Re: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab on Alpine Linux

2023-08-26 Thread Bruno Haible
On Alpine Linux 3.18 (x86), I see two test failures: FAIL: tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt FAIL: tests/cp/preserve-mode The first one is new. The second one I already reported in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-03/msg00034.html and you analyzed it in

Re: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab on CentOS 5

2023-08-26 Thread Bruno Haible
On CentOS 5 (64-bit mode), I see 4 test failures: FAIL: tests/sort/sort-continue FAIL: tests/sort/sort-merge-fdlimit FAIL: tests/cp/attr-existing FAIL: tests/mv/part-symlink Find attached the log file. centos5-test-suite.log.gz Description: application/gzip

Re: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab on CentOS 5 and Solaris 10

2023-08-26 Thread Bruno Haible
On CentOS 5 and Solaris 10, I get build errors. * On CentOS 5: CCLD src/sort lib/libcoreutils.a(libcoreutils_a-tempname.o): In function `random_bits': /home/bruno/coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab/build-64/../lib/tempname.c:111: undefined reference to `clock_gettime' collect2: ld returned 1 exit

Re: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab on AIX 7.3.1

2023-08-26 Thread Bruno Haible
On AIX 7.3.1, after fixing the compilation errors https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2023-08/msg00179.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-08/msg00062.html there are test failures. I did 3 builds: - 64-bit with gcc - 64-bit with ibm-clang - 32-bit with ibm-clang

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-9.3.147-d553ab.tar.xz

2023-08-26 Thread Sam James
Pádraig Brady writes: > We plan to release coreutils-9.4 in the coming week > so any testing you can do on various different systems > between now and then would be most welcome. > This is a stabilization release coming about 18 weeks after the 9.3 release. > On amd64, I get: """ FAIL:

dd: Purpose of the nonblock symbol for iflag and oflag

2023-08-26 Thread Léo El Amri
Hello, I'd like to know what is the purpose of the nonblock symbols of the iflag and oflag options. From what I understand after reading the source-code, it merely sets the O_NONBLOCK flag on the file descriptor, but does not _actually_ checks for the EGAIN errno. What was the idea/use