Re: coreutils-5.90 released

a cygwin distro of coreutils-5.90. Thanks again for all your hard work in maintaining such a diverse, yet essential, group of programs. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

man/Makefile patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was annoyed that a failed man page run left garbage behind, breaking the next run. 2005-09-30 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tiny change) * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Remove temp directory first. Index: man/Makefile.am

Re: printf (_(...%zu...), X) where X is of type size_t

to the same integer type - %zd is only specified to operate on the corresponding signed type matching size_t, which is not necessarily ssize_t). -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: factor [Was: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c]

--help has more details on what configure options you can use. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: `date` and timestamp format

: For example, on most systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]' represents 1998-12-31 23:59:59 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED]' represents 1999-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: ls

files causing a mild security hole. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

dircolors NEWS [Was: coreutils-5.90 released]

by LS_COLORS and not by ls's defaults. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: ls

eval `dircolors` is unsafe. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: seq problem representing zero

precision. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDR

Re: ls

to the file. If you have GNU dircolors (easily tested by doing dircolors --version), then customizing your color scheme will work. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

mkdir -p and EROFS

in the read-only file system exists, as it is much faster to blindly return EROFS than to stat the directory name to check for existance. So is it worth a patch to mkdir-p.c to treat EROFS as an indicator to perform a followup stat() (similar to the ENOSYS hack used for NFS mounts on Solaris)? -- Eric

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote: The algorithm change between 5.3.0 and 5.90 in lib/mkdir-p.c to try mkdir() first instead of stat(), and key off of EEXIST, breaks when mkdir() fails with EROFS on an intermediate directory when the writable directory has been mounted inside a read

Re: mkdir -p and EROFS

(make_dir_parents): Don't fail if an intervening mkdir fails due to EROFS, or due to EEXIST or other reasons for that matter. Problem reported by Eric Blake. (ENOSYS): Remove; no longer needed. Yes - with this patch on top of coreutils 5.91-CVS, cygwin once again can do 'mkdir -p

Re: dircolors NEWS [Was: coreutils-5.90 released]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PING! According to Eric Blake on 10/3/2005 10:00 AM: There is no mention in NEWS about the additional colorization now available in ls and dircolors. This needs to be fixed, because it has user-visible consequences: I was surprised when my

Re: man/Makefile patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PING! According to Eric Blake on 9/30/2005 7:37 AM: I was annoyed that a failed man page run left garbage behind, breaking the next run. 2005-09-30 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tiny change) * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Remove temp

options to retire?

There are a few other options marked obsolescent, but without a timeline for removal (such as df --kilobytes, od -F, etc.) Is it time to prune some of these before the next stable release, since it is near the end of 2005? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: options to retire?

, but claims the option is deprecated only once; meanwhile, it does not list --users. Invoking both who -i and who --idle warns about -i being deprecated. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: coreutils-5.90: problem with mkdir -p

] - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USAURL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - Hmm, we're neighbors! - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

d(1) and v(1)

), such that coreutils installing dir as /bin/d would conflict with other packages. Is it time to remove the mention of v and d from the coreutils info pages, leaving it up to distros whether they bundle a dir as d and vdir as v? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

dircolors database documentation

this is applied, we can (once again) patch src/dcgen to strip comments from the built-in database. doc/ChangeLog 2005-10-17 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document effect of LS_COLORS on --color. (dircolors database format): New section

Re: ls: sort options in --help described twice

php-coder php-coder at altlinux.ru writes: Varians time -t described twice. It's in po/*.po too. Reported by Vitaly A. Ostanin vyt at altlinux dot org 2005-10-17 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/ls.c (usage): Fix description of --sort, --time. Reported by Vitaly

Re: dircolors database documentation

already outputs shell-specific information, it wouldn't be too hard to make COLORS auto add alias ls='ls --color=auto' (for -b) alias ls 'ls --color=auto' (for -c) along with everything else it outputs. But I'll leave that up to you. ChangeLog 2005-10-17 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dircolors database documentation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/17/2005 10:04 PM: Turns out I was wrong. Escape sequences exist, so I documented them (and \_ is a clever way to get space). Meanwhile, there are a few bugs I found. I can provide a patch, but need some agreement

