bug#70887: In coreutils 9.5, "cp" command does not honor "--interactive" option

2024-05-12 Thread Robert Hill
_ From: Pádraig Brady on behalf of Pádraig Brady Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2024 11:49 To: Robert Hill ; 70...@debbugs.gnu.org <70...@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Re: bug#70887: In coreutils 9.5, "cp" command does not honor "--interactive" option On 12/05/2024 00:

bug#70887: In coreutils 9.5, "cp" command does not honor "--interactive" option

2024-05-11 Thread Robert Hill
After upgrading coreutils from 9.0 to 9.5, the following change occurred: In coreutils 9.0, the command "cp -Tipruvx /src-dir /dst-dir" requested interactive confirmation before replacing an old destination file with a newer source file, as expected. In coreutils 9.5, the command "cp -Tipruvx /sr

bug#64937: "who" reports funny dates

2023-08-08 Thread Robert Pluim
>>>>> On Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:11:20 +0200, Bruno Haible said: Bruno> Robert Pluim wrote: Thorsten> They don't record at all. Thorsten> Which means tools like who just don't show anything. And emacs will Thorsten> never find ou

bug#64937: "who" reports funny dates

2023-08-08 Thread Robert Pluim
ver find out the boot time with the current code. What API do you suggest we use instead? Robert --

bug#62180: A problem with Gnu or Linux or Google Drive

2023-03-14 Thread Robert Boyer
/nqthm-1992/examples/fm9001-piton/fm9001-replay.proofs: Read error at byte 0, while reading 10240 bytes: Input/output error Thanks, Bob On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 11:58 PM Robert Boyer wrote: > Mon 13 Mar 2023 11:00:14 PM CDT > > Here is a bug report by roberstephenbo...@gmail.com > >

bug#62179: A problem with Gnu or Linux or Google Drive

2023-03-14 Thread Robert Boyer
I have been using Emacs constantly since about 1971 and just love it. I have met Richard Stallman several times and invited him to speak to the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin, hence my cc to rms. Robert Stephen Boyer robertstephenbo...@gmail.com

bug#57237: b2sum does not support '-a' options found at https://www.blake2.net/

2022-08-15 Thread Robert E. Novak
a superset of the Blake2 semantics, there would be no cause for concern. * https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/canonical-cryptographic-hash-encoding-robert-e-novak/?trackingId=gjy%2FJwsjnJaviUN2ZYtuqw%3D%3D This is a preliminary version and I hope to release a second version after further

bug#52206: Bug: rm -rf /*/*

2021-11-30 Thread Robert Swinford
BTW, zsh globbing doesn’t exhibit this behavior! It seems it is only a problem in bash. -- -- ROBERT SWINFORD -- robert.swinf...@gmail.com m: (405) 209-2339

bug#52206: Bug: rm -rf /*/*

2021-11-30 Thread Robert Swinford
reciate your attention to this bug! -- ------ ROBERT SWINFORD -- robert.swinf...@gmail.com m: (405) 209-2339 --

bug#46422: [PATCH] Re: bug#46422: 'pr' screws up tabstops in multicolumn outpt?

2021-02-14 Thread Leonard Janis Robert König
On Sun, 2021-02-14 at 20:22 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > Hi, > > On 13.02.21 21:28, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 21:15 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > > > On 13.02.21 19:29, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote: > > > > [...] >

bug#46422: [PATCH] Re: bug#46422: 'pr' screws up tabstops in multicolumn outpt?

2021-02-13 Thread Leonard Janis Robert König
On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 21:15 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > Hi, > > On 13.02.21 19:29, Leonard Janis Robert König wrote: > > > > first:  Thank you very much for the work, I really owe you one! > > You're welcome. :-) > > > On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 17

bug#46422: [PATCH] Re: bug#46422: 'pr' screws up tabstops in multicolumn outpt?

2021-02-13 Thread Leonard Janis Robert König
Hi, first: Thank you very much for the work, I really owe you one! On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 17:58 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > On 13.02.21 15:17, Erik Auerswald wrote: > > On 11.02.21 20:20, Erik Auerswald wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Leonard Janis

bug#46422: 'pr' screws up tabstops in multicolumn outpt?

