Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 10/3/2009 2:30 AM:
>> There have been *many* changes in gnulib since the previous snapshot,
>> and the changes in coreutils are non-negligible, so please give
>> this a try. I'd like to make the beta release on Monday.
>> I'll probably call it coreu
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According to Jim Meyering on 10/4/2009 2:10 AM:
>> readlink -f link/
>>
>> succeeds, with the claim that 'mkdir link/' will also succeed, we should
>> make sure of that.
>
> Yes, adding a test would be good.
> Such a test would be expected to fail on
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According to Eric Blake on 10/4/2009 8:29 AM:
>> If you feel like addressing that right away, that would
>> be great. Otherwise, I think it's safe to say that no one
>> will complain if it is deferred until 8.1.
>
> At this point, it's enough of a co
Eric Blake wrote:
> $ echo abc | tail -c +1
> tail: cannot open `+1' for reading: No such file or directory
> $ echo abc | tail -c+1
> abc
> $ tail --version | head -n1
> tail (GNU coreutils) 7.6
>
> Shouldn't -c behave the same, whether or not there is a space before the
> count argument?
Thanks
