Re: [coreutils] -avrd option ?

2010-09-20 Thread Yann
2010/9/20 Eric Blake : > On 09/20/2010 05:22 AM, Yann wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I searched into "man cp" and the online manual, but did not find any >> clue... >> >> What is the meaning of -avrd option after cp command ? (Is it the same >> as -a option ?) > > POSIX requires support for option-le

[coreutils] [PATCH] sort: destroy spin locks portably

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Eggert
* src/sort.c (sortlines, sort): Use pthread_spin_destroy when a spin lock is no longer used. This isn't needed on GNU/Linux or Solaris, but POSIX says it may free up resources on some platforms. --- src/sort.c |3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/sort.c b

Re: [coreutils] Re: [PATCH] join: support multi-byte character encodings

2010-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/19/2010 07:13 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: Correct. This is one of the major design decisions Paul, Jim, and I agreed upon in 2001. It is this requirement which forbids converting the input to a wchar_t stream, doing processing with wchar_t objects, and producing a stream of wchar_t objects that

Re: [coreutils] -avrd option ?

2010-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/20/2010 05:22 AM, Yann wrote: Dear all, I searched into "man cp" and the online manual, but did not find any clue... What is the meaning of -avrd option after cp command ? (Is it the same as -a option ?) POSIX requires support for option-letter compression, and GNU tools obey this by v

bug#7073: no pthread_spinlock_t on Mac OS 10.6.4

2010-09-20 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Paul, Thanks for looking at this. On 20 Sep 2010, at 13:21, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 09/19/2010 07:43 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> my system headers have no pthread_spinlock_t definition, but >> gnulib sees /usr/include/pthread.h and uses that instead of generating it's >> own, >> ... >> I do

bug#7073: no pthread_spinlock_t on Mac OS 10.6.4

2010-09-20 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
While testing my rewrite of gnulib's bootstrap script, I've been unable to rebuild coreutils from git master. However, when I reverted to a fresh checkout and used the repo bootstrap script, the build still fails on my Mac: ../../src/sort.c:243: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'p

[coreutils] -avrd option ?

2010-09-20 Thread Yann
Dear all, I searched into "man cp" and the online manual, but did not find any clue... What is the meaning of -avrd option after cp command ? (Is it the same as -a option ?) Regards, Yann

[coreutils] Re: [PATCH] join: support multi-byte character encodings

2010-09-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 20/09/10 01:55, Bruno Haible wrote: > [CCing bug-libunistring. This is a reply to > .] > > Hi Pádraig, > >> I was doing some performance analysis of the above patch >> and noticed it performed very well usually but not when >>

[coreutils] Re: [PATCH] join: support multi-byte character encodings

2010-09-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 19/09/10 14:13, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Pádraig, Hi Bruno, Thanks very much for the review. > > > This is my start at applying robust and efficient multi-byte > > processing to coreutils. > > Actually, it is the continuation of the discussion and based on the patch > from March 2009 >