Re: dircolors database documentation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/18/2005 6:36 AM: I also found a memleak in dc_parse_stream - input_line is malloc'd by getline(), but missing a free() on a successful line parse. Serves me right for making claims without validating them; getline

Re: dircolors database documentation

character '\05'. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: configure warnings

failed to mention which version of coreutils caused this warning. You may want to repeat your test with version 5.91, a candidate to become the next stable release. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.91.tar.bz2 - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

utimes() vs. close()

there is a rather severe regression in coreutils (cp -p no longer preserves timestamps, because it calls utimes() too soon), or whether POSIX forbids close() from changing timestamps if utimes() was called on the underlying file, in which case it is a bug in cygwin. Any thoughts? -- Eric Blake

Re: utimes() vs. close()

, so no patch is needed to coreutils. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

Re: dircolors database documentation

into the default lc color sequence. 2005-10-20 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/ls.c (get_funky_string): Limit octal sequence to 3 digits, 8 bits. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1

Re: dircolors database documentation

to do to \400. Anyone else have a preference? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

Re: dircolors database documentation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 10/18/2005 6:36 AM: Meanwhile, there are a few bugs I found. I can provide a patch, but need some agreement on semantics first. One more to get consensus on. Right now, $ echo $TERM xterm $ dircolors - /dev/null

Re: netbsd 2.0.2 default install - attempt to configure coreutils

thread on the same question: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-10/msg00201.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

cygwin semantics of ..

that SKIPs any tests that rely on POSIX semantics of .. filename resolution? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: cygwin semantics of ..

Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... For the test mentioned above, a workaround in mkdir-p.c can be written that skips the optimization of an initial stat() on platforms where stat() can wrongly succeed (is there any other platform out there with this bug, or is it just cygwin

Re: netbsd 2.0.2 default install - attempt to configure coreutils

- a near unforgivable lapse in discipline for a sysadmin. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: ln.c portability fix for hosts where / != //

FILE_BASENAME_CONCAT(new_dest, dest, source) \ Why not fix this to malloc instead of alloca, since on platforms (like Hurd) that accept arbitrarily long filenames, alloca will cause problems on long names? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: ln.c portability fix for hosts where / != //

(//) as // where it matters; I have a local patch for that, which I will polish and submit here and to gnulib. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: {base,dir}name // semantics

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 7/9/2005 2:49 PM: should this patch be made globally, or should it be limited to only systems that have a distinct //, leaving other platforms to continue having just a single slash returned? Limit it to just those systems

Re: coreutils 5.92: dircolors doesn't assign custom colors properly (patch included)

, along with additional patches to ensure a compile time failure if a comma is left out in the future: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-10/msg00268.html Meanwhile, 5.93 is on target to be released tomorrow, incorporating this fix. -- Eric Blake

Re: tr is not working correctly with Turkish locale

it is a bug in a patch used by your distribution, in which case you should report it there. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: ls: Typo in russian translation

every release. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[patch #4600] Addition of dups file utility to GNU Core Utilities

Update of patch #4600 (project coreutils): Status:None = Wont Do Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #4: Based on

Re: patch providing SHA-2 utilities

that you are willing to relicense means that you can put your own SHA-2 implementation under LGPL as Simon desired (I'm sure someone else will correct me if I am mis-speaking). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

tail +16c syntax

as to what the correct response to their complaints should be. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: make asked me to report this bug

on the first one, so that we can spot multiple bugs in one email. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Add a configuration file for dircolors' default colors [patch]

? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE); } + +/* vim: set ts=8 sw=2: */ None of the other files in coreutils have trailing editor hints (and most of the core developers seem to prefer emacs over vi), so this change is spurious. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bug in getaddrinfo module

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/8/2005 9:59 AM: Fortunately, the implicit definition of these functions works on cygwin (all arguments are int or pointer, and cygwin uses 32-bit pointers), but it is a bug waiting to happen on a 64-bit platform. Now

Re: Add a configuration file for dircolors' default colors [patch]

