bug#32291: Fwd: ls -ltcr and ls -lrt report different modification dates

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32291 notabug close 32291 stop Hello, Seems your message was not replied to in 6 months - sorry about that. On 2018-07-27 3:48 a.m., Ludovic Tolhurst-Cleaver wrote: `ls -ltcr` seems to be the one showing the correct date here. I like to use `ls -ltc` because it's my initials. My colleag

bug#34026: mention that long options aren't always as good as short options

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34026 wishlist retitle 34026 doc: explain long-vs-short options stop Hello, On 2019-01-09 9:23 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Yes do warn in the manual, as here root (so no $HOME) expected tilde expansion... Thanks. I'm marking this as a wish-list item. If we are to add a section ded

bug#33942: ls directly uses filename as option parameter

2019-01-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33942 notabug close 33942 stop Hello, On 2018-12-31 7:52 p.m., westlake wrote:  I have known long time about certain commands that use "--" as a specially reserved parameter. However, I find the behaviour of it with ls showing a little confusing results and believe this surmounts to a bu

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2019-01-01 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Paul, On 2019-01-02 12:08 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: I think this implementation is heading in the wrong direction. To determine whether a time zone string FOO is valid, a program should call tzalloc (FOO) and sees whether that yields NULL.  And if tzalloc doesn't work that way now, we sho

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2018-12-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-10-15 8:11 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: tags 9614 wontfix severity 9614 wishlist Changed my mind (and noticed that Paul removed the "wontfix" tag), so here goes... On 27/09/11 11:48 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 09/27/11 22:44, Sandro Santilli wrote: A warning/error me

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-31 6:24 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 12/31/2018 4:23 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: these are all tangents. The topic of this thread is adding support for a global configuration file.   That request is not likely to be implemented. One of the main points here was that some

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-31 4:36 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 12/20/2018 5:21 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: If there was an "rm --depth-first" feature, --- If you would ensure that this is possible, you would have my gratitude. There seem to be some confusion: this item was "#2"

bug#32250: ls -explain better the different times

2018-12-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Paul, On 2018-12-31 1:05 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Assaf Gordon wrote: Attached is an improvement suggestion, adding a summary table, and details examples. Comments and feedback welcomed, Thank you for reviewing and providing feedback - goes to show that things aren't that easily

bug#26902: good invalid dates vs. bad invalid dates

2018-12-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2017-05-12 11:26 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Can you please don't say "invalid date" for everything invalid. $ date -d @1494439601675485 date: invalid date ‘@1494439601675485’ $ date -d 1494439601675485sec date: invalid date ‘1494439601675485sec’ $ date -d 1494439601675485seconds da

bug#32250: ls -explain better the different times

2018-12-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
perhaps a bit too dense (lots of text with no quick examples). Attached is an improvement suggestion, adding a summary table, and details examples. Comments and feedback welcomed, - assaf >From f5774f87df4af912fd826f3d4208c9cd766e7524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Sun,

bug#31055: Document ls -Ur -fr

2018-12-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
'whatever' doesn't mean -U, -f, because they are sorted in "unsorted" order. In fact perhaps trigger an error. Attached a small patch to clarify this point in the manual. regards, -assaf >From 0ffd6cdc5457fdedac997c9f66e3255278cabba5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf G

bug#33025: Add examples of why one would want to "sort" something "randomly"

2018-12-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
h "why", that is left to the users to decide when they need it, but it shows clear examples of how to use it). regards, - assaf >From a8ae1f29a96b47b9a9c2b26875bd41bfa124e83b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 12:21:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: a

bug#33775: fold: counting multi-byte utf-8 sequences as separate columns

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 33775 wishlist retitle 33775 multibyte: fold: multi-byte sequences as separate columns stop Hello, On 2018-12-16 6:32 p.m., Michael Siegel wrote: I've just discovered an odd behavior of `fold' while trying to wrap a piece of text containing phonetic characters. Take the following line

bug#33824: coreutils v.8.30 – An expression part of a cat command is interpreted as "ambiguous redirect" when applied to a target.

