[bug #17427] CVE-2005-1039, chmod race in mkdir, mkfifo, mknod

2006-08-14 Thread anonymous
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=17427 Summary: CVE-2005-1039, chmod race in mkdir, mkfifo, mknod Project: GNU Core Utilities Submitted by: None Submitted on: Monday 08/14/2006 at 06:29 UTC

Re: uniq i18n implementation

2006-08-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: Paul Eggert wrote: Using strcoll is inefficient anyway Don't we know it! If we can avoid it, we'd like to. Well, the mbstowcs+wcscoll solution I presented should be equivalent to strcoll on any platform, and it's much faster in my tests. That's good to know, though I'm

exiting tail

2006-08-14 Thread Neil Adair
Why isn't the command to exit tail in the man page? ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

md5sum fails on DOS formatted files

2006-08-14 Thread walton
Problem: The check with md5sum failed (No such file or directory/FAILED open or read) if the text file with the checksum included DOS(PC) formatted. I am new to LINUX and I use md5sum version 5.94 with the knoppix live cd. I don't know if this is a real bug, but I think that this program should

Re: exiting tail

2006-08-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
Neil Adair wrote: Why isn't the command to exit tail in the man page? tail is not an interactive program and so will not parse commands you enter. It is known as a filter and just reads stdin and writes to stdout. So if you just type `tail`, it will block reading from stdin which will be

Re: exiting tail

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if (isatty(stdin) isatty(sterr)) { fprintf(stderr,Hit Ctrl-d to end\n); } Can anyone think of non human interactions between tail and terminals where the above wouldn't be appropriate? Sure: tail -f /dev/tty. Let's not make this change; it's a

Re: uniq i18n implementation

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There seems to be serious overhead with strcoll on glibc-2.3.5-10 at least. We can fix the performance problem for that particular test case as follows. I installed this (diff -pubw format): 2006-08-14 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] *