Re: 'sort' bug

2008-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Markowski wrote: > I think I've come across a bug in 'sort'. Using the attached file (please > let me know if the attachment is stripped from this email), I tried to sort > on the 5th column of states/countries by using: > >sort -k 5 c3 > > The first few lines look like: > >10-Ap

coreutils-6.11.104-00a30 test results

2008-05-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Test results on MacOS X 10.5.2 and MacOS X 10.3.9: - On MacOS X 10.5.2: All coreutils tests pass, and all gnulib tests pass! On this platform, perl 5.8.8 is used. This is an improvement over version 6.11. Why not mention it in NEWS: "On MacOS X 10.5, 'cp -p some-fifo some-file' failed while tryin

'sort' bug

2008-05-29 Thread Mike Markowski
I think I've come across a bug in 'sort'. Using the attached file (please let me know if the attachment is stripped from this email), I tried to sort on the 5th column of states/countries by using: sort -k 5 c3 The first few lines look like: 10-Apr-2008 W7GVE729C Ed AZ

Re: Bug#483554: coreutils: "info chcon" gives the man page instead of the full documentation

2008-05-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 6.10-6 > Severity: normal > > The chcon(1) man page says: > > SEE ALSO >The full documentation for chcon is maintained as a Texinfo >manual. If the info and chcon programs are properly installed >

Re: du v5.93: traverses subdirectories although --separate-dirs and --summarize are set?

2008-05-29 Thread Jim Meyering
"Volker Badziong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not understand why this is necessary if the results from subdirectories > are not taken into account? Or asked the other way: What information from the > traversal process is taken into the total sum? > > E.g. look at the following. du yields al

Re: du v5.93: traverses subdirectories although --separate-dirs and --summarize are set?

2008-05-29 Thread Volker Badziong
Hi, I do not understand why this is necessary if the results from subdirectories are not taken into account? Or asked the other way: What information from the traversal process is taken into the total sum? E.g. look at the following. du yields almost the same as "ls sums without dirs" - althou

Re: du v5.93: traverses subdirectories although --separate-dirs and --summarize are set?

2008-05-29 Thread Bo Borgerson
Volker Badziong wrote: > Hello, > > I am running "du (GNU coreutils) 5.93". When executing e.g. > > du --separate-dirs --summarize /etc/ > > you are only interested in the total space consumed by stuff in /etc/, not > within any subfolders. But nevertheless du traverses all subdirectories

du v5.93: traverses subdirectories although --separate-dirs and --summarize are set?

2008-05-29 Thread Volker Badziong
Hello, I am running "du (GNU coreutils) 5.93". When executing e.g. du --separate-dirs --summarize /etc/ you are only interested in the total space consumed by stuff in /etc/, not within any subfolders. But nevertheless du traverses all subdirectories, regardless if "--summarize" is set o

logname(1), strange behaviour

2008-05-29 Thread Mario Vanoni
Slackware 12.1, kernel 2.6.25.3, coreutils-6.9, login as root: logname logname: no login name whoami root ssh to another machine as root: logname root Regards Mario Vanoni ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/m

Re: utimens and non-standardized futimesat

2008-05-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 5/22/2008 6:51 AM: > | According to Jim Meyering on 5/22/2008 6:42 AM: > | |> |> No need to refer the dir by name: > | |> |> > | |> |> futimens (dirfd. timespec); > | |> | > | |> | Btw., even if you don't consider the Posix 200x f