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33824 notabug close 33824 stop Hello, On 2018-12-21 8:32 a.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: Command executed: $ cat a* >> b* bash: b*: ambiguous redirect Thought the same syntax is used with success when applied only to source files: $ cat a* >> b $ Probably a bug. This is not a bug - it is the

bug#33823: coreutils v.8.30 – Command, pasted from text editor to GUI terminal, not displayed though applied

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33823 notabug close 33823 stop Hello, On 2018-12-21 8:06 a.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: Paste it to a text editor keeping a *mono-space* font as font applied to text. From text editor copy that same pattern. Paste it into terminal as new command. Press *Enter*-key. End file (*Ctrl D*). [...]

bug#33622: coreutils v. 8.30 – Tail prints the first row in 'tail -n '

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33622 notabug close 33622 stop Hello, On 2018-12-05 5:49 a.m., Kamil Dudka wrote: On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:51:09 AM CET Ricky Tigg wrote: OS: *Fedora*. Component: coreutils.x86_64 8.30-6.fc29 @System Tail prints the first row in 'tail -n ' Command executed: $ dnf repoquery --re

bug#33281: head does not consume input after '-c' is satisfied

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33281 wontfix severity 33281 wishlist close 33281 stop Hello, On 2018-11-06 12:52 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 11/5/18 1:17 PM, Philip Rowlands wrote: To achieve consistency in the other direction, head could ignore the optimization to reduce the number of bytes read, and always read 8192

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-20 6:46 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 12/20/2018 5:21 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: If you are requesting such features (or others) It's best to start a new thread for each topic. They've already been discussed and ignored because there was no way to add the fea

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-20 5:36 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: The below methods cannot alter or fix  the problems that require a configuration file. Example: have 'rm -fr .' do a depth first removal and not pre-inspect any argument before its children. Whether or not to expand tabs in output so that outp

bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

2018-12-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33787 wontfix close 33787 stop Hello, On 12/17/18 11:12 PM, L A Walsh wrote: I find that /etc/xattr.conf is being used to regulate behavior in gnu tools. It's worth noting that "/etc/xattr.conf" comes from a shared-library (libattr.so) that is optionally used by cp(1). It is not part of

bug#33786: Bug: undocumented feature (algorithm) for version-sort (include on manpage)

2018-12-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-18 1:06 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: So undocumented features are considered wishlist items in Gnu? In your message you wrote: On 2018-12-18 12:11 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: The request here is for the algorithm used by 'version-sort' be included in sort's manpage. Thus it is a req

bug#33786: Bug: undocumented feature (algorithm) for version-sort (include on manpage)

2018-12-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33786 notabug severity 33786 wishlist retitle 33786 doc: sort: document Debian's version-sort algorithm stop Hello, On 2018-12-18 12:11 a.m., L A Walsh wrote: meaning that if one is going to put a Debian sort into a general purpose tool like "sort", then the algorithm really needs to be d

bug#25078: ls 8.26: discrepancy between `ls' and `ls -1' in the alignment of quoted and nonquoted items

2018-12-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-13 5:18 p.m., Zhiming Wang wrote: On Dec 13, 2018, at 3:27 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html - The page doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere; not the coreutils FAQ, not the manual. So discoverability seems rather

bug#33371: RFC: option for numeric sort: ignore-non-numeric characters

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33371 notabug close 33371 stop Hello, On 2018-11-18 6:08 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 11/14/2018 12:27 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote: Perhaps --version-sort could work for you? "-V" seems like it might be sufficient, Given the above, I'm closing this item. regards, - assaf

bug#33048: ls wrapping items with spaces in single quotes

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, We created a summary of common issues and FAQs regarding the quoting change in ls(1): https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html If there is an issue that is not addressed there, please send an email to coreut...@gnu.org . regards, - assaf

bug#33433: Bug in directory listing display

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-11-19 10:49 a.m., Brian Hartvigsen wrote: Items with spaces are incorrectly listed surrounded by single quotes. This is problematic for a number of reasons. One of which is that files or directories that contain a mix of quotes in their titles are now displayed incorrectly. This b

