Re: cp, mv file names when copying to VFAT

caps, it assumes it should be compatible, and lower cases the name; but if you hand it mixed case, it knows you want case preservation. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: sleep args

pages are second class citizens in GNU projects. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: problem creating symbolic link

that if you have to interact with Windows, NTFS is a slightly better file system, and that the Windows operating system does not support symlinks (at least, not any released version), whether or not the underlying file system does. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: Boot Problems

report sounds like your problem is not with coreutils, so you probably will have more success trying somewhere else. Good luck. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Cut not working with multi-byte UTF-8 characters

multibyte characters. Would you care to help by writing a patch? If so, use this list as a springboard for discussion; Jim already has several requirements for what a multibyte implementation must do before he will incorporate it. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: problem with gl_ABSOLUTE_HEADER and HP-UX native ANSI C compiler

Bob Proulx writes: ./lib/Makefile:ABSOLUTE_STDINT_H = ///usr/include/stdint.h ./lib/stdint.h:# include ///usr/include/stdint.h Looks like you need to re-run 'config.status'. That won't help. It is in config.status. Look at this: Does this solve it? 2006-07-10 Eric Blake

Re: problem with gl_ABSOLUTE_HEADER and HP-UX native ANSI C compiler

Thanks for reporting the further problem. I installed this in both gnulib and coreutils. Eric, mind if I do something similar for sys_stat_h.m4? Go for it. Shouldn't we also fix the comments of absolute-header.m4, while we are at it? $ cvs diff m4/absolute-header.m4 Index:

Re: Bug in tail 5.96 - + argument not recognized

_POSIX2_VERSION to choose what behavior of tail you prefer. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Bug in tail 5.96 - + argument not recognized

to contrast tail -n+4 vs. tail -n4 (front vs. back of file), not to compare tail -n+4 to the obsolescent tail +4. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: possible flaw in mv

in that remaining subdirectory where you moved them to. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: bug in csplit

is that the problem will go away, since NEWS documents that in 5.90, csplit could produce corrupt output, given input lines longer than 8KB - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: Invalid gettext preprocessing causes broken format strings and sigsegv at runtine

. However, coreutils does not own the source for gettext. You should send this report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (an alias for bug-gnu-utils) for a better response from the gettext maintainer. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: $ man nice [Somethink to be added in nice 5.2.1 :)]

, and even though POSIX requires it, we cannot guarantee that it will exist on all platforms, so adding the link without also adding an implementation of renice might not be the best idea. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http

Re: Invalid gettext preprocessing causes broken format strings and sigsegv at runtine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please keep replies on the list, so that others may see the resolution of this thread. According to Zygmunt Krynicki on 7/20/2006 2:05 AM: Dnia 19-07-2006, śro o godzinie 07:07 -0600, Eric Blake napisał(a): According to Zygmunt Krynicki on 7/19

Re: [COREUTILS] dirname line commands

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

Re: Providing support for the Win32 API.

In general the changes revolve around: - lstat vs. stat. - mkdir without a mode argument. These two are already handled by the sys_stat_module of gnulib. - Symlink handling. - No euidaccess checks. What do you have in mind here? -- Eric Blake

Re: sort cmd bug

/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Try LC_ALL=C sort to get the ASCII byte ordering you desire. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: join problem

. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: join problem

, you can always try 'sort | join | sort -n' to get the joined output back in numerical order. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: anomalies

' or `mkdir ./--m'. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Query on wc

: No such file or directory $ ls -l . | grep core | wc -l 0 Why does this happen? Your reply will be of great help. Perhaps you need to upgrade? The latest stable version of coreutils is 5.97. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: ls colored output does not work with Emacs backup files, #*#

to dircolors: *\043 01;35 to get an LS_COLORS value that will turn emacs backup files magenta in an ls listing. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: md5sum fails on DOS formatted files

to it yet. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

coreutils 6.0, cygwin build failure

/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=16325 2006-04-17 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/stat.c (USE_STATVFS): Define to 0 if f_type is needed, but statvfs.f_type not present. Once that patch is applied, the build completes. However, since cygwin does not (yet) supply openat

Re: [PATCH] coreutils-6.0 memcoll fix

calling strcoll). For consistency, would it be better if we changed memcoll to behave likewise? On the other hand, I guess we did document in memcoll.c that memcoll explicitly sets errno to 0 on success, making memcoll not quite like strcoll. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: Wc documentation bug

'a b' | wc; } | sort -k2,2 2 2 4 1 3 8 - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using

Re: sort's -u is Failing to Check all -k fields for Uniqueness.

