[1024];
| fprintf (stderr, ": %s", __strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf));
| #else
| fprintf (stderr, ": %s", strerror (errnum));
| #endif
|
| Although strerror_r exists under AIX it does not return a pointer to the
| buffer passed to it, so if I give 'ls' a non-existent object, for example, I
| just get the program name and object name, but no message.
|
| The fix is simply to split the line...
|
| char errbuf[1024];
| __strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf);
| fprintf (stderr, ": %s", errbuf);
Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/
| It might also be an idea to mention in the README that on some systems (such as
| Linux) piping 'ls' through 'more -f' may allow colour to be used without escape
| sequences having new-lines inconsiderately put in the middle of them, as this
| as far from obvious. Under AIX 'more' does not cope at all.
Thanks.
I added a mention of this in the texinfo documentation.
