bug#19376: [PATCH 4/4] build: use -pi.bak instead of -pi

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 19376 wontfix close 19376 stop (triaging old bugs) As explained in https://bugs.gnu.org/19377#18 , Leaving backup files scattered is undesired. Closing this as "wontfix". regards, - assaf

bug#7829: locale-related printf bug when using formats with thousands grouping character

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 7829 fixed close 7829 stop (triaging old bugs) On 12/01/11 06:58 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Ouch - coreutils' printf is also affected: $ /usr/bin/printf %\'.2f\\n 999.9998 99.9998 100 1000.00 ,000,000.00 1,000,000.00 At least printf(1) already uses the xprintf-posix module, so

bug#9339: Feature suggestion --distribution

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 9339 stop With no further comments in 7 years, I'm closing this item. -assaf

bug#19374: [PATCH 2/4] build: configure.ac: support a response file on OS/2

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 19374 fixed close 19374 stop (triaging old bugs) This has been fixed in the following commits: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=70d8d0f874d11990be48b7b6b70c2c274000b3da

bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users'

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 13737 stop (triaging old bugs) On 18/02/13 06:29 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 02/18/2013 01:44 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: "-h" is already a well matured practice to be implemented '-h' means something other than "help" for many common GNU commands: ls, touch, sort, bash, etc. If we got

bug#18395: shred let me kill a mounted device

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18395 notabug close 18395 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 03/09/14 07:32 AM, macetw wrote: I expect the shred utility to notice that it's about to operate on a mounted device, but it gave no such indication. It seems your email "fell between the cracks" and not replied to in many

bug#10446: GNU Youtube Advanced Command Line KungFu

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 10446 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 07/01/12 02:29 PM, Jan Girke wrote: It would be very bold if you make complete video how to's for all the command line tools and the different CLI's. For example somebody from the core utils group showed me how to sort coloumns on the standard

bug#18798: ls -Rd = ls -d so maybe warn

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18798 moreinfo close 18798 stop (triaging old bugs) On 23/10/14 12:17 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: "BP" == Bob Proulx writes: BP> What would you say there instead of or in addition to the above? I don't really know the best words. I'll leave that to the Pro(ulx)s :-) With no further

bug#10010: "su" *should* check on SUID bit

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 10010 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 10/11/11 10:00 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: severity 10010 wishlist tags 10010 + confirmed Michael Lenz wrote: Aaand I was unable to su to root, due to an "invalid password", which was strange.. That does seem less than friendly and seems like it

bug#18949: (no subject)

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18949 fixed close 18949 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, Philippe Rassek wrote: when running for example seq 1 0 10 it will go into an endless loop. Imho the 2nd parameter (Increment Statement) should be checked for > 0 (greater then 0) before executing. It seems your email "fell between

bug#18292: Unix Uniq Feature Proposal

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 18292 wishlist tags 18292 wontfix close 18292 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 18/08/14 02:58 AM, NTENTOS STAVROS wrote: After running into a problem with differentiating line endings (a bug with sort, you can follow up my previous e-mail if more details are needed), I purpose an

bug#18186: cat.c needs fixing since 1998

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18186 moreinfo close 18186 stop (triaging old bugs) On 08/08/14 07:14 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 08/08/2014 06:52 AM, James Simmons, President & CEO wrote: Each file has 1 line with no newline. concatenation should NOT have a newline. That is the point of concatenation. As you

bug#14592: dd - possible error

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14592 moreinfo close 14592 stop (triaging old bugs) On 11/06/13 06:02 PM, Jared Still wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: I doubt dd is at issue here. [...] Is the corruption always 37,533,700 bytes in? Thanks for the input. Good question about the

bug#14545: date --iso-8601 should use colon in time zone offset

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14545 fixed close 14545 stop (triaging old bugs) This was fixed in: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=17bbf6ce44eb543a95695fa9d2cbd70fb52c6f42 Marking as "fixed" and closing. -assaf

bug#14525: ls -k produced no size, ls -lk lists in bytes? What's up w/k?

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14525 notabug close 14525 stop (triaging old bugs) On 26/11/13 08:53 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: Doc update attached. With the update pushed, I'm closing this bug. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=17bce8c63e9e0f85b48ca62b63413ce9102af5c1 regards, - assaf

bug#14456: Stat I18N problem with the format string.

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 14456 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 23/05/13 02:39 PM, camion_spam-debr...@yahoo.fr wrote: stat (GNU coreutils) 8.5 the format string length is counted in bytes and not in characters so that the presence of variable length characters causes misalignment In the following example

bug#14327: I am getting random hangs executing coreutils 8.21 sort.

