bug#7085: fmt (GNU coreutils) 6.10

2010-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
of bug fixes in various tools. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6402: [PATCH] rm: remove no-op -d option

2010-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
rather than being silently ignored. How about a slight change in wording to make clear that the entire rm command was not being ignored. rm's -d now evokes an error; before, it was silently ignored. Pushed with that change. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt

bug#7057: Use of JOIN with tab as delimiter

2010-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
and is thus something that more readers of this list can help you with. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#7042: df --help does not show `-m' option

2010-09-16 Thread Eric Blake
a warning (it is the wrong word for what it does). document -m, with --block-size=M as the long-option spelling add -g, with --block-size=G as the long-option spelling in a few years: remove 'du --megabytes' altogether -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

bug#7036: ls, mv, etc on LINUX

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
having seen this limitation before. Solaris has the same problem - it's just that you never presented it with enough data to reach the limit. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6402: [PATCH] rm: added --directory (-d) option

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
certainly after 2005, so according to our own comment, we indeed should do something very similar to what you have proposed! -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6816: df bug on 64-bit Solaris (need to use getextmntent)

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
. */ *mtail = me; -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#7008: On touch command

2010-09-10 Thread Eric Blake
to check if it has been installed on your machine. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#7007: cannot pipe or redirect output from cut

2010-09-09 Thread Eric Blake
or otherwise) that resulted. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty

2010-09-08 Thread Eric Blake
-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#7000: sort GNU coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty

2010-09-08 Thread Eric Blake
. Meanwhile, the latest stable coreutils is 8.5, which fixes several real bugs in sort; or, if you use the current coreutils.git sources, you can use the new 'sort --debug' option which would give you some verbose hints about how your locale is affecting things. -- Eric Blake ebl

bug#6972: bug in sorting floats

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
for; to sort by a computed value, you'd have to run the computation independently. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6972: bug in sorting floats

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
the first thing it outputs: $ sort --debug -k6g test.txt sort: using `en_US.UTF-8' sorting rules Glad to know it's not a bug. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6970: gnu cp problem

2010-09-01 Thread Eric Blake
, looks like it has the nice side effect of also dealing with your EIO problem. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6960: mv refuses to move a symlink over a hard link to the same file

2010-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
behavior should be permitted? If this is really the reason for the error, the error message could probably be improved. This part is true - the error message could definitely be more precise, if we decide that POSIX even lets us issue an error in the first place. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

bug#6913: change file ownership/permissions from root to user fail even with success confirmation

2010-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
() succeeded when it in fact did nothing, then that would be a bug in the file system driver, to be fixed by the kernel folks (that is, it is not coreutils' job to detect whether the chown() syscall has a buggy return value for your file system). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349

bug#6897: date -d '1991-04-14 +1 day' fails

2010-08-24 Thread Eric Blake
Linux. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6900: mktemp: want option to make a fifo

2010-08-23 Thread Eric Blake
for the report. However, I'm inclined to mark this bug as a duplicate of 6330, for the reasons already documented in this long thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-06/msg00013.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http

bug#6900: mktemp: want option to make a fifo

2010-08-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/23/2010 11:34 AM, John Reiser wrote: On 08/23/2010 09:40 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/23/2010 09:22 AM, John Reiser wrote: mktemp: Please add an option which creates a fifo [snip] Thanks for the report. However, I'm inclined to mark this bug as a duplicate of 6330, for the reasons

bug#6900: mktemp: want option to make a fifo

2010-08-23 Thread Eric Blake
, or it may help to convince us that the shorthand is truly useful. But without seeing actual usage examples, I can't say. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6873: Parallel Port Printers

2010-08-17 Thread Eric Blake
the same mistake. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6768: ls: fix a test failure that should have been skipped

2010-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
-mountpoint-inode: Check to see if skip_test_ is called in a helper function via $() instead of mistakenly failing. for dir in $mount_points; do readdir_inode=$(inode_via_readdir $dir) + test $? = 77 continue -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library

bug#6053: cp, ls, and mv bug: unknown error (252)