2021-02-11 Thread Leonard Janis Robert König
Hi, On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 16:45 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König > wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 13:00 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Leona

bug#46422: 'pr' screws up tabstops in multicolumn outpt?

2021-02-10 Thread Leonard Janis Robert König
On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 17:06 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König > wrote: > > I'm sorry if I this is not a bug but to be expected, but I thnk pr > > doesn't get the alignment o

bug#46422: 'pr' screws up tabstops in multicolumn outpt?

2021-02-10 Thread Leonard Janis Robert König
Hi, On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 16:44 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:42:29PM +0100, Leonard Janis Robert König > wrote: > > I'm sorry if I this is not a bug but to be expected, but I thnk pr > > doesn't get the alignment o

bug#46422: 'pr' screws up tabstops in multicolumn outpt?

2021-02-10 Thread Leonard Janis Robert König
I'm sorry if I this is not a bug but to be expected, but I thnk pr doesn't get the alignment of tabs in multicolumn output right. Consider the following test input, where everything from x->x is a tab (with tabs 8): 123456781234567812345678123456781 x x x x x 1234567812345

bug#45093: Character 149 causing ASCII BEL output to console in Windoze port of Gnu CoreUtils

2020-12-07 Thread Robert S. Kissel
m certain that I downloaded it from the gnu.org Web-site) I shall redirect my question to them. Thank you for your prompt response. Very truly yours, Robert S. Kissel Hamden, Connecticut On 12/7/20, Jim Meyering wrote: > tags 45093 notabug > close 45093 > stop > > On Mon, Dec

bug#45093: Character 149 causing ASCII BEL output to console in Windoze port of Gnu CoreUtils

2020-12-06 Thread Robert S. Kissel
7;t understand why other programs don't mimic this behavior). Many thanks in advance for your attention. Very truly yours, Robert S. Kissel Hamden, Connecticut U.S.A.

bug#28468: Bug in wc -l found

2017-09-15 Thread Weidner, Robert (I/EE-31, extern)
Dear GNU Team, seems I found a bug in wc, have a look: [cid:image001.png@01D32E12.3F5A7C20] Despite of it, I really want to say a BIG Thank you for great tool-set, especially tree, which I use for 20 years now! THX Rob Mit freundlichen Gruessen Robert Weidner FAS Architektur / zFAS

bug#25252: GNU coreutils 8.21 / cp

2016-12-22 Thread Robert Gruber
then the source file and this file stays smaller because the second start of the command recognizes already that the file is present but it should be copied again. Kind regards and merry christmas, Robert Gruber

bug#21416: "--" syntax for ignoring flags doesn't seem to work right with GNU /bin/echo

2015-09-04 Thread Robert "Finny" Merrill
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/04/2015 01:30 PM, Robert "Finny" Merrill wrote: > It's not "shall not be recognized [ever]", but "shall not be recognized > in the manner [common to most utilities]. The very next phrase says >

bug#21416: "--" syntax for ignoring flags doesn't seem to work right with GNU /bin/echo

2015-09-04 Thread Robert "Finny" Merrill
~/workspaces/diags-dev/s1 @bs360.sjc> /bin/echo --help Usage: /bin/echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]... or: /bin/echo LONG-OPTION Echo the STRING(s) to standard output. *snip* ~/workspaces/diags-dev/s1 @bs360.sjc> /bin/echo -- --help -- --help ~/workspaces/diags-dev/s1 @bs360.sjc> There doesn't

bug#12285: uniq on a UTF8 file with roman numerals

2012-08-26 Thread Robert Day
On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 13:49 -0400, P. Michaud wrote: > "uniq -dc myfile.txt' Can you provide a copy of this file (or, if it's not a file you want to make public, a modified version of it that causes the same problem)?

