Re: command "ls" bug

2007-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
ethan wrote: > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:07:28 +0800 Either this message has been delayed a very long time or your system clock is very far off. Please check your system time. > when i use "ls" command ,i use it as follow(the current directory is home) > ls -s a this #this is a directory of curre

command "ls" bug

2007-12-29 Thread ethan
hello: my name is ethan;i found a bug athough i don't know whether it is! when i use "ls" command ,i use it as follow(the current directory is home) ls -s a this #this is a directory of current directory but this link file under this is not avaliable i want know reason?

[dd] conv=sparse option

2007-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Some time ago, I wrote a conv=sparse option for dd, attached is the patch. The goal is to recreate a sparse file from a file with 0s. Typically, I use it to do this: # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/mnt # dd bs=1M < /dev/zero > /mnt/mnt/foo # rm -f /mnt/mnt/foo # umount /mnt/mnt # dd bs=1M conv=spa

[patch] add gnome-256color to dircolors term list

2007-12-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
Signed-Off-By: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin index 9ebd92a..3c171f9 100644 --- a/src/dircolors.hin +++ b/src/dircolors.hin @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ TERM cygwin TERM dtterm TERM eterm-color TERM gnome +TERM gnome-256color TERM konsole TERM kt

Re: wcwidth failure on RedHat Linux 7.3 (coreutils-6.9.91)

2007-12-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Peter Fales wrote: > I'm seeing the following gnulib test failure while building > coreutils-6.9.91 on RedHat Linux 7.3. ... the failure > is at line 63 of gnulib-tests/test-wcwidth.c which says: > > 63 ASSERT (wcwidth (0x2060) == 0); > > The value that is actually being returned is -1.