FYI I'm not forgetting about this.
This week I'll be travelling with work,
but I intend to tackle this early the following week.
cheers,
Pádraig.
On 12/26/2011 03:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
--- a/src/stat.c
+++ b/src/stat.c
+case S_MAGIC_PIPEFS: /* 0x50495045 remote */
+ /* FIXME: change syntax or add an optional attribute like inotify:no.
+ The above is labeled as remote so that tail always uses polling,
+
On 12/28/2011 05:56 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Can anyone name a real system on which forming a pointer like this,
buffer + (size_t)(-1) actually provokes a trap or some other real problem?
I don't know of particular hardware where this would trap
(alpha can be configured to trap on integer
On 12/28/2011 09:30 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 12/28/2011 05:56 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Can anyone name a real system on which forming a pointer like this,
buffer + (size_t)(-1) actually provokes a trap or some other real problem?
I don't know of particular hardware
On 12/31/2011 11:27 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
Reading only the documentation for --relative-base=FILE,
I am not sure how it works:
`--relative-base=FILE'
Ensure both the `--relative-to' and processed files are
subdirectories of FILE, or otherwise output
On 01/02/2012 05:34 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote:
...
+ char *dev_name = xstrdup (disk);
+ char *resolved_dev;
+
+ /* On some systems, dev_name is a long-named symlink like
+ /dev/disk/by-uuid/828fc648-9f30-43d8-a0b1-f7196a2edb66 pointing
+ to a much shorter and
On 01/02/2012 08:06 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-12/msg00237.html:
This is for use in a proposed coreutils `realpath` command.
Specifically by these options:
-L, --logicalresolve `..' components before
On 01/03/2012 12:30 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
To me realpath is conceptually (cd; pwd), so I used
the -L and -P options as defined by POSIX for cd.
Makes good sense, yes.
I considered using --no-dereference, but while the symlinks
in a path are not expanded
On 01/03/2012 03:58 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
+ df, with no non-option argument and recent enough kernel/tools, would
+ print a long UUID-including file system name, pushing second and subsequent
+ columns far to the right. Now, when that long name refers to a
On 01/03/2012 04:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
FYI, here's a snapshot of what will soon be coreutils-8.15,
expected on Thursday or Friday.
coreutils snapshot:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 5.2 MB
sort-continue was the only failure on:
$ uname -mi; sw_vers
i386 Macmini4,1
On 01/03/2012 04:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
FYI, here's a snapshot of what will soon be coreutils-8.15,
expected on Thursday or Friday.
coreutils snapshot:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz 5.2 MB
misc/stty was the only failure on:
$ uname -a
Linux deluxe
On 01/04/2012 02:12 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
The only failed test was `misc/timeout-group'.
This is either a race in the test or a bug in timeout, neither of which I can
see.
Your system is running 2.6.30-2-686 SMP
Does this fail all the time?
(cd tests make check
On 10/11/2011 08:00 PM, Jakob Truelsen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Voelker, Bernhard
bernhard.voel...@siemens-enterprise.com wrote:
Jakob Truelsen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Voelker, Bernhard
bernhard.voel...@siemens-enterprise.com wrote:
Jakob Truelsen wrote:
I
On 01/04/2012 10:59 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-8.14.116-1e18d.tar.xz
On Linux/hppa:
FAIL: misc/timeout-parameters
The test suite log shows this execution log:
+ test 125 = 125
+ timeout 4294967296 sleep 0
+ test 124 = 0
+ fail=1
++ expr 4294967295 /
On 09/22/2011 05:39 PM, Loïc Le Loarer wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to propose a small improvement to factor help message:
indicate factor capabilities and in particular maximum input size. As
it depends on how factor has been compiled (with or without GMP
library), I propose the attached
On 01/05/2012 12:39 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Pádraig,
Hopefully the attached avoids this.
Your patch avoids the first 3 fail=1 occurrences, but not the fourth one:
+ timeout 2.34e+5d sleep 0
+ test 124 = 0
+ fail=1
Oops right.
But is this really the desirable workaround? Do
On 01/05/2012 04:05 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
No, time_t is typedefed to 'long int' (32-bit but signed) on this
platform.