bug#12260: [patch] rm -d in coreutils 8.19

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Day
>> Pádraig Brady wrote: > >>> On 08/23/2012 12:17 PM, Robert Day wrote: > >>>> On 22 August 2012 23:23, Robert Day wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I've attached a patch which fixes this bug and adds a test of that > code > >>&

bug#12260: [patch] rm -d in coreutils 8.19

2012-08-23 Thread Robert Day
On 22 August 2012 23:23, Robert Day wrote: > I've attached a patch which fixes this bug and adds a test of that code > path. The fixes can also be retrieved from > https://github.com/rkd91/coreutils_rm_di_patch. > I've made a couple of related fixes (comments/code nice

bug#12260: rm -d in coreutils 8.19

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Day
It looks as though the bug is that the prompt() function does its own checking, returning EISDIR unless x->recursive is set, and this code wasn't updated with the addition of -d. I've attached a patch which fixes this bug and adds a test of that code path. The fixes can also be retrieved from https

bug#10774: runcon'|

2012-02-09 Thread robert ethridge
what does this do (...'|) in relation to runcon? -- Mr. Ethridge.Robert

DATE command

2010-02-15 Thread Robert
From time to time, I run into a situation where I'd like to know the elapsed time between events. In theory, this is easily accomplished by converting the date/time of both events to seconds since the epoch, then performing several divisions by the appropriate factors. That is, until you ru

[PATCH] df - column alignments with large filesystems

2010-02-06 Thread Robert Jenkins
r as I can see it works correctly. Tested on a Centos 5.4 x86_64 system Robert. --- ./df.c 2010-01-03 17:06:20.0 + +++ ../../coreutils-8.4t/src/df.c 2010-02-06 14:36:10.0 + @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ your translation has the same length as the original.

[patch] tac: needs $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME)

2009-12-26 Thread Robert Schwebel
RM-reference/build-target/coreutils-8.2/src' make[4]: *** [tac] Error 1 We need $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME) to link the tac tool. Signed-off-by: Robert Schwebel --- src/Makefile.am |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index:

Mac OS10 bug

2009-04-13 Thread Robert Schwenke
the command line sort command works nothing like the sort I am used to in hpux, aix, or irix. why would you do that? just to mess with me? don't you have better things to do? Robert say I want to sort on column 3, numericaly, reversed order: sort -nu +2 -3 file > files what would I

Re: Hello

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Wamala
Thx for advise can you please help me as per my question. Rgds Robert On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 05:54 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [Please consider using a more descriptive subject line, so your mail won't >

Re: Hello

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Wamala
Hello can you please help to do with automatic logins with curl rgds Robert -- Robert Wamala ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

feature request for coreutil paste

2008-10-15 Thread Robert C. Kahlert
Could paste be made to recycle the shorter input file from the top of the file in the case of its exhaustion--akin to the way R recycles vectors when splicing things together? I envision something like --recycle. File #1: abc def ghi jkl mno File #2: 1 2 Output of paste f

Two sequential help requests

2008-10-08 Thread Robert Carroll
using the last UBUNTU release (Hardy Heron). Perhaps this behavior is what was intended since someone might argue that it is not necessary to issue the same command twice, but this could also be a bug. Robert Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-coreutils

Re: Feature Requests?

2008-08-14 Thread ROBERT DVORACEK
Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Robert Dvoracek wrote: >> >> Hello. Do you take feature requests here? > > Sure. Great. I sent one a while back but I'm not sure if anyone got it. It was a request for a sort of binary file option in csplit which uses bytes instead of l

Feature Requests?

2008-08-14 Thread ROBERT DVORACEK
Hello. Do you take feature requests here? Thank you, Robert ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Feature Requests?

