bug#12421: Issue of the cp on Ubuntu 10.10

2012-09-12 Thread owen . zhao
Dear Sir, A strange issue happens when I use the cp tool on two directory. 1 I have an empty directiry owen@linux-b2-ali:~/work/ALi_SDK/DailyBuild/linux_20120911$ ls images/fs.install/ -a . .. 2 Then I cp an directory in this directory with -rf

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Philipp Thomas wrote:from the changelog (where you could have looked yourself ...). I need to be convinced that sort threading works on all platforms openSUSE/SLES support in order to disable that patch. --- I wasn't aware that openSUSE supported all platforms. However the people who wrote

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Jim Meyering
tags 12427 notabug thanks Linda Walsh wrote: ... Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default? I'll Cc' the coreutils bug-list on this and open a bug-report on this as should have been done originally, and maybe your questions can be addressed. Hi Linda, Do you realize

bug#12336: test bug

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12336 - moreinfo close 12336 thanks I haven't seen anything new on this for a week. I believe this to be a usage problem. Therefore I am closing this bug ticket. If you have different or new information please feel free to respond with it. Bob

bug#12162: [date] wrong time returned from provided relative date description

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12162 - moreinfo close 12162 thanks I haven't seen a response to this in a month. Therefore I am closing the ticket as resolved. If you have new information or clarification please feel free to continue the discussion. Bob

bug#11949: Symbolic links

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 11949 - moreinfo close 11949 thanks Pádraig Brady wrote: On 07/15/2012 05:56 PM, Nick Thomas wrote: Hello! I tried to create a symbolic link using ln -s ... but instead of getting a link of size about 20 bytes I obtained an executable file of length 1.9Mb i.e. a copy of the

bug#11164: reporting of bugs in lfs

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 11164 - moreinfo close 11164 thanks http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11164 It has been five months since more information was requested on this bug. Without further information nothing can be resolved. Therefore I am closing this ticket. If you do have more information

bug#10799: mv on virtual Ubuntu

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag -1 - moreinfo close -1 thanks Bob Proulx wrote: I think you have it diagnosed. PATH must be set to directories that are finding other versions of 'mv' down in path and in the above located over a gvfs filesystem. It has been many months since 18 Feb 2012 the last exchange on this bug. I

bug#10774: runcon'|

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
close 10774 thanks robert ethridge wrote: what does this do (...'|) in relation to runcon? It has been many months since Feb 2012 when more information was requested. Therefore I am closing this ticket. If you have more information please feel free to continue the discussion. Bob

bug#9921: ./configure coreutils 8.14 on oneiric ubuntu 64 bit errors - see config.log

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 9921 - moreinfo close 9921 thanks Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/31/11 06:19, Martin Suchanek wrote: I have got some errors and warnings which you can see in attached log file. It's normal for 'configure' to generate warnings for conflicting types and whatnot. Is there any error and/or

bug#6970: gnu cp problem

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
It has been quite a while since 01 Sep 2010 when this bug ticket last had any activity. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6970 Has the relevance of this issue expired? Thanks, Bob

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
OpenSuSE's maintainer/integrator of the gnu sort package believes it to be faulty -- that's why I forwarded it here, in hopes that his concerns would be heard/dealt with. If the downstream maintain thinks there is a bug in sort, then isn't submitting that bug back up stream the correct thing to

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh wrote: ... Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default? I'll Cc' the coreutils bug-list on thisand open a bug-report on this as should have been done originally, and maybe your questions can be addressed. Hi Linda, Do you

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
I hope to prove the subject convincingly in the following sections, If you can, reading this in the original HTML might be useful, as I don't know it will end up when converted to text. I tried to format it for readability .. so if the text format isn't...(still tried to limit margins and use

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 04:08 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: ... Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default? I'll Cc' the coreutils bug-list on thisand open a bug-report on this as should have been done originally, and maybe your questions

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 03:59 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: OpenSuSE's maintainer/integrator of the gnu sort package believes it to be faulty -- that's why I forwarded it here, in hopes that his concerns would be heard/dealt with. Nothing can be dealt with if it is not first identified what needs to be dealt

bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/12/2012 02:59 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: OpenSuSE's maintainer/integrator of the gnu sort package believes it to be faulty That is not a correct summary of the email that you forwarded. That email merely said that he was not convinced that it works. If no bugs are known, there's no point to

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 04:51 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I hope to prove the subject convincingly in the following sections, If you can, reading this in the original HTML might be useful, as I don't know it will end up when converted to text. HTML mail is forbidden on this list; the mail engine stripped it

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2012 06:28 PM, Eric Blake wrote: Before, rm -r bbb/ was not valid syntax -- Sorry, but 'rm -r bbb/' has ALWAYS been valid syntax in POSIX, and has always meant 'remove the directory found by resolving 'bbb', even if 'bbb' is a symlink to a directory. The fact that the Linux kernel

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2012-09-12 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: On 09/12/2012 04:51 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I hope to prove the subject convincingly in the following sections, If you can, reading this in the original HTML might be useful, as I don't know it will end up when converted to text. the mail engines sripped it to plain text