Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

2009-08-13 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi All! Le 28 juil. 09 à 02:36, Joel E. Denny a écrit : diff --git a/src/head.c b/src/head.c index c96f910..89b6ef9 100644 --- a/src/head.c +++ b/src/head.c @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ /* head -- output first part of file(s) - Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2006, 2008-2009 Free Software - Foundation,

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
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 coreutils-7.5 to be

Re: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: 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 ;

Re: Enhacement request - 'date' util

2009-08-13 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Alejandro Redondo wrote: Well, the first clock set, when ntpd starts, is made in just one step. This can be a problem when the client host is several seconds different than the ntp server. Stepping versus slewing can be configured in ntpd. By default small time offsets

AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Pádraig wrote: What is your exact dd command please, and destination file system. I was running KNOPPIX 5.3.1; the source was a harddisk partition, and the target was a file in an ext2 filesystem on a harddisk in an USB device mounted on /media/sdb2/: $ dd if=/dev/sda5

Re: AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Pádraig wrote: What is your exact dd command please, and destination file system. I was running KNOPPIX 5.3.1; the source was a harddisk partition, and the target was a file in an ext2 filesystem on a harddisk in an USB device mounted on /media/sdb2/: $ dd

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

2009-08-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Akim Demaille on 8/13/2009 1:59 AM: - Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2006, 2008-2009 Free Software - Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2006, 2008-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. While at it, why not

Re: AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Pádraig wrote: What is your exact dd command please, and destination file system. I was running KNOPPIX 5.3.1; the source was a harddisk partition, and the target was a file in an ext2 filesystem on a harddisk in an USB device mounted on

AW: AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Pádraig wrote: Yep I think so. Moving just the install_signal_handlers() to the top, can we expect this to happen in one of the next releases? p.s. I'm still unsure as to why open(O_TRUNC) takes a while. Perhaps there is a trunc=paranoid mount option I'm unaware of that actually writes zeros

Re: AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Pádraig wrote: What is your exact dd command please, and destination file system. I was running KNOPPIX 5.3.1; the source was a harddisk partition, and the target was a file in an ext2 filesystem on a harddisk in an USB

Re: AW: AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Pádraig wrote: Yep I think so. Moving just the install_signal_handlers() to the top, can we expect this to happen in one of the next releases? p.s. I'm still unsure as to why open(O_TRUNC) takes a while. Perhaps there is a trunc=paranoid mount option I'm unaware

Re: AW: AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Voelker, Bernhard wrote: Pádraig wrote: Yep I think so. Moving just the install_signal_handlers() to the top, can we expect this to happen in one of the next releases? p.s. I'm still unsure as to why open(O_TRUNC) takes a while. Perhaps there is a trunc=paranoid mount

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: 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

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: 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?= p...@draigbrady.com Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:46:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tests: improve

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Subject: [PATCH] tail: fix tail -f failure when inotify used * src/tail.c (tail_inotify_forever): Use the correct bounds in the error check of the return from inotify_add_watch(). Reported by C de-Avillez. --- src/tail.c |2 +- 1 files

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Subject: [PATCH] tail: fix tail -f failure when inotify used * src/tail.c (tail_inotify_forever): Use the correct bounds in the error check of the return from inotify_add_watch(). Reported by C de-Avillez. --- src/tail.c |

[PATCH] tests: raise ulimit virt-mem limit to avoid new failure

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, this test just barely failed on rawhide, so I've bumped the max virt mem limit up to 20,000 KB: From 11ccbdab27fc7b4f3c78e8a806745330534670f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:28:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: raise ulimit virt-mem

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

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: 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

Re: Enhacement request - 'date' util

2009-08-13 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Alejandro Redondo wrote: Hi again, sorry about those HTML characters... I sent the first email from a webmail client. And sorry about my bad English too, it's not my natal language. I didn't notice anything wrong with your English, actually :-). (Why is it, I wonder, that non-native

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

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: These highlighted a couple of issues I think on systems without utimensat(). 1. The symlink _target_ gets its time updated 2. If 1 fails then the process returns a failure I've fixed both in the attached patch hopefully by only doing the explicit

[PATCH] doc: clarify the cp --reflink NEWS

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
From 3214858c9b53dcd8d2ef47473427fcd29dc56a7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= p...@draigbrady.com Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:25:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify the cp --reflink NEWS * NEWS: Remove the description associated with the removed experimental code

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

2009-08-13 Thread Karl Berry
While at it, why not standardize everything to 4 digits Sounds like a good idea to me FWIW. The 2-digit years came about because rms optimized it with lawyers umpteen years ago. When I questioned him about it more recently (maybe only .3umpteen years :), he went back to the lawyers and

Docs for --preserve option

2009-08-13 Thread Ángel González
Hello everybody, Failing to understand --preserve option *after reading the man page*, I hope to help improving the docs so future users won't hit the same builder. The specific section at cp --help (from which cp man is generated) is: --preserve[=ATTR_LIST] preserve the specified

Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1

2009-08-13 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Eric Blake wrote: According to Akim Demaille on 8/13/2009 1:59 AM: - Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2006, 2008-2009 Free Software - Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2006, 2008-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. While at it, why not