Right, so if time_t is changed to 64 bit there in future,
the test would be too restrictive?
time_t cannot be changed to 64-bit without breaking
On 01/05/2012 02:32 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-8.14.116-1e18d.tar.xz
On NetBSD 5.1/x86, I get this test failure in particular:
FAIL: split/l-chunk
===
split: /dev/zero: No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat `x*': No such file or
On 11/27/2011 05:30 PM, Guillaume Kielwasser wrote:
Thanks Pádraig for your instructive input!
Hmm, I wonder would it be worth augmenting `column -t` from util-linux
to add a --border option and also detect number cols and auto right align?
I guess a --header option would be useful too.
I
On 01/07/2012 04:20 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
- fprintf (stderr, _(Try `%s --help' for more information.\n),
program_name);
+ fprintf (stderr, _(Try '%s --help' for more information.\n),
program_name);
Looks good. Those quote always annoyed me,
having never seen them rendered
On 01/08/2012 08:42 PM, Francois Marier wrote:
Hi,
(I'm guessing this might be the right list, but feel free to let me know if
there's a better one.)
It looks like I've hosed one of my hard drives through some clueless use of
the dd command (as root of course) and I'd like to understand
On 01/09/2012 08:24 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
gfpmtipb GFP IP App ID wrote:
coreutils-8.11
...
FAIL: misc/env-null (exit: 1)
=
...
+ fail=1
+ env -i
On 01/10/2012 06:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
- format = xasprintf (%s%s, format, _(\
-Access: %x\n\
-Modify: %y\n\
-Change: %z\n\
- Birth: %w\n\
-));
+ format = xasprintf (%s%s, format,
+ _(Access: %x\n
+Modify:
commit 14a1e3ea837f1453423ae101e3f04103d4fd8910
Author: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com
Date: Wed Jan 25 23:13:58 2012 +
maint: cleanup an extraneous version output in a test
* test/misc/stdbuf: Fixup the minor copy paste issue
introduced in commit ff7f0ff8
diff --git
There are some issues with the following,
with sometimes tests being skipped and/or
sometimes output being misaligned.
(cd tests make -j2 check TESTS=misc/stty misc/stdbuf misc/stat-birthtime
misc/stty-row-col VERBOSE=yes)
That's because gnu make in parallel mode, will give a single
one of its
: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com
Date: Thu Jan 26 00:55:55 2012 +
scripts: allow empty commit messages abort the commit
* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Validate empty commit
messages, so that git will abort the commit as normal.
diff --git a/scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg b/scripts
On 01/26/2012 09:26 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
I'm happy to let the tests skip when necessary, or
even to disrupt parallel build output a little, but if
we fix it, using expect or python/perl-expect would be
my preference.
Yes, it's not a big issue.
I'm happy to leave as is rather than adding
I notice that `pr -S` takes an optional arg,
but the docs say it's required.
Should I fix the docs or the code?
cheers,
Pádraig.
tags 10735 notabug
On 02/06/2012 02:23 PM, francky.l...@telenet.be wrote:
Hello,
I perform the following:
ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~/.gvfs/account on stockholm/Documents/03
professional/structured_documentation$ ls -l doc/filters_for_this_document
-rwx-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 98
On 02/06/2012 02:01 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Pádraig, all,
I took into account general comments on my commits. I attached the
improved patch for feature. Improvements are:
- Add by file description,
- I put back accents on my name (Jérémy instead of Jeremy),
Great thanks.
Hmm,
On 02/06/2012 03:24 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Hmm, shouldn't there be a seek_bytes param too for consistency?
That was effectively my first mail question. As you talk about it in
your explanation addition in coreutils.texi I guess I should start
implementing it ?
I think so.
Note it
On 02/07/2012 03:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
Suppose that I have a table of the following, where the last column is
a number. I'd like to accumulate the number of rows that are the same
for all the remaining columns.
A 1
A 3
X 2
X 3
Y 3
The result will be the following. Although this
On 02/07/2012 06:26 PM, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Hi Pádraig,
On 2012-01-20 19:03, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 01/20/2012 05:47 PM, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Hi Pádraig and Jim,
On 2012-01-20 09:15, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 01/20/2012 02:03 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote
On 02/07/2012 06:25 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
On 02/06/2012 03:24 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Hmm, shouldn't there be a seek_bytes param too for consistency?
