Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Elbert Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi Jim, and the rest > > I try to debug some things for os2 and it seems a hell of a job :( > Espicely if you have no backgrounds about the debugger. > But i saw newer Coreutils 6.11 i thought i try and the configuratie > went smootly this time :P > > Then

Re: [PATCH] Make comm check order of input files

2008-04-20 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi, The previous version did not warn if the final record in a file was out of order and `--check-order' was not in effect. Thanks, Bo From dc34eed9e6ee34f473a8d74b98bccaf082fe79c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:24:16 -0400 Subject: [PAT

[PATCH] Make comm check order of input files

2008-04-20 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If not, I'll be happy to do it. > > Please! Here's a patch. Bo From 1a651ab6aedea0d0cc383f2e60c82fe7f0d395f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:24:16 -0400 Subject:

Re: XO laptop

2008-04-20 Thread Bob Proulx
charles stringfellow wrote: >When I type $ chmod u+x xo-get.py, I get error message: cannot access >xo-get.py. >Can you suggest a work around or remedy? That message would normally be followed by the specific reason that you "cannot access xo-get.py" such as "No such file or directory"

Re: Bash vs. sh

2008-04-20 Thread Joel E. Denny
Coreutils maintainers, It appears that Bison's bootstrap script is occasionally sync'ed against Coreutils'. Paul Hilfinger, one of the Bison developers, recently made the discovery quoted below, which I figure might also be relevant to Coreutils. On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Joel E. Denny wrote: > On

Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Karl Berry
If not, I'll be happy to do it. Please! Thanks, k ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

XO laptop

2008-04-20 Thread charles stringfellow
When I type $ chmod u+x xo-get.py, I get error message: cannot access xo-get.py. Can you suggest a work around or remedy? Charles _ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. [1]Try it

Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Bo Borgerson
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: > > join now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order. This check > can > > > > How about doing the same for comm? > > Makes sense. Did you just volunteer? ;-) If not,

Re: coreutils and i18n

2008-04-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > As for i18n, some students nearly took on the project of implementing a > palatable solution recently, but that's been deferred for a few months. Interesting... In 2001 you set out the following requirements for such a solution: - Processing in unibyte locales should not be

Re: coreutils 6.11 on MacOS X 10.5 (2)

2008-04-20 Thread Bruno Haible
2) cp/file-perm-race.log can be reproduced like this: terminal1$ ../../src/mkfifo fifo terminal2$ ../../src/cp -p --copy-contents fifo fifo-copy terminal1$ echo foo > fifo Now on terminal2: ../../src/cp: „fifo“: No such file or directory Looking in more detail at the "../../src/cp

Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: > join now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order. This check can > > How about doing the same for comm? Makes sense. Did you just volunteer? ;-) ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org h

Re: coreutils 6.11 on MacOS X 10.5 (1)

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With coreutils-6.11 I see the same failures, plus 4 additional ones. ... > 1) cp/parent-perm.log failed like this: > > + . /../umask-check > ./parent-perm: line 27: /../umask-check: No such file or directory Thanks! Obviously a bug. Fortunately, that umas

Re: coreutils and xattr

2008-04-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On Sunday 20 April 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > has work on merging Andreas' patch just stalled ?

Re: coreutils 6.11 on MacOS X 10.5 (1)

2008-04-20 Thread Bruno Haible
With coreutils-6.11 I see the same failures, plus 4 additional ones. > FAIL: help-version.log + FAIL: tty-eof.log + FAIL: help-version.log (exit: 1) + FAIL: ginstall + FAIL: tty-eof.log (exit: 1) > FAIL: parent-perm.log > FAIL: file-perm-race.log > FAIL: parent-perm-race.log > FAIL: existing-perm-

Re: coreutils and xattr

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sunday 20 April 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: >> > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > has work on merging Andreas' patch just stalled ? that and the big >> > > nasty i18n patch are about the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Putting on my sysadmin hat, I am somewhat baffled by this discussion. > Completely hiding unknown groups? If by "unknown" you mean nameless, that's not what the patch does. Such a patch would not even have been considered. _

Re: coreutils 6.10.194 on MacOS X 10.5

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering recommended: >> Can you run the tests again, but this time so that they use bash? >> I.e., if you have installed bash in /usr/local/bin/bash, do this: >> >> make check PREFERABLY_POSIX_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash > > In 6.11, running them with

coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Elbert Pol
Hoi Jim, and the rest I try to debug some things for os2 and it seems a hell of a job :( Espicely if you have no backgrounds about the debugger. But i saw newer Coreutils 6.11 i thought i try and the configuratie went smootly this time :P Then i did make and now it stops at gcc -std=gnu99 -D_

