Re: Modifiable NMERGE in sort

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Eggert
Alas, that patch assumes C99, and we can't assume that quite yet. Also, it mishandles nmerge values that are too large (you'll get core dumps or worse on many hosts). That being said, it might be worth adding an option like that (it's a bit specialized, but it's a big performance win in some

Re: Bug#290727: coreutils: dd: Please support /dev/stdin as argument to if=

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this patch? It fixes the bug that was reported. It does have the downside of possibly failing with EMFILE when the current version would not fail, but that is a minor drawback. 2008-03-30 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Bug#472590: ls in Debian/Unstable

2008-03-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 31 March 2008 20:02, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like Michael's suggestion.  Rephrasing it,     if (SELinux, with no other MAC or ACL)       use '.'     else if (any other combination of alternate access methods)       use '+' If someone who already has a copyright

Re: Bug#472590: ls in Debian/Unstable

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
[ I'm Cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI, this is a continuation of discussion from the SELinux list: http://marc.info/?t=12064507403r=1w=2 and the debian bug tracking system: http://bugs.debian.org/472590 The problem is that on an SELinux-enabled system, 'ls -l's +, the alternate access

Re: Bug#472590: ls in Debian/Unstable

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008 20:02, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like Michael's suggestion.  Rephrasing it,     if (SELinux, with no other MAC or ACL)       use '.'     else if (any other combination of alternate access methods)       use '+'

Re: Error : Cannot create directory 'usr/local/nagios': permission denied

2008-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Philip Rowlands on 3/31/2008 6:42 AM: | If you have access to run commands as root on your system, then make | install should succeed. Otherwise you'll need to ask your system | administrator. Or choose a different --prefix when

Re: Modifiable NMERGE in sort

2008-03-31 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, that patch assumes C99, and we can't assume that quite yet. Also, it mishandles nmerge values that are too large (you'll get core dumps or worse on many hosts). That being said, it might be worth adding an

Re: Modifiable NMERGE in sort

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, that patch assumes C99, and we can't assume that quite yet. Also, it mishandles nmerge values that are too large (you'll get core dumps or worse on many hosts). That

Re: Modifiable NMERGE in sort

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, that patch assumes C99, and we can't assume that quite yet. Also, it mishandles nmerge values that are too large (you'll get core dumps or worse on many hosts). That

Re: Modifiable NMERGE in sort

2008-03-31 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: One more suggestion ;-) Add tests you beat me to it :) Also I would mention that to ammend a patch do: edit your files git commit --amend -e -a git format-patch --stdout

Re: Modifiable NMERGE in sort

2008-03-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I would mention that to ammend a patch do: edit your files git commit --amend -e -a git format-patch --stdout --signoff HEAD~1 your-branch.diff Thanks. I added a few words for that and pushed the new file with the ungainly long name:

cp -u vs. vfat's TWO seconds

2008-03-31 Thread jidanni
Bad news fellows, regarding: `-u' `--update' Do not copy a non-directory that has an existing destination with the same or newer modification time. If time stamps are being preserved, the comparison is to the source time stamp truncated to the resolutions of the