Re: EPIPE in standard utils ([issue41])

2003-03-03 Thread Tom Lord
I wonder if there isn't a race condition here: the error return being processed before the signal is delivered. Certainly the return has to occur before the signal is delivered or else you'd expect the system call to return an EINTR -- so if soon after the return you s

Re: md5deep

2003-03-03 Thread Mathieu Roy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) a tapoté : > Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > > Someone at United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations > > made a md5sum-like program, with the following additional features: > > Thanks for posting information about that program. > > > Recursive oper

Re: EPIPE in standard utils ([issue41])

2003-03-03 Thread Tom Lord
(2) doesn't seem correct to me. A program that does not do anything special will get a SIGPIPE signal when it writes to a pipe with no reader, and accordingly will die with a nonzero status. We can't reasonably expect every program to catch SIGPIPE and do som

Re: EPIPE in standard utils ([issue41])

2003-03-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Tom Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my opinion, it is incorrect for a shell utility (such as sed or any > of the textutils) to respond to EPIPE for stdout (and, arguably, any > other output file) by > > 1) printing a message on stderr > 2) exiting with non-0 status (2) doesn't

Re: md5deep

2003-03-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Someone at United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations > made a md5sum-like program, with the following additional features: Thanks for posting information about that program. > Recursive operation - md5deep is able to recursive examine an > e

df /mnt/foo and getmntent

2003-03-03 Thread Tim Waugh
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84846 The df(1) from coreutils 4.5.3 uses getmntent on Linux, and this seems to cause the problem noted in the above bug report, namely: "Imagine that /disk1 is NFS mounted (hard), and server1 is down. Server2, at the same time, is OK, and /di

Re: bug in french localization

2003-03-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [please keep CCing me and the debian bug] > > Hi Jim ! > > Thanks for that patch, that's definitivelly a step in the right direction. > I'm so happy that something happened about this bug ! I should have contact > you before. > > The only problem is that

Re: bug in french localization

2003-03-03 Thread Martin Quinson
[please keep CCing me and the debian bug] Hi Jim ! Thanks for that patch, that's definitivelly a step in the right direction. I'm so happy that something happened about this bug ! I should have contact you before. The only problem is that this fix may be somehow partial. Could you do the same ha

md5deep

2003-03-03 Thread Mathieu Roy
Hi, Someone at United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations made a md5sum-like program, with the following additional features: Recursive operation - md5deep is able to recursive examine an entire directory tree. That is, compute the MD5 for every file in a di