Re: Would mktemp utility be useful addition to coreutils

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert Chin-A-Young) wrote: > Some GNU/Linux programs depend on a local mktemp command to create a > temporary file/directory. Would this be a useful addition to > coreutils? Is there something wrong with the implementation at www.mktemp.org? paul ___

Re: coreutils CVS test failure on HP-UX 11i

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert Chin-A-Young) wrote: > $ cd /opt/build/coreutils-5.3.0/tests/rm ... > + rm -r /opt/build/coreutils-5.3.0/tests/rm/unread3.tmp/13387/a > /opt/build/coreutils-5.3.0/tests/rm/unread3.tmp/13387/b > rm: cannot get current directory: Permission denied > Assertion failed: AD_sta

Re: /usr/bin/perl assumed when running src/wheel-gen.pl

-#!/usr/bin/perl -w +#!/usr/bin/env perl Pitty that this will break when the `usr' is symlink is removed on the GNU system. But I can fix that when the time comes if this is going to be used... #!/bin/sh PERL=${PERL:-perl} eval 'exec $PERL -x -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' #! per

Re: Requested change to coreutils/THANKS

> - Please replace the email address listed for myself... I've done that. > - Please replace any other instance of that address... There wasn't any other. > (As my intent here is to reduce the number of public appearances > of the currently listed email address, I also ask that it not be > ment

Re: /usr/bin/perl assumed when running src/wheel-gen.pl

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > I prefer 'use strict;' instead of -w. ITYM "use warnings;". "use strict;" is something separate. The advantage of -w is the it works with older perls. > You can use the $^W variable like this: 'BEGIN { $^W = 1; }' but > needing it to be in a begin routine

Re: sort human readable suffixes

I've created a patch against coreutils 5.2.1 to sort to sort human readable file sizes as they are emitted from df, du and ls Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about this feature Beware the decimal-point character: it's locale-dependent. strtod

Re: Bug#249177: coreutils: chown is not POSIXLY_CORRECT even when the variable is set

Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> For the BSD -H/-L/-P options, which control file tree walking: >>> >>> -P = --walk=physical >>> -H = --walk=hybrid (I have no idea what -H originally stood for.) >>> -L = --walk=logical > > As a minor point I'm now thinking that it might be

Re: /usr/bin/perl assumed when running src/wheel-gen.pl

Albert Chin-A-Young wrote: > Don't assume Perl is located in /usr/bin/perl. > [...] > - $(srcdir)/wheel-gen.pl $(wheel_size) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > + $(PERL) -w $(srcdir)/wheel-gen.pl $(wheel_size) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] A good find. Thanks for reporting it. I would prefer if the scripts wer

coreutils CVS test failure on IRIX 6.5

$ cd /opt/build/coreutils-5.3.0/tests/shred $ VERBOSE=yes gmake check TESTS=exact gmake check-TESTS gmake[1]: Entering directory `/opt/build/coreutils-5.3.0/tests/shred' + shred --version shred (coreutils) 5.3.0 Written by Colin Plumb. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is fre