Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Gilles Espinasse wrote: ... Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at - ... Is some directory in your $PATH group- or world-writable? It is insecure also if a parent of one of those directories is group- or world-writable. should not find `echo $PATH | sed 's/:/

closing in on coreutils-8.1

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
I've just pushed a few changes: build: do use AM_GNU_GETTEXT's need-formatstring-macros option Already discussed. Reverts my s/need-formatstring-macros/ngettext/ change and adds this comment: # As long as grep 'PRI[diouxX]' po/*.pot reports matches in #

a problem about -regen_schema_file

2009-11-16 Thread Feng Jin
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Re: a problem about -regen_schema_file

2009-11-16 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Feng Jin wrote: I am a user of Teamcenter engineering V9.02. now I have a problem about -regen_schema_file. [snip] c:\temp\tcenginstall -regen_schema_file -u=infodba -p=infodba -g=dba install: invalid option -- r Try `install --help' for more information. You have

mkdir - Command

2009-11-16 Thread Stefan Menne
Hello, The Commands ls (and others) and mkdir interpret Wildcard in different ways: - lsfil*/te*/file is ok, but - mkdir fi*/te*/directory doesn't work (only mkdir file/text/directory) I think, mkdir is an internal command, but wildcards should be allowed too. Greetings

Re: mkdir - Command

2009-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Stefan Menne on 11/16/2009 7:10 AM: Hello, The Commands ls (and others) and mkdir interpret Wildcard in different ways: No, they don't interpret wildcards at all. Globbing is a function of the shell, performed prior to ls or

new snapshot available: coreutils-8.0.123-bf5af

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Meyering
I expect this to be very similar to coreutils-8.1. Please give it a spin and report back that you did. This release inherits many portability improvements from gnulib (thanks mostly to Eric Blake), so if you can test on *BSD or Solaris, you should see fewer failed tests. The main change in

Re: FW: Documentation of POSIXLY_CORRECT

2009-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, Eric Blake writes: By the way, if you want to be portable to Solaris /bin/sh, you have to use: export POSIXLY_CORRECT POSIXLY_CORRECT= (the two lines can appear in either order). FWIW, you need to re-export a variable each time you change it; otherwise, it is possible that the

Re: FW: Documentation of POSIXLY_CORRECT

2009-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: export POSIXLY_CORRECT POSIXLY_CORRECT= (the two lines can appear in either order). FWIW, you need to re-export a variable each time you change it; otherwise, it is possible that the variable has the new value, but the environment

Re: FW: Documentation of POSIXLY_CORRECT

2009-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Eric Blake writes: | Therefore you should `export' again each environment variable that | you update; the export can occur before or after the assignment. You only have to do the export once for the life of the shell, not once per assignment. Yep, you're right. Sorry for the confusion,

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.0.108-3aff3

2009-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/9/2009 6:56 AM: FeeBSD 6 failures misc/env + env -u a=b true + fail=1 Hmm, I'll take a look at that. Sounds like we need rpl_unsetenv to reject invalid arguments. gnulib should work around this now. -

OpenBSD chown (was: pending patches?)

2009-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 11/14/2009 12:48 PM: However, I'm now seeing a failure on OpenBSD, where chown refuses to change ctime on files if there is no change to ownership: $ touch a $ gstat -c %z a 2009-11-14 20:06:35.175893000 +0100 $