Re: [PATCH] Credit Torbjorn Granlund as the author of the arbitrary-precision factorisation code.

2008-08-04 Thread Jim Meyering
James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008-08-04 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * src/factor.c: Credit Torbjörn Granlund as the author of the > arbitrary-precision factorisation code. Thank you! Applied. [not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this might well hel

Re: tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > While updating the Dutch translation for coreutils, I came across a > few small inconsistencies. Attached patches fix those. Hi Benno, Thanks for all the patches! Starting with the last one... > - _(EXIT_STATUS == EXIT_SUCCESS > -

Re: tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While updating the Dutch translation for coreutils, I came across a > few small inconsistencies. Attached patches fix those. > >>From 0cceb3fb67b07d7ca50e65f85aaf6b9eeb487939 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dat

Re: tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While updating the Dutch translation for coreutils, I came across a > few small inconsistencies. Attached patches fix those. Thanks again. I appreciate the format-patch output. I've applied all of the others as-is and put them into a single commit:

Re: uptime undocumented

2008-08-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ LC_ALL=C uptime --version > uptime (GNU coreutils) 6.11 > ... > > But "info coreutils" does not contain any information about the 'uptime' > program. In order to understand the numbers that "uptime" outputs, I had to > resort to wikipedia [1]. Thanks. T

Re: Bug#488549: Acknowledgement (coreutils: ls -l still prints

2008-08-04 Thread Jim Meyering
"John David Anglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a hppa specific bug. It turns out the errno's for [this is regarding http://bugs.debian.org/488549 ] Thanks for the report and patch. The patch is required for the very latest, upstream, too, and I'm about to apply it. What versions of HP

Re: Problems with coreutils-6.12.70-4f470

2008-08-04 Thread Peter Fales
The problem occurs when you are not in /tmp, and do touch /tmp/foo mv -b /tmp/foo . In qcopy_acl() (file copy-acl.c) around line 295, it reads the ACL count as 4, and then reads the ACLs with GETACL around line 320. When it turns around and sets these ACLs with SETACL around lin

[PATCH] Document uptime.

2008-08-04 Thread James Youngman
* doc/coreutils.texi (uptime invocation): document uptime. * TODO: uptime is documented now. * src/uptime.c (print_uptime): Use fprintftime to print the time, rather than printf. This should make the situation better for translations. --- TODO |1 - doc/coreutils.texi | 38

Re: [PATCH] Document uptime.

2008-08-04 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:51 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +The precise method of calculation of load average varies somewhat > +between systems. Some systems calsulate it as the average number of Sorry: calculate > +runnable processes over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes, but some

Re: tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Meyering wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> While updating the Dutch translation for coreutils, I came across a >> few small inconsistencies. Attached patches fix those. > > Hi Benno, > > Thanks for all the patche

delete and redirection

2008-08-04 Thread Fabien Carmagnac
Hello, I have a problem when I remove a file which is a redirection of the std output of a process: I launch a process and redirect output to file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./myprocess &> mylog.log Then (after a few days/weeks), I remove the mylog.log file, hoping the system will create a new fresh o

Re: Bug#488549: Acknowledgement (coreutils: ls -l still prints

2008-08-04 Thread John David Anglin
> What versions of HPUX are affected? Although sys/errno.h defines different values for ENOTSUP and EOPNOTSUPP (same as hppa-linux values), I have not seen this problem on HP-UX 10 or 11. It looks like getfilecon is selinux specific. On HP-UX, getacl() returns EOPNOTSUPP if the operation is not s

sort -m does too much work

2008-08-04 Thread David Muir Sharnoff
I've got 200 1GB pre-sorted files. If I try to merge them with sort -m, it is obvioulsy trying to do too much work: after running for a couple minutes, it has not produced any output but it has made a 5 GB temporary file. When the input is pre-sorted, no temporary file should be required. Outp

Re: Bug#488549: Acknowledgement (coreutils: ls -l still prints

2008-08-04 Thread John David Anglin
> getfilecon_raw() uses getxattr(). The manpage for getxattr() > says it returns ENOTSUP if extended attributes are not supported. > This is a syscall and it will take a bit more digging to see if > it is consistent with the documentation. I finally got a working version of strace. I see that lg

Re: tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-08-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hello Jim, Jim Meyering wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND...]\n\ > > +Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND]\n\ > > How about this instead, to make it consistent with env --help: > > -Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND...]\n\ > +Usage: %s NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...

Re: delete and redirection

2008-08-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabien Carmagnac wrote: > Hello, Hi. Your question (and its potential solution) isn't really topical for this forum (which is for discussion of the GNU coreutils software package). It involves the use of a part of that software (rm, and apparently bas