Re: 1.2x to 1.9x speedup for sha1sum using SSE2

2003-12-06 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Marco Gerards wrote: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: at http://arctic.org/~dean/crypto/sha1.html you'll find a coreutils patch which includes a new implementation of SHA1 using SSE2 hardware for a speedup ranging from 1.2x to 1.9x depending on which SSE2-capable

sort command

2003-12-06 Thread Robert Lewis
Folks: Some of my shell scripts are now failing with SuSE 9.0. Prior to 9.0 the sort command would put anything starting with -Doug at the top, the - (dash) being the item of interest. This has worked on Unix etc as well as Linux until now.q Now the - is being ignored and the letters following

Re: du utility crashes

2003-12-06 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[please don't _ever_ send such big messages! If you want to share a coredump, or whatever, put it up on an ftp or web server] unicorn:~# du --version du (coreutils) 5.0.91 ... Could you try a more recent version of coreutils? Alot of the code that handles directory tree walking has

Re: sort command

2003-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Lewis wrote: Some of my shell scripts are now failing with SuSE 9.0. Prior to 9.0 the sort command would put anything starting with -Doug at the top, the - (dash) being the item of interest. This has worked on Unix etc as well as Linux until now.q Now the - is being ignored and the

FreeBSD-5.1 compile fail

2003-12-06 Thread Sam Halliday
hey there, i wish to have all the GNU tools on all the OS i use, so i tried to compile coreutils-5.0 on a FreeBSD-5.1 pentium4 system (i didnt install anything from the ports as i'd prefer to compile them myself to have recent verisons of everything). unfortunately the compile fails, does anyone