On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:18:35PM -0700, Dave Yost wrote:
The chmod on Mac OS X (which is probably same as one of the BSDs) has
better functionality and a much better man page. GNU should catch up.
Dave
Dave,
Thanks for your interest. Maybe you're right. Please explain in more
detail
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According to Paul Eggert on 7/15/2005 4:10 PM:
For coreutils we don't need to worry about this. We can assume that
if freopen (NULL, ...) is being called, then the call is either
freopen (NULL, rb, stdin) or freopen (NULL, wb, stdout).
With
Also, each external symbol (function, macro, variable) should have a comment
explaining what it does. Currently I'm at a bit of a loss trying to
figure out what things do, so my comments will be limited.
+#ifndef _CHECKSUM_H
+#define _CHECKSUM_H 1
+
+#include sys/types.h
+#include
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:01:53AM -0700, Frederik Eaton wrote:
If it's the pseudorandomness, I think mentioning that is redundant,
and the same thing I said about not wanting implementation in the API
applies - a good pseudorandom number generator should be externally
indistinguishable from
At 10:28 AM +0100 2005-07-16, James Youngman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:18:35PM -0700, Dave Yost wrote:
The chmod on Mac OS X (which is probably same as one of the BSDs) has
better functionality and a much better man page. GNU should catch up.
Dave
Dave,
Thanks for your interest.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:26:28PM -0700, Dave Yost wrote:
At 10:28 AM +0100 2005-07-16, James Youngman wrote:
Thanks for your interest. Maybe you're right. Please explain in more
detail why you think that the MacOS X implementation of chmod(1) is
superior to the GNU coreutils
Printing to stderr may not be the best thing for a library function to
do, so I'm not sure if this patch is factored correctly. The yylex()
function isn't really able to return an error message as such.
Anyway, here's my patch (against current CVS).
2005-07-16 James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, this is cygwin-specific; it would need accompanying
autoconf magic and #ifdef'ery to install it only on platforms with
O_BINARY and where freopen(NULL) doesn't work, without causing
compile errors on other platforms.
Thanks. Can you write the
Dave Yost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The chmod on Mac OS X (which is probably same as one of the BSDs) has
better functionality and a much better man page. GNU should catch up.
I assume you're talking about the -H, -h, -L, -P options. You're
right, these would be nice to add to coreutils. Do
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
Doesn't 'autoreconf --install' do everything that one would want in a
bootstrap script these days?
It must not, since GNU tar's bootstrap script invokes autoreconf
--install but has about 300 other lines of shell scriptery to do stuff
that autoreconf
sort.c does a whole lot of fancy stuff, but lacks explanations for it.
Even the most basic question, why does sort use a merge sort, is not
answered. I tried to find out by reading through the archives of
bug-coreutils and bug-textutils, but failed. Maybe this is obvious to
everyone else, but
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