bug#11043: chmod - new feature - restore default mode regarding the umask value

On 10/15/18 9:28 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: On 27/03/12 09:54 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Here's a proposed patch to document the already-existing feature on this point. Seems like the patch in https://bugs.gnu.org/11043#14 was ready but never committed. OK to commit? Yes, and thanks.

bug#11748: acknowledged by developer ()

On 10/15/18 2:21 PM, Boruch Baum wrote: What is the basis for closing this bug report? The issue has not yet been fixed (6+ years and counting...). The problem is not actually a bug, in that the behavior of "TZ=Asia/Moscow date" is deliberately not specified by POSIX or by the coreutils

bug#11748: acknowledged by developer ()

What is the basis for closing this bug report? The issue has not yet been fixed (6+ years and counting...). On 2018-10-15 13:11, GNU bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report > #11748: date: "Asia" Timezone, > which was filed against the coreutils

bug#12815: [bug-coreutils] build glitches in coreutils-8.20

close 12815 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 06/11/12 07:17 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/06/2012 01:40 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: I've now successfully built and installed coreutils-8.20 on about 20 flavors of Unix on several different CPU families. Thanks a lot for all this

bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue

severity 12793 wishlist retitle 12793 build: configure should warn about 'root' earlier ( FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ) close 12793 stop (triaging old bugs) On 05/11/12 08:12 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 11/03/2012 10:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/03/2012 02:36 PM, Michael Felt wrote: Would

bug#12601: du crashes on TMFS fuse filesystem

tags 12601 moreinfo close 12601 stop (triaging old bugs) On 08/10/12 04:16 PM, Alexandre Bique wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/08/2012 03:25 AM, Alexandre Bique wrote: A bug has been reported of du crash while scanning a tmfs mount point:

bug#12052: grep carriage return conflicts with output color highlighting

tags 12052 notabug close 12052 stop (triaging old bugs) On 25/07/12 05:34 PM, Judson Wilson wrote: I had trouble grepping carriage returns (grep $'\r' ) until I realized the lines were printing blank. This is a 'grep' bug, but you wrote to "bugs-coreut...@gnu.org". If you still encounter

bug#12014: cp -p fails to preserve permissions on sshfs

tags 12014 notabug close 12014 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 21/07/12 09:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 07/19/2012 06:10 PM, Jared Henley wrote: Is there some security reason why the permissions fall back to 600 when the chown fails Absolutely. The user has indicated the desire for a

bug#7214: sort --debug maps large old-style field number to 0 in diagnostic

tags 7214 wontfix close 7214 stop (triaging old bugs) On 14/10/10 10:48 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/14/10 05:44, Jim Meyering wrote: *val = SIZE_MAX; + if (debug) /* Note --debug must come before keys to diagnose this. */ +error (0, 0, _("%" PRIuMAX " is too large,

bug#11956: misc/tty-eof: sometimes failure under heavy load

tags 11956 moreinfo close 11956 stop (triaging old bugs) On 01/08/12 08:04 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 08/01/2012 01:41 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks for the report. I'll bet that the 1-second timeout is expiring. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce that failure anymore in a constant

bug#11760: mv

tags 11760 moreinfo close 11760 stop (triaging old bugs) On 21/06/12 01:52 PM, Graham Lawrence wrote: Slackware 13.37, mv (GNU coreutils) 8.11 On an ntfs file system I had a directory containing almost 9GB of subdirectories and files. Started to move entire thing to a different ntfs file

bug#11671: Bootstrap randomly fails on Hydra

close 11671 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 14/06/12 03:16 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Paul Eggert skribis: On 06/12/2012 01:14 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: ‘$top_srcdir/gnulib/build-aux’ was indeed r-xr-xr-x. Can you please try to reproduce that problem with build-aux, if only

bug#11437: coreutils: Please disable misc/nice test on hurd-i386]

