bug#24551: who doesn't read what man page says it does, so doesn't work

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 24551 notabug close 24551 stop (triaging old bugs) It seems your message was lost and not replied to in 2 years. Sorry about that. On 2016-09-26 7:40 p.m., L. A. Walsh wrote: manpage says:  If  FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp.  /var/log/wtmp as FILE is  common. [...]    Beha

bug#24661: [RFE] Allow running shred on directories

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 24661 shred: allow running shred on directories severity 24661 wishlist tags 24661 wontfix close 24661 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-10-10 11:26 a.m., Mohammed Sadiq wrote: This is a request for enhancement. It might be nice to allow users to run shred on directories which would rec

bug#24744: coreutils: dircolors - recognize both st and stterm

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 24744 moreinfo close 24744 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-10-20 10:57 a.m., Andreas Schwab wrote: On Okt 20 2016, Jari Aalto wrote: It would be nice if dircolors also recognized terminal with name "stterm". Why can't stterm continue to use the "st" terminal? With no reply in 2 ye

bug#24794: broken tags in coreutils.git

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 24794 fixed close 24794 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-10-25 12:07 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: We've sorted out the details off-list (thanks also to Assaf), and I have completed the conversion. The attached file 'broken' is the list of all the tags that I regenerated. If you have an existi

bug#24813: Du Maximum files?

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 24813 moreinfo close 24813 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-10-28 1:27 a.m., Erik Auerswald wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 05:56:07AM +, Benny D. Miller Jr. wrote: I am not so sure that this is a bug but a limitation. I am using "du" for a disk file listing/usage in the command: du

bug#24850: need your help!strange problem.shred sometimes slow sometimes normal.

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 24850 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-11-01 9:55 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/11/16 06:30, qq wrote: [shred v8.20 sometimes takes 18min to shred 1G of /dev/sda, but usually takes 20seconds, on my ironic minios container] I'm not sure, but I suspect the issue is outside of shre

bug#24846: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.10: unexpected PLT reloc type 0x40

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 24846 notabug close 24846 stop (triaging old bugs) Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/11/16 17:10, Yan Markman wrote: I think that described failure is only a symptom of more generic problem. just occasionally failing on coreutils::ls command. So I would like to understand what exactly thi

bug#24929: comm enhancement proposal: --print-summary --quiet

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 24929 fixed close 24929 stop (triaging old bugs) Pushed here: comm: add --total option https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=b50a151346c42816034b5c26266eb753b7dbe737 Closing as "fixed". -assaf

bug#25004: Bug in OD utility

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 25004 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-11-23 9:49 p.m., Jim Meyering wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Marcel Böhme wrote: On 24 Nov 2016, at 8:45 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: I can't reproduce the issue here BTW with ASAN and running in a tight loop for a few minutes. So perhaps

bug#25159: chown bug ? or sys glitch ?

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 25159 moreinfo stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-12-10 6:51 a.m., ahfc wrote: Maybe a system glitch or a chown bug so just fyi. Intention: change root:root to root:users on dir struct command: sudo chown -R root:users /run/media/user_name/long_disk_number/* ( so mounted through /ru

bug#25455: uniq considers all the full-width punctuation and Japanese kana as the same under zh_CN.UTF-8 locale

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 25455 notabug close 25455 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-01-20 8:08 p.m., Mike Frysinger wrote: On 16 Jan 2017 04:01, Icenowy Zheng wrote: When dealing lines with only a Chinese full-width punctuation or Japanese kana and locale is zh_CN.UTF-8, uniq command will consider all the lines a

bug#25540: notice issue in expand -- doesn't allow for expressing tabsize value in tabstop(s)

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 25540 fixed close 25540 stop On 2017-02-28 8:58 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 02/27/2017 12:44 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: The attached uses your suggestion of '/' but only allowed in the last position. Pushed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=b1413b601

bug#25554: date to support iso-8601 week-format (patch included)

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 25554 date: add iso-8601 week-format option severity 25554 wishlist tags 25554 wontfix patch close 25554 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-01-27 3:22 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: I dunno, there are several ISO 8601 formats that 'date -I' doesn't have a special case for now; why add these par

bug#25589: Probably a bug in cp

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 25589 moreinfo close 25589 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-01-31 11:53 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 01/31/2017 12:18 PM, Francesco Asnicar wrote: Dear all, I'm facing a problem with the cp command when using the -a (or --preserve=all) parameter. [...] You did not provide an exampl

bug#15278: -a vs -e

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 15278 fixed forcemerge 33097 15278 close 15278 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2013-09-05 10:45 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: [...] Coreutils therefore should fix its test to favor binary -a over unary -a, when there are three arguments and the first is !. Just last week Bernhard committed test

bug#25140: [PATCH] test: implement -N

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 25140 fixed close 25140 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2016-12-08 10:22 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/12/16 16:56, isabella parakiss wrote: test currently produces this error message with -N $ /bin/test -N / /bin/test: extra argument ‘-N’ Just last week Bernhard committed: test: add -

bug#8090: strerror(1) and strsignal(1)?

