bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

On 21/10/18 05:06 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: The 3rd patch adds support for 'test -N FILE' as in bash. Please check (on various platforms / file systems if possible). "test-N.sh" passes on FreeBSD,OpenBSD,NetBSD (with their respective default file systems) and on cygwin 64bit over ntfs. Also

bug#19503: most translations of proper names aren't being used

severity 19503 wishlist tags 19503 wontfix close 19503 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 04/01/15 08:53 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/01/15 11:14, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Just now I noticed that 'du --version | tail -2' produces here this: Verkita de Torbjern GRANLUND (Torbjörn Granlund)

bug#19544: RFE: please fix limited dd output control (want xfer stats, but not blocks).

tags 19544 fixed close 19544 stop (triaging old bugs) On 09/01/15 04:18 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > The blocks are a bit uninteresting: > > 15+0 records out > --- > > Tells me nothing -- not size of recs, nor time.. nothing interesting. > > What I'd rather see: > > 327680 bytes (328 KB) copied, 0

bug#19530: Solaris 10 df and zfs

severity 19530 wishlist retitle 19530 df: accommodate Solaris 10/zfs reporting munged sizes stop (triaging old bugs) On 07/01/15 06:18 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 07/01/15 22:13, Ted Carr wrote: # df -h /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Filesystem size used avail capacity

bug#19456: GNU coreutils - touch / add -v, --verbose option

tags 19456 wontfix severity 19456 wishlist retitle 19456 touch: add -v, --verbose option close 19456 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 28/12/14 09:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: >> It would be nice to see progress of touched files. Please >

bug#16803: @kbd for long option names?

tags 16803 fixed close 16803 stop (triaging old bugS) Hello Karl, On 18/02/14 11:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Karl Berry wrote: I'm happy to send a patch to remove all the @kbd's if you'll accept it, but I imagine you had a reason to insert them in the first place. Beats me as to why they're t

bug#16782: Insensitive behavior in date when given invalid fomatting string

severity 16782 wishlist retitle 16782 date: reject invalid %[X] format characters stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 17/02/14 10:42 AM, f...@fuz.su wrote: Consider the following set of date invocations: $ date +%05 00%05 $ date +%Y%#05 20140%#05 $ date +x%7 x

bug#14852: Fwd: mv fails when trying to overwrite a file in a (map) network drive

tags 14852 notabug close 14852 stop (triaging old bugs) On 23/07/13 10:21 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Lluis faixó wrote: [...] It complains: mv: cannot move `file1' to `file2': File exists 1) Are the 2 files on the same drive? 2) Are one or both on a remote system (sounds like t

bug#14846: dd how to skip one byte from reading the man page

tags 14846 notabug severity 14846 wishlist retitle 14846 doc: dd: improve ibs=BYTES description stop (triaging old bugs) On 12/07/13 10:49 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 07/12/2013 12:50 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: it seems ibs=BYTES read up to BYTES bytes at a time (de

bug#14832: bug hostid

tags 14832 moreinfo close 14832 stop (triaging old bugs) On 09/07/13 07:43 AM, MOQUET Alain wrote: Hello, i have a serveur with rhel6.2 the commande "hosted" return "". With no further comments or follow-ups in 5 years, I'm closing this bug. If this is still an issue, please reply to

bug#14768: portage build of sys-apps/coreutils-8.20 fails tests

tags 14768 moreinfo close 14768 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 02/07/13 11:40 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Does the following patch work, when applied to gnulib-tests/test-getlogin.c? If so, the bug is already fixed upstream. If not, please run test-getlogin under GDB and see why it's failing.

bug#14725: Documentation Bug: date

tags 14725 fixed close 14725 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, Jon Hartman wrote: Should the -I (capital I) not be listed in the documentation? This has historically presented the international format. It seems your message was lost and never replied to. Sorry about that. In the meantime since

bug#14703: stat no creation date on ntfs filesystem files which have creation dates

tags 14703 notabug close 14703 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 24/06/13 03:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/24/2013 03:57 PM, Enda wrote: When I use stat, there is no creation date on ntfs filesystem files which have creation dates: $ stat file.txt ... So the issue here is that there

