Patch to colorize setuid, setgid, and sticky files/dirs

2004-01-13 Thread Chris Spiegel
Hi, I've written up a patch for coreutils that allows you to set colors for setuid/setgid executables and sticky-bit directories (this idea was taken from FreeBSD's ls). I admit that I don't necessarily completely understand the code for colorization; however, this patch appears to work just

Re: cvsu --list during distcheck

2004-01-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Alexandre Duret-Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim. I've got another problem with this while trying to test the upcoming automake 1.8.1 on coreutils 5.1.0. The use of cvsu in distcheck rules prevents users to run `make distcheck' (because CVS/Entries does not exist in released tarballs).

Re: cvsu --list during distcheck

2004-01-13 Thread Jim Meyering
... m4/gettext.m4: cat $ac_given_srcdir/$ac_dir/POTFILES.in | sed -e /^#/d -e /^[ ]*\$/d -e s,.*, $top_srcdir/ , | sed -e \$s/\(.*\) /\1/ $ac_dir/POTFILES m4/progtest.m4: IFS=${IFS=}; ac_save_ifs=$IFS; IFS=${IFS}: Makefile.maint: found SPACE-TAB sequence;

Re: cvsu --list during distcheck

2004-01-13 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Jim == Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Jim If there is a publicly maintained tool that does the same Jim job, I'll be happy to switch. Maybe you could simply contribute yours to cvs-utils. Jim Do you mean this project? Jim http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/cvs-utils/

-10 does not give any warning!

2004-01-13 Thread Matthias Kopfermann
hi you superkind and helpful coreutils-developers. with some disappointment i have read that because of posix compliance nice can no longer support -number. it's good to stay compatible so your decision is probably right to bow to this standard. what is bad: i don't get any response when i use the