bug#33577: ls lacks null terminator option

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33577 notabug severity 33577 wishlist retitle 33577 doc: mention find/stat in ls documentation stop Hello, On 2018-12-05 4:39 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Fine. Put a message on top of (info "(coreutils) ls invocation") saying that your pipes are better. Given the suggested solution fro

bug#26991: New quoting takes up unnecessary space

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2017-05-19 6:37 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: On 19/05/17 07:48, L A Walsh wrote: The new format uses extra spacing on columns where it isn't needed -- but the extra space isn't enough to handle the 1 file that was quoted (needs 5 extra columns).  Where does it get '

bug#33157: QUOTING_STYLE change of default

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-10-25 3:45 p.m., Arvid Requate wrote: after updating to Debian buster I had the impression that my eyes are failing on me. This posting pretty much summarizes my opinion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg1.html especially the first paragraph: We cre

bug#31353: ls unexpectedly quoting filenames

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-05-02 8:38 p.m., billy noah wrote: In a clean installation of Ubuntu 18.04 suddenly ls has defaulted to quoting filenames with tilde ~, spaces and other characters which may require escaping. Some extended discussion can be found here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258

bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, 'ls' did not recently add any more cases where tty output differs from non-tty output when all other things are equal in the default state. All that changed was that tty output is formatted differently than it has been in the past. We created a summary of common issues and FAQs re

bug#25078: ls 8.26: discrepancy between `ls' and `ls -1' in the alignment of quoted and nonquoted items

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-11-30 7:12 p.m., Zhiming Wang wrote: On Nov 30, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Paul Vint wrote: The alignment change is helpful, but I do have an argument against doing the same in the -1 case: It breaks something many of us have done in scripts. It breaks nothing. Quoting and alignment by

bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-11-12 5:27 a.m., Rüdiger Meier wrote: On Friday 11 November 2016 21:00:23 Eric Blake wrote: On 11/11/2016 12:26 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Michael Schwager wrote: Don't you think I can see the spaces in my filenames? We created a summary of common issues and FAQs regarding th

bug#23896: ls incorrectly shows quotes when listing file names with spaces

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-07-05 3:20 a.m., Ruediger Meier wrote: On Monday 04 July 2016, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/07/16 19:11, Shamim Islam wrote: Description of problem: Terminal sessions display quotes for files with spaces in them. This is non-intuitive behavior. The file name does not have quotes u

bug#22696: ls output changes considered unacceptable

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-02-17 9:46 a.m., Mike Hodson wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 02/16/2016 11:50 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: [...] We don't want those single quotes. We created a summary of common issues and FAQ regarding the quoting change in ls(1): htt

bug#22580: shell-escape in tty in ls

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2016-02-07 12:44 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/02/16 20:28, Paul Vint wrote: Maybe I'm the only one, but the new change in ls seems bad: set_quoting_style (NULL, shell_escape_quoting_style); This is set if the output is a TTY. Why would we want to quote if the output is a

bug#33727: File system unrecognized

2018-12-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-13 8:18 a.m., Jeroen De Vries wrote: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for '/opt/openhab2/userdata/logs/events.log'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Thank you for the report. This has been fixed in coreutils version 8.25 - mean

bug#31554: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#31554: Fwd: Re: Potential bug in md5sum)

2018-11-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Bill, On 2018-11-18 2:37 p.m., Riedy, Bill wrote: The wording is vague, could you please clarify which of the following are true: 1) That you recognize this as a bug and it is going to be fixed 2) That you recognize this as a bug but it will NOT be fixed 3) Some other scenario that I c

bug#33408: tail: unrecognized file system type 0xfe534d42

2018-11-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-11-16 2:34 p.m., Chakra Srivatsa wrote: The filesystem in question is ZFS. tail: unrecognized file system type 0xfe534d42 for 'stdout.txt'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Thanks for the report. It seems the filesystem is actually smb2 (id 0x

bug#18168: Bug in "sort -V" ?

