Re: Exit code of id depending on user group

2004-09-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Felipe Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. I see your code isn't applied directly to savannah's repository. savannah is currently a bit out of sync. I'll try to get this fixed. There is no other public repository. >Why the Standards doesn't specify exactly the return codes, at least

Re: Exit code of id depending on user group

2004-09-14 Thread Felipe Kellermann
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 3:47am -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Felipe Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > $ id fuu > > uid=1018(fuu) gid=199 groups=199 > > $ echo $? > > 1 > > > > That return code sounds strange to me given the question I did. > > I agree. To fix things, I installed the patch e

Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x)

2004-09-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:24:56PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > -FILE exists and is writable > > +FILE exists and is writable. True indicates only that the write flag is > > on. > > +The file is not writable on a read-only file syst

Re: why "ls -d" does not work?

2004-09-14 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Joe wrote: >I type "ls --help" >it shows " -d, --directory list directory entries instead of contents, >and do not dereference symbolic links" > >then I type "ls -d" under my home directory, it display nothing , but >actually there are some directories under my home directory