2008-08-14 Thread Robert Dvoracek
Hello. Do you take feature requests here? Thank you, Robert ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Feature Request: Csplit Binary

2008-07-25 Thread ROBERT DVORACEK
could take hex offsets I'd do it myself but I'm still learning C and those 1000 line programs are pretty scary. . Just an idea. Thank You, Robert ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Attempting to create a symbolic link from a file in current directory to a target directory creates broken symlink

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Miesen
I guess then that this really is a "feature." Thank you for your help. Bob Proulx wrote: Robert Miesen wrote: I checked the FAQ for ln and it would appear that what I'm calling a "bug" GNU calls a "feature." GNU is implementing previously

Re: Attempting to create a symbolic link from a file in current directory to a target directory creates broken symlink

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Miesen
DIRECTORY (the cwd file I'm talking about can be found in /proc/runningProcess/). Thank you for your kind and informative email. It has put into perspective this "bug" (or "feature" depending on your interpretation.) Bob Proulx wrote: Robert Miesen wrote: Attempting to

Attempting to create a symbolic link from a file in current directory to a target directory creates broken symlink

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Miesen
Attempting to run a command to the effect of 'ln -s Dir /path/to/DestDir/Dir creates a broken symlink to "Dir" in /path/to/DestDir/. See the attached script for automated bug reproduction. Same effect also happens when using the '-t' option. I attempted to raise this issue with Gentoo, but I

Re: PATCH: source byte order option for od

2008-01-14 Thread Robert Dodier
On Jan 14, 2008 6:24 PM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Dodier wrote: > > Here is a patch to enable two new options for od, > > --source-byte-order and --force-byte-swap. > > Is this to avoid using 'od -tx1'? Hi Bob, thanks for your reply. M

PATCH: source byte order option for od

2008-01-12 Thread Robert Dodier
o fly. Thanks in advance for your comments. Robert Dodier od.c-byte-order-patch Description: Binary data ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Request for enhancement: od option for end-to-end swap of multiple bytes

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Dodier
down in minor issues. I am a capable C programmer so I don't mind the idea of modifying that patch or writing another one to implement this feature. I look forward to your comments. Robert Dodier PS. For the record here are links to the previous discussions I found. http://lists.gnu.or

Ubuntu V 6.06 LTS for your PC

2007-08-04 Thread Robert Ryding
This is in regards to the Freeware Copy of Ubuntu V6.06. For reasons still unknown at this time, I cannot install,update or erase Ubuntu off my hard drive. I have tried a full hard drive wipe and what i get in return is a locked system error, blue screen of death from the bios, then a system wid

Re: timeout.c

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:08:37PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: > > [ Please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] on CC ] > > > > Hi! > > > > I just discovered that the timeout(1) utility written by Dan Farmer on 1999 > > (http://ww

timeout.c

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
nice to have it in GNU coreutils. Would you please consider it? See attachment. -- Robert Millan /* * timeout.c -- run commands with a specified timeout * Copyright (C) 2007 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * GRUB is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it

Bug in echo when trying to print "******************************************************************************************"

2007-06-25 Thread Robert Thompson
cpi_debug_info.txt acpi_debug_text ACPI-TOOLS cdrom_temp Debug_Spam.txt Desktop dum.txt fonts.scale hardware_data-1.txt ifconfig.txt iptables_02.txt iptables_02.txtexit iptables.txt lpr Pictures Robert Thompson .pdf Services Agreement version 1.1.pdf test2.txt test.txt trip_points2.txt trip_poi

Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-03-01 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
ecessarily have to do that, but I suppose if they opt for not doing it they'll provide some means to preserve security? -- Robert Millan ACK STORM, S.L. - http://www.ackstorm.es/ ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
binary in the system despite that administrator had attempted to replace it. -- Robert Millan ACK STORM, S.L. - http://www.ackstorm.es/ ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:20:40AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can we have it remove the link, and then reset all other links from the old > > inode to the new one, or is that completely insane? &g

Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:42:12PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about attempting to write it, and if that fails then unlink ? > > (preferably > > checking the errno code for this condition)

Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:15:45PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:19:57PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > >> "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:19:57PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I haven't checked POSIX though, but if this is actualy a requirement > > maybe a POSIX_ME_HARDER hack would make sense here?

