Re: bsearch utility

2005-07-21 Thread Sorav Bansal
As promised, I am sending you an implementation of 'bsearch' that has identical options to 'sort'. The utility has been written to optimize the number of disk reads. The main functions in this code are 'binary_search()' and 'linear_search()'. I have unit-tested the search-logic extensively. I

Re: bug in date

2005-07-21 Thread Paul Eggert
Klaus Umbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in december 2002 I reported a bug in date: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-sh-utils/2002-12/msg5.html today I saw, that in 5.2.1 it is not yet fixed. It gets fixed faster if you submit a patch. :-) I installed this: 2005-07-21 Paul Eggert

Re: bug in date

2005-07-21 Thread Klaus Umbach
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 15:02:24 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Klaus Umbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in december 2002 I reported a bug in date: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-sh-utils/2002-12/msg5.html today I saw, that in 5.2.1 it is not yet fixed. It gets fixed faster if you

Re: date not parsing full iso-8601

2005-07-21 Thread Jos Backus
I added some comments to bug 11290 (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitemitem_id=11290) which pertains to this issue. It would seem that GNU date should simply dispense with emitting the `T' between the date and time field in IOS 8601 mode until the parsing of this particular

test binary

2005-07-21 Thread Kenneth J Vojtech
In zLinux for o/s390 (SuSe v 8 64 bit) is a binary 'test' that we use to test for the existence of files. One of our tests uses a wildcard to check for any *.hdr files in a certain directory. When there is more than one *.hdr file in this directory, the test fails with an exit 2, so we are