FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Meyering
[I hesitated to post so many small test-only patches all together, but it's better than not posting at all. Besides, maybe posting at all will evoke some review feedback. So here goes... ] From 6bbbd65d895505c506105ea12e44922433e63574 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering [EMAIL

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi Jim, Regarding rev. 94a2bd5b, `tests: improve perl-based tempdir handling', I wonder if it might be worthwhile to add a PID check in the cleanup handler for race avoidance. I think File::Temp does this internally as well, but it looks like chmod_tree will just warn about the failed chdir and

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding rev. 94a2bd5b, `tests: improve perl-based tempdir handling', I wonder if it might be worthwhile to add a PID check in the cleanup handler for race avoidance. I think File::Temp does this internally as well, but it looks like chmod_tree will

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Bo Borgerson
Jim Meyering wrote: Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think File::Temp does this internally as well, but it looks like chmod_tree will just warn about the failed chdir and procede to recursively chmod whatever directory it was in at the time if $dir is yanked out from under it. Yes.

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [PATCH] tests: don't chmod after a failed chdir in cleanup * tests/CuTmpdir.pm (chmod_tree): Don't chmod if chdir failed. Thanks! Applied and pushed. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: [I hesitated to post so many small test-only patches all together, but it's better than not posting at all. Besides, maybe posting at all will evoke some review feedback. So here goes... ] I'm now seeing this when running ./bootstrap:

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Bo Borgerson
Eric Blake wrote: I'm now seeing this when running ./bootstrap: ./bootstrap: m4/xsize.m4 overrides ._bootmp2/m4/xsize.m4 Undefined subroutine Test::test_vector called at tests/mk-script line 44. ./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4 ... and am not yet sure if it is from one of these patches

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Blake wrote: I'm now seeing this when running ./bootstrap: ./bootstrap: m4/xsize.m4 overrides ._bootmp2/m4/xsize.m4 Undefined subroutine Test::test_vector called at tests/mk-script line 44. ./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4 ... and am not yet

Re: FYI, 11 mostly-test-related patches

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: [I hesitated to post so many small test-only patches all together, but it's better than not posting at all. Besides, maybe posting at all will evoke some review feedback. So here goes... ] I'm now seeing this

Re: [Elbert Pol] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-28 Thread Elbert Pol
Hi Jim, Curious if the log give you some usefull info? Jim Meyering wrote: Elbert Pol[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Remember when you chose not to run make -k check? ;-) Well, now would be a good time to go back and do that, but with working tools in your PATH, of course. Hoi Jim, As you

Re: [Elbert Pol] Re: coreutils-6.11 released

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Elbert Pol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Elbert Pol[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoi Jim, When i use the new rm.exe and use it with the ./configure i get all kind of errors like : rm.exe: cannot remove `conftest': Is a directory rm.exe: cannot remove `conftest.dir': Is a

ubuntu command non-recognition

2008-04-28 Thread Graham Cunnington
hello i have just installed Ubuntu Edgy and i find that it is unable to install proprietary free software specifically made for Linux - Adobe Flash Player and RealPlayer - that is a bug in the Installer, and it means that i cannot watch my MySpace Videos, Yahoo and Google Videos and the BBC

Re: ubuntu command non-recognition

2008-04-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Graham Cunnington wrote: i have just installed Ubuntu Edgy and i find that You would have better luck asking your question in the Ubuntu User mailing list. This is the GNU Coreutils mailing list. The GNU Coreutils are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU Operating