Re: misalignment in ls -l in fr_FR locale

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I expect to push the attached updated patch soon. Hi Pádraig, Thanks for working on this, but please hold off until after 7.2. I'm trying to stabilize for a bug-fix(was -only) release. Subject: [PATCH] ls: Fix alignment when month names have varying widths ... diff

Re: misalignment in ls -l in fr_FR locale

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I expect to push the attached updated patch soon. Hi Pádraig, Thanks for working on this, but please hold off until after 7.2. I'm trying to stabilize for a bug-fix(was -only) release. Subject: [PATCH] ls: Fix alignment when month names have varying widths ... diff --git

Re: [PATCH] df: Fix bug when totaling unknown values.

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes: So how about a function like summable (uintmax_t val) to be used in place of each of those 5 tests? Sure thing, though I count 11 tests total, not just the 5 in the previous patch. I prefer a name like 'known_value' to 'summable',

Re: md5sum and binary vs. text

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: According to Jim Meyering on 3/25/2009 3:57 PM: and the extra * breaks the check. I'd really like to switch md5sum and friends to match Linux output when O_BINARY, and add a different marker character (but what?) when summing a file in O_TEXT mode, since generally you WANT

(final-before-7.2?) snapshot imminent

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
I'm about to make a snapshot with the latest from coreutils and from gnulib. Other than a minor test failure affecting install's new -C option that may be unreproducible (thanks for all the attempts, Kamil!), I think there's nothing else I wanted to fix. Expect a new snapshot in the next hour or

Re: su command...

2009-03-26 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Please, how can I execute the following idea: $ su gimp but really in bacground? I can not figure out what you want to do, but you might try=20 this : if [[ $(grep gimp /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f1) == gimp ]]; then su - gimp; else su -; export DISPLAY=:0.0; gimp ; logout; fi;

new snapshot available: coreutils-7.1.81-9b653

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
coreutils snapshot: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz 9.3 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 3.9 MB http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig aka http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-7.1.81-9b653.tar.gz

[PATCH] tests: mark the rm/ext3-perf test as very expensive

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
From 9b6538aa8dbac7ac310487a14d031dce1191921b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:33:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tests: mark the rm/ext3-perf test as very expensive * tests/rm/ext3-perf: Relegate this test to the very_expensive category, since

Re: misalignment in ls -l in fr_FR locale

2009-03-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: + the trailing NUL). A value = dest_size means there wasn't enough space. + The width parameter both specifies the width to align/pad/truncate to, + and is updated to return the width used before padding. */ Would desired_width be a better parameter name for

Re: misalignment in ls -l in fr_FR locale

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: + the trailing NUL). A value = dest_size means there wasn't enough space. + The width parameter both specifies the width to align/pad/truncate to, + and is updated to return the width used before padding. */ Would desired_width be a better

Re: misalignment in ls -l in fr_FR locale

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: ... +/* In the unlikely event that the abmon[] storage is not big enough + an error message will be displayed, and we revert to using + unmodified abbreviated month names from the locale database. */ +static char abmon[12][MAX_MON_WIDTH * 2 * MB_LEN_MAX + 1]; +/*

sc_tight_scope on cygwin

2009-03-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My next 'make syntax-check' failure comes from sc_tight_scope. On cygwin, all exported symbols include a leading underscore, so the check complains about a large number of these: _main _usage along with several other false positives, for example:

Re: sc_tight_scope on cygwin

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: My next 'make syntax-check' failure comes from sc_tight_scope. On cygwin, all exported symbols include a leading underscore, so the check complains about a large number of these: Thanks for testing! The attached patch relaxes that rule in src/Makefile.am to strip leading

test failure in make check-root

2009-03-26 Thread Sven Joachim
A test in make check-root fails for me. Since I usually don't make check-root, it might have been around for a while. Full log follows: $ sudo make -k check-root cd tests make check-root SUBDIRS= make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/coreutils-7.1.81-9b653/tests' make check

Re: test failure in make check-root

2009-03-26 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Thursday 26 of March 2009 16:20:15 Sven Joachim wrote: A test in make check-root fails for me. Since I usually don't make check-root, it might have been around for a while. Full log follows: The failure has been already reported:

Re: [PATCH] df: Fix bug when totaling unknown values.

