bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2011-09-14 Thread Rimas Kudelis
2011.09.14 17:12, Jim Meyering rašė: Good point. I don't see a way to make GNU md5sum handle this automatically and safely. However, that's not a big deal: it's easy to convert from one format to the other using sed or perl. I'd be inclined to mark this "wontfix" (because we cannot) or simply t

bug#7858: coreutils-8.9 test failed on rh5 amd

2011-09-14 Thread sam sirlin
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:37:04 -0700 Jim Meyering wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > > > sam sirlin wrote: > > ... > >> This is, I believe the relevant section: > > > > Thanks for the report. > > That is just what I needed. > > > >> FAIL: cp/cp-parents (exit: 1) > >> = > >

bug#9507: cut bug?

2011-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
tag 9507 notabug merge 6394 9507 thanks On 09/14/2011 10:20 AM, James Heather wrote: Hi, I'm sure this must have been spotted before, but cut -f2,1 produces the fields in the order 1,2 rather than 2,1. That seems wrong to me. You're not the first to complain of this, and probably won't

bug#9507: cut bug?

2011-09-14 Thread James Heather
Hi, I'm sure this must have been spotted before, but cut -f2,1 produces the fields in the order 1,2 rather than 2,1. That seems wrong to me. Changing it would probably break a thousand scripts. But could we have an additional option to respect the order of fields given on the command line?

bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2011-09-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/14/2011 03:12 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> severity 7155 wishlist >> tags 7155 + notabug >> >> Comments below. >> >> On 10/16/2010 11:37 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 16/10/10 20:37, Rimas Kudelis wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100, Pádraig Brady

bug#9500: [PATCH]: use posix_fallocate where supported

2011-09-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/14/2011 03:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/13/2011 11:55 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I put together a patch 2 or 3 years ago (back when posix_fallocate was >> first introduced in glibc). > > Thanks for the effort. However, this has been discussed in the past, and the > consensu

bug#9500: [PATCH]: use posix_fallocate where supported

2011-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/13/2011 11:55 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote: Hi, I put together a patch 2 or 3 years ago (back when posix_fallocate was first introduced in glibc). Thanks for the effort. However, this has been discussed in the past, and the consensus was that we should first write a patch to gnulib that p

bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2011-09-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > severity 7155 wishlist > tags 7155 + notabug > > Comments below. > > On 10/16/2010 11:37 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 16/10/10 20:37, Rimas Kudelis wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100, Pádraig Brady >>> wrote: On 03/10/10 20:24, Rimas Kudelis wrote:

bug#9504: ls oddity

2011-09-14 Thread Davide Brini
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:58:14 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > ls -al works as expected > > ls *.xml ... fails? > > [dpawson@localhost pawson]$ ls *.xml > ls: invalid option -- ':' > Try `ls --help' for more information. > > > Not sure if it's a bug or my setup? You have some filename that confuse

bug#9504: ls oddity

2011-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
tag 9504 notabug thanks On 09/14/2011 05:58 AM, Dave Pawson wrote: ls -al works as expected ls *.xml ... fails? [dpawson@localhost pawson]$ ls *.xml ls: invalid option -- ':' Try `ls --help' for more information. Not sure if it's a bug or my setup? The only bug here is in your command line

bug#9500: [PATCH]: use posix_fallocate where supported

2011-09-14 Thread Kelly Anderson
Hi, I put together a patch 2 or 3 years ago (back when posix_fallocate was first introduced in glibc). I've been using coreutils ever since with that patch applied with no problems. The only error I ever encountered (I had my patch error when posix_fallocate failed at that time) was when I tr

bug#9504: ls oddity

2011-09-14 Thread Dave Pawson
ls -al works as expected ls *.xml ... fails? [dpawson@localhost pawson]$ ls *.xml ls: invalid option -- ':' Try `ls --help' for more information. Not sure if it's a bug or my setup? Using fedora core 15. Fully up to date $ ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 8.10 regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XS

bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2011-09-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
severity 7155 wishlist tags 7155 + notabug Comments below. On 10/16/2010 11:37 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 16/10/10 20:37, Rimas Kudelis wrote: >> >> On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:24 +0100, Pádraig Brady >> wrote: >>> On 03/10/10 20:24, Rimas Kudelis wrote: Hi, I have a little probl

bug#9497: join: suggestion for manpage/help enhacement

2011-09-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: ... > How about the following patch, which adds "also", while maintaining line > length by deleting the fluff word "coming"? > > From 31046b6d38ab49cb815c8f6c6bc4faf6bb596de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eric Blake > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:07:11 -0600 > Subject: [PATCH] j