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 18168 notabug close 18168 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, It seems your message was lost and not replied to in 4 years. Sorry about that. On 2014-08-01 3:38 a.m., Schleusener, Jens wrote: I am not sure if it's a bug or not but for my application cases the "sort" command with use of the v

bug#33256: nxml-mode completion of attribute no longer adds =" after emacs 26

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
reassign 33256 emacs stop On 2018-11-04 7:47 a.m., Martin Fowler wrote: If this is the wrong list to send this to, my apologies, please let me know where to go. I've used nxml-mode for a long time. When typing in an xml attribute and using completion, emacs would respond by completing the att

bug#23645: GNU coreutils 8.25 make check report

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 23645 stop On 2018-10-28 12:00 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2016-05-29 12:22 a.m., Donald A. MacDonald wrote: Just build coreutils on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan) Are you still experiencing these failures (perhaps with more recent

bug#15023: Coreutils on IRIX

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 15023 moreinfo close 15023 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2013-08-09 2:26 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: One other thing. Under what conditions do include ? [...] and so I'd like to know which symbols protect the inclusion of (here it includes _SYS_TIME_H and the others). With no replies or

bug#12741: any cross-compile fails due to new make-prime-list

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 12741 fixed close 12741 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2012-10-26 11:27 a.m., Jim Meyering wrote: That would be fine with me. We were precomputing the "wheel.h" table of primes before, too. If we go the route of distributing the generated file, then we might as well resort to using Perl and

bug#12453: failed test suite on 64-bit debian squeeze

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 12453 moreinfo close 12453 stop On 2012-09-16 2:38 p.m., Jim Meyering wrote: Thank you for reporting that. At first glance, that failing assertion seems due to a bug in your system's version of valgrind. I don't immediately see a clean way to work around it. Sure, the dirty way would be

bug#33289: tail -f error within docker container

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33289 notabug close 33289 stop Hello, On 2018-11-06 2:05 a.m., Jörgen Christiansson wrote: I get this message when doing tail -f on a regular file within a docker container. tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/opt/system/log/snmpexport.trc0’. please report this to

bug#33288: Bug report - tail: unrecognized file system type

2018-11-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33288 notabug close 33288 stop Hello, On 2018-11-06 6:26 a.m., Adam Solymos wrote: I have encountered an issue in tail command when running it in a Debian based Linux distro (Linux f596ea7f8fe0 4.9.93-linuxkit-aufs #1 SMP Wed Jun 6 16:55:56 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux) in a Docker containe

bug#23302: mention what are nonprinting characters

2018-10-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 2018-10-31 12:34 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Yes but every program has slightly different sets of non-printing characters, so they need to list them exactly. To my understanding, printable characters in C/POSIX locale are strictly defined here: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919

bug#33221: date command + 1 month

2018-10-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33221 notabug close 33221 stop Hello, On 2018-10-31 5:08 p.m., Nicolás Flores wrote: Date Bug detected: Wed Oct 31 17:02:41 CST 2018 when executing # *date +%b* Result: *Oct * This is Ok, but... # *date +%b -d '+1 month'* Result: *Dec* Jump in the month of *November* Indeed - that is t

bug#21369: Coreutils RHEL 6.7 runuser

2018-10-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 21369 notabug close 21369 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2015-08-31 1:53 a.m., Ondřej Vašík wrote: In any case, I would suggest to use either Red Hat support or filing Red Hat bugzilla directly - as this issue has nothing to do with current upstream coreutils. Given the above, and no furth

bug#31554: Fwd: Re: Potential bug in md5sum

2018-10-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 31554 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2018-05-22 7:00 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 05/22/2018 07:52 AM, Riedy, Bill wrote: I believe I've found a bug in md5sum when it attempts to calculate on a hard linked file in NTFS on Windows 7. Could be, but this doesn't look like it's relevant to the

bug#9266: tail -F does not follow through symlinks

2018-10-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 9266 notabug close 9266 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2011-08-09 10:28 a.m., Jim Meyering wrote: Bart Vanhaute wrote: When I use tail -F to follow a file that is a symlink to another file, and that second file gets replaced, tail no longer follows the new file. I am not sure if this scenar

bug#7972: Bug df: GunWin32 coreutils-5.3.0 Windows 7 32bit and windows 2008 64bit

