bug#9141: fdatasync module proposal

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/16/11 11:28, Eric Blake wrote: > Do we know this to be the case, or are you just going off of web searches? The latter. I just now tried to find that stuff again, and couldn't, so let's just ignore it for now. If the problem turns up again we can fix it later. The whole fsync/fdatasync/O_

bug#9141: fdatasync module proposal

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/22/2011 03:13 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Surely coreutils is not the only program that will have problems with fdatasync on Mac OS. How about the following gnulib patches? Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function is present but undeclared and ineffective on

bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2011-09-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/14/2011 11:43 PM, Rimas Kudelis wrote: > 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

bug#7155: [md5sum] does not accept

2011-09-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > To summarize, the only caveat with my patch I think is that > it will give a false error for BSD format checksums > where the first entry has a file name starting with ' ' or '*'. > That should be exceedingly rare though, and is a lot better > than a false OK. Oh. I misunde