bug#10442: maybe a bug for tail

2012-01-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
tags 10442 notabug On 01/06/2012 10:58 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: yukuan yuk...@huawei.com writes: When I user tail -f FILENAME to follow a file, which is continually growing, the output sometimes stops. When I press ctrl-c to quit and right immediately follow the same file, output would

bug#10467: BUG Report: coreutils 64bit Build on Solaris 10

2012-01-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/09/2012 08:24 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: gfpmtipb GFP IP App ID wrote: coreutils-8.11 ... /appl/archives/build_tools/tools/src/coreutils-8.11/tests/misc/env-null: line 33: 27709 Killed env -i PATH=$PATH printenv -0 out2 + fail=1 Thanks for the report. The above

bug#10471: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Please do not close this bug... EB doesn't know what he is talking about -- he didn't read the bug. Original Message Subject: BUG: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:19:43 -0800 From: Linda Walsh , cyg...@tlinx.org

bug#10471: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
forcemerge 10468 10471 thanks On 01/09/2012 05:11 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Please do not close this bug... EB doesn't know what he is talking about -- he didn't read the bug. I did too read your report, but I stand by my position that upstream cp is doing the right things for a case-sensitive

bug#10468: bug#10471: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Linda Walsh
reopen 10468 thanks = You didn't answer my question.. I explained why it was a bug. You didn't explain why it is copying links. Don't put it on me to reproduce w/o cygwin... the program's isn't behaving as documented. If you think it is the cause of cygwin... I asked you to

bug#10468: bug#10471: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/09/2012 05:46 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: reopen 10468 thanks = You didn't answer my question.. I explained why it was a bug. You explained that the cygwin binary for cp didn't meet your expectations, but I in turn explained that the cygwin cp binary has code that is not

bug#10468: BUG: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 01/09/12 17:00, Linda Walsh wrote: cp is a gnu util, not part of linux, -- you should demonstrate that it is not a bug in cygwin This is not a practical division of labor. As a general rule, we don't have the resources to deal with Windows ports. I suggest raising this issue with the

bug#10468: BUG: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Linda Walsh
I see So the default policy is that if Windows touches it, gnu won't? I can see why MS, would be so hostile toward FSF/GNU... (that's how I feel^, and a bit nastier than I would normally say, but I'm having a really awful day...(not that you should care, but... will attempt a more

bug#10468: BUG: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
[please don't top-post on technical lists] On 01/09/2012 06:41 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I see So the default policy is that if Windows touches it, gnu won't? More like: Windows is at best a secondary system, and doesn't have as high as a priority since it does not promote freedom; you'll

bug#10468: BUG: Severe or critical - deletes existing files and leaves nothing. (cp)

2012-01-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 01/09/12 17:41, Linda Walsh wrote: Wouldn't it be appropriate, to keep such a bug at a low priority Perhaps; I don't know. Its priority is so low here that I'd rather not spend time thinking about whether it belongs in the bug database. For more on the topic of priorities please see

bug#10455: Date: Possible bug in ISO-8601 formatted dates

2012-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Dotan, Dotan Cohen wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Good. I am going to close the bug report ticket with this message then. No problem. I cannot test the later versions on any hardware I have lying around, so when I see my distro up to 8.13 I'll double check. If you would like me to confirm

bug#10455: Date: Possible bug in ISO-8601 formatted dates

2012-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:12, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: For you I would actually give you a login on one of my systems.  But instead how about if I send you a 'date' that is backported to Squeeze?  Even though you say you love-to-hate it? :-)  Then you can play with it and see the