Re: parallel sort at fault? [Re: [PATCH] tests: avoid gross inefficiency...

2011-03-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/03/11 15:34, Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Running make -j25 check on a nominal-12-core F14 system would cause serious difficulty leading to an OOM kill -- and this is brand new. It worked fine yesterday. I tracked it down to all of

Re: bug#8247: How to write an application

2011-03-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/14/2011 12:31 PM, alfred inacio wrote: Hi Eric, Thanks for your help here. I know exactly what I want, a very simple application which copies the output into the clipboard... for example, say my program is called bordpst... then if I did this: pwd bordpst then, I went into my

Re: bug#8247: How to write an application

2011-03-14 Thread alfred inacio
Hi Eric, Thanks for your help here. I know exactly what I want, a very simple application which copies the output into the clipboard... for example, say my program is called bordpst... then if I did this: pwd bordpst then, I went into my GUI and pressed ctrl + v, I would paste the directly I

Re: bug#8247: How to write an application

2011-03-14 Thread alfred inacio
Adding core utils back on CC. Yes. I tried that program before contacting you... I did a pwd in my terminal, then tried to do a ctr+v into another window and the clipboard still had older data. . . On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:23 PM, alfred inacio inacioalf...@gmail.comwrote: I tried xclip. It

Re: parallel sort at fault? [Re: [PATCH] tests: avoid gross inefficiency...

2011-03-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 14/03/11 15:31, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 12/03/11 15:34, Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Running make -j25 check on a nominal-12-core F14 system would cause serious difficulty leading to an OOM kill -- and this is brand new. It worked fine

bug#8247: How to write an application

2011-03-14 Thread alfred inacio
Hello, How can I write an application such as ls, pwd, less, more, etc.? Thanks, Alfred

bug#8247: How to write an application

2011-03-14 Thread Eric Blake
tag 8247 + notabug thanks On 03/14/2011 01:29 AM, alfred inacio wrote: Hello, How can I write an application such as ls, pwd, less, more, etc.? The easiest was is probably to learn by example, by downloading the source code to an existing implementation and studying that. I'm marking this

bug#8244: Test failures in coreutils 8.10

2011-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
retitle 8244 Test failures in coreutils 8.10 thanks Thank you for the test failure report. A message from Каюков Андрей was sent to the BTS but seems to have been lost before making it to the bug-coreutils outgoing mailing list. Thanks to Eric Blake who noticed this and alerted me to the

bug#8244: Test failures in coreutils 8.10

2011-03-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 14/03/11 17:23, Bob Proulx wrote: retitle 8244 Test failures in coreutils 8.10 thanks Thank you for the test failure report. A message from Каюков Андрей was sent to the BTS but seems to have been lost before making it to the bug-coreutils outgoing mailing list. Thanks to Eric Blake