, but a pointer. Use the right type in your call. Umm... static int dc_parse_stream (FILE *fp, const char *filename) is the prototype. Did you maybe confuse dc_parse_file and dc_parse_stream? Sorry - I guess I did misread that. -- Eric Blake

testsuite bug

is only run when RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes. 2005-11-15 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * tests/mv/leak-fd: Work even on case-insensitive file system. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin

CVS automake vs. coreutils head

`md5sum.c' with per-target flags requires `AM_PROG_CC_C_O' in `configure.ac' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 2005-11-17 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * configure.ac (AM_PROG_CC_C_O): Required by CVS autoconf. Index: configure.ac

Re: od command

report what 'od - --version' displays, as well as 'uname -a'? If yours is not the most recent version, try upgrading to coreutils 5.93 to see if it has been fixed. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1

Re: bugs in dirname module - coreutils portion

actually take place, both versions have the same formatting style in the files my patch touched. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: question

dear sir: can you tell me where i can find source code for shell command 'wc' ? The source code to all of the coreutils, including wc, can be found here: https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=coreutils -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing

Re: bugs in dirname module - coreutils portion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/23/2005 2:04 PM: I normally run emacs with (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'whitespace-cleanup) That was the culprit. I guess I should file a bug with emacs that whitespace.el should not normalize spaces inside string

Re: Endian options for od

To: Eric Blake References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Eric, It's well-known that od displays different output depending on whether your CPU is big-endian or little-endian. With this simple patch, od -I is little-endian on all CPUs, and od -M is big-endian. (Think Intel and Motorola). Thanks

Re: mv a b/ when b does not exist

looks-like-a-directory? -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: bugs in dirname module - coreutils portion

Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/rm.c (usage): Use program_name instead of a basename. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: mv a b/ when b does not exist

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Re: mv a b/ when b does not exist

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Re: mv a b/ when b does not exist

it in September after the big debate on this list on the same topic, see the thread here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00203.html -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: rm issue

? Here's my attempt at this idea. Comments appreciated, and I would also need to patch the testsuite: ChangeLog: 2005-12-03 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * TODO: Remove entry for implementing rm -I. * NEWS: Document rm -I, along with change to rm --interactive. * src/rm.c

rm --p

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Re: rm --p

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Re: Apparently irrational behaviour in sort

: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sort.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: mv (coreutils) 5.2.1

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Re: bug with 'test'

this is indeed a syntax error and [ is correct in reporting a missing ']'. If you do add the trailing ], as in [ ] --help ], you will then get a different syntax error, since ] is not a valid first token in a 2-token expression. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: ls : call via 'tcsh -c ls' (cygwin)

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Re: bug with 'test'

the last argument is not ]. POSIX allows [ --help and [ --version to have the usual GNU behavior, but it requires test --help and test --version to exit silently with status 1. */ == Patched thusly: 2005-12-09 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/test.c (main

Re: Briefly document whitespace handling in sort

suffixes:\n\ ), stdout); - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: bug with 'test'

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Re: sort --random-sort

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for handling that. I've added a new test: * tests/misc/sort-rand: New file: basic tests for the new options. sort --random-sort should probably be mentioned in NEWS. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: question regarding rm in coreutils

, as documented in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-12/msg00069.html, but which no one has provided a patch for yet. If needed, I can update my patch to also fold in a rm --stop-on-error flag. Thanks, Jordan - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: [patch #3596] Sort directories before files in ls

don't know how that would look or if it would be any more or less efficient, but I thought I would throw the idea out. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

bug in chdir-safer

: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once chmod-safer.c:68: error: for each function it appears in.) chmod-safer.c: In function `chmod_safer': chmod-safer.c:116: error: `O_NOFOLLOW' undeclared (first use in this function) make[3]: *** [chmod-safer.o] Error 1 -- Eric Blake

Re: bug in chdir-safer

, but intends to run the binary on a system that does not honor it? If it is a likely problem, then your code should probably be added in to the fchdir_new implementation. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: echo kommando