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

severity 14456 wishlist retitle 14456 multibyte: stat's %[X] counts bytes instead of characters stop Hello, On 20/10/18 12:40 PM, Errembault Philippe wrote: This has absolutely nothing to do with a translation problem. It is related with the I18N string processing. As you can see, the line with

bug#18328: can't say date -d '8pm -0500' though other combos work

tags 18328 confirmed retitle 18328 date: '8pm -0500' is invalid (am/pm problem) stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 25/08/14 10:01 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: $ date -d '8pm -0500' date: invalid date ‘8pm -0500’ <--why can't this combo work? This is indeed a bug (specifically in gnulib's date

bug#18119: df --si misleading output units

tags 18119 wontfix severity 18119 wishlist close 18119 stop (triaging old bugs) On 04/08/14 08:07 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Kernc wrote: Since `--block-size=GB` outputs the value in GB, and 'GB' is the unit appended, why doesn't `--si` do the same (use SI-units to mark "SI-magnitude" values)? B

bug#18056: Coreutils 8.23 test-localename failure

tags 18056 ntoabug close 18056 stop (triaging old bugs) On 21/07/14 04:10 AM, Henrik Juul Pedersen wrote: [...] When compiling coreutils 8.22 on 2014-03-14 the tests succeeded. So whatever changed must be outside of coreutils. Given the above, and without further comments in 4 years, I'm clos

bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp

tags 17774 notabug close 17774 stop (triaging old bugs) On 18/06/14 12:30 PM, Michael Felt wrote: revisted my 8.15 package in detail. Seems that two years ago I had already done something special for coreutils - so my apology - not a bug, just something in the way. I will find a way to make it

bug#17669: Fwd: Re: Solaris acl woes

(triaging old bugs) Hello, This bug ( https://bugs.gnu.org/17669 ) deals with ACL test failures on Solaris for coreutils 8.22 . Shortly after the release of 8.22 (but few months before this bug was submitted), Bernard pushed this: commit 5d7591d0edf0dd31c2daa195ee766c1383b89f4c Author: Be

bug#17252: 'install' is too noisy when running as confined SELinux user

tags 17252 notabug close 17252 stop (triaging old bugs) On 13/04/14 12:14 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/12/2014 05:23 PM, Enrico Scholz wrote: when working as a confined SELinux user, 'install' gives out | $ install X Y | install: warning: Y: failed to change context to system_u:object_r:b

bug#17161: date: confusing: "TIME -/+NUM" treated as time zone

severity 17161 wishlist retitle 17161 date: confusing: "TIME -/+NUM" treated as time zone stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 02/04/14 05:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/02/2014 02:17 AM, Marc R.J. Brevoort wrote: The more days I subtract, the more hours are added. If this were a time zone iss

bug#16756: Errors in LFS 5.18

tags 16756 moreinfo retitle 16756 test failures with coreutils / LFS 5.18 close 16756 stop (triaging old bugs) On 15/02/14 07:56 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 02/14/2014 08:54 PM, Prasad Kumbhar wrote: Respected Sir, I was performing the coreutils chapter and gave the command make RUN_EX

bug#16669: inconsistent 'rm -ir' prompting behavior

(triaging old bugs) Eric, Pádraig, On 06/02/14 10:44 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 02/06/2014 04:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On today's Austin Group call, we discussed http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=802 regarding 'rm' behavior. Was there ever a resolution (or a committed fix) for the "rm

bug#16304: Upcoming clang-3.4 apparently miscompiles coreutils.

tags 16304 notabug close 16304 stop (triaging old bugs) This clang-3.4 bug has been fixed some time ago (and it's not a coreutils bug). Closing. -assaf

bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

Hi Bernhard, On 19/10/18 04:56 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 10/19/18 10:48 PM, Martin Schulte wrote: The '-a FILE' primary is supported since "the beginning", and even the POSIX spec mentions this unlucky thing: [...] I don't think we can remove that primary without breaking some scripts, s

bug#15257: stat and df report different filesystems for /dev

severity 15257 wishlist tags 15257 wontfix close 15257 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 11/07/14 03:31 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 09/03/2013 02:50 PM, C de-Avillez wrote: original Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219529 When trying to use 'df -x tmpfs', /dev is still shown:

bug#12303: [MICROBUG]: gnulib doesn't add lib/spawn.h to .gitignore?

