[please keep the list in the loop]
On 10/04/2010 08:54 AM, Alain Knaff wrote:
One thing that might be possible, however, is to improve df output to
adjust column alignment if $COLUMNS
Rather than using $COLUMNS (which is not set by all shells...), it might
be preferable to do an ioctl(1, TIOCG
On 10/04/2010 03:44 AM, Alain Knaff wrote:
There is an option to prevent this behavior (-P), but apparently the
logwatch authors were not aware of it. Understandably, I might say,
because if their test cases happen to only have disks with short names,
they'll never stumble upon this.
Thanks for
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Note the above test fits the pattern of "requiring a delay to pass"
> and so can use the retry_delay_ functionality used elsewhere.
> The advantage is that the delay is 1s rather than 2 on
> 1s resolution file systems like ext3.
Oh! Glad you remembered that. I should have,
Eric Blake wrote:
...
>> +check_timestamps_updated()
>> +{
>> + local delay="$1"
>
> I guess we're blindly assuming that coreutils testsuite is requiring a
> shell that supports 'local'?
Yes. So far it hasn't been an issue.
$ git grep '^ *local' tests
tests/dd/reblock: local delay="$1"
Hello,
We just had a case where an overfull disk went unnoticed by logwatch.
The reason turned out to be its long device name (/dev/mapper
/VolGroup00-LogVol00), which caused df to break the line, messing up
the column count. Indeed, logwatch looks for the use% in the fifth
field, but due to this
On 10/04/2010 03:53 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
+case $(stat --format %x a) in
+ *.0*) sleep 2;; # worst case file system is FAT
+ *) # FIXME: sleep .1 would be sufficient if %X showed nanoseconds
+ sleep 1;; # should be adequate for any system with subsecond resolution
+esac
+
+touch a ||
On 01/10/10 21:41, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> * src/stat.c (default_format): Include context when present.
>
> This is a close call, but I think it is justified.
> stat's default format should show as much information
> as possible, and no one should be parsing it.
> SELinux contex
On 01/10/10 15:34, Eric Blake wrote:
> diff --git c/tests/misc/stat-birthtime i/tests/misc/stat-birthtime
> new file mode 100755
> index 000..d4f372e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ i/tests/misc/stat-birthtime
> @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# ensure that stat attempts birthtime access
> +
> +# Copyri
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 01/10/10 21:41, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>> * src/stat.c (default_format): Include context when present.
>>
>> This is a close call, but I think it is justified.
>> stat's default format should show as much information
>> as possible, and no one should be