2010-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/10/2010 08:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 10/06/10 14:32, Eric Blake wrote: On 06/10/2010 07:22 AM, Callahan, Patrick M. wrote: if ((errno == ENOSYS || errno == EOPNOTSUPP) ... You could get in a debugger and determine where to add || errno == 252 to solve what appears

bug#6793: [PATCH] dircolors: add screen.rxvt terminator to TERM list

2010-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/03/2010 08:15 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: * src/dircolors.hin: Add screen.rxvt terminator. Thanks; pushed. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6053: cp, ls, and mv bug: unknown error (252)

2010-08-09 Thread Eric Blake
) == EINVAL || (Err) == EBUSY) But _where_ did you add it, in relation to all the other preprocessor statements? A context diff would be best, but even knowing the line number would be helpful in this case. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http

bug#6791: Problem(bug?) with basic sort command in Linux

2010-08-03 Thread Eric Blake
locale differences to impact the behavior of your script. This is not a bug in sort, and it is a FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6714: ls behaviour - access time

2010-07-23 Thread Eric Blake
, with actual command line examples of what you typed, what you got, and what you expected. It's probably not a bug in coreutils, but a limitation in cygwin. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6700: Sort question

2010-07-22 Thread Eric Blake
=en_US.UTF8, for example. Are you sure you are specifying keys correctly? For example, -k1 is much different than -k1,1. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6700: Sort question

2010-07-22 Thread Eric Blake
tags 6700 +notabug thanks [re-adding the list] On 07/22/2010 09:09 AM, shtegtari wrote: Thank you very much! Your response saved my hair from being pulled. It was the LC_ALL. Closing this bug report, then. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

bug#6707: cut is not multi byte (wide char) aware

2010-07-22 Thread Eric Blake
be welcome. Unfortunately, to date there has been no one willing to step forward to scratch this itch as their highest priority. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6683: mktemp foo.XXXXXXXXXXX is not sufficiently random

2010-07-20 Thread Eric Blake
as the number of Xs grows. Meanwhile, glibc's mkstemp() only replaces the last 6 X, regardless of how many additional X are present in the template. Do we even need the extra randomness if the template contains more X? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

bug#6657: mkstemp on cygwin creates binary files

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/18/2010 01:19 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 07/18/2010 01:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: By the way, newer cygwin provides mkostemp() - did you only fix the problem for older cygwin that lacks mkostemp and thus gets the gnulib fallback that doesn't force binary? mkostemp also forces binary

bug#6657: mkstemp on cygwin creates binary files

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/19/2010 10:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 07/19/2010 06:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote: Yuck - that means if /tmp is mounted differently than ., then using mkostemp(,0) will force the wrong line endings (converting binary to text, or converting text to binary, depending on which direction

bug#6657: mkstemp on cygwin creates binary files

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/19/2010 10:31 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 07/19/2010 03:28 PM, Eric Blake wrote: By the way, I don't see your patch for using mkostemp on cygwin in git://git.sv.gnu.org/sed.git; am I missing something, or is that not the latest git repository for sed? I wanted to make sure you liked

bug#6657: mkstemp on cygwin creates binary files

2010-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
with using setmode() (from io.h, or from gnulib's binary-io.h) on the fd created by mkstemp() to ensure the desired mode, rather than having to use mkostemp? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com

bug#6554: [coreutils] Additional suffix for split

2010-07-02 Thread Eric Blake
written by someone else. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6524: RFC: modules for generic unordered sets and mappings

2010-07-01 Thread Eric Blake
1125899907781258 GNUmakefile~ sizeof(void*) == sizeof(size_t) == 4, but sizeof(ino_t) == 8, and most inodes are quite randomly dispersed but definitely larger than 4 bytes. Does your scheme work well at mapping cygwin's 8-byte inodes into 4-byte pointers? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1

bug#6529: --key option problem

2010-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
the range of your input. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6453: coreutils: date -- Add new options for ISO 8601 date formats (-O)

2010-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
[let's keep the list/bug-tracker in the loop] On 06/18/2010 11:31 AM, jari wrote: On 2010-06-18 08:58, Eric Blake wrote: | I'd like to suggest adding options to cover the typical ISO 8601 dates. | | Nope, O is already occupied per POSIX: Ok. | common RFC layouts, it may make sense

bug#6453: coreutils: date -- Add new options for ISO 8601 date formats (-O)

2010-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
[I repeat - PLEASE keep the list/bug-tracker in the loop, if you expect anything to be done about your requests] On 06/18/2010 12:18 PM, jari wrote: On 2010-06-18 11:43, Eric Blake wrote: | So, before anyone writes such a patch, what TIMESPEC options do you | propose would make the most sense

bug#6427: Autotest: enable colored test results.