tags 12303 fixed close 12303 stop (triaging old bugs) On 29/08/12 05:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: In GNU coreutils, the gnulib-provided 'bootstrap' script fails to add the generated file 'lib/spawn.h' to the .gitignore in 'lib/': $ ./bootstrap && ./configure && make ... [all is OK]

bug#14971: split man page table mushed

tags 14971 fixed close 14971 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 27/07/13 06:43 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1 File: /usr/share/man/man1/split.1.gz [...] becomes CHUNKS may be: N split into N files based on size of input K/N output K

bug#14649: Problems in chroot.2, ln.1, ptx.1, test.1, [.1

merge 14649 31803 tags 14649 fixed close 14649 stop (triaging old bugs) ln.1 and test.1 fixed here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=de73c801f34438c1457118f33e26e688554019d3 closing. -assaf

bug#14628: mv command (and suggesting a feature for it)

severity 14628 wishlist retitle 14628 mv: safeguard against renaming dir with open files close 14628 stop (triaging old bugs) On 15/06/13 05:35 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/15/2013 09:02 PM, S. Dara wrote: With this email, I would like to suggest a feature for the mv command. I believe t

bug#14618: Erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file

retitle 14618 cp: erroneous sparse copy command results in empty file close 14618 stop (triaging old bugs) On 14/06/13 02:03 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 06/14/2013 12:35 PM, Koen De Wit wrote: When trying to create a sparse copy of a file on a different filesystem you get an "Invalid cross-d

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

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

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 hopeful

bug#9339: Feature suggestion --distribution

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

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 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=92519ce05878ddb78056ea2693ff986e2ac

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

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#10446: GNU Youtube Advanced Command Line KungFu

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 out

bug#18395: shred let me kill a mounted device

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 y

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

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

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 wo

bug#18949: (no subject)

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

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 o

bug#18186: cat.c needs fixing since 1998

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 refe

bug#14592: dd - possible error

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 locatio

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

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?

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.

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 t

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

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 optimizati

bug#14275: cut: applying previous patch

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: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-12/m

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

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

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.

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 m

bug#8017: posixtm failure

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

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

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 fol

bug#13765: coreutils-8.21, some changes needed

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 to

bug#13555: printf ignores length modifier

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

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 [...] > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git

bug#13371: removing @acronym from manual

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 iss

bug#13360: removing @sc from manual

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 intentiona

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

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 o

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

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". htt

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

tags 11043 fixed close 11043 stop On 15/10/18 05:55 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: 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/110

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 Nelson!

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 b

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: https://github.co

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 th

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, usin

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 way

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 syst

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 artifici

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 b

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, t

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 the

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: du/inaccessible

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 [1]http://debbugs.gnu

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 touc

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 Ser

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 b

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 allo

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 su

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 ma

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 correctly

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 regul

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 + +++ coreuti

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 against

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 1

bug#12530: nice(1) man page, bad wording

tags 12530 fixed close 12530 stop Pushed in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=0d4efc37133820c5571316d0ebdf341270e712a4 Closing.

bug#7313: sha1sum etc, output in base64

close 7313 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 02/11/10 11:15 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 02/11/10 16:20, Pádraig Brady wrote: env printf $(sha1sum file | sed 's/ .*//; s/\(..\)/\\x\1/g') | base64 openssl dgst -sha1 -binary $file | openssl enc -base64 And also: sha1sum FILE | xxd -r -p

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

(triaging old bugs) Hello, On 15/09/10 04:18 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/06/2010 01:56 PM, Wood, David wrote: From mnttab(4) on Solaris 10: [...] At this point, me->me_dev contains a wrongly packed (32-bit) device number, which forces the find_mount_point() code path (causing other unpl

bug#6667: dd ?bug? while making image of hdd with bad sectors

tags 6667 notabug close 6667 stop Hello, On 19/07/10 08:44 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 19/07/10 10:05, Jakub Muszynski wrote: I have been trying to make a dd copy : dd if=/dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync bs=4096k|pv| dd of=usb320.dd conv=noerror,sync bs=4096k > dd320.LOG but image took all my free

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