cp -u error for identical source/destination files

2009-08-18 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi, Is it a bug or a feature that "cp -u" reports an error when a file is being copied over itself -- supposedly such a file is not subject for an update (as it is not newer than the destination, which is itself), so it would have seemed than cp should not care of such a file, but it does still pr

bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names with spaces

2014-01-15 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi, When using groups on Cygwin, I get the following output: $ groups Domain Users Remote Desktop Users Users NCBIusers where all words are separated from each other with single spaces, resulting for example the two-word group "Domain Users" undistinguishable from two groups, "Domain" and "Users

bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names with spaces

2014-01-15 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> As there's nothing we can do upstreams, I'm marking this as "not a bug" > and set the status to closed. Why "nothing"? And it *is* a bug, IMO. My rebuttal is as the following: If the feature is implemented upstream it can get to CYGWIN, eventually. Not the other way around. Currently CYGWIN

bug#16459: FW: bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names with spaces

2014-01-15 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
(sorry if this ends up posted twice) > As there's nothing we can do upstreams, I'm marking this as "not a bug" > and set the status to closed. Why "nothing"? And it *is* a bug, IMO. My rebuttal is as the following: If the feature is implemented upstream it can get to CYGWIN, eventually. Not th

bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names with spaces

2014-01-16 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> It is not a bug because your suggestion is already implemented in upstream > coreutils It's implemented only for the "id" command; not for "groups", which I asked about -- please note the $subject. Can you please consider adding the -z there as well? Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI