Re: IS there a label in ksh / bash for re-startability? Can you add this functionality?

this on your behalf, then consider using a free webmail account that does not tack on a pointless disclaimer when posting to lists. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public

Re: [PATCH] support 0x prefix on number arguments passed to dd

Alas, your patch won't work with the b, c, or E suffix, so you are probably better off using what was determined before, and simply let a POSIX-conformant shell do the work for you: dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=$((0xe)) count=1 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric

Re: non-stable sort with 1 key

for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHCBti84KuGfSFAYARAgatAJ97iemkqsdS

Re: Bug in ls v5.97

]:~$ uname -a Linux shtopor 2.6.22.6-shif #1 Sun Sep 16 15:24:33 MSD 2007 i686 GNU/Linux * coreutils version -- 5.97-5.3. You may want to consider upgrading. The latest stable version of coreutils is 6.9. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL

Re: fold UTF ready?

performance on single-byte locales. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: printf produces no output for %f directive

work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: POSIX requires checking all *printf return values?!?

=78da34d It breaks into the opaque FILE* on platforms where this is possible, but otherwise, is stuck using a six-syscall workaround just to force a stream to set its ferror() flag. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP

Re: POSIX requires checking all *printf return values?!?

too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Confused about source code of coreutils

with a shallow clone, but if all you wanted was a snapshot of the current state, it fits the bill for smaller disk usage. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public

Re: coreutils: Where is the repository of the manual pages?

are generated with help2man, as part of the build process - look at the man/Makefile.am for information. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: Bug in cat

is not a coreutil. By the way, text vs. binary issues on cygwin are probably better discussed on the cygwin mailing list, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer coreutils port maintainer for cygwin

Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

see by looking at src/expr.c line 133. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

gnulib module. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

, rather than using %s to add the prefix? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

am sure this is NOT a c-format, because it is used in fputs and not printf? Is there a magic /* xgettext: */ comment to do this? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: cp command

for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHH+2L84KuGfSFAYARAlVJAJ9jGT28TfC+Xin1eHp4bXbNR

Re: Undocumented cut feature

, make some time for fun as well! 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: cp failure to NetApp directory with CIFS security model

-buggy systems. Agreed. I would push back on the CIFS people to fix their bug. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: Tiny magic file entry

for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHKxUF84KuGfSFAYARAiIsAKCR6

Re: Tiny magic file entry

contact info: http://directory.fsf.org/project/file/ - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: bug report, sort command

sure that the setting was actually exported to the environment? Which shell are you using? Posting an actual transcript of what you typed might be helpful. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering

for brevity, provided you then use the separator '-' to keep the distinction of the role of the suffix as a non-monotonic string that represents the commit id. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: new snapshot

`/home/eblake/coreutils/tests/rmdir' FAIL: ignore.log (probably directory ACL related) Ultimately, I don't think cygwin issues need to hold up your release schedule. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

bootstrap difficulties

. ./bootstrap: cp ._bootmp/lib/alloca.c lib/alloca.c # with edits mv: cannot move `lib/alloca.c-t' to `lib/alloca.c': No such file or directory Any ideas what I should try next? -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http

Re: bootstrap difficulties

working. Oh well; I'll just chalk it up to stale state. -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

[bug #21549] tail +N file fails

Update of bug #21549 (project coreutils): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Closing this

Re: Minutes of the Nov 8 2007 teleconference

mark eggert - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: [PATCH] Specify output directory for split(1)

also need to mention it in NEWS, and update the documentation in doc/coreutils.texi. Also, since this is not a trivial patch, we would need copyright assignment before incorporating it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

Re: mv: Moving directories to themselves (not the bug with incorrect error message)

'. But such a feature is not part of coreutils yet, because no one has submitted a patch for it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: mv: Moving directories to themselves (not the bug with incorrect error message)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/18/2007 6:20 AM: Could you think about it, please? It would be great if at least a switch for it was added to mv (and other coreutils). What you appear to be wanting is a new option to mv, maybe spelled like 'mv

Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long

the contents of scop70_1.72.hhm into itself. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: Bug in date command

as well! 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 iD8DBQFHRRKw84KuGfSFAYARAqyPAJ4iR8cIpHCH9skbABJdAa2LiMRjagCg0ojS

Re: Bug in date command

appear in 'date --version' output with both bug-coreutils and the translation team bug reporting addresses. So it looks like a lot of work still needs doing. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[bug #20970] Trailing slash on directory arguments breaks -name

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #20970 (project findutils): The fix is to use base_name (which malloc's) in combination with strip_trailing_slashes to get the correct string, then free the memory after the comparison. Both of those functions are provided by the dirname gnulib module.

Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long

be read along the lines of 'you asked a FAQ, and here's some guidelines to resolve it' rather than 'here's the solution to your problem'. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin

Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long

to the current directory. snip Why is -maxdepth 1 non-portable? Because it is not required by POSIX, therefore, not all find implementations have it. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: Removing zip files from all directories under /home/vchilla

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/29/2007 6:27 AM: This is a FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Why-doesn_0027t-rm-_002dr-_002a_002epattern-recurse-like-it-should_003f Speaking of which, the text for FAQ 14 (this FAQ

Re: Removing zip files from all directories under /home/vchilla

, make some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHTr5M84KuGfSFAYARAmujAKDC

Re: DF issue

. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: DF issue

for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHT5

Re: coreutils-6.9.90 released

in size! Oh, you meant 2MB. :) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: bug-coreutils date command

; if the problem persists after upgrading, then the bug lies in the timezone database or in your environment selecting which portion of the database to use. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: New feature request for cp to flatten directory

--flatten data -t alldata Thanks for the suggestion. However, it seems like this is already possible with existing tools, so why add the bloat? find data -type f -exec cp -pr -t alldata {}+ - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN

[bug #21758] yes problem with differents languages

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #21758 (project coreutils): When answering yes/no questions, POSIX states that the locale chosen by LC_MESSAGES is relevant to the regular expression chosen for recognizing yes/no answers. yes also takes an optional argument, which is the string it should output. So

Re: du missing files on vfat

, ..., because they all share the same recursion code. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: is this a bug?

. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: document chgrp: changing group of `m': Operation not permitted

time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHf7w284KuGfSFAYARAoaEAJ0RCl6iz0mkC

fseeko failure [was: wcwidth failure on RedHat Linux 7.3 (coreutils-6.9.91)]

as well! 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 iD8DBQFHgNb084KuGfSFAYARAmcUAJ9LTZJZixwvryB91uTHszE

Re: strange 'sort' behaviour

get with the C locale; note that I generally use the identical LC_ALL=C as it is less typing than LC_ALL=POSIX). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: bootstrapping fails with git v1.4.4.4

clone the entire repository by deleting the '--depth 2' from that command. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: wrong result from wc

that it cuts from the file, whether or not it is cutting from an incomplete line. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: tr command bug

it matters: $ echo test | tr tes '[a*]b' aaba $ echo test | tr tes '[a*1]b' abba - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: update fetch

for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHllqp84KuGfSFAYARApVTAJ4tgtznviT1uOjY8rdImFXkgD

Re: tail(1) --no-free-bonus- clarity separator lines

- -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHl04

Re: strange output when using tr utility (?)

too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: Can't seem to build coreutils-6.9 on x86-64

This is a known issue for 6.9 that was resolved in time for 6.10; try the latest release instead: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00159.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: uname -p: unknown

, it is a deficiency in your OS's uname(2) call; coreutils uname(1) is merely reporting the truth that your OS does not provide this information in an easily accessible manner. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: sync upstream files

necessarily rejected, just put on hold until we can get consensus on how best to resynchronize it with coreutils (or if we should even continue trying to keep it in sync). At any rate, thanks for the updates. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

[bug #22109] Enhancement request: tr should be able to take multiple consecutive actions

Update of bug #22109 (project coreutils): Severity: 3 - Normal = 1 - Wish Status:None = Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open = Closed

[bug #22017] zic can generate files which crash the linux kernel

Update of bug #22017 (project coreutils): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: reversing the order in which lines appear

some time for fun as well! 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

mv symlink-to-dir/, debian bug feed

? That way, this list would see bugs as they are reported, and others besides Jim will be able to chime in with advice. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

rename(symlink-to-dir/, name) behavior

make the current Solaris and FreeBSD implementation buggy), that for rename, an 'old' argument with a trailing slash must be a directory (and not a symlink to a directory)? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: info ls opens the man page, not the info documentation

', as in `Invoking Emacs'; this way, | users can find the section easily. Maybe the better fix would be renaming all the nodes in coreutils.texi to comply with this convention? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Options --enable{,-no}-install-program

? GNU Coding Standards recommend eliding the braces for single-line statements (yes, it is a style that not everyone likes, because you then have to remember to add braces if you add a statement, but consistency looks nicer). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: rename(symlink-to-dir/, name) behavior

some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHndh

Re: [PATCH] Use strdup in dd to avoid changing argv elements

[] and envp[] being constants is included to make explicit to future writers of language bindings that these objects are completely constant. Due to a limitation of the ISO C standard, it is not possible to state that idea in standard C. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: [PATCH] Use strdup in dd to avoid changing argv elements

