Bug#548292: coreutils: rm -i silently overridden by -f

2009-09-25 Thread Norman H. Azadian
Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-3 Severity: normal "rm -irf *" deletes everything without asking, whereas "rm -rfi *" will ask for each item. The conflicting options -i and -f are not handled well, and this is a problem for such a dangerous command. At the very least, it must be documented wha

Bug#487547: libgcj9-0: Null Pointer Exception in Datum constructor

2008-06-22 Thread Norman H. Azadian
Package: libgcj9-0 Version: 4.3.1-2 Severity: normal = cat DatumBug.java // DatumBug.java20080622NHA // Demonstrate bug in gij-4.3 final class DatumBug { public static void main (String args[]) { Datum date = new Datum(); }

Bug#301433: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#301433: bash: variables revert to original values when exiting loop involving read)

2005-03-26 Thread Norman H. Azadian
27;$val' I'm not an expert in bash, and you obviously are, so quite possibly I'm missing something. Could you please show me the part of the manpage that I need to read to obtain enlightenment? P.S. My test program is attached. NHA --- Norman H. AzadianTaegerishalde 13CH-3110 Mu

Bug#301433: bash: variables revert to original values when exiting loop involving read

2005-03-25 Thread Norman H. Azadian
Package: bash Version: 2.05b-24 Severity: important The following script illustrates the problem: #!/bin/sh val=initial cat <<-EOF | while read ;do first line second line EOF val=$REPLY echo "val is '