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: + if (total != UINTMAX_MAX) Um... I've mentioned that this won't work, haven't I? AIX is (AFAICT) giving 0xFFF...FFE, not 0xFFF...FFF. -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad... You

Re: test failure in make check-root

2009-03-26 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Thursday 26 of March 2009 17:17:26 hggdh wrote: hg...@xango2:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/coreutils-git $ ls a echo 1 sudo src/ginstall -Cv a b echo 2 sudo src/ginstall -Cv -g2 a b echo 3 sudo src/ginstall -Cv a b echo 4 sudo src/ginstall -Cv a b 1 [sudo] password for hggdh: `a' -

Re: test failure in make check-root

2009-03-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-26 16:38 +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote: On Thursday 26 of March 2009 16:20:15 Sven Joachim wrote: A test in make check-root fails for me. Since I usually don't make check-root, it might have been around for a while. Full log follows: The failure has been already reported:

Re: test failure in make check-root

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Sven Joachim wrote: On Thursday 26 of March 2009 16:20:15 Sven Joachim wrote: A test in make check-root fails for me. Since I usually don't make check-root, it might have been around for a while. Full log follows: ... That /usr/local/src is setgid src seems to be the crux. After removing

Re: [PATCH] df: Fix bug when totaling unknown values.

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Eggert
Matthew Woehlke mw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net writes: Paul Eggert wrote: + if (total != UINTMAX_MAX) Um... I've mentioned that this won't work, haven't I? AIX is (AFAICT) giving 0xFFF...FFE, not 0xFFF...FFF. The later patch (in that same message) adjusted that line to deal with

make check failures

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Lamden
Sunfire 245, Sparcv9, Solaris 10. gcc 4.3.3 2 make check failures: FAIL: test-vc-list-files-git.sh awk: syntax error near line 4 awk: illegal statement near line 4 cmp: EOF on actual FAIL: test-vc-list-files-cvs.sh 2 checks not run. ___

Fw: Re: test failure in make check-root

2009-03-26 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Thursday 26 of March 2009 17:44:05 hggdh wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:44 +0100 Kamil Dudka xdudk...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please run stat(1) on the target between install -C invocation to ensure owner/group are set properly? Kamil Yes, no problem. Here you go:

Re: [PATCH] df: Fix bug when totaling unknown values.

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Paul Eggert wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. :-) Paul Eggert wrote: + if (total != UINTMAX_MAX) Um... I've mentioned that this won't work, haven't I? AIX is (AFAICT) giving 0xFFF...FFE, not 0xFFF...FFF. The later

Re: [PATCH] sort: Add --threads option, which parallelizes internal sort.

2009-03-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paul, all, Paul Eggert writes: This patch is by Glen Lenker, Matt Pham, Benjamin Nuernberger, Sky Lin, TaeSung Roh, and Paul Eggert. It adds support for parallelism within an internal sort. On our simple tests on a 2-core desktop x86, overall performance improved by roughly a factor of

coreutils-7.1.81-9b653 test results (was: new snapshot available)

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
This was interesting... 100% test success rate iff the hardware is x86. (A few of the failures are only in gnulib, however.) x86/Linux 370 pass, 55 skipped 122 pass, 12 skipped x86/Solaris 370 pass, 55 skipped 122 pass, 12 skipped sparc/Solaris (needs

Re: coreutils-7.1.81-9b653 test results

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: AIX 2 of 370 fail, 61 skipped 1 of 122 fail, 12 skipped (gnulib folks can skip the first two) FAIL: misc/printf.log (exit: 1) === + /home/install/gnu/build/rs6000_aix/coreutils-7.1.81-9b653/src/printf --version printf (GNU

gnulib build failure on risc/HP-UX (was: coreutils-7.1.81-9b653 test results)

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: risc/HPUX (build failure) Here's the whole output, in case some of the warning are interesting (i.e. point to actual problems): make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp_mnt/home/install/gnu/build/hp700_hpux/coreutils-7.1.81-9b653/lib' make[4]: Entering directory

Re: coreutils-7.1.81-9b653 test results

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: ia64/HPUX 370 pass, 60 skipped 1 of 122 fail, 11 skipped (I think risc/HPUX has the same failure, but it failed to build; another gnulib problem, which I will post shortly.) FAIL: test-file-has-acl.sh.log (exit: 1) +

Re: coreutils-7.1.81-9b653 test results

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Matthew Woehlke wrote: sparc/Solaris (needs no-decl-after-stmt patch) (gnulib test suite build failed due to decl-after-stmt) 370 pass, 54 skipped 1 of 122 fail, 5 skipped Not much to see here: FAIL: test-quotearg.sh.log (exit: 134) ==

Re: [PATCH] in place option for unexpand

2009-03-26 Thread Sami Kerola
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:58, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Sami Kerola wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:22, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Sami Kerola wrote: Good weekend, If you consider in-line option is useful for unexpand I could wrote another

Re: coreutils-7.1.81-9b653 test results

2009-03-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Matthew Woehlke on 3/26/2009 4:49 PM: sparc/Solaris Not much to see here: FAIL: test-quotearg.sh.log (exit: 134) == test-quotearg.c:182: assertion failed Abort - core dumped Can