2010-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/17/2010 01:06 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Pádraig Brady wrote on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:50:01AM CEST: On 14/06/10 21:23, Eric Blake wrote: ls --color = color ls --color=yes = color ls --color=auto = plain ls --color=always = color grep --color = plain grep --color=yes = color grep

bug#6442: About the modifier of -k option in sort

2010-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
argument). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6427: Autotest: enable colored test results.

2010-06-14 Thread Eric Blake
[the coreutils portion of this email starts half-way down] On 06/14/2010 01:45 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Eric, quoting your reply out of order: * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:22:31PM CEST: On 06/13/2010 12:50 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: The logical next step

bug#6383: [PATCH] cat: improve documentation

2010-06-14 Thread Eric Blake
, 2010 at 13:17, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: * src/cat.c (usage): Clarify that -b overrides -n. * doc/coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Likewise. * THANKS: Update. Suggested by Chas. Owens, in bug 6383. No other comments, so I went ahead and pushed the patch. Thanks again for the report

bug#6402: [PATCH] rm: added --directory (-d) option

2010-06-11 Thread Eric Blake
to pursue. I would love to hear what I could have done better, or possibly what I have done wrong. Any comments on my code are very much appreciated. That is a big part of why I am doing this is to become a better programmer. Thank you, and with out further ado, here is the patch. -- Eric Blake

bug#6053: cp, ls, and mv bug: unknown error (252)

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Blake
. Can you confirm Pádraig's google analysis that 252 is ENOTSUP on your platform? If we have a symbolic name, then we can patch the code quite easily. We can also patch the gnulib strerror and perror to detect the failure to handle ENOTSUP gracefully. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349

bug#6393: The meaning of --key of sort command?

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Blake
of just the second field, with a secondary sort key of the entire line. You want '--key=2,2 --stable', which disables the secondary sort over the entire line. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

bug#6394: Is it possible to reorder fields with cut?

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Blake
the original 1st field as the new 2nd field and the original 2nd field the first. Is reordering fields possible with cut. No. Use awk instead. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

bug#6395: How sort based on a list of fields?

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/10/2010 11:12 AM, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, -k option of sort only allow a range of files. But I would like a list of fields. For example, field 7, field 3 then field 8. Would you please let me know how to do it? sort -k7,7 -k3,3 -k8,8 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682

bug#6383: [PATCH] cat: improve documentation

2010-06-09 Thread Eric Blake
* src/cat.c (usage): Clarify that -b overrides -n. * doc/coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Likewise. * THANKS: Update. Suggested by Chas. Owens, in bug 6383. --- The -n option is documented as number all output lines, but when -b is present it only numbers non-blank lines. The documentation

bug#6131: [PATCH]: fiemap support for efficient sparse file copy

2010-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
(C) 2006-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. How much of this content comes from other files from 2006, vs. new content needing only 2010? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

bug#6379: process substitution with a give suffix

2010-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
a.suffix b.suffix wait rm a.suffix b.suffix $ ./main.sh In b.txt -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6330: Feature request: mktemp creates named pipes

2010-06-07 Thread Eric Blake
to start that process. Yes, I'm interested in starting that process. I'm sending you some details off-list. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6175: [PATCH] dirname: tweak summary wording

2010-06-07 Thread Eric Blake
* doc/coreutils.texi (dirname invocation): Reword to be more precise. * src/dirname.c (usage): Likewise. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Filipus Klutiero, bug 6175. --- On 05/17/2010 09:36 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/17/2010 09:17 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: [revisiting an older thread] Strip

bug#6327: sort fails on some UTF-8 input

2010-06-02 Thread Eric Blake
locale, or that the Solaris multibyte functions are not as robust as glibc at detecting valid UTF-8 sequences. If it is indeed a bug in Solaris strcoll(), then gnulib can probably be taught to work around it. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http

bug#6330: Feature request: mktemp creates named pipes

2010-06-02 Thread Eric Blake
volumes, although by the time you add the code and the documentation, your contribution would probably be non-trivial and require copyright assignment to the FSF. Let us know if you'd like to start that process. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library

bug#6268: Suggestion: truncate should allow -r and -s options together

2010-06-01 Thread Eric Blake
). Other more efficient methods, like an ioctl, may exist for some platforms, but then it could become a maintenance nightmare to figure out where the shortcuts are available. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc

bug#6323: Enhancement request: Add wronly to Coreutils

2010-06-01 Thread Eric Blake
to windows. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6288: gnuwin32 du fails at C:\Program Files