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14327 moreinfo retitle 14327 sort: random hangs executing coreutils 8.21 close 14327 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 05/05/13 12:08 AM, Chen Guo wrote: [...] I confirmed this in the disassembly as well to rule out the unlikely possibility this was the result of some compiler

bug#14275: cut: applying previous patch

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14275 fixed close 14275 stop (triaging old bugs) On 26/04/13 07:37 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/26/2013 02:02 PM, Cojocaru Alexandru wrote: Hi, a while ago I've sent a patch. Could it be applied now? You can find it here:

bug#14253: Testsuite failure in gnulib-tests: test programs cannot be built

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14253 fixed close 14253 stop (triaging old bugs) 5 years later, coreutils and gnulib-tests are built fine (most of the time...). Closing. -assaf

bug#14246: tee can't continue when receiving SIGPIPE + adding a text mode option

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14246 fixed close 14246 stop (triaging old bugs) In coreutils version 8.24 (released 2015) 'tee' gained the '--output-error=MODE' option, enabling SIGPIPE handling. I'm marking this as "fixed" and closing. regards, - assaf

bug#14174: BUG REP: tee takes an annoyingly long time in some system.

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 14174 moreinfo close 14174 thanks (triaging old bugs) On 11/04/13 04:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: [...] So tee is spending time in read() waiting for data from stdin, and this doesn't happen when writing to file. So I can only conclude that sqlci is doing something weird with pipes. Is it

bug#8017: posixtm failure

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 8017 moreinfo close 8017 stop (triaging old bugs) On 11/02/11 08:12 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: That's a weird one. What type is time_t on that platform, exactly? Signed or unsigned? 32- or 64-bit? That test is depending on undefined behavior at the C level, since it assumes signed integer

bug#7523: chmod example in docs

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 7523 moreinfo notabug close 7523 stop (triaging old bugs) With no further comments and no improvement suggestions in 8 years, I'm closing this bug. -assaf

bug#13911: make check errors for coreutils-8.21 on Solaris 10

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13911 moreinfo close 13911 stop (triaging old bugs) On 10/03/13 04:35 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: I suspect you're on NFS, and for some reason, the cleanup fails. The reason could be that the tail process didn't exit yet. Does the following additional 'wait' help? With no further

bug#13765: coreutils-8.21, some changes needed

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13765 fixed retitle 13765 build: HP-NonStop fix close 13765 stop (triaging old bugs) On 19/02/13 02:08 AM, Joachim Schmitz wrote: In an attempt to port coreutils 8.21 to HP-NonStop I stumbled accross a couple problems, here are my fixes to them: Here another file needs to get adjusted

bug#13555: printf ignores length modifier

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13555 notabug close 13555 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, > Paul Eggert wrote: > >> Marcel Böhme wrote: >>> $old/printf "%hi\n" 0x >>> -1 >>> $printf "%hi\n" 0x >>> 65535 >> >> None of these length modifiers are specified by POSIX, >> so we're talking about what it's more useful

bug#13516: tests/rm/unread3 fails on Mac OS X 10.8

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 13516 stop (triaging old bugS) Hello, On 03/02/13 10:33 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 02/01/2013 05:40 PM, Global Odey wrote: I'm afraid I'm still puzzled. Still, the patch improves things, since it fixes what appears to be a serious bug [...] >

bug#13371: removing @acronym from manual

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13371 fixed close 13371 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 06/01/13 04:09 PM, Karl Berry wrote: Since there's no special benefit to using @acronym{GNU} or @sc{gnu} over just plain "GNU", it's merely about typographic preferences, my suggestion was that it was better to avoid the whole

bug#13360: removing @sc from manual

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13360 fixed close 13360 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 06/01/13 05:48 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 01/04/2013 11:39 PM, Karl Berry wrote: He replaced @acronym.  @sc should go too. [...] Pushed with those adjustments. Only one @sc left in the manual, and I assume it is

bug#13354: sort: File Merge Order is Suboptimal with Many Passes

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13354 moreinfo close 13354 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 04/01/13 08:48 AM, Jason Bucata wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:01:50AM +, P�draig Brady wrote: On 01/04/2013 04:07 AM, Jason Bucata wrote: To get it ideal, we'd need a priority queue implementation here, maybe a heap

bug#13216: notsp: Everybody knows K bytes is kilobytes

2018-10-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13216 fixed close 13216 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 17/12/12 06:33 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: OK indeed "print the first K bytes of each file" would mean something like "print the first FEW kilobytes of each file," In 2015, head's help screen changed to "--bytes=[-]NUM".

bug#33075: Thanks

2018-10-18 Thread Vittorio Beggi GMAIL
Thank you for your gentle and quick reply. I am sorry to have misinterpreted parameter names (feel a little stupid too). Best Regards. -- Vittorio Beggi PHX di Beggi Vittorio via Cirenaica, 6 35141 Padova PD Tel/Fax: 049 8756276 Mobile: 340 4871253 mailto: vittorio.be...@gmail.com