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 20, 2008, at 14:37 , Russ Allbery wrote: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Knowing that, I expect to revert that patch -- unless someone can come up with a very good argument for the new behavior. Out of curiosity, how have you used it? Usually to tell whether two shells are i

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Davor Ocelic
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:37:44 -0700 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can tell I don't use AFS and didn't do my homework. > > I wish you'd noticed and spoken up a month or so ago. > > Unfortunately, I only follow the announcement list. :

Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can tell I don't use AFS and didn't do my homework. > I wish you'd noticed and spoken up a month or so ago. Unfortunately, I only follow the announcement list. :/ > Knowing that, I expect to revert that patch -- unless someone > can come up with a

Re: coreutils 6.10.194 on MacOS X 10.5

2008-04-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering recommended: > Can you run the tests again, but this time so that they use bash? > I.e., if you have installed bash in /usr/local/bin/bash, do this: > > make check PREFERABLY_POSIX_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash In 6.11, running them with PREFERABLY_POSIX_SHELL=/bin/bash yields the same

Re: coreutils-6.11: misc tests are PATH dependent

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: ... >> BTW, those thousands of lines are remarkably similar to what you >> reported here for MacOS X 10.5: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13270/focus=13273 >> minus the failures, of course. So I guess you ran t

Re: PATH and security

2008-04-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > If security isn't enough of an argument, you can consider this yet another > reason not to put "." early in your PATH. Please consider removing > "." from your PATH altogether. Yes, that does make for some small amount > of extra typing (you have to prefix certain commands w

Re: coreutils-6.11: misc tests are PATH dependent

2008-04-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > However, I have a big patch (nearly complete) that revamps the way tests > are run, and I've just confirmed that with it, "make check" works fine, > even with an abuse-inviting $PATH. Great! Thanks. > BTW, those thousands of lines are remarkably similar to what you > reporte

--sort=version patches (Re: coreutils-6.11 released)

2008-04-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Bruce Korb wrote: > > --sort=version ??? What happened? > > We are waiting for you to send in your copyright assignment paperwork > before that patch can be included. Or if you did send it in then we > are waiting for the GNU copyright clerk to process it. I sent you the > f

Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Bruce Korb wrote: > --sort=version ??? What happened? We are waiting for you to send in your copyright assignment paperwork before that patch can be included. Or if you did send it in then we are waiting for the GNU copyright clerk to process it. I sent you the forms in early February 2008. Th

Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Korb
Jim Meyering wrote: > Coreutils version 6.11 has been released. This is a stable release. > > Since 6.10, there have been 200 change sets in coreutils proper and almost > 300 in gnulib (most of the files in coreutils/{lib,m4} come from gnulib). > * > NEWS (since coreutils-6.10) >

Re: coreutils-6.11: misc tests are PATH dependent

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After your fix in > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-02/msg00083.html > "make check" does not fail any more when PATH contains ".", but it still > produces a bunch of unnecessary output. > > Tested with coreutils-6.11 on Linux/x86: > >

coreutils-6.11: misc tests are PATH dependent

2008-04-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, After your fix in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-02/msg00083.html "make check" does not fail any more when PATH contains ".", but it still produces a bunch of unnecessary output. Tested with coreutils-6.11 on Linux/x86: In the tests/misc/ directory, without "." in

Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Coreutils version 6.11 has been released. This is a stable release. >> ** Improvements >> >> id and groups work around an AFS-related bug whereby those programs >> would print an invalid group number, when gi

[PATCH] md5sum+sha*sum: add option --quiet/-q to suppress OK messages

2008-04-20 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, IMHO md5sum and sha*sum are too verbose by default, especially when checking a large collection of files with only a few failing validation. Therefore I'd like to see an option added to suppress just the output for successfully verified files. The attached patch does that by adding the option

Re: coreutils and xattr

2008-04-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > has work on merging Andreas' patch just stalled ? that and the big > > > nasty i18n patch are about the only thing i carry in Gentoo anymore as > > > ev

Re: coreutils and xattr

2008-04-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > has work on merging Andreas' patch just stalled ? that and the big nasty > > i18n patch are about the only thing i carry in Gentoo anymore as > > everything else has been merged ... > > I haven't looked at

Re: coreutils and xattr

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has work on merging Andreas' patch just stalled ? that and the big nasty i18n > patch are about the only thing i carry in Gentoo anymore as everything else > has been merged ... I haven't looked at any xattr-related changes for a long time. Do you know