bug#15633: dd and host protected area

2013-10-16 Thread SciFi
On 2013/10/16 15:24, Phillip Susi wrote: On 10/16/2013 3:19 AM, Peter D. wrote: Hi, Is it deliberate that dd can not read from, or write to the host protected area? Or is it a bug? The HPA is a feature of the drive, not the OS or software, so dd has no idea whether or not there is one

bug#12318: gnu date has incorrect date when using date math during a leap year

2012-08-31 Thread SciFi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, Thank you for discussing this. On further thought… It seems that the day again is being inserted into this situation, ruining the proper answer. I can see the automatic assumption of assigning Day=Today in the present logic. Again I

bug#11004: thank you-all! (Re: bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.)

2012-03-13 Thread SciFi
Hi, I am still here. And I am still watching reading this list/group (via Gmane, amongst a few–hundred other lists/groups). I want to thank everyone involved with these mods to ‘split’ (and of course to all the other updates to coreutils in general). I have not tested them yet, at the time I

bug#11004: thank you-all! (Re: bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.)

2012-03-13 Thread SciFi
closing myself forgot how this bugs- list works sorry On Mar 13, 2012, at 03:40, SciFi wrote: Hi, I am still here. And I am still watching reading this list/group (via Gmane, amongst a few–hundred other lists/groups). I want to thank everyone involved with these mods to ‘split

bug#9101: timeout should use setitimer if available

2011-07-19 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Jul 19, 2011, at 06:00, Pádraig Brady wrote: We could remove the setitimer stuff altogether and just support 1 second resolution on darwin et. al. That's by far the most common use case anyway. If I may, since I am an OSX user [1] [2] , I cast my vote here. ;) [1] I am planning to

bug#9085: 'split' feature request: an option to uses e.g. '.001' as first suffix.

2011-07-14 Thread SciFi
[Originally posted at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22231 on Tue 05 Feb 2008 07:51:09 AM GMT:] To create UseNet binary postings to match those made by others as close as possible, we need to create split files with 3-digit numeric suffixes. The problem comes when 'split --numeric-suffixes

bug#9086: 'dircolors' request: support UPPERCASE suffixes, also, please.

2011-07-14 Thread SciFi
Hi, For those of us who use case-SENsitive file systems, and then come across filenames with UPPERCASE suffixes, the provided 'dircolors' function does not colorize those listings. What I usually do, every time a new release of coreutils comes out, is to duplicate by hand the list of

The make-check phase in 8.1 fails to BUILD test-xalloc-die on MacOSX.

2009-12-05 Thread SciFi
Hi, [I have reasons to stay anonymous, please, and am posting this thru gmane] I hop onto this project from time to time as a hobbyist; I am not considered any kind of expert, at least not anymore… but I think I need to report a problem not mentioned on this nor on gnulib maillists for quite a