bug#67656: 'man touch' text about --time hard to read compared to 'touch --help'

2023-12-06 Thread Arsen Arsenović via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
Hi, In the manpage of touch, 'touch' flag --time is described as: --time=WORD change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m ... whereas, in the --help text, --time is described as: --ti

bug#64326: Some more info about rm bug

2023-06-28 Thread Arsen Arsenović via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
Hi, LitHack writes: > Basically what it doing is that it doesn't recognise (-) this as a file > name part even when using (\-). This bug will work on most of utilities > like cat, cp etc This is simply how argument parsing and shell syntax work. 'rm \-abc' is equivalent to just 'rm -abc', whic

bug#63850: cp fails for files > 2 GB if copy offload is unsupported

2023-06-08 Thread Arsen Arsenović via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
Paul Eggert writes: > That's not surprising, as this sort of problem arises only when building for a > newer platform yields a package that will run incorrectly on an older > platform. Problems like these are relatively rare if the only such mismatch is > the Linux kernel version, because curren

bug#63850: cp fails for files > 2 GB if copy offload is unsupported

2023-06-03 Thread Arsen Arsenović via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
Mike Gilbert writes: > The macro in copy-file-range.m4 performs a build time version check > against the installed linux headers (/usr/include/linux). > > In this case, headers from linux-6.1 are being used at build time. > However, the code is being run on a linux-4.19 kernel. > > Generally spe