Re: du feature request: option like -x to exclude bind mounts

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Nicholas Leippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, du -x properly excludes other filesystems that are mounted. But if the same filesystem is mounted again with -o bind (linux, possibly other oses), it still includes them in the count. An option to exclude them from the count as well would be

Re: [PATCH]: Basic info documentation for SELinux context related commands runcon and chcon

2008-10-07 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Hi, Jim Meyering wrote: Ondřej Vašík [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as those commands were not documented in info documentation, I wrote basic info documentation for runcon and chcon command (and related SELinux context menu section). It is completely based on man documentation, I would say

Usage of savannah BTS

2008-10-07 Thread HggdH
Hello, I have been following the bug-coreutils mailist for a while, in order to get myself adjusted to the expected processes and procedures. I noticed there is https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=coreutils where we could submit downstream issues. But it seems this is not much used. So the

Re: Usage of savannah BTS

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Hi, HggdH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I noticed there is https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=coreutils where we could submit downstream issues. But it seems this is not much used. So the question: is the BTS to be used at all, or should one just email bug-coreutils? Whichever you

Re: tee logs no output if stdout is closed

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: ... s/is/may be/ Early reader termination may still deserve a diagnostic. Or it could be that POSIX requires the application to diagnose EPIPE, regardless ;-) I disagree here. If early reader termination leads to a diagnostic in this

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

2008-10-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: Hello, what do you think about the following way to remove the sigs_to_ignore hack in the timeout.c file? It ignores temporarily the signal inside the `send_sig' function instead of using the `sigs_to_ignore' array. I'll test this tonight, as this stuff is tricky.

Re: [PATCH]: Basic info documentation for SELinux context related commands runcon and chcon

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Ondřej Vašík [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as those commands were not documented in info documentation, I wrote basic info documentation for runcon and chcon command (and related SELinux context menu section). It is completely based on man documentation, I would say just the first step to have them

[PATCH]: cp '-a' should try to preserve SELinux context, SELinux context cp documentation adjustments

2008-10-07 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Hello, as documented in NEWS and as written in test cp-a-selinux, cp -a should try to preserve selinux context, if possible. The activation boolean preserve_security_context was missing in this branch. Also cp -a is not really equivalent to -dpR, but to -dR --preserve-all , as it tries(or at least

Re: du feature request: option like -x to exclude bind mounts

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Nicholas Leippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008 05:58:19 am you wrote: Nicholas Leippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently, du -x properly excludes other filesystems that are mounted. But if the same filesystem is mounted again with -o bind (linux, possibly other

Re: [PATCH]: Basic info documentation for SELinux context related commands runcon and chcon

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Ondřej Vašík [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Thanks for review and suggested/requested changes. Here is amended patch with all of your changes(and similar changes for runcon). Thanks! Looking at it now. One quick note; please don't add trailing blanks. It's easy for me to remove them, but I

about kubuntu 8.10 beta

2008-10-07 Thread césar beleño d.
Hi, I recently installed kubuntu 8.10 beta in my computer from internet. Previously I had ubuntu 8.04 and I had downloaded some applications from KDE such as kile and k3b, but these applications was not working. This were the mean reason for I decided install kubuntu, but any sesion is not

Re: about kubuntu 8.10 beta

2008-10-07 Thread Bob Proulx
césar beleño d. wrote: Hi, I recently installed kubuntu 8.10 beta in my computer from internet. Previously I had ubuntu 8.04 and I had downloaded some applications from KDE such as kile and k3b, but these applications was not working. This were the mean reason for I decided install kubuntu,

Re: [PATCH]: Basic info documentation for SELinux context related commands runcon and chcon

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Ondřej Vašík [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for review and suggested/requested changes. Here is amended patch with all of your changes(and similar changes for runcon). Thanks, but your new patch would have actually reverted some of my changes, so I've adjusted it and made some more. Here's the

Re: /bin/pwd causes a fstat on all autofs mounted volumes

2008-10-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Raines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When one runs /bin/pwd (using coreutils 5.97) on an autofs mounted volume, it causes an fstat to be run on all autofs mounted volumes on that automount's mount point. THis is not only a big waste but if a NFS mount server down it causes /bin/pwd to hang.