Re: Whats the reason to suppress short unicode characters in printf?

2016-04-04 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > the code as written has existed since it was first committed in Mar 2000: > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?h=29d3ba4a7b42ed1b40b963b6047f2412ea4843b1 > although the Author says Jim, the ChangeLog file says Bruno Haible

Re: Whats the reason to suppress short unicode characters in printf?

2016-04-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
the code as written has existed since it was first committed in Mar 2000: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?h=29d3ba4a7b42ed1b40b963b6047f2412ea4843b1 although the Author says Jim, the ChangeLog file says Bruno Haible. that predates the merge of file/text/shell utils into core

[PATCH] yes: avoid redundant diagnostics on write error

2016-04-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
* src/yes.c (main): For large inputs only write a single diagnostic for write errors. * tests/misc/yes.sh: Test when /dev/full is available. --- src/yes.c | 2 ++ tests/misc/yes.sh | 13 + 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/yes.c b/src/yes.c index 31424cf..1d2

Re: prevent seq from inflow on I/O errors

2016-04-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 04/04/16 06:18, Assaf Gordon wrote: Hello, The attached patch add I/O error checking to seq, preventing infloop on certain write-error conditions. The typical case is seq 1 inf > /dev/full Nice one. Note we'd only inf loop if seq was going to run forever anyway. I've adjusted the N