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 8090 new programs: strerror(1) and strsignal(1)? severity 8090 wishlist tags 8090 wontfix close 8090 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2011-02-20 4:34 p.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: However this was considered before and discounted as overkill: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010

bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output

2018-10-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-10-27 07:28:26 -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 23/10/18 17:54, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 10/22/18 1:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> On the behavior, there's still the issue concerning = and &. > > > > Yes, you're right, there's no need to quote = with -b. > > The reason \= is quoted w

bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output

2018-10-28 Thread Paul Eggert
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Now we could quote with -F only if these chars are at the end, though I'm not sure that complexity is warranted. In any case, this form of quoting incorrect with -b, as \= is invalid in ISO C. That's right, we need another way to escape classifier characters with -bF, s

bug#33125: /bin/del

2018-10-28 Thread Paul Eggert
It'd be nice to add a --backup flag to 'rm', which would behave like --backup does with cp, mv, and ln. This would have the effect of the 'del' command you're suggesting.

bug#25620: mkdir ignores set-group-id bit in mode argument

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 25620 moreinfo close 25620 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-02-04 2:00 p.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/02/17 10:34, Alexander Syvak wrote: [...] As you can see the set-group-id bit is not set in directory test/test. umask was 0002. Is this NFS or if not what file system is it? usual

bug#25930: optimize mv for multiple bind mounts

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 25930 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-03-04 1:01 a.m., Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-03-02 13:16 -0800, L A Walsh wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: , | EXDEV oldpath and newpath are not on the same mounted filesystem. | (Linux permits a filesystem to be mounted at multipl

bug#26324: Tail does not recognize .log file type

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 26324 tail,stat: add UNIONFS (0xf15f083d) tags 26324 wontfix close 26324 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-04-02 2:56 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: It seems that this was a UNIONFS filesystem ... http://unionfs.filesystems.org/ http://copilotco.com/mail-archives//linux-kernel.2008

bug#26621: hint for translators is missing from POT file, but is opaque anyhow

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 26621 fixed close 26621 stop (triaging old bugs) Pushed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=7ea15a57c7a8b876daa3d4d01f1192af3f58f3c7 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=d1f5616b2d9b851298f377ae7888b2d718802140 So closing as "fixed". -assa

bug#26806: Invalid byte sequence in tr command

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 26806 wishlist retitle 26806 multibyte: tr: Invalid byte sequence in tr command stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-05-06 9:07 a.m., maximiliam steffens wrote: Trying to convert subtitles with characters (accented) possibly changed by the opensubtitles. Converting only the lowercase let

bug#27358: Timeout command was get failed to kill soffice.bin processes

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 27358 notabug close 27358 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-06-14 10:01 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: Without further details I can't tell if this is indeed the culprit for the behaviour you're experiencing, but this would be one direction to investigate. With no further comments in more th

bug#27488: du -tX -t-Y won't exclude or select an interval of SIZE

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 27488 wishlist tags 27488 wontfix close 27488 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-06-26 1:37 a.m., f0rhum wrote: On 26/06/2017 at 09:00, Pádraig Brady wrote : On 25/06/17 11:08, f0rhum wrote: If not, maybe a feature could allow this like du -t3G-5G or -t3G -t-5G could show dirs from 3 t

bug#27531: Coreutils 8.27 bug report

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 27531 moreinfo close 27531 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-07-10 10:51 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 29/06/17 06:32, Bernardo Lopes Almeida de Oliveira wrote: Please find attached the test-suite.log. The seq failure though is due to your system not behaving like: $ src/seq inf inf

bug#27640: Bug-report

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 27640 fixed close 27640 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-07-10 1:08 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Looking at that test's source code, the test was clearly incorrect for Unix-like systems, as it incorrectly assumed a 1-1 mapping between user names and user IDs. I fixed that in Gnulib by install

bug#27864: [request] safety to prevent `rm -rf ~`

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 27864 wishlist tags 27864 wontfix close 27864 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-07-29 10:05 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 28/07/17 09:28, R0b0t1 wrote: I recently had a script create a file named "~" when I passed it a value for an installation directory. Without thinking the next comm

bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-10-28 2:11 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: That's right, we need another way to escape classifier characters with -bF, since the current method is clearly wrong. [...] This works because in ISO C "b""=" is equivalent to "b=". We should do this only with characters at the end, because