Re: install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-02-22 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
RDER hack would make sense here? > > Nope. install isn't specified by POSIX, so making it depend on > POSIXLY_CORRECT is the wrong thing to do. Ah, ok. > (The name > POSIX_ME_HARDER is no longer in use; it was replaced by > POSIXLY_CORRECT). Yeah, I just fee

install.c: please set unlink_dest_before_opening=false

2007-02-20 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
ack would make sense here? Thanks -- Robert Millan ACK STORM, S.L. - http://www.ackstorm.es/ --- install.c~ 2005-09-23 22:50:49.0 +0200 +++ install.c 2007-02-20 12:37:20.0 +0100 @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ { x->copy_as_regular = true; x->dereference = DEREF_ALWAYS; - x-&

Did I find a Bug in /bin/ls or in bash?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert K. Nelson
I am running SuSE 10.2. When I type the command: /bin/ls [A-B]* it lists all files starting with "b" but none starting with "a". The command: /bin/ls [a-b]* lists all files starting with "a" or "b", as expected. coreutils-6.4-10 bash-3.1-55 Than

AR environment variable

2006-11-04 Thread Robert Connolly
Hello. While building Coreutils with Intel's compiler I noticed the AR environment variable is being ignored, and 'ar' is being used regardless of "AR=another_ar". The top level Makefile needs to pass AR down to lib/Makefile. robert pgpV8JvJYWEif.pgp D

Feature request for head command

2006-06-20 Thread Robert McKay
proposing that this be made the default behavior, simply that a new option be added to support it. I eagerly await your flames :-) Robert McKay. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: better buffer size for copy

2005-11-22 Thread Robert Latham
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:45:40AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > If we are talking about the conventional blocking cached read, > followed by a blocking cached write, then I think you will find that > using a buffer size of several pages ( say 32 or 64 KB ) will be > MUCH more efficient than 1024 by

Re: better buffer size for copy

2005-11-20 Thread Robert Latham
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:49:07AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > I don't see why the filesystem's cluster size should have a thing to do > with the buffer size used to copy files. For optimal performance, the > larger the buffer, the better. Diminishing returns applies of course, > so at some p

Re: better buffer size for copy

2005-11-18 Thread Robert Latham
(README says to ping if there's not been an ack of a patch after two weeks. here i go) This patch to today's (18 Nov 2005) coreutils CVS makes copy.c consider both the source and destination blocksize when computing buf_size. With this patch, src/copy.c will use the LCM of the soruce and destin

Re: better buffer size for copy

2005-11-07 Thread Robert Latham
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:20:47PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > It's too much for an inlined function, I think. That's what i thought you'd say. Ok, this patch vs. today's CVS adds buffer-lcm.h and buffer-lcm.c, adds those files to Makefile.am, and makes copy.c call buffer_lcm. I left alone the

Re: better buffer size for copy

2005-11-07 Thread Robert Latham
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:07:51PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Latham) writes: > > > In the time since the above thread was started, there is now an > > implementation of lcm in src/system.h. > > I'd rather use something more like buff

better buffer size for copy

2005-11-04 Thread Robert Latham
Hi The thread here http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-11/msg00030.html suggested that copy, instead of using the destination block size, should use the LCM of the source block size and the destination block size. In the time since the above thread was started, there is now an i

Trying...

2005-07-19 Thread Robert Easter
hing else either. Bottom line: Is there a place I can get a view of the language and procedures I need to (1) play streams, and (2) run, with wine or whatever, such .exe's as from onlinebible.net and e-sword.org? I would be eternally grateful for wha

Re: bug in the unix join command or maybe in the sort command

2005-03-31 Thread Robert Castelo
ifically: sort -k 1,2 q.txt should not sort output first "a value-a" than "aa value-aa" also when sorting over the entire line ?? cheers, robert. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Error with `/bin/date`

2005-01-31 Thread Robert Derryberry
pying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% uname -a Linux LNXPROD1 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:18:24 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Robert Derryberry Programmer, Corporate Research Center F

bug in the unix join command or maybe in the sort command

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Castelo
then it works!! $ join p.txt q.txt a value-a am i doing something wrong or is this a bug in sort and/or in join. thanks! robert. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

date returns wrong year in the first calendar week if used with "1 weeks ago"

2005-01-09 Thread Robert Marz
ot to test). See session transcript below... Can you inform me of the status of this bug? Regards Robert Session transcript: [EMAIL PROTECTED] date-bug]$ date Sun Jan 9 00:04:04 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] date-bug]$ date +%Y-KW%V # What date is now? 2005-KW01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] date-bug]$ dat

du and exclution of directories.