2010-05-28 Thread Eric Blake
. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6293: git-version-gen: Add support for a git tag transformation sed script

2010-05-28 Thread Eric Blake
$tag_sed_script` -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6285: a possible bug of sort -un, it is definitely not caused by language setting

2010-05-27 Thread Eric Blake
it is a bug. The empty line, when forced to take on a numeric value, is equivalent to 0. And since you specified unique entries only, sort only printed the empty line (the first of the two matching lines that it encountered). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

bug#6236: Bug report in Date Command

2010-05-21 Thread Eric Blake
attachments contain confidential information from It is considered poor netiquette to include employer disclaimers on mail sent to publicly archived mailing lists, where the disclaimer is rendered ineffective. Consider using a personal account instead. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801

bug#6235: hostname and -b option

2010-05-20 Thread Eric Blake
view, Ubuntu is at fault for introducing nonstandard options, and messing up the boot PATH, and failing to use explicit paths on critical boot-time commands. Your view is correct. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#6215: default process priority

2010-05-18 Thread Eric Blake
(although again, the default is likely to be that each process inherits the priority from its parent). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6175: dirname manpage and info page partially wrong/misleading

2010-05-17 Thread Eric Blake
above, so I'm feeling more comfortable with leaving the corner-cases undocumented in the terse --help output, by using your view that '/' has no components rather than 1, and anyone worried about the two corner cases of '' and '/' can read the info page. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349

bug#6176: [PATCH 2/2] sort: --debug: output data independent key warnings

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
+ also specifying `b'), keynum); + + + /* Warn about numeric comparisons spanning fields, Why two blank lines? @@ -3884,6 +3985,18 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) if (debug outfile) error (SORT_FAILURE, 0, _(options -o and --debug are incompatible)); Why? -- Eric Blake ebl

bug#6194: bug: pwd

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
the difference. And to prove to yourself that you were getting the shell built-in, try 'pwd --help', contrasted with '/bin/pwd --help'. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6194: bug: pwd

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
documentation, we'd like to hear about it. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6175: dirname manpage and info page partially wrong/misleading

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
trailing slashes; if the file name contains only one component, print '.'. But I welcome your ideas for a coherent sentence. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6186: du in coreutils should add the -d flag as a shortcut to --max-depth

2010-05-13 Thread Eric Blake
probably get around to this in another day or two. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6176: [PATCH 2/2] sort: --debug: output data independent key warnings

2010-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
to the GCS convention of listing the program name rather than !, and in respect to plurality: sort: option `-b' is ignored sort: option `-r' only applies to last-resort comparison -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc

bug#6176: [PATCH 2/2] sort: --debug: output data independent key warnings

2010-05-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/12/2010 07:53 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/11/2010 05:39 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: The attached patch gives warnings about questionable option combinations. For example: $ sort --debug -rb -k1,1n /dev/null ! options `-b' are ignored ! option `-r' only applies to last-resort comparison

bug#6132: bug in date: --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC option doesn't print 'T'

2010-05-07 Thread Eric Blake
first need a patch to gnulib's getdate.y that allows parsing of an rfc3339 style with a 'T' instead of a space. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/06/2010 07:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote: According to POSIX[*], basename and dirname take no options (examples in POSIX also assume that), so that this would make BusyBox's behavior correct. No, you're missing one other key point of POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799

bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
. But that is the fault of those broken scripts, not coreutils. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6125: [PATCH] Fix indent of --help and --version

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
priority. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
test is to determine whether basename(1) supports leading --, as required by POSIX. Or, more likely, perhaps they are independently obeying what POSIX says, without reference to either coreutils or busybox. So, I think I should reassign the bug to busybox? Yes. -- Eric Blake ebl

bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
as taking no options, and the application needed to give it a pathname with a leading hyphen, it could safely do it as: foo -- -myfile and avoid any problems with -m used as an extension. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http

bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

2010-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
or busybox. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6110: shred suggestion

2010-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
request to the nautilus team. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#6104: [Expert] Bug in mv?