: $ echo 1/3,1/2,1/1,2/1 | tr , \\012 | sort -u -t / -k1n,1 -k2n,2 1/1 1/2 1/3 2/1 $ -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: coreutils-6.0: compilation failure on NetBSD 3.0 (2)

I backed out that older patch. Once the fix has propagated into Savannah, can you please verify this when you have the time? Thanks. Oh well, 6.1 does not compile out of the box on cygwin. Your patch did indeed break compilation again. 2006-08-20 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src

Re: Wc documentation bug

-to-date port of coreutils for a Windows environment. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Fwd: [Bug libc/3045] add verror

|RESOLVED Resolution||WONTFIX http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3045 - --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: add a bootstrap script so that we sync to gnulib, gettext, etc. better

depends on libcoreutils.a. 2006-08-21 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Makefile.am (LDADD): Restore this line; it is still needed for t-fpending on platforms without __fpending. Index: lib/Makefile.am === RCS file

Re: rm -f *.obj exits with error on nonexisting file

, and the latest stable version is now 5.97 (or you can go with the unstable 6.1). Perhaps the upgrade will fix your problem, since I certainly can't reproduce this issue when using a modern distribution on a Windows platform as provided by cygwin. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric

reduce compiler warnings during configure

by reusing AC_/AM_, while providing backwards-compatible aliases to avoid breaking existing configure.ac files. It would be something to consider for the next gettext release. 2006-08-22 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * stdint_h.m4 (gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H): Avoid compiler warning

Re: reduce compiler warnings during configure

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 8/22/2006 6:18 AM: Paul's latest updates to module dependencies pulled in several .m4 files that trigger gcc compiler warnings, breaking the configuration of m4 with '-Werror' where it had previously been working. Paul

Re: date bug

: invalid date `01/01/1901' $ date -d 01/01/1902 +%s - -2145891600 - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: design question, why not always use 'cp --remove-destination'?

; whereas unlinking and creating a new file does not. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: filutils 4.1

impacted, particlarly if you document it in NEWS. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: tail.exe and speaker

little about Windows terminal issues. The cygwin community might also be a resource to try. Is there any way to stop this? Don't call tail in the first place if it is on a file that causes the problem? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sort -u produces incorrect output

to just the first field? -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

on a system without d_type; it just won't tickle the bug that systems with d_type had prior to this patch. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

determining 64-bit hardware [was: (no subject)]

using linux. regards Try uname -m, and see if the machine it lists is a 32-bit platform or 64-bit platform. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: bugs

you are seeing (paste it, don't retype it), etc. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

it to Jim, the actual maintainer, whether this patch is worth applying even if these problems are addressed first. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Suggested change to tee manpage to show usefulness

Please keep replies on the list. I am not the maintainer, only an interested party; so mailing me privately will have no effect on the CVS repository. -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Kitchen) from the --help output and from a tee.x template

Fwd: [PATCH] make cp -i -f behaves like cp -f instead of like cp -i

doubt this patch will go very far, because there are probably scripts out in the wild that depend on the current behavior, whether or not it is intuitive to the end user. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

they have already done the stat (not having a d_type shortcut to rely on). So #ifdef'ing on linux is not the right approach, and Jim's patch was appropriate. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1

Re: [PATCH] make cp -i -f behaves like cp -f instead of like cp -i

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The mailing list is probably a better place for this discussion than cc'ing lots of individuals. I'm adding bug-coreutils accordingly. According to Thierry Vignaud on 8/31/2006 6:36 AM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: The following patch

