Re: coreutils 5.97: Adjust mkdir message (File exists)

* Tue 2008-01-08 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A demonstration: >> >> mkdir cache/temp >> mkdir cache/temp >> mkdir: cannot create directory `cache/tmp': File exists > > I presume it wasn't "mkdir" that chan

Request for enhancement: od option for end-to-end swap of multiple bytes

Hello, I would like to ask if we can implement an option for od to carry out end-to-end swaps of more than 2 bytes. >From what I can tell, neither od, nor od in combination with other coreutils programs, are capable of that at present. I am specifically interested in 4 or 8 byte swaps since IEEE

Re: [PATCH] Fix preserve_mode when destination directory partially exists

Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008-01-07 Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cp --parents: don't use uninitialized memory when restoring permissions In reviewing that patch I noticed that the bug of using uninitialized memory still remains in some (unlikely) cases. If 'stat (

Re: strange 'sort' behaviour

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Stockman on 1/8/2008 9:01 AM: | i have appended here (shorted) files made by method 2 as explained in | package.doc | ubuntu.apps contains a portion of the merged file and ubuntu.sort is the | result of the sort . Most lik

strange 'sort' behaviour

Dear , Six months now since I started using Ubuntu . I have two 'trial-boot' machines , trial-boot because both machines have 'that other OS' + feisty + gutsy each on a separate partition. Feisty & Gutsy share a common home-partition . Having problems keeping track of the packages-installed and

Re: coreutils 5.97: Adjust mkdir message (File exists)

Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A demonstration: > > mkdir cache/temp > mkdir cache/temp > mkdir: cannot create directory `cache/tmp': File exists I presume it wasn't "mkdir" that changed "temp" to "tmp" > Suggestion: > > Perhaps the "File" is not the best description in t

Re: Options --enable{,-no}-install-program

Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Stepan! Happy new year :) > Karel has pointed me to the new options of coreutils' configure: > --enable-install-program=PROG_LIST > install the programs in PROG_LIST (comma-separated, > default: none

coreutils 5.97: Adjust mkdir message (File exists)

A demonstration: mkdir cache/temp mkdir cache/temp mkdir: cannot create directory `cache/tmp': File exists Suggestion: Perhaps the "File" is not the best description in this case. Please consider saying "Directory exists" if the item is directory. -- Welcome to FOSS revolu

Options --enable{,-no}-install-program

Dear developers, dear Jim, Karel has pointed me to the new options of coreutils' configure: --enable-install-program=PROG_LIST install the programs in PROG_LIST (comma-separated, default: none) --enable-no-install-program=PROG_LIST

Re: fseeko failure [was: wcwidth failure on RedHat Linux 7.3 (coreutils-6.9.91)]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:49:01PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > Definitely a bug in the resulting fseeko - POSIX requires a successful > seek to clear the EOF marker. The question now is whether this is the > native fseeko (in which case, m4/fseeko.m4 needs to be enhanced to detect > this flaw and w

FYI: avoid strange new test failure

buildbot reported a coreutils test failure in a new test, e.g., http://buildbot.proulx.com:9000/i686%20gnu-linux%20full/builds/371/step-test/0 make check-TESTS make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/build/coreutils/build-i686-gnu-linux-full/build/project/build/tests/cp' make[4]: Enteri

Re: printf failure on darwin with coreutils-6.9.91

With Jim's proposed patch below, all the gnulib tests pass on Darwin 10.3. On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:47:53PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Peter Fales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to build coreutils-6.9.91 for Mac OS/X (Darwin 10.3) > > and getting test failures from misc/printf.