2010-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
then does the pattern manipulation you wanted. But mv(1) is specified by POSIX, and has never done pattern manipulation. The glob in your second argument is expanded by the shell independently of the * in the first argument, and mv never knows that either variant was a glob. -- Eric Blake ebl

bug#6004: [libvirt] [PATCH 3/4] Fix QEMU save/restore with block devices

2010-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
: foo | dd of=a seek=$n 2b; st=$?; if test $st != 0; then cat b 2; \ fi rm -f b exit $st -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5996: [PATCH] base64: always treat input in binary mode

2010-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
interface for gracefully enforcing binary streams without clobbering O_APPEND. But I'd still like to commit this in time for coreutils 8.5 later today if there are no complaints. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc

bug#6007: sort command in Fedora10

2010-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
=C' in my ~/.bashrc in order to guarantee traditional sorting, while everything else continues to follow my default locale. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5991: [bug#5958 PATCH] docs: document translation of obsolete sort syntax

2010-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
tweaks. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5991: [bug#5958 PATCH] docs: document translation of obsolete sort syntax

2010-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention the conversion. --- How about this followup, copying the comment from Pádraig's patch into our documentation? doc/coreutils.texi |5 + 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi

bug#5987: ready for 8.5?

2010-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
to it. However, the effect on cygwin of keeping the current code is no different than it was for 8.4 (that is, it is not a showstopper to fix it before releasing 8.5). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

bug#5970: regex won't do lazy matching

2010-04-19 Thread Eric Blake
glibc, and if that still doesn't meet your needs, then open a bug report against glibc. And if glibc works, then open a bug report against gnulib that gnulib and glibc disagree. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc

bug#5958: Sort-8.4 bug

2010-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
. The result is the same. If I make the same executions with sort 5.0 it works properly. Actually, sort 5.0 was buggy in this area. Sort 8.4 has a number of bug fixes for bad behavior in sort 5.0. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

bug#5959: testsuite failure on misc/selinux [was: bug#5959: bug]

2010-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
. Would you mind repeating your tests with the latest version, in case you are tripping up on one of the bugs we have already addressed? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5951: [PATCH] doc: document our code formatting policy regarding curly braces

2010-04-15 Thread Eric Blake
example of bad Deleting the paragraph in question makes for a nicer flow, with no loss of information: when it is good example of good when it is bad example of bad -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description

bug#5944: sort with option +4nr does not work now and it used to do it some time ago

2010-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
lists with a company disclaimer; you should consider using a personal account that does not fill our inboxes with useless legalese. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5941: tail bug

2010-04-13 Thread Eric Blake
either repeat this or definitively state that you have encountered one of those already-fixed bugs. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5817: false core util

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
? Typically, false is also a shell builtin, so maybe your particular shell has a bug. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5812: expr: Difference in behavior of match and :

2010-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
, that match and : behave identically. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#5804: sort --human

2010-03-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/30/2010 09:14 AM, Phil Dumont wrote: It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option: du -s --human * | sort --human It does, as of coreutils 7.5. Are you running something older? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library

bug#5778: [bug #29349] ls.c missing HAVE_NL_LANGINFO check

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Blake
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #29349 (project coreutils): abmon_init is already conditional; it returns 0 if HAVE_NL_LANGINFO is not defined. I think a better patch would be something that unconditionally fixes the logic to deal with abmon_init returning 0 because we can't determine a variable

bug#5781: [bug #29349] ls.c missing HAVE_NL_LANGINFO check

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Blake
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #29349 (project coreutils): Huh? Notice that required_mon_width is declared at file scope, with the static modifier. C89 _guarantees_ that it is therefore initialized to 0 at program startup. The comment above its declaration states that 0 means to not use

Re: coreutils patch to multithread md5sum for parallel hashing (ala the HP-UX days)

2010-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
on. This list is moderated - non-members can post, although there is a delay (usually less than 24 hours) for the human moderators in the loop to approve new email addresses, whether or not they are subscribed. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http

Re: pwd

2010-03-24 Thread Eric Blake
. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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