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

to speed and implemented a reliable d_type. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: tail broken on fedora core 5

(*) tail - f does not conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001; to read standard input and then f, use the command tail -- - f. Also, read 'info coreutils Standards' for how to set the environment variable _POSIX2_VERSION to choose which behavior you get. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric

Re: bug in gnu grep -o

bug-grep instead. It may also be that this is already fixed in CVS; there are a number of regex parsing bugs that have been fixed in glibc and gnulib cine 2.5.1 was released in 2001 (but unfortunately the grep maintainer has not released a stable version in a while). -- Eric Blake

Re: basename for directories containing space

posting to a publicly archived mailing list. If needs be, open a webmail account that won't have a company disclaimer appended to it. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: How to avoid duplicates with GnuSort ?

. Is there such an option ? Or is there a newer version of the sort ? Yes - the latest stable version of coreutils is 5.97, and beta 6.1 is also available. Thank you for the answer Peter - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: su 5.2.1 does not invoke bash as a login shell when stdin is from a pipe

stable version is 5.97, and beta 6.1 is also available. That said, there has been talk in the coreutils mailing list of removing support for su, as other open source packages provide su implementations with more features. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL

logical paths [was: (no subject)]

, it is quite easy to type `pwd`/../z, and get a valid physical path to hand to cp, regardless of whether $PWD is currently physical or logical, rather than relying on the semantics of ../z being one way or the other. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: su 5.2.1 does not invoke bash as a login shell when stdin is from a pipe

dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: gnulib and gettextize

-default by gt__NEED_NGETTEXT_FU) in an earlier diversion. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: wildcard feature?

also experiment with the backup features, so that if this does happen to you, you would at least still be able to retrieve 2.test from its backup name. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin

Re: logical paths

-complete, than it is to teach every utility the difference between logical and physical. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: ls --sort=none -r

/austin/defectform.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Doubt about expr

is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Translation of coreutils

a member of the translation project yourself. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/translators.html - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: Addendum: Possible Bug in comm ?

. The latest stable version of coreutils is 5.97, and beta 6.1 is also available. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment

Re: Addendum: Possible Bug in comm ?

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Re: dd Segmentation Fault

. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFCURF84KuGfSFAYARAn

Re: Coretutils tail command no longer correctly accepting +2 as a parameter

first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFCo9C84KuGfSFAYARAqh2AJ9AtM8i94zZLjuacda9X0WrVTlAYwCdHp4W

Re: proposed fix for some race conditions in mkdir and install

O(n) processing when chdir won't work. Would it make sense to depend on the fatal-signal or wait-process module, so that you can kill the child process when the parent is sent a catchable fatal signal? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

[bug #17794] error: possibly undefined macro: gl_LOCK_EARLY

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #17794 (project coreutils): If it serves as any reference point, M4 1.4.6 includes its bootstrap in its tarball. Someone using the tarball is expected to neither run bootstrap nor to run autoreconf (a fact that automake checks during 'make distcheck'), but the files

Re: join bug?

requires its inputs to be sorted, otherwise you get arbitrary behavior. f2 was not sorted (at least, not in the C locale). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: 2G tmpfile of sort

, and which version of coreutils was this? If it is still present in coreutils 6.2, we would like to get it fixed before 6.3. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: BASH$ info cat does not work on OpenVMS

if 'info cat' doesn't work due to a missing 'info' program. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: 2G tmpfile of sort

build to see if it resolves your problem. Bye! Chun Cui - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Bug#389170: coreutils: mv -v fails on hardlinked files

perhaps under POSIXLY_CORRECT; I'd have to re-read the source to be sure). So I'm not sure if Jim should spend much more effort improving the verbose output; the fact that it is different already goes to show that hard links are a special case. -- Eric Blake