severity 11437 wishlist retitle 11437 nice: tests: please disable on hurd-i386 stop (triaging old bugs) On 08/05/12 12:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/08/2012 12:39 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: The misc/nice test currently fails on hurd-i386 because the nice support there is not precise enough

bug#11429: regarding conflict type error in compilation process

tags 11429 moreinfo close 11429 stop On 07/05/12 05:38 AM, mahesh gadde wrote: > i am getting an error in compilation process in Linux environment, [...] On 07/05/12 05:11 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Could you give more details about your problem? With no follow-ups in 6 years, I'm closing this

bug#11184: [lfs-dev] uname -i, -p show 'unknown' after update to coreutils-8.16

tags 11184 wontfix severity 11184 wishlist close 11184 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 05/04/12 02:34 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote: That's because we (LFS) dropped the uname patch from our build instructions because upstream won't take it in its current form. If my understanding is correct,

bug#11115: linux date arithmetic

tags 5 notabug close 5 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 28/03/12 06:39 AM, Stefan Karamuz wrote: Please check the 2 linux commands: date -d "$(date +%F\ %H:%M:%S)" +%F\ %H:%M:%S date -d "$(date +%F\ %H:%M:%S) + 1 minute" +%F\ %H:%M:%S It's very confusing, because the results of

bug#11043: chmod - new feature - restore default mode regarding the umask value

(triaging old bugs) On 27/03/12 09:54 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Here's a proposed patch to document the already-existing feature on this point. Seems like the patch in https://bugs.gnu.org/11043#14 was ready but never committed. OK to commit? -assaf

bug#11023: coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3: testsuite failures on NetBSD

close 11023 stop (triaging old bugs) On 16/03/12 10:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Stefano Lattarini wrote: On NetBSD 5.1: FAIL: rm/inaccessible FAIL: misc/date FAIL: misc/printf-cov FAIL: misc/sort-discrim FAIL: cp/preserve-slink-time FAIL: dd/sparse FAIL:

bug#10921: who - insufficient memory

tags 10921 moreinfo close 10921 stop (triaging old bugs) With no further follow-ups or replies in 6 years, I'm closing this bug. regards, - assaf

bug#10900: Clarification re: Regarding the observed bugs in cp

tags 10900 moreinfo close 10900 stop (triaging old bugs) On 30/08/12 10:39 PM, era eriksson wrote: From: subratkumar To: era eriksson Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:04 On Thursday 30 August 2012 01:38 PM, era eriksson wrote: I stumbled across your recent bug report for cp

bug#10877: [sort] too eager to use temp files (WAS: Wimpy external files)

tags 10877 fixed close 10877 stop (triaging old bugs) The original issue reported in this bug was fixed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=a507ed6ede5064b8f15c979e54e6de3bb478d73e Additional issues regarding sort/memory/temp files optimiazations have not been

bug#10545: make check failures on virtual machine at hoster 1und1.de

close 10545 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello Bernhard! On 18/01/12 11:47 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: Running `make check` on a virtual machine at 1und1.de is failing for 5 tests: FAIL: misc/nproc-avail FAIL: tail-2/wait FAIL: ls/stat-dtype FAIL: ls/stat-free-color FAIL: tail-2/follow-stdin

bug#10234: Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make

On 10/15/18 7:51 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: That, and POSIX is considering standardizing make behavior of nested variable expansion As such (and with no further follow-up in 6 years), I'm closing this bug. Thanks. By the way, the problem was fixed at the Automake level, so there was no need

bug#10363: /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink affects df(1) output for

tags 10363 fixed close 10363 stop (triaging old bugs) Fix for 'long ugly UUID names' commited in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=1e18d8416f9ef43bf08982cabe54220587061a08 With no further follow-ups about other issues raised in this thread in 6 years, I'm closing this

bug#10317: su: -l and -p should not be used together

close 10317 stop (triaging old bugs) su(1) is no longer maintained in coreutils, and most distributions have switched to util-linux's su(1). Closing this bug. regards, - assaf

bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc)

severity 10281 wishlist tags 10281 wontfix retitle 10281 du: hard-links counting with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc) close 10281 (triaging old bugs) [...] On 18/02/13 01:18 AM, Elliott Forney wrote: >> My reading of >> is that POSIX

bug#10234: Coreutils incompatibility with POSIX make

tags 10234 wontfix close 10234 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 06/12/11 10:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 12/06/2011 10:36 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Paul Eggert wrote: On 12/06/11 01:11, Basavaraj B wrote: )rm -f alloca.h-t alloca.h && { echo '/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */';

bug#10020: cp -i -l asks for permission to overwrite then fails to do so

tags 10020 wontfix severity 10020 wishlish close 10020 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 19/11/11 09:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Maximiliano Curia wrote: [...] A small test could be: $ rm -rf test; ls test; mkdir test; touch test/a test/b; cp -il test/a test/b ls: cannot access test: No

bug#9939: Problems with the SIZE description in man pages for and

tags 9939 fixed close 9939 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 02/11/11 04:40 AM, abdallah clark wrote: > I am taking a course in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and have met with > some difficulty interpreting the following statement in the man pages > for several commands: > > SIZE may be (or

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

tags 9614 wontfix severity 9614 wishlist retitle 9614 date: warn on invalid TZ string (was: date ignoring wrong TZ values) stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 27/09/11 11:48 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 09/27/11 22:44, Sandro Santilli wrote: A warning/error message with hint on how to

bug#9594: 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions): Special mode bits assume file is regular

close 9594 retitle 9594 doc: expand 27.3 Numeric modes (File permissions) stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 25/09/11 07:57 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: Le 2011-09-25 00:11, Paul Eggert a écrit : On 09/24/11 14:33, Filipus Klutiero wrote: These correspondences assume that the file is a

bug#9086: ls --color case insensitive extension matching

severity 9086 wishlist tags 9086 fixed close 9086 stop (triaging old bugs) Six years later, "ls --color" just gained case-insensitive extension matching. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=24053fbd Closing the bug. -assaf

bug#9141: fdatasync module proposal (WAS: Coreutils Compiler Warnings on OSX 10.7)

tags 9141 moreinfo close 9141 stop (Triaging old bugs) On 16/09/11 01:02 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 09/16/11 11:28, Eric Blake wrote: Do we know this to be the case, or are you just going off of web searches? The latter. I just now tried to find that stuff again, and couldn't, so let's just

bug#9297: po has no install-html target

tags 9297 fixed close 9297 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 13/08/11 05:39 PM, Aaron Davies wrote: install-html fails diff -Naur coreutils-8.12/po/Makefile.in.in coreutils-8.12-patched/po/Makefile.in.in --- coreutils-8.12/po/Makefile.in.in2011-04-26 10:16:44.0 + +++

bug#9394: Fwd: Re: bug#9394: coreutils-8.7 - few test cases failed

tags 9394 moreinfo close 9394 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 13/09/11 04:58 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: Toralf Förster wrote at 12:57:39 Jim Meyering wrote at 11:49:26 Are there any test failures with *unmodified* coreutils-8.13 on your system? No. Therefore I should file a bug

bug#9067: Feature patch for chroot, adding --hostname parameter

severity 9067 wishlist tags 9067 wontfix close 9067 (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 13/07/11 04:46 AM, za...@xs4all.nl wrote: Here is a small patch to chroot that adds the ability to run the chroot environment with a different namespace for the hostname. I am hoping that other people (besides

bug#8063: Bug with su in terminal

tags 8063 moreinfo close 8063 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 17/02/11 09:45 AM, Ondrej Vasik wrote: shawez khan wrote: Dear Sir/Madam I am facing a problem with root password while entering via terminal. Even it is accessible by other GUI boxes. I am using Fedora