2018-10-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 7972 notabug close 7972 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2011-02-03 7:48 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 02/02/2011 10:49 PM, Trevor Kohlman wrote: df: cannot read table of mounted file systems: Invalid argument. Thanks for the report. However, you should raise this as a bug with the GnuWin32 fo

bug#7649: sparse files and commands

2018-10-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 7649 stop (triaging old bugs) With no follow-ups in 7 years, I'm closing this bug. -assaf

bug#7489: [coreutils] over aggressive threads in sort

2018-10-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Hello, This long thread ( http://bugs.gnu.org/7489 ) deals with multiple parallel-sort bugs, resulting in many commits: 1d0a12037 Paul Eggert 2010-12-22 sort: minor performance tweak with num_processors 41159f960 Pádraig Brady 2010-12-20 maint: fix a typo in sort --p

bug#7184: Problems with timestamp on FAT32 directories

2018-10-30 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 7184 notabug close 7184 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2010-10-11 8:29 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 10/11/2010 07:24 AM, Steven Lee wrote: The change-time information is there as it shows up properly in Windows Explorer. In addition, files are okay under Cygwin; the problem is only with dire

bug#7073: threadlib vs. pthread modules

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Hello, This thread ( https://bugs.gnu.org/7073 ) starts with build error on Mac OS X due to pthread related issues. It then deals with this (already commited) gnulib change: = 2010-09-22 Bruno Haible threadlib: Allow the package to change the default to 'no'. *

bug#7057: Use of JOIN with tab as delimiter

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 7057 moreinfo close 7057 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2010-09-17 2:06 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 09/17/2010 12:22 PM, Magerman, Tom wrote: I would like to use JOIN on tab delimited files in a Windows console window (with GNUwin32 CoreUtils), but I'm not able to specify tab as delimiter (-

bug#6816: df bug on 64-bit Solaris (need to use getextmntent)

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Bruno, On 2018-10-12 10:17 a.m., Bruno Haible wrote: David Wood wrote: At this point, me->me_dev contains a wrongly packed (32-bit) device number, which forces the find_mount_point() code path (causing other unpleasantries). The following patch against coreutils v8.5 fixes the problem:

bug#6661: test "install/install-C" fails on Mac OS X 10.6.4

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 6661 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2010-07-16 9:33 p.m., Richard Godbee wrote: When I build coreutils 8.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.4, test "install/install-C" fails. It seems your message was lost and not answered to in many many years. Sorry about that. Both coreutils 8,.5 and Mac OS X 10.6.4

bug#6288: gnuwin32 du fails at "C:\Program Files"

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 6288 moreinfo close 6288 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2010-05-28 6:42 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 05/27/2010 06:54 PM, pklam...@hidglobal.com wrote: On XP SP3, 12GB drive, du quits at (i.e., just before) my directory "C:\Program Files\". In general, questions about tools ported to windows

bug#5783: bug5783: ls.c missing HAVE_NL_LANGINFO check

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 5783 fixed close 5783 stop triaging very old bug: https://debbugs.gnu.org/5783 and https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29349 . In 2016, Paul committed the following: ls: fix %%b format and precompute more https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=1db94ee969b984bbd00b97c6abbe2f6

bug#23222: test: incorrect operator-precedence

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 23222 fixed close 23222 stop On 2016-04-05 9:09 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: tag 23222 confirmed thanks On 04/05/2016 05:57 AM, Mattias Andrée wrote: Failing test-case #1: ./test -n -a -n fails and outputs ./test: extra argument ‘-n’ Expected behaviour is silent success, as seen in Bash

