Re: link -L/-P

2009-09-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
Eric Blake wrote: According to Pádraig Brady on 9/24/2009 5:13 PM: Eric Blake wrote: + -L, --logical make hard links to symbolic link references\n\ s/references/targets/ is a bit clearer to me? I thought about that, but we already specify: ln source target as the

Re: link -L/-P

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: I'd like to make a test release soon. Maybe as soon as Friday. If you have something that you'd like included, please speak up. I'm nearly ready to post support for ln -P/-L, thanks to the pending addition of gnulib linkat(). That

[FEATURE_REQUEST] support openssl checksum format too

2009-09-25 Thread Guenter Knauf
Hi all, suprisingly I just found that md5sum and sha1sum also accept the formats of the md5 and sha1 tools as input with option -c. There's though a third checksum format which is produced by the openssl tool which only slightly differs to the format from md5 and sha1 - two blanks are missing ...

stdbuf enhancement (was: link -L/-P)

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 9/25/2009 4:11 AM: You need to chmod a+x ln/hard-to-sym Oops. Yeah. Serves me right for testing on cygwin 1.5 (cygwin 1.7 fixed that bug, so that a script now has to be executable to run it). Also path in your

[PATCH]: ls: do not show long iso time format for en_* locales

2009-09-25 Thread Ondřej Vašík
Hello, as reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525134 by Daniel Qarras, ls -l shows iso long format for en_* locales. This is caused by http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=6837183d42a0ccdf7b7106794ea693c5b609aea5 . After that commit ls in locale time style

Re: stdbuf enhancement

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: ... Also, Jim, should we add a maintainer check that ensures we always use [ax]readlink rather than raw readlink? Good idea.

Re: [PATCH]: ls: do not show long iso time format for en_* locales

2009-09-25 Thread Paul Eggert
Ondřej Vašík ova...@redhat.com writes: as reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525134 by Daniel Qarras, ls -l shows iso long format for en_* locales. I just now read that Bugzilla report, and the diagnosis and the patch do not seem correct. The diagnosis says: In ls.c

Re: [PATCH]: ls: do not show long iso time format for en_* locales

2009-09-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
Paul Eggert wrote: Ondřej Vašík ova...@redhat.com writes: as reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525134 by Daniel Qarras, ls -l shows iso long format for en_* locales. I just now read that Bugzilla report, and the diagnosis and the patch do not seem correct. The

Re: [FEATURE_REQUEST] support openssl checksum format too

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Guenter Knauf wrote: suprisingly I just found that md5sum and sha1sum also accept the formats of the md5 and sha1 tools as input with option -c. There's though a third checksum format which is produced by the openssl tool which only slightly differs to the format from md5 and sha1 - two blanks