That was effectively my first mail question. As you talk about it in
your explanation addition in coreutils.texi I guess I
On 02/07/2012 12:33 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-02/msg00038.html
detailed a couple of bugs in gnulib's canonicalize that were visible
through coreutils' readlink, but only on systems where // is distinct
from /. This particular test assumes that
On 02/08/2012 03:14 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
That leads onto the only other possible implementation I suppose.
I.E. since we don't need to specify skip and skip_bytes together,
the option value could select between each mode. I.E.
skip=2 = skip2 blocks,
skip=2b = skip 1024
On 02/08/2012 04:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Question before I push: Right now, we have:
tests/readlink/can-{e,f,m}
tests/readlink/rl-1
tests/misc/readlink-fp-loop
This feels inconsistent; should we be consolidating all readlink-related
tests into the same directory, and if so, which
On 02/09/2012 11:32 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
@@ -2918,10 +2935,17 @@ gobble_file (char const *name, enum filetype type,
ino_t inode,
{
bool have_selinux = false;
bool have_acl = false;
- int attr_len = (do_deref
- ?
On 02/09/2012 02:17 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 02/09/2012 11:32 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Technically, we could probably exempt all files on that device, but
...
So you avoid symlinks as they can point outside the device.
Unfortunately so can bind mounts, so you probably
On 02/09/2012 09:17 PM, Sven Breuner wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote on 02/09/2012 03:17 PM:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 02/09/2012 11:32 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Technically, we could probably exempt all files on that device, but
...
So you avoid symlinks as they can point outside the device
On 02/10/2012 04:21 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Pádraig, others,
First, I added the missing seek_bytes feature.
Second, I re-wrote the patch in order to replace the _bytes operands by the
corresponding input/output flags.
Finally, I added some tests to check the new seek_bytes flag.
I
On 02/11/2012 04:20 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
I assume the time complexity of 'sort' is log N, where N is the input size.
But I'm not familiar with 'sort' enough to tell the complexity of
sorting a nearly sorted input. Suppose that I have a listed of N
numbers, there only k numbers (k N,
On 02/12/2012 01:01 AM, Sven Breuner wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote on 02/10/2012 02:03 AM:
On 02/09/2012 09:17 PM, Sven Breuner wrote:
Current git version patched...
$ time ~/tmp/ls-8.15.34-31eee_patched -l/dev/null
real0m21.254s
user0m0.565s
sys 0m2.496s
$ strace -c ~/tmp/ls
On 02/10/2012 04:57 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 02/10/2012 04:21 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Pádraig, others,
First, I added the missing seek_bytes feature.
Second, I re-wrote the patch in order to replace the _bytes operands by the
corresponding input/output flags.
Finally, I added some
On 02/12/2012 02:36 AM, goodman@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Coreutils,
I posted to the list about a month ago and haven't gotten any
response. Perhaps it got overlooked because of the holidays (or
post-holiday email glut), so I'm reposting it:
---
Hello,
I fairly recently discovered the
On 02/13/2012 07:50 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 02/10/2012 05:21 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Sorry, this is a bit late, but I have 2 notes about the
new dd/bytes test:
diff --git a/tests/dd/bytes b/tests/dd/bytes
new file mode 100755
index 000..6038742
--- /dev/null
+++
On 02/13/2012 10:13 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 02/13/2012 11:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 02/13/2012 07:50 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 02/10/2012 05:21 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Sorry, this is a bit late, but I have 2 notes about the
new dd/bytes test:
diff --git a/tests
I've just noticed a couple of edge case issues.
The first hunk is for when not doing I/O,
ftruncate() should be on the full size.
The second, will not invalidate cache for the whole file,
if 0 count ibs
cheers,
Pádraig.
--- a/src/dd.c
+++ b/src/dd.c
@@ -2170,7 +2170,7 @@ main (int argc, char
On 02/13/2012 02:28 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 02/13/2012 02:09 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
BTW: shouldn't
echo abcdefghijklm | src/dd bs=5 seek=8 oflag=seek_bytes
receive EPIPE? When run on a terminal, dd waits in read() forever.
