Re: [PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Lennart Poettering wrote: > [Second version of the patch, makes this feature optional with --fancy-chars] > > Diego Pettenò complained that "ls -l" doesn't use the UTF-8 arrow > character to show where symlinks point to. This tiny patch fixes that. > With this applied the character is used when the

Re: [PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 11.08.09 22:27, Pádraig Brady (p...@draigbrady.com) wrote: > >> this is equivalent I think: >> >>static const char *arrow = " -> "; >> #ifdef HAVE_NL_LANGINFO >>if (fancy_chars && STREQ (nl_langinfo (CODESET), "UTF-8")) >> arrow = " \xe2

Re: [PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > > - It's easy to get nearly the same effect with a simple filter, > as Pádraig suggested. (of course, a naive filter fails if > a file name contains " -> ", but the end result is solely for > human consumption, not for mechanical parsing, so that's ok) >

no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to be released in the next few days.

Re: [PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: > > Oh right, so something like: > > static const char *arrow; > if (!arrow) > { > if (fancy_chars && STREQ (locale_charset(), "UTF-8")) > arrow = " \xe2\x86\x92 "; > else > arrow = " -> "; > } > DIRED_FPUTS_LITERAL (arrow, stdout); > > Note the use o

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi Jim, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:42:59PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 > > Though it's been only two days. > > Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problem

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Erik Auerswald wrote: > Hi Jim, > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:42:59PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 >> >> Though it's been only two days. >> >> Unless I hear of new bug r

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to be release

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 > > Though it's been only two days. > > Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, > expect coreutils-7.5 to be released in th

Re: new module: update-copyright [Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

2009-08-12 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 31 juil. 09 à 15:52, Joel E. Denny a écrit : Hi Joel, +# Format within margin. +my $new_wrapped; +my $text_margin = $margin - length($prefix); +while (length($new)) + { +if (($new =~ s/^(.{1,$text_margin})(?: |$)//) +|| ($

Enhacement request - 'date' util

2009-08-12 Thread Alejandro Redondo
Good morning from Spain,first of all, thanks for your effort and for this rich featured tools... awesome work!Secondly, to the "date" command developers, it would be possible to develop the "-a" feature, like other UNIXes distros do?Man from solaris 10:-a [-]sss.fff   Slowly adjust the time  by  ss

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 >> >> Though it's been only two days. >> >> Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, >> expect coreut

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > > Thanks for the testing and report! > Are these new failures? If they are, it might be worth fixing. > Otherwise, FC5 is so old that I won't worry. > Reverting the symlink timestamp patch make the tests pass $ wget -q -O- 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/'\ '?p=coreut

dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-12 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Hi *, short question: is there a particular reason why the signal handlers are installed after ftruncate() in dd? Long story: I ran dd for a new backup of my 150GB partition to an external USB drive while I started while kill -USR1 pid ; do sleep 30 ; done in a separate terminal. The targ

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:54 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Are these new failures? If they are, it might be worth fixing. > Otherwise, FC5 is so old that I won't worry. Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built & make check, and got two errors. First one is here, I will re-run the second error

Re: Enhacement request - 'date' util

2009-08-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Please use newlines and don't use HTML entities in text mail (or don't send HTML, if that was the problem). Your original mail looked like this: Good morning from Spain,first of all, thanks for your effort and for this rich featured tools... awesome work!Secondly, to the "date" command develope

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
C de-Avillez wrote: > > Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built & make check, and got two > errors. > > First one is here, I will re-run the second error by itself in a few. > > Running on Ubuntu 9.10 (kernel 2.6.31.5 with Ubuntu mods, libc6 > 2.10.1-0ubuntu6). > > FAIL: tail-2/pid > + tai

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 17:15 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I'd better try and pay attention in this meeting ;) Heh. Please let me help you get distracted ;-) Second error, also on tail: FAIL: tail-2/pid (exit: 1) == + tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 7.4.115-c9c92 Co

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
Yet another one, on check-root. I am starting to wonder if this may be a problem with my setup, since nobody has reported errors on tail. FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) == + tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 7.4.115-c9c92 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foun

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: > C de-Avillez wrote: >> Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built & make check, and got two >> errors. >> >> First one is here, I will re-run the second error by itself in a few. >> >> Running on Ubuntu 9.10 (kernel 2.6.31.5 with Ubuntu mods, libc6 >> 2.10.1-0ubuntu6). >> >>

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
While I'm at it here's a patch to improve that test. cheers, Pádraig. >From c720e160a96b813a7c24c5ac8a9a9a37590f4190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:46:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tests: improve one of the tail --pid tests * tests/tail-2/pi

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > While I'm at it here's a patch to > improve that test. Thanks, Pádraig. Building & testing right now both of them on the snapshot; then on git. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > While I'm at it here's a patch to > improve that test. > > cheers, > Pádraig. OK. Both tests now succeed on the snapshot. I will apply them to git now (where I also had the same error). Cheers, ..C.. signature.asc Description: This is

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
C de-Avillez wrote: > Yet another one, on check-root. I am starting to wonder if this may be a > problem with my setup, since nobody has reported errors on tail. > > FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) > == Thanks for the reports. How did you run those tests? When I

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:06 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > C de-Avillez wrote: > > Yet another one, on check-root. I am starting to wonder if this may be a > > problem with my setup, since nobody has reported errors on tail. > > > > FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) > > =

sir compiz not working in my system having ubuntu 9.04

2009-08-12 Thread sunny vashistha
compiz not working in my system first it showed error message no whitelisted driver found and when i installed some nvidia driver then it showed that versions of nvidia are different in my systrm .actually i have windows also installed in my systemowed error message regarding and have n

problems with working of compiz in my system in ubuntu 9.04

2009-08-12 Thread sunny vashistha
this is the message displayed on (terminal).. su...@sunny-laptop:~$ compiz Checking for Xgl: not present. xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log Detected PCI ID for VGA: Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present. Chec

Re: Enhacement request - 'date' util

2009-08-12 Thread Alejandro Redondo
Matthew Woehlke escribió: Please use newlines and don't use HTML entities in text mail (or don't send HTML, if that was the problem). Your original mail looked like this: Good morning from Spain,first of all, thanks for your effort and for this rich featured tools... awesome work!Secondly, to