[PATCH] tests: refactor to use the new getlimits utility

2008-12-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
I'd especially like a review of the perl bits as my perl is _very_ weak. cheers. Pádraig. From daaab330ebcd18ecc45b38270d315ae9e08c6ff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= p...@draigbrady.com Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:25:34 + Subject: [PATCH] tests: refactor to use

Re: [PATCH] tests: refactor to use the new getlimits utility

2008-12-12 Thread Bo Borgerson
Pádraig Brady wrote: I'd especially like a review of the perl bits Hi Pádraig, I'm not sure that this function will behave quite as you intended it to: +sub getlimits() +{ + my $NV; + open NV, getlimits | or die Error running getlimits\n; + my %limits = map {split /=|\n/} NV; + return

Re: [PATCH] tests: refactor to use the new getlimits utility

2008-12-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Bo Borgerson wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: I'd especially like a review of the perl bits Hi Pádraig, I'm not sure that this function will behave quite as you intended it to: +sub getlimits() +{ + my $NV; + open NV, getlimits | or die Error running getlimits\n; + my %limits = map

[dd] show progress?

2008-12-12 Thread Brett Alton
I would like to discuss the addition of some sort of progress bar in dd. When I'm low-level formatting hard drives with: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=10M conv=notrunc It'd be nice to know the progress of the operation. The same goes for cloning hard drives. Is it possible for dd to know

Re: du --files-from feature request

2008-12-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Andreas Schwab sch...@suse.de wrote: Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes: @@ -2424,11 +2424,11 @@ pr invocation Optional argument @var{number-separator} is the character appended to the line number to separate it from the text followed. The default separator is the TAB character. In a