2005-01-04 Thread Robert Lindgren
./2/2 4 ./2 4 ./3/3 4 ./3 12 . But it doesn't work with du version 5.2.1. I understand that it's probably a correct behavior and not a bug, but in tar it's possible to exclude a path and it would be nice if one could du that in du also. Best regards Robert

Missing "tail" feature, bug?

2004-08-13 Thread Robert Menzel
are alowed to change the skriptes, they have to fit in 4KiB... Is it possible, to add that old feature back to tail, so that it will be backward-compatible? greeting Robert Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: If you want to know, what the scene and demos are, take a look at www.scene.org <- genera

Re: coreutils-5.2.1: wmemchr() and wmemcpy() not necessarily in libc

2004-08-13 Thread Robert Dahlem
will be ceased by the manufacturer in 2007. Anyone wanna bet these functions will make it into libc? :-) >In the meantime, the following patch (which I installed) will let >coreutils build, albeit only with unibyte support for file-name- >matching primitives. Patch works fine, thank yo

coreutils-5.2.1: wmemchr() and wmemcpy() not necessarily in libc

2004-08-11 Thread Robert Dahlem
) fi Regards, Robert -- NEU: WLAN-Router für 0,- EUR* - auch für DSL-Wechsler! GMX DSL = supergünstig & kabellos http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PATCH] Prevent redundancy in 'uname -a' (w/ChangeLog)

2004-07-22 Thread Robert Millan
onment scripts. I > tend to do that myself. But it is a personal choice, not a system > choice. I am running both Debian woody and sid on various machines. All my Debian systems are sid and this behaviour can be reproduced as a new user with default configuration. -- Robert Millan "[

Re: [PATCH] Prevent redundancy in 'uname -a' (w/ChangeLog)

2004-07-21 Thread Robert Millan
27;t insist more on this (a sign of relief is heard ;). Just do as you see fit. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from ca

[PATCH] Prevent redundancy in 'uname -a' (w/ChangeLog)

2004-07-18 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! Please consider the attached patch. It prevents 'uname -a' from printing the same information twice on systems where `uname -s` matches `uname -o`. 2004-07-19 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/uname.c: When -a is used, only print operating system name if

Re: cp incorrectly generating "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link errors"

2004-07-14 Thread Robert Schultheis
around to upgrading upgrading our core-utils, I will let this listserve know if they do fix this issue. Thanks for all the awesome utilities! Rob Schultheis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recognition Research Inc. Bob Proulx wrote: Robert Schultheis wrote: I have discovered a bug in cp (fileutils) 4.1, and I

cp incorrectly generating "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link errors"

2004-07-12 Thread Robert Schultheis
I have discovered a bug in cp (fileutils) 4.1, and I am wondering if it has been fixed in later versions so I can notify our admins to upgrade our core-utils which is something I can not do myself , however I will need a dang good reason for them to do it. I am running on Win2000 with SP4 which

Re: coreutils 5.2.1 make check fails

2004-06-20 Thread Robert Moss
Hi, I'm getting these same errors. It's nice to know that this isn't a problem with GCC 3.5 CVS! I'm trying to port various bits of code over to 3.5 in anticipation of its dim and distant release and subsequent incorporation into Portage (Gentoo Linux's package manager). "make check" support wa

sort command

2003-12-06 Thread Robert Lewis
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build failure (missing false.c)

2003-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
tory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/coreutils/build/po' make[2]: *** [../../coreutils/po/coreutils.pot] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/coreutils/build/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rmh/shared/gnu/coreutils/build' make: *** [a

Re: --enable-tiny option

2003-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
be eaten by libfetish when linking it staticaly. Do you think it's viable to discard parts of libfetich that might not be needed in our new ripped-down gnu cat? -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in p