True. That's because we try to seek using read
On 02/13/2012 03:45 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
2012/2/7 Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com:
On 02/07/2012 03:36 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
Several commands in coreutils have the -h option. I'm wondering
whether anybody in the develop team also thinks that it is worthwhile
to export it as a standalone
On 02/13/2012 01:54 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Can't you already do this with awk?
This is not a very useful comment.
Take things on this list as discussion,
rather than a mandate.
We're all very open here.
Everything that coreutils do can be
done with some other software. Since 'join' can do 1
On 02/16/2012 07:21 AM, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
Hello.
I am writing to propose a simple patch for review. The patch adds an
option -q or --quiet to cp, mv and install so that they can support
quiet operation on missing SOURCE files.
Such behavior might be useful for example when using
On 02/16/2012 02:01 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 02/16/2012 07:21 AM, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
Hello.
I am writing to propose a simple patch for review. The patch adds an
option -q or --quiet to cp, mv and install so that they can support
quiet operation on missing SOURCE files
On 02/16/2012 09:30 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Pádraig, all,
I rebased my branch for this feature and make the syntax-check
success. I attached the new patch which I hope will satisfy you.
Feel free to comment it, I will take into account whatever you want.
Thanks for continuing with
* NEWS: s/count_bytes/seek_bytes/2
---
NEWS |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2080790..7973b55 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS-*-
outline -*-
** New features
- dd
On 02/17/2012 05:56 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
I attached the new patch. I tried to make it as simple as possible but
feel free to comment.
Thanks!
I just grouped the operations in next_file_name() a little for clarity,
tweaked a couple of strings, and pushed.
cheers,
Pádraig.
On 02/19/2012 12:54 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Pádraig,
I replaced --suffix with --additional-suffix and made some cleaning.
Feel free to comment the attached patch.
Logic is perfect again.
I adjusted the help output a little like:
- -a, --suffix-length=N use suffixes of length N
On 02/20/2012 02:06 AM, Sven Breuner wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote on 02/20/2012 12:54 AM:
On 02/19/2012 10:22 PM, Sven Breuner wrote:
Is there maybe another check that could be used to find out if selinux is
disabled? (e.g. is_selinux_enabled(3) )
I'm not sure you could use that.
Even though
On 02/19/2012 05:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Also I was a bit surprised to see EBUSY and ENOENT in errno_unsupported().
Can one assume there are no other attributes on a device if you get those?
I added those to align with ACL_NOT_WELL_SUPPORTED from
lib/acl-internal.h
On 02/23/2012 09:28 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 02/23/2012 12:50 PM, har...@redhat.com wrote:
From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com
With the --relative --symbolic options, ln computes the relative
symbolic link for the user.
So, ln works just as cp, but creates relative symbolic links instead
On 02/24/2012 07:58 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
har...@redhat.com wrote:
With the --relative --symbolic options, ln computes the relative
symbolic link for the user.
I also like this idea.
$ ln -s -v --relative usr/bin/foo usr/lib/foo/link-to-foo
'usr/lib/foo/link-to-foo' - 'foo'
$
On 02/26/2012 10:56 PM, Sven Breuner wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote on 02/20/2012 11:54 AM:
On 02/20/2012 02:06 AM, Sven Breuner wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote on 02/20/2012 12:54 AM:
I just booted RHEL 6.2 with selinux=0 on the kernel command line,
so as I could test new files without a context
On 02/26/2012 02:12 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
All,
I think there is a mistake in the output file names format description
of the split invocation section. Indeed, there is a reference to a
nonexistent option (-r). I think the right option is --number with r/n
(round-robin distribution)
* src/dd.c: Move is_nul() from here to ...
* src/system.h: ... here
* src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Adjust to use the refactored is_nul()
---
src/copy.c | 33 +++--
src/dd.c | 21 -
src/system.h | 21 +
3 files changed,
On 03/01/2012 07:44 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Hi Pádraig,
Finally, I found time to work again on this patch. I provided it as
attachment.
I'm not completely satisfied with the documentation part. I've tried to
be more specific but it becomes quickly complicated. So I get back the
Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2188210 (which uses XFS).
* tests/dd/sparse (alloc_equal): Add a block allocation
comparison function that accounts for variations due
to alignment.
---
tests/dd/sparse | 14 --
1 files changed,
On 03/02/2012 04:27 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
[...]
That's problematic.
