[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes:
> The testsuite had several uses of `set - $list', such that $list
> could safely begin with `-'. But 1) POSIX has obsoleted this usage,
> The other portability fix is that on cygwin, mkdir(2) executed from
> a directory that has ACLs propagates ACLs to the
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> bash TAB-completion with readline's `set visible-stats on' uses '%'
> for character-special devices and '#' for block-special devices.
Aack. FreeBSD "ls" uses "%" for whiteouts, and nothing for special
files. I'd rather not have gratuitous incompatibilit
Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I did this since the way I want to use this feature is for doing
> things with sets of data that is split in multiple files with names
> like sampa.asc, sampb.asc, sampc.asc, etc..
Aha! That helps to explain things.
In that case, why not make this
I installed this:
2005-04-29 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/head/Test.pm: Don't set _POSIX2_VERSION; no longer needed.
* tests/misc/split-fail: Likewise.
* tests/pr/Test.pm: Likewise.
* tests/sort/Test.pm: Fix comment to match new behavior of "sort".
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As to non-latin and multibyte, I only have use for doing sequences of
> > letters from the english alphabet, and that is what I implemented.
>
> Your version will happily accept non-ASCII letters as
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I did this since the way I want to use this feature is for doing
> > things with sets of data that is split in multiple files with names
> > like sampa.asc, sampb.asc, sampc.asc, etc..
>
> Aha! That
I installed this as a minor simplification to modechange. The only
change visible to coreutils users is that a few invalid usages like
"chmod +1 file" and "chmod ' 1' file" are now caught.
2005-05-01 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* NEWS: "chmod +1 file" is now diagnosed.
* li
Abel Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So if coreutils maintainers think this is not a bug, or "this is your own
> business", then please tell me so that I can ask localization teams
> to think about other way to work around it.
No, it's definitely a bug in strftime: it should not be using
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