bug#33125: /bin/del

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 33125 wishlist retitle 33125 rm: add --backup option, similar to cp/mv/ln stop On 2018-10-28 3:12 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: It'd be nice to add a --backup flag to 'rm', which would behave like --backup does with cp, mv, and ln. This would have the effect of the 'del' command you're sugg

bug#32796: please consider using renameat2 from glibc if available

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32796 fixed close 32796 stop On 2018-10-08 12:27 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Thanks for checking. I installed the attached into Gnulib master. The "(tiny change)" is because the patch is small enough that we don't need to worry about copyright papers. Pushed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.o

bug#32774: Filenames with spaces in ls

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32774 notabug close 32774 stop On 2018-09-19 1:46 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Ivan Perez wrote: the presence of the extra quote and the misalignment that that causes draws one's attention to the quote. That's part of the intent. The quotes draw the reader's attention to the oddball file na

bug#32472: sort doesn't sort and uniq loses data for many non-Latin scripts on UTF-8 locales

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32472 notabug close 32472 stop On 2018-08-18 11:34 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Vaayda Yaasra wrote: Here’s an example in Syriac: ܡܠܬܐ ܒܝܬܐ ܒܪܢܫܐ ܡܠܬܐ Sort produces the following: ܡܠܬܐ ܒܝܬܐ ܡܠܬܐ ܒܪܢܫܐ This is a property of your locale, so I suggest sending a bug report to whoever mainta

bug#32308: join doesn't ignore trailing whitespace

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 32308 wishlist retitle 32308 doc: join: mention whitespace is significant stop Hello, On 2018-07-29 9:11 p.m., Dima Kogan wrote: It appears that join doesn't ignore trailing whitespace, resulting in surprising results. [...] > I guess the manpage isn't explicit about what happens in

bug#31493: please add null-terminated line output for sha256sum, sha1sum, etc

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 31493 fixed close 31493 stop Pushed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=c744c65f50e03846e037361d613a5d2b2e334b61 So closing as "fixed". -assaf

bug#31472: tsort reporting false loop in input. unix2dos fixes the problem.

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 31472 notabug close 31472 stop Hello, On 2018-05-16 10:16 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: This replaces "\n" by "\r\n", and of course changes the way tsort works. If your suspicion was that the file has Windows-style line-endings, then you would have had to use 'dos2unix'. On 2018-05-17 2:

bug#31332: touch unnecessarily calls dup2

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 31332 notabug close 31332 stop On 2018-05-01 4:38 a.m., John Steele Scott wrote: From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40446555/why-does-touch-call-the-dup2-syscall jscott@citra:/tmp$ touch --version | head -1 touch (GNU coreutils) 8.25 jscott@citra:/tmp$ strace -ttt touch foo 2>&1 |

bug#31184: tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 31184 stop On 2018-06-12 9:10 a.m., Jewsco Pius Jacquez wrote: Padraig, thanks a lot for your help on this. We found a workaround combined with cache=none mount option and it works for our customer. You can close this case. tail --follow=name --max-unchanged-stats=1 --sleep-interval=.01

bug#30907: mv return value.

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 30907 fixed close 30907 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2018-03-23 7:45 a.m., Kamil Dudka wrote: On Friday, March 23, 2018 2:00:01 PM CET Eric Blake wrote: I don't know if mv exposes RENAME_NOREPLACE semantics yet, but it should be taught to do so, where such semantics are available. mv was

bug#30504: bug tail -2 FILE1 FILE1 - tail: option used in invalid context -- 2

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 30504 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2018-02-17 3:37 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: There is a backward-compatibility problem with supporting "tail -2" with any number of extra arguments, since (for example) "tail -2c 20" has a different meaning in traditional "tail" than you might think. To avoi

bug#30430: [column] accounting for ansi color codes

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 30430 notabug close 30430 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2018-02-17 2:33 p.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/02/18 22:07, Boruch Baum wrote: The `column -t' command doesn't align input properly when that input includes ansi color codes. Note column(1) is part of the util-linux project. We've

bug#30453: Bug in BC calculator version 1.07.1

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 30453 notabug close 30453 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2018-02-14 3:33 p.m., Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: This is not a bug. From the man-page: $ man bc | fgrep -A5 "expr * expr" expr * expr The result of the expression is the product of the two expressi

bug#29946: no -A argument for 'tr' generates an error message whenever the AIX command "lslpp -L" is used (AIX 6.1 and later).

