bug#35032: date ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 formats

2019-03-28 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 3/28/19 10:20 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Would it be possible to make them both optional in --rfc-3339, and > > both mandatory in --iso-8601 ? > > Sorry, I don't understand what you're proposing, specifically. Can you >

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34488 fixed close 34488 stop Hello, The original request of "sort --limit" resulted in an improved "env" with options new options, which was included in the recent version 8.31. I'm therefor closing this item. -assaf

bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34700 notabug severity 34700 wishlist retitle: rm: add new --force option deal with read-only directories stop Hello, As explained by several people in this thread, This is not a bug in "rm -f", but the mandated behavior. Bob and others provided work-arounds ( https://bugs.gnu.org/34700#17

bug#34825: New fails in tests/{misc,cp} in v8.31 on OpenIndiana

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 34825 OpenIndiana: tests/{misc,cp} fail in v8.31 stop Hello, On 2019-03-11 1:10 a.m., Michal Nowak wrote: on OpenIndiana 2018.10 (illumos kernel) the test suite has three new fails in v8.31 (amd64) compared to v8.30: FAIL tests/misc/timeout-parameters.sh (exit status: 1) FAIL

bug#34894: Another solaris 10 ln issue on 8.31

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34894 fixed close 34894 stop On 2019-03-17 3:17 p.m., John Marino wrote: On 3/17/2019 15:28, Paul Eggert wrote: John Marino wrote: After applying the recent patch to 8.31 ln to fix functionality on solaris 10, I saw some improvement but I think there's something else wrong. Thanks.

bug#34923: Message/race bug in 'dd'

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34923 notabug severity 34923 wishlist retitle 34923 dd: add messages about IO errors stop On 2019-03-19 9:44 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Daniel A. Gauthier wrote: NOTICE that the "+nn" value on the line is always one off.  It says +0 after the first error, +1 after the second, etc. until the

bug#34968: (no subject)

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34968 notabug close 34968 stop On 2019-03-24 9:12 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: I don't know Dutch, but this looks to me like the regular output of "sha256sum --help" from an older version of coreutils (<8.25, because the --ignore-missing option is not yet there). What is wrong with it?

bug#34988: mv: check before asking users useless questions

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34988 notabug severity 34988 wishlist retitle 34988 mv: omit useless 'overwrite?' question stop On 2019-03-25 4:47 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 3/24/19 11:05 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: $ mv a b mv: overwrite 'b'? y mv: cannot overwrite non-directory 'b' with directory 'a' User thinks

bug#34905: uname: -i/-p returns "unknown"

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34905 moreinfo retitle 34905 uname: -i/-p returns "unknown" stop On 2019-03-19 9:48 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Wellington Almeida wrote: When using the -p and -i functions in the uname command I noticed that it returned an unknown result, can this be a bug? It could be a bug in the uname

bug#35032: date ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 formats

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 35032 wishlist retitle 35032 date: adjust rfc8601/3339 formats to W3C standard stop On 2019-03-28 11:20 a.m., Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Would it be possible to make them both optional in --rfc-3339, and both mandatory in --iso-8601 ? Or add a --w3c option that conforms to the W3C

bug#35032: date ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 formats

2019-03-28 Thread Paul Eggert
On 3/28/19 10:20 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Would it be possible to make them both optional in --rfc-3339, and > both mandatory in --iso-8601 ? Sorry, I don't understand what you're proposing, specifically. Can you say exactly what you want, with specific calls to 'date' and what you want the