Re: rm (4.5.8) -r does not work on nfs mounted file systems

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Eggert
"Philipp, Axel , Dr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rm: reading directory `test/test1': Unknown error 525 This sounds like it's a bug in your kernel's NFS-client implementation, or perhaps your C library. If the bug is reproducible, what system calls is 'rm' executing when it exhibits the proble

Re: cp --sparse might corrupt DEST

2004-03-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This is what I thought would be unreliable: >> > >> > cp --sparse=always sparse-image-file.img /dev/hda1 ... > Actually it's a bug in cp. What's cp job? To copy files reliable. Can it > do that when used in the above case (block device as the dest

savannah repository is once again in synch; coreutils-5.2.1 coming soon

2004-03-10 Thread Jim Meyering
The coreutils repository mirror on savannah.gnu.org is once again up to date, and should be updated daily from now on. Since the savannah security breach uncovered last year, I had been unable to update that mirror, and so it has been stuck with the sources as of Dec 3, 2003, prior to coreutils-5.

wc --no-total

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
[2nd request] Often one doesn't want or need a total, please add a --no-total extension to wc. Yes, one could use sed \$d, yes. du has a --total, wc should be at least kind enough to have a --no-total. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

[PATCH] [cut] Treat consecutive delimiters as one in cut binary

2004-03-10 Thread Joe Maimon
When using the -d option I find it frustrating that arbitrary whitespace ruins the field count. witness this script: dig -x $addr +noall +answer | grep -v '^;' | grep -v '$^' | expand | cut -d' ' -f5 -z With the new option in this patch, you can rely on the behavior to produce a hostname if there

Config problems + fix for Ultrix

2004-03-10 Thread Bert Deknuydt
Hello, A long time ago (Apr 2003) I mailed some fixes for stat on Ultrix. With version 5.2.0, troubles are still not over. It all starts because Ultrix needs the following extra's for stat.c # include # include # include 1) Configure checkes for the existence of nfs/nfs_clnt.h but fails,

Sort directory's first with ls.

2004-03-10 Thread Arvind Autar
Version: coreutils_5.0.91-2 When I invoke `ls' with the following parameter I don't get the expected output. I used "--sort=directory". This function is documented in the info pages but does not work with the current version of ls. This counts for cvs to. $ ls --sort=directory ls: invalid argum

[patch] coreutils-5.2.0: fix du/deref-args test

2004-03-10 Thread Tim Waugh
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117556 With SELinux enabled, the file security context labels take up filesystem room, and I needed to make this change to get 'make check' to pass: --- coreutils-5.2.0/tests/du/deref-args.selinux 2004-03-05 12:20:01.0 + +++ co

join docs vs. obsolescent options

2004-03-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
The join man page should put the obsolescent options last. The join Info page should say which options are obsolescent. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils