Basic usage question involving "cut"

2006-07-31 Thread Linda Walsh
Don't know if this is the appropriate place for this, but if it isn't possible, I could "suggest" that it might be considered a bug or at least a "design deficiency". :-) Something that's always bothered me about "cut". It seems it has at least two ways to define fields, that I'm aware of: defin

[PATCH] su: dynamically looks for username holding uid 0

2006-07-31 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
Hi there, This patch has been written in order to allow 'su' to dynamically look for the username which has uid=0, instead of assuming it's named 'root' when no username is specified in the cmdline. The default name is still used if getpwuid(0) fails, so there's no modification on this program's

Re: bug in date utillity

2006-07-31 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Vladislav ZItikis wrote: I think, I find a bug in date calculations. This is example for demonstration: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] date Mon Jul 31 17:12:57 MSD 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] date -d "1 month ago" +"%m" 07 [EMAIL P

bug in date utillity

2006-07-31 Thread Vladislav ZItikis
Good evening I think, I find a bug in date calculations. This is example for demonstration: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] date --version date (GNU coreutils) 5.94 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redi

Re: Providing support for the Win32 API.

2006-07-31 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:39:38PM +, Eric Blake wrote: > > In general the changes revolve around: > > > - lstat vs. stat. > > - mkdir without a mode argument. > > These two are already handled by the sys_stat_module of gnulib. Excellent. I will have to look into this. > > - Symlink handlin

uniq i18n implementation

2006-07-31 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>However I notice v5.2.1 at least only seems to handle ascii: >> >>$ LANG=ga_IE.utf8 uniq -i < Pádraig >>Pádraig >>PÁdraig > > > Yes, that's still a problem. > Would you like to work on it? > You should have warned me :) Anyway

Coreutils testsuite failures

2006-07-31 Thread Andreas Schwab
Every now and then the tail-2/assert and tail-2/assert-2 tests fail. Here is an example for a failure of the first one: + tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 5.97 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU