su Password Buffer (again)

I posted this awhile back. su has a certain size buffer for the password. Any data over that buffer is left in the input stream, and fed to the shell after su exits. This is at this point not a serious issue, but I think it is an unnecessary evil. A fix is quite simple. Simply change the password s

64-bit inode numbers and block counts

Hi This little patch adds 64-bit inode support for stat utility (my system has ino_t and st_blocks 64-bit). As there are already a lot of fields with uintmax_t type and PRIuMAX format, I think the patch won't cause any side effects. Mikulas --- STAT.C_ 2004-10-23 21:12:11.0 +0100 ++

Re: [bugs #10778] uname: "correct" Darwin/Mac OS X patch

> This mail is an automated notification from the bugs tracker > of the project: GNU Core Utilities. > > URL: > Project: GNU Core Utilities > Submitted by: 0 > On: Sat 10/23/2004 at 05:02 > > Category: None > Severity: 5 - Average > I

Wrong translation

Hello, In the latest versions of the coreutils, the program "uptime" is capable of displaying it's output in Dutch. Very nice. However, it uses a rather broken translation of the word "uptime" itself; "levend", literally "alive". Apparently the translator did not realize that a very good word for