Is your locale ar_SA? as that's the only one
on my system that triggers:
My locale is fr_FR.utf8
for loc in $(locale -a | grep -vF .); do
echo $loc; printf %s\n 2 1 . | LC_ALL=$loc sort
done | grep 1 -B1 |
On 03/02/2012 09:35 AM, Heinz-Ado Arnolds wrote:
Hi,
I have a minor problem with the *static* building of coreutils. Building
timeout requires libpthread in addition to librt.
A simple patch is enclosed.
Thanks a lot for your great work and kind regards,
Is this on an older
On 03/02/2012 05:07 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Ah drats, yes you need to check the combinations.
$ printf %s\n .b a. | LC_ALL=en_US sort
a.
.b
$ printf %s\n . a | LC_ALL=en_US sort
.
a
Yep. BTW, do you know where I could find the sorting rules for each
locale? I was looking for it to
On 03/02/2012 05:39 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
Pádraig, others,
Do you know where I could find the sorting rules for each locale (for my
personal interest)?
They're part of glibc and installed on my Fedora system by default.
/usr/share/i18n/locales/fr_FR
On 03/03/2012 02:10 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
All,
I'm interesting in implementing these features:
1. basename BSD options and behavior compatibility:
Add the following options:
-s, --suffix: specify the suffix
-a, --multiple: every argument is treated as a string as if basename
On 03/03/2012 07:58 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
On 03/03/2012 02:10 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
All,
I'm interesting in implementing these features:
1. basename BSD options and behavior compatibility:
Add the following options:
-s, --suffix: specify the suffix
-a, --multiple: every
On 03/04/2012 07:09 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
[...]
I just logged onto an OS X box there and you're right:
$ printf %s\n 1/1 2/2 | xargs basename
1
$ printf %s\n 1/1 2/2 3/3| xargs basename
1
2
3
However I think it's dangerous to do that.
If I was writing a script I would probably
On 03/07/2012 02:02 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 03/04/2012 07:09 PM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
[...]
I just logged onto an OS X box there and you're right:
$ printf %s\n 1/1 2/2 | xargs basename
1
$ printf %s\n 1/1 2/2 3/3| xargs basename
1
2
3
However I think it's dangerous to do
On 03/09/2012 06:37 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
This fixes a typo in the NEWS of commit
f7f398a du: fix -x: don't ignore non-directory arguments
yesterday.
Have a nice day,
Berny
From e3d303036345db49ace5fcd7216ac64c52bf024a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Voelker
On 03/10/2012 11:13 AM, Jérémy Compostella wrote:
BTW, reviewing your changes I discovered that when a user specifies a
suffix length zero the old behavior was to use the default length of 2
and the new is, of course, the suffix auto length way.
Well spotted. I noticed that too, but thought 0
On 03/14/2012 08:38 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Most of the time, if someone wants to filter which paths are
relative while leaving all others absolute, they also want to
to the filtering based on the same --relative-to directory.
Make this easier to specify.
--- a/src/realpath.c
+++
On 03/14/2012 08:38 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
As promised, here's my cleaned up series for http://debbug.gnu.org/10472
This is very thorough.
I can't find any logic issues at all.
I'm not sure whether to squash 2 and 3 into one patch.
separate is fine
I'm not sure whether we want patch 6/6, so
On 03/14/2012 10:15 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/14/2012 04:04 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 03/14/2012 08:38 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
As promised, here's my cleaned up series for http://debbug.gnu.org/10472
This is very thorough.
I can't find any logic issues at all.
I'm not sure whether
I see the new sort-discrim test fails on systems
without GMP (in this case solaris).
The attached should fix it.
cheers,
Pádraig.
From 020469e65861bac3d62a7d0bb197431bfb957647 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= p...@draigbrady.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:23:13 +
After my patches mentioned previously in this thread,
I get no failures on
Fedora 15 2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Kernel 10.8.0: i386
Debian 5.0 2.6.26-2-sparc64-smp
Solaris 10 SPARC-Enterprise-T5220
cheers,
Pádraig.
On 03/17/2012 04:16 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Bruno Haible wrote:
On Solaris 9 and 10, there are 2 test failures:
FAIL: misc/sort-discrim
FAIL: dd/sparse
These were not present in the previous test
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-01/msg00049.html.
