bug#44248: Indentation of --help and --version

2020-10-26 Thread Paul Eggert
One way to attack the problem is (1) use only one-liners for option help, and (2) not worry about indentation so much (either in English or in German) as the excess indenting doesn't help readability enough to justify the translation hassle. To do that, I propose changes like the attached for

bug#44248: Indentation of --help and --version

2020-10-26 Thread Roland Illig
Hi, As the German translator of coreutils, I fixed the indentation of the --help output today, for coreutils 8.31.90. While doing that, I noticed that the option "-z, --zero-terminated" is used by several programs that have different "native" indentation widths. Therefore their --help output

bug#44240: coreutils 8.30-3ubuntu2 "date" command doesn't like one specific date: 2020-09-06

2020-10-26 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, at 15:14, Leo Wandersleb wrote: > for some reason I get an error with one specific date but not with others: > > $ for i in 08 09 10; do for j in 5 6 7; do d="2020-$i-0$j"; echo $d $( date > -d"$d" ); done; done > 2020-08-05 Wed 05 Aug 2020 12:00:00 AM -04 > 2020-08-06 Thu 06

bug#44235: [PATCH] dd: drop old workaround for lseek() bug in Linux kernel

2020-10-26 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Monday, October 26, 2020 2:11:59 PM CET Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 26/10/2020 10:44, Kamil Dudka wrote: > > The workaround triggers warnings with new kernel versions in case > > a user does not have sufficient privileges for the MTIOCGET ioctl. > > > > * src/dd.c (skip_via_lseek): Drop wrapper

bug#44240: coreutils 8.30-3ubuntu2 "date" command doesn't like one specific date: 2020-09-06

2020-10-26 Thread Leo Wandersleb
Hi, for some reason I get an error with one specific date but not with others: $ for i in 08 09 10; do for j in 5 6 7; do d="2020-$i-0$j"; echo $d $( date -d"$d" ); done; done 2020-08-05 Wed 05 Aug 2020 12:00:00 AM -04 2020-08-06 Thu 06 Aug 2020 12:00:00 AM -04 2020-08-07 Fri 07 Aug 2020

bug#44235: [PATCH] dd: drop old workaround for lseek() bug in Linux kernel

2020-10-26 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:13 AM Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 26/10/2020 10:44, Kamil Dudka wrote: > > The workaround triggers warnings with new kernel versions in case > > a user does not have sufficient privileges for the MTIOCGET ioctl. > > > > * src/dd.c (skip_via_lseek): Drop wrapper function no

bug#44235: [PATCH] dd: drop old workaround for lseek() bug in Linux kernel

2020-10-26 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 26/10/2020 10:44, Kamil Dudka wrote: The workaround triggers warnings with new kernel versions in case a user does not have sufficient privileges for the MTIOCGET ioctl. * src/dd.c (skip_via_lseek): Drop wrapper function no longer needed. (skip): Use lseek() directly.

bug#44235: [PATCH] dd: drop old workaround for lseek() bug in Linux kernel

2020-10-26 Thread Kamil Dudka
The workaround triggers warnings with new kernel versions in case a user does not have sufficient privileges for the MTIOCGET ioctl. * src/dd.c (skip_via_lseek): Drop wrapper function no longer needed. (skip): Use lseek() directly. (advance_input_after_read_error): Use lseek() directly.