bug#17553: du unit suggestion

2014-05-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/22/2014 08:47 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > It would be helpful to this addle-pated individual if du would output the > same units as it accepts as SIZE inputs, so that one could more readily > tell whether one was getting 1000-based or 1024-based units. > > For additional clarity, it would hel

bug#17553: du unit suggestion

2014-05-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
It would be helpful to this addle-pated individual if du would output the same units as it accepts as SIZE inputs, so that one could more readily tell whether one was getting 1000-based or 1024-based units. For additional clarity, it would help if for output the suffix were "B" as at present for 1

bug#17552: Sometimes md5sum misses files

2014-05-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 17552 notabug close 17552 stop On 05/22/2014 06:18 PM, Hamilton, Eric wrote: > Hi > > > > I just noticed that md5sum sometimes does not calculate a md5 checksum > on a file when using wild cards. > > > > I am running Cygwin64 under Windows7 64-bit and am executing the program > within

bug#17546: Problem with du

2014-05-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/22/2014 10:21 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote: >> From: Paul Eggert > >> As far as I can see, POSIX doesn't allow the old behavior, but does >> allow the new one. > > I looked at what I think is the Posix spec for du > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/du.html#tag_20_36)

bug#17546: Problem with du

2014-05-22 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/22/2014 09:21 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote: I don't see anything that covers the situation one way or another I suppose you're right; the specification is terse, and I guess it can be read in a different way. I'd like to suggest adding another option to du to establish the behavior I want

bug#17546: Problem with du

2014-05-22 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Paul Eggert > As far as I can see, POSIX doesn't allow the old behavior, but does > allow the new one. I looked at what I think is the Posix spec for du (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/du.html#tag_20_36), and I don't see anything that covers the situation one