Re: sort 5.97 bug sorting a month embedded in a field

locale), so not setting LC_ALL won't really make much of a difference there. Can you get it to work with embedded values? Yes, see Paul's mail, or experiment with -b. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: size_t option parsing question

of coreutils is worth extending, but in deference to Jim trying to release, it is worth holding off this task until after 6.3 is out. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: fold not UTF-8 ready

to single-byte, so those patches have not been folded in. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: bug in sh-utils-2.0.11-14 /bin/date run under Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)

), it is probably wise to upgrade. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: workaround /proc/self/fd bug on Solaris 10

, falling back instead on the fchdir path). -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: [bug #17900] rm -f should ignore ENOTDIR

the patch I'll check in as soon as I write the test cases: Shouldn't this also include ELOOP? $ ln -s loop . $ rm -f loop/oops rm: cannot remove `loop/oops': Too many levels of symbolic links - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [bug #17900] rm -f should ignore ENOTDIR

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 10/3/2006 12:45 AM: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't this also include ELOOP? With ELOOP, we don't know whether the file exists. It could merely be a symlink chain that's too long. So it's safer

Re: bug or feature with `mkdir -pv`

, your changelog didn't match the patch. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: fix coreutils' make distcheck: remove AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR(lib)

dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFJ+at84KuGfSFAYARAkPpAJ0XhnbeDeUfSnh+8z69

Re: coreutils-6.3 on MacOS X

sys/stat.h cannot be included more than once. Then it sounds like we should provide a sys/stat.h replacement, just as we do for inttypes.h and others. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin

Re: sort bug ?

it's worth, the latest stable version is now at 6.3. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: du -k and du -b inconsistent output

file will have a larger apparent size than disk usage size. (Using coreutils-5.94, linux on both reiserfs and ext3) Consider upgrading - the latest stable version of coreutils is 6.3. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: MD5SUM: False Negative

. It so happens that I am on both lists, since I maintain the cygwin port of coreutils. C:\md5sum --version md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 5.3.0 is old; it predates some of the upstream changes in 5.90. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Re: date for RHEL-3

will automatically be fixed. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: it seems like a bug

to daylight savings; the +1day adds 24 hours and the lack of an hour starts the computation at midnight, but Oct 29 is 25 hours long for your timezone of MSK, leaving you stuck in the same day at 11 pm. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Re: Composing sentences makes them hard to translate

end up doing will probably be invasive, but if a simple enough, and more importantly easy-to-maintain, solution is proposed, it certainly does make the translator's job easier. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Feature-Request: random sort

. use it for a playlist. find . -type f | sort --shuffle | xargs ... Try upgrading. Coreutils 6.4 comes with the shuf utility, so that you can do: find . -type f | shuf | xargs ... - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: bug report : tail

first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFXetv84KuGfSFAYARArjPAKCg2lYR+1wLbkA9tNkIKe1bnVyj

Re: FYI: minor announce-gen changes

with other projects? I might have found it useful in my recent m4 release, had I known of its existence. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: problem using 'date' coreutil

are in week zero. In other words, according to each set of rules, Jan 2 (Monday) belongs to week 1. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: man jobs, does it do what is expected to be done?

dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFcCwm84KuGfSFAYARAq57AKCzqB8qBdQ

Re: cp and blah/. or . as a source

hierarchy. So what I'm really looking for here is to have the current behaviour classified one way (correct, and explicitly stated as the expected outcome in the docs) Yes, the behavior you posted looks like it matches the documentation. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake

Re: cp and blah/. or . as a source

containing src or src/ is ., but the directory containing src/. is src. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Multibyte awareness in coreutils

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Re: sort does not use tab as delimiter

doing the quoting and not your shell. And if you don't like ctrl-v, then play with 'stty lnext'. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?

), whereas printf is IIRC required by POSIX. Does your final filter have to be printf, or can it be another program? For example, have you considered uuencode/uudecode, which _are_ specified by POSIX? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: md5sum not aware of different end-of-line conventions

improvement. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Is / distinct from //?

it looks like it comes from glibc?). How about this larger patch instead? 2006-12-18 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * m4/double-slash-root.m4 (gl_DOUBLE_SLASH_ROOT): Port to z/OS. Problem reported by Paul Gilmartin. * modules/double

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