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29946 fixed close 29946 stop (triaging old bugs) Pushed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=3f9b1b86b18777b996c81d40c64e1e3ede8ecbef so closing as "fixed". -assaf

bug#29939: 回复: Re: bug#29939: HELP:enter a "ls"command, then the os connection will closed

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29939 moreinfo close 29939 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2018-01-08 8:22 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 01/04/2018 01:58 AM, lil...@chinaunicom.cn wrote: $ type ls ls is aliased to `ls $LS_OPTIONS' It was a bit hard to find a an old SLES-11.1 ... Hmm, is your LS_OPTIONS set to something

bug#29807: Probably ignore this bug report ;-)

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29807 notabug close 29807 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-12-21 9:45 p.m., Martin Schwenke wrote: After reading the documentation again, I realise that it is actually complete (i.e. no arguments implies --tmpdir). Given the above, I'm closing this bug. [...] A separate discussion of T

bug#29802: "uniq -c" doesn't like counting lines with nulls

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29802 moreinfo close 29802 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-12-21 9:33 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 21/12/17 08:40, PD wrote: # printf "\n\x00\n\x00\n" | uniq -c | cat -e 1 $ 1 ^@$ 1 ^@$ Not reproducible on recent versions. Might this have been specific to the i18n

bug#29604: man cut should mention no way to do ls -l|cut ...

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 29604 wishlist retitle 29604 wontfix close 29604 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-12-07 8:53 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: "EB" == Eric Blake writes: EB> Let's step back a bit. We recommend that you NEVER parse ls output, as No problem. [...] Closing this bug. -assaf

bug#29589: date %k adds extra space for single digits hours

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29589 notabug close 29589 stop (triaging old bugs) From: Bishop Bettini [mailto:bishop.bett...@gmail.com] On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Noam Arad wrote: When using date command with the format %k if the hour is single digits there is an extra space added. E.g.: date -u +"%Y/%m/%d %k:%M

bug#29475: filesystem (apparently cagefs) does not allow ln to create bad symbolic link

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29475 notabug close 29475 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-11-30 6:07 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 11/30/2017 04:59 PM, bug-coreut...@trodman.com wrote:  From my trial and error, this file system does not let you create bad sym links. Hmm, yes, apparently that filesystem can be configure

bug#29285: Error building coreutils 8.28.32-a4eed under Archlinux from AUR

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29285 moreinfo stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2017-11-13 7:43 a.m., timofonic timofonic wrote: As the coreutils build system reported, I'm sending the following building error from using the coreutils-git Arch User Repository package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coreutils-git

bug#29259: tail does not seek to the end of block device

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29259 fixed close 29259 stop (triaging old bugs) Pushed here: tail: seek to the end of block devices https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=31dd7a0de272affa1120ba1fbc7db3445c548aa5 so closing as "fixed". -assaf

bug#29228: Broken link

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29228 fixed close 29228 sto (triaging old bugs). On 2017-11-09 8:18 a.m., Chris Koehnke wrote: On http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html the "plain text" link to http://stagecraft.theprices.net/nomime.html goes to "Page not found". Thanks for the report. Sorry there was

bug#29205: --force doesn't work

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 29205 notabug close 29205 stop (triaging old bugs) It seems your message was lost and not replied to in a year. Sorry about that. On 2017-11-08 2:35 a.m., Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. $ mkdir -p foo/bar/buzz1 2. $ mkdir -p bar/buzz2 3. $ mv --force bar foo/ Expecte

bug#29012: od: busy skip on block devices

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 29012 wishlist retitle 29012 od: add skip option tags 29012 wontfix close 29012 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-10-27 11:59 p.m., Christian Kögler wrote: Am 27. Oktober 2017 07:25:25 MESZ schrieb "Pádraig Brady" : On 26/10/17 08:13, Christian Kögler wrote: If od is used on block de