, and retain their last-stored values between program startup and program termination. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: ls color backwards compatibility

number) to ignore unknown types, but that won't help until 6.12 (or whatever other number) adds new types. But it won't help the current 6.10. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: ls-mnt-fs.m4

| # or later. And gnulib still targets 2.59 (even though coreutils has moved on, not all gnulib clients have). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: problems with 'join' command

#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: cp -p loses precision on the timestamp of the copy

, but most OS's have not implemented it yet. ~ Therefore, if the OS provides no method for finer granularity, coreutils has no choice but to truncate the timestamp, so this is likely not a bug in cp. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cp -p loses precision on the timestamp of the copy

granularity on different file systems). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: Building portions of coreutils

that 64-bit support for mingw is so new. I wish you luck in your efforts. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg

Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

); | printf(1 %-*s%n\n,-3,x,count); | printf(1 %-*s%n\n,3,x,count); | } | | prints | | 1 x | 1 x | 1 x And that violates C99/POSIX. Duplication of the `-' flag should not disable it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: Suggestion about tail

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: Good idea. tail and a few other programs were made to work that way in May. http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=2539b53 However, this was never mentioned in NEWS. Is it worth adding (retroactively)? -- Eric Blake

Re: Typos protection for rm

set of options that cannot accomplish what you wanted in the context of an alias? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake

Re: Typos protection for rm

was added in 6.0; coreutils is now at 6.10. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: the `--color' option of `ls' shadows the shortcut evaluation scheme of `' and `||'

some time for fun as well! 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: [PATCH] ls --group-directories-first: symlinks to dirs are dirs too

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bert Wesarg on 2/12/2008 9:50 AM: | Thanks for the patch, but a change in behavior like that | requires some serious justification. | I read the thread in the mail archive. Eric Blake questioned the symlink | behavior in the first reply

Re: the `--color' option of `ls' shadows the shortcut evaluation scheme of `' and `||'

to ordinary colors. What about the corresponding patch to dircolors? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment

Re: cut: invalid option -- [BLANKS]

-- ' ' but that would make the gnulib getopt implementation drift from glibc. Maybe you're better off reporting this to glibc. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: su rc 141

was displayed may allow us to give you better advice, than just describing the problem in prose. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net

Re: chown should catch null owner:group

by extension, 'chown . file' is not necessarily a no-op, and warning when a real action might be taken seems odd. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key

Re: chown should catch null owner:group

some time for fun as well! 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: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

after updating gnulib but before re-running ./bootstrap. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

source files if the resulting aclocal still manages to provide every needed macro? Meanwhile, I still think coreutils' bootstrap should delete these broken symlinks before trying to run aclocal. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GNUmakefile missing from build dir in VPATH build

time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHutvD84KuGfSFAYARAgegAKDJ8zoa

Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

in `.'). | A more portable predicate is -xtype l. The goal here is not to delete all symlinks, just symlinks that are broken. Under the influence of -L, does -xtype l work like -lname '*' in detecting just the broken symlinks? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: Problems building coreutils HEAD against gnulib HEAD

. And Solaris find is just too poor in features to find broken symlinks in the first place. So once you assume GNU find, you might as well assume it in multiple aspects. I'll leave it up to Jim what to put in the bootstrap script. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

Re: rename(symlink-to-dir/, name) behavior

one, maybe ESLASH trailing slash on symlink? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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: nohup breaks logname and tty commands

nohup is inherently non-portable. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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

Re: how to apply for adding a change or a patch in gnu-coreutils-6.9 and whom to contact for the same

-trivial, you will also have to assign copyright to the FSF. By the way, we prefer patches against the latest git checkout (6.9 is old; 6.10 has been released and more patches have been applied in the meantime). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake

[PATCH] GNUmakefile build tweaks.

* GNUmakefile: When Makefile is not present, make common targets depend on all to trigger nicer error message. * configure.ac: If autoconf is new enough, link GNUmakefile into VPATH builds. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- GNUmakefile |5 + configure.ac |7 +++ 2

Re: shellutils

for fun as well! 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: GNUmakefile and VPATH

to be nuked. From: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:08:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Reinstate GNUmakefile patch, but with workaround for automake. * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Use shell variable to bypass automake distclean rules. * Makefile.am (distclean-local): Clean

Re: utimens.h:2: error: conflicting types for 'futimens'

' Thanks for the report. However, this was previously reported, and fixed for coreutils 6.10, which is the latest stable version. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment

Re: New colorls.sh doesn't work with DIR_COLORS.xterm

work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFHz

Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash

(where ' ' implies an arbitrary amount of whitespace characters). I don't think we can arbitrarily add / to pathname and still comply with POSIX. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: Feature Request: du --dir-with-slash

some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFH0cJX84KuGfSFAYARAonaAJ436lvDb

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