bug#19305: Integrate dd wrapper progress-dd with coreutils

2014-12-08 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi there, I would like to see dd wrapper progress-dd into coreutils. All it does is to keep sending USR1 to a child dd process to increase usability of that dd feature. It's up here: http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=progress-dd.git;a=blob;f=progress-dd I'm happy to fix any potential issues about it

bug#19305: Integrate dd wrapper progress-dd with coreutils

2014-12-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/12/14 14:29, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hi there, I would like to see dd wrapper progress-dd into coreutils. All it does is to keep sending USR1 to a child dd process to increase usability of that dd feature. It's up here:

bug#19319: ? Unexpected behavior in diff(1)

2014-12-08 Thread Todd Shandelman
Hello, Padraig - How are you? Can you explain the behavior of diff(1) shown below? With -U1 and -U2 , the --ignore-matching-lines='Id' argument suppresses display of the difference between the 'Id' lines, as expected. But with -U3, the diff of the 'Id' lines reappears, in spite of the

bug#19319: ? Unexpected behavior in diff(1)

2014-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/08/2014 03:27 PM, Todd Shandelman wrote: With -U1 and -U2 , the --ignore-matching-lines='Id' argument suppresses display of the difference between the 'Id' lines, as expected. At that (small) level of context, the hunk containing the 'Id' line is separate from the remaining hunks, so the

bug#19319: ? Unexpected behavior in diff(1)

2014-12-08 Thread Todd Shandelman
Thanks. Well, I must say that is all rather counter-intuitive. I never dreamed that the amount of context I select would actually affect the diff itself and how it is computed. But if you say so, I guess that is how it works. Todd On 8 December 2014 at 16:46, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote:

bug#19319: ? Unexpected behavior in diff(1)

2014-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/08/2014 04:50 PM, Todd Shandelman wrote: [please don't top-post on technical lists] Thanks. Well, I must say that is all rather counter-intuitive. I never dreamed that the amount of context I select would actually affect the diff itself and how it is computed. The diff is computed the