bug#28942: base64 decoding issue

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 28942 notabug close 28942 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-10-22 10:13 a.m., Aaron Schneider wrote: I try to decode the "thunder://" link to the "magnet://" link using base64. For me, it adds 'AA' at the beginning (0x4141) which shouldn't be there. * Website: -- thunder://QUFtYWdu

bug#28927: ln -fs dir name doesn't force

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 28927 notabug close 28927 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-10-21 12:53 p.m., Andreas Schwab wrote: On Okt 21 2017, "Sven C. Dack" wrote: The link should have been set to "bar" with the "-f" or "--force" option, shouldn't it? The file baz/bar has been overwritten. You need to use -n i

bug#28528: Split command problems.

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 28528 notabug close 28528 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-10-01 6:09 p.m., Nick Farrow wrote: [...] And from what it looks like the compression was the problem. Each server was compressing differently compared to the other. Given the above, I'm closing this bug. -assaf

bug#28440: fts_info is set to FTS_DP for an Unreadable directory instead of FTS_DNR on s390x

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 28440 notabug close 28440 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2017-09-12 9:56 p.m., Prajakta Bhatekar wrote: I have a piece of code that checks for access to a non-root user to perform a recursive chown operation on a directory with its child directory having 0 permissions(all permission

bug#28506: coreutils 8.28 test suite hangs on APFS filesystem

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 28506 fixed close 28506 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-09-23 8:47 p.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 22/09/17 20:07, Pádraig Brady wrote: Is is a wait or a cpu spin? Could you use the equivalent of strace on your platform to see what's happening? Offlist Jack sent a profile showing /usr/bi

bug#28152: Human readable units (-h/--human-readable vs --si) - Wrong prefix and missing unit

2018-10-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
ou can define your own du command or alias that behaves the way you prefer. On 2017-08-21 5:58 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: You've mentioned numfmt(1), it's worth noting that your request is exactly what numfmt was designed to do. With no further comments, I'm closing this bug. Dis

bug#33113: incorrect and inconsistent quoting in ls output

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-10-28 2:11 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: That's right, we need another way to escape classifier characters with -bF, since the current method is clearly wrong. [...] This works because in ISO C "b""=" is equivalent to "b=". We should do this only with characters at the end, because

bug#27864: [request] safety to prevent `rm -rf ~`

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 27864 wishlist tags 27864 wontfix close 27864 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-07-29 10:05 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 28/07/17 09:28, R0b0t1 wrote: I recently had a script create a file named "~" when I passed it a value for an installation directory. Without thinking the next comm

bug#27640: Bug-report

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 27640 fixed close 27640 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-07-10 1:08 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Looking at that test's source code, the test was clearly incorrect for Unix-like systems, as it incorrectly assumed a 1-1 mapping between user names and user IDs. I fixed that in Gnulib by install

bug#27531: Coreutils 8.27 bug report

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 27531 moreinfo close 27531 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-07-10 10:51 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 29/06/17 06:32, Bernardo Lopes Almeida de Oliveira wrote: Please find attached the test-suite.log. The seq failure though is due to your system not behaving like: $ src/seq inf inf

bug#27488: du -tX -t-Y won't exclude or select an interval of SIZE

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 27488 wishlist tags 27488 wontfix close 27488 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-06-26 1:37 a.m., f0rhum wrote: On 26/06/2017 at 09:00, Pádraig Brady wrote : On 25/06/17 11:08, f0rhum wrote: If not, maybe a feature could allow this like du -t3G-5G or -t3G -t-5G could show dirs from 3 t

bug#27358: Timeout command was get failed to kill soffice.bin processes

2018-10-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 27358 notabug close 27358 stop (triaging old bugs) On 2017-06-14 10:01 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: Without further details I can't tell if this is indeed the culprit for the behaviour you're experiencing, but this would be one direction to investigate. With no further commen

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