Re: --enable-tiny option

2003-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
(EXTRAS) ok. > My suggestion is to pick one nontrivial program ("cat", say) and try > to do just that one, to see if the coreutils maintainer has a heart > attack with the result. I wasn't aware that gnu cat is non-trivial, but just had a look at "cat --help" and

Re: --enable-tiny option

2003-10-31 Thread Robert Millan
INY [ bulk of code for extra features ] #endif [ code for common code to comply with POSIX ] > But I'll try to keep an open mind :-) Thanks. :) -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor

Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago

2003-10-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:48:47AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > > OK, done (in gnulib). Sorry about the misspelling, and thanks for > your help in getting this all fixed up. Seems ok now, thanks. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of maki

Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago

2003-10-30 Thread Robert Millan
Seems much better, just a pair of notes: > previous change, and is based on suggestions by Robbert Millan. Robert with one 'b' ;) > - netbsd*-gnu*) os='GNU/NetBSD';; > + netbsd*-gnu) os='GNU/NetBSD';; # NetBSD kernel+libc, GNU userland

Re: Sort Bug

2003-10-30 Thread Robert . Dempsey
Thank you for both of your responses Here are the details you wanted         [EMAIL PROTECTED]>locale         LANG=POSIX         LC_CTYPE="POSIX"         LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"         LC_TIME="POSIX"         LC_COLLATE="POSIX"         LC_MONETARY="POSIX"         LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"         LC_PAPE

Sort Bug

2003-10-29 Thread Robert . Dempsey
Hi There seems to be a problem with the sort command when using the -k option.  If you look at the Example 1 below you will see that I am trying to order the output by file size, yet if you look closely:         -rwxr-xr-x    1 robertd  users    1127596442 Oct 29 11:03 tms_mp2.zip         -rw-r

Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago

2003-10-28 Thread Robert Millan
ernel name). Requested by Richard Stallman. Just a sidenote -- Richard's point is that the "K" means "kernel of" to distinguish between FreeBSD as the whole system and KFreeBSD as its kernel. Then the kernel name in that context would be "KFreeBSD" ("Kernel o

Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago

2003-10-28 Thread Robert Millan
tem name of #1. All I have to say is Richard probably wants it "GNU/KNetBSD" either [1], and that if you want to discuss it with the netbsd*-gnu people you can reach them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] See the last paragraph in http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#bsd -- Robert Millan

Re: [PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago

2003-10-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:11:59PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00032.html > > I had let that slide; sorry. I installed the following patch (which > is not

--enable-tiny option

2003-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
r embedded systems, boot floppies, etc. Is such feature welcome? If so, I'll ask for copyright papers and start work. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he

[PATCH] ping on GNU/KFreeBSD patch sent a while ago

2003-10-27 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! Some time ago I sent a patch that fixes OS name resocgnition for GNU/KFreeBSD systems: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00032.html Will this go for 5.0.91 + 1 ? -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the

Re: GNU/KFreeBSD triplet change

2003-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:53:46PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please apply this patch for "uname -o" to cope with that. It also adds > > "knetbsd-gnu", which is the Glibc-based/KNetBSD-based variant of G

GNU/KFreeBSD triplet change

2003-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
based variant of GNU. ChangeLog entry: 2003-09-04 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/host-os.m4: Add kfreebsd*-gnu and knetbsd*-gnu. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession n

Re: inconsistent "uname -s" option

2003-07-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:32:13AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > > +differ. Some operating systems (e.g., FreeBSD, HP-UX) have the same > > > +name as their underlying kernels; others (e.g., GNU/Linux, Solaris) > > > +do not. > > >

Re: inconsistent "uname -s" option

2003-07-15 Thread Robert Millan
;Some kernels (e.g., FreeBSD's, HP-UX's) report the same name as their overlying operating systems; others (e.g., Linux, SunOS) do not." This way we are saying that the kernel "reports" that name, but we don't claim that the name is correct. It's left at

inconsistent "uname -s" option

2003-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
platforms. I can send a patch for this if you like. - Revert it to the old behaviour. This has the only disadvantage that uname would say "Linux" is the system. But GNU uname is just a messenger; if you really want to fix this you should discuss it with the maintainers

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