- n a \t b \n 007 It looks like the builtin bash echo has the same misbehavior on systems desiring to be XSI conformant. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: [patch #3596] Sort directories before files in ls

to provide a good patch for a feature that you desire are commendable; too many people complain about a missing feature, then do nothing about it. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: Bash time (wrt: TIMEFORMAT) display: rounding vs. truncation?

on the output of time, http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/time.html, but usage of TIMEFORMAT is outside the realm of POSIX. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: env (GNU coreutils) 5.93 patch

means that you cannot use env to invoke another program while still providing arguments to that program. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: env (GNU coreutils) 5.93 patch

that the source code in the 5.93 tarball provides src/groups.sh, then uses autoconf substitutions to create the actual groups utility script from sed substitutions on groups.sh for installation using parameters learned during configuration. -- Eric Blake

Re: Bug in uniq

. In other words, you need to sort before calling uniq if you don't want duplicates. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: env (GNU coreutils) 5.93 patch

to do this for perl scripts, such as the idea shown below from 'perldoc perlrun'; I have not ever seen this type of hack for an awk script, but think it should be possible). #!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- -p eval 'exec perl -wS $0 ${1+$@}' if $running_under_some_shell; -- Eric Blake

[patch #4774] Fix when piping and --color=always. This patch calls restore_default_color() after the last file and before the last

Update of patch #4774 (project coreutils): Status:None = Duplicate Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: see patch #4775

[patch #1586] erroneous comment in info for `date --date +`

Update of patch #1586 (project coreutils): Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitemitem_id=1586

Re: BUG: tail 5.93 -c argument is optional?

, -c took an optional argument, and optional arguments cannot be detected unless they are part of the same command-line argument as the -c. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment

bugs in test

(exit status 1). Likewise, /bin/test ! -o ChangeLog should perform two 1-argument tests, and return true, since binary -o should have higher precendence than a negation of a (non-existant) unary -o. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Re: Join separator field

bb.txt cc.txt Meanwhile, a patch that allows join to parse the same escape sequences as printf would probably be welcomed. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: groups additional flag

assignment, if it is indeed worth applying the patch. Without anything to compare against, it is not obvious what you are trying to add. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public

Re: echo bug FC3 ?

matching when presented unquoted brackets, and if any file in the current directory matches the pattern, then those filenames appear in place of the pattern. Echo is faithfully printing what it was passed by the shell. Try doing this instead: $ /bin/echo [abcdefghtrsz] [abcdefghtrsz] -- Eric

dircolors generates uknown colorls variable su

dircolors, when given an SUID coloration, will output data that is expected by coreutils ls but unexpected by unpatched tcsh. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: making fts thread-safe (no more fchdir)

with feature-poor native versions. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: making fts thread-safe (no more fchdir)

directories and using chmod(). Or maybe we could add a new FTS_CWDFD option to regular old fts_open(), so that an application has to explicitly request the new and improved reentrant fts behavior, rather than breaking when upgrading from a native fts to gnulib. -- Eric Blake

Re: dircolors generates uknown colorls variable su

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 1/17/2006 11:05 AM: The problem is that tcsh 6.14.00 treats LS_COLORS as a magic environment variable, also parsing it for its own use in the tcsh builtin ls-F. This means that coreutils dircolors, when given an SUID

Re: Final patch version (was Re: [patch #3596] Sort directories before files in ls)

overlooked, a gentle ping to the list pointing back to the patch in question is acceptable. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: dircolors aliases

aliases, especially since not all bourne shells recognize alias as a keyword). It would be interesting to see what the state of your distro's patch currently is. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1

Re: making fts thread-safe (no more fchdir)

). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDz5V

Re: dircolors generates uknown colorls variable su

: - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: dircolors generates uknown colorls variable su

tcsh. So I am happy with your position on not applying the patch to the official CVS sources on the expectation that tcsh will clean up their act. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin

question on d_ino semantics

(but required in XSI implementations), without any details as to whether d_ino must be non-zero. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: touch README

between 5.3.0 and 5.90; the latest stable release of coreutils is 5.93. The framework should have skipped the test altogether if you are root, can write to /, or own /. How else are you allowed to change /? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

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