Thanks. With the
On 03/19/2012 11:23 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
-/* Print the context information of FILENAME, and return true iff the
+/* Print the context information of FILENAME, and return true if the
I think that's more correct/descriptive as is.
cheers,
Pádraig.
On 03/22/2012 10:53 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 03/21/2012 10:53 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
* src/system.h: Include gnulib's pathmax.h to ensure
we set PATH_MAX only if needed.
---
src/system.h |1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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Thanks for the review.
I agree with all points,
and split the patch as Eric suggested,
and pushed.
cheers,
Pádraig.
On 03/28/2012 11:07 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
I don't see a way to explicit set -t to non-blank to blank
transition, although implicit it is set so. Is there a way to
explictly set -t to non-blank to blank transition?
No.
More general, is
there a way to set the separator to other
On 02/24/2012 01:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 02/24/2012 04:11 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Why restrict this to symlinks - it could also be useful for
hardlinks, right?
Well hardlinks reference inodes and so are independent
of any naming, whether relative or absolute etc.
Furthermore,
ln
On 04/02/2012 10:30 PM, Simon Hintermann wrote:
Hello all,
I have a tricky one (so do I think)...
My virtual machines are raw-based files, created with a dd if=/dev/zero
of=.. bs=1M count=0 seek=12, for example.
As I want to have native I/O performances on my servers, I do not use
On 04/16/2012 04:45 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
This is on the edge...
I generally prefer to use memcpy when the length is already computed,
so I propose to do that here. However, this is certainly not
performance sensitive, and the strcpy invocation is slightly simpler
and hence a little more
On 04/19/2012 12:15 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
strncpy is particularly bad, but even strcpy is best avoided.
Yep, strncpy may not NUL terminate,
so using it is awkward as detailed here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/gcc/string_buffers.html
stpcpy/stpncpy are appropriate here as the buffer
On 04/24/2012 12:53 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 04/24/2012 01:15 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
With those changes, the affected files are then very compressible.
With some file system types/options, won't they occupy far fewer
blocks than before?
Good point.
The dd/sparse one could
On 04/26/2012 01:39 AM, Quinton Dunning wrote:
To whom it may concern,
Sometimes when I execute the split command I want to use removable media and
take a file part over to another machine. To do this, the split command would
have to have a switch that would pause and wait for a keystroke
On 04/27/2012 12:52 PM, Henrikki Almusa wrote:
Hi,
I have a situation where I want to create with a script a directory path
based on input. The mkdir -p allows this nicely. However since I want to
enforce certain permissions on it I thought that I can use mkdir -pmmode to
create this.
On 04/27/2012 03:32 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
Our corporate infrastructure only allows CIFS shares. No FTP access.
No scp access. Nope. Gotta be CIFS. One of these is on the other
side of the pond. The pipe is fairly fat, but very, very long.
Sometimes, like yesterday, after 8 hours of
On 04/27/2012 06:47 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 04/27/2012 06:15 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
Thank you for the suggestions. I did finish my particular task with rsync,
but I'd still like something that finishes in less than 10 hours.
Just to be clear, you started with cp, went home, resumed
On 04/30/2012 07:16 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
I think it's time to apply your patch:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-07/msg00059.html
Here are numbers from a 3.2GHz i7-970 with 1333MHz DDR3:
1024=2.6 GB/s
2048=4.4 GB/s
4096=6.5 GB/s
8192=8.5 GB/s
On 04/30/2012 01:19 PM, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
Hello, coreutils developers!
I use flock(1) from coreutils in my scripts
flock is from util-li...@vger.kernel.org
cheers,
Pádraig
On 05/01/2012 05:15 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 04/27/2012 08:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Yes, cp is bad for high latency links as it has a
32KiB buffer which it serially reads to and writes from.
Why this that, though? At least for file-to-file copy, it could
certainly do much better
On 05/01/2012 04:43 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote:
On 05/01/2012 05:15 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 04/27/2012 08:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
32KiB buffer which it serially reads to and writes from.
Why this that, though
On 05/02/2012 09:35 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/30/2012 08:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/30/2012 07:08 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Here's a new syntax-check rule (patch 3/3).
1 and 2 fix violations so that the new check passes.
For now, this is only in coreutils (grep had
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