bug#44865: date recalculation error

2020-11-25 Thread Rainer M. Canavan
Ruder Laplace wrote: > Greetings, > > I think I catched a bug related to the day-light saving gap: > *uname -a ; date ; date -d "2020/06/01 10:00:00 +1 hours"* > Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1 (2020-01-26) x86_64 > GNU/Linux > mié nov 25 10:30:29 CET 2020 > lun jun 1

bug#32751: split does not break on error from tar

2018-09-17 Thread Rainer M. Canavan
Alexander Fieroch wrote: > Hi all, > > I found a bug in "split". > I want to tar some files but some of them have wrong permissions. tar > puts out an exit code 2 "Cannot open: Permission denied". That is good > because in my script I can catch this error and react to this. > > $ tar -c -f

bug#21218: ls -d

2015-08-08 Thread Rainer M. Canavan
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: [...] All -d does is to list command line arguments that are directories as the name of the directory itself, rather than descending and showing the directory's contents. That description is already better than the current one in the man page, which reads:

bug#15023: Re[2]: bug#15023: Coreutils on IRIX

2013-08-07 Thread Rainer M. Canavan
Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: Thanks, this is a tricky area, but does the following patch fix that first problem? If not, can you suggest something similar? I'm hoping that IRIX sys/time.h #defines _SYS_TIME_H -- or perhaps it defines some other symbol. diff --git a/lib/sys_time.in.h

bug#15023: Coreutils on IRIX

2013-08-04 Thread Rainer M. Canavan
Hi, I have just tried to build a current release of coreutils on IRIX. It turns out that both 8.21 and 8.20 have build failures. I'm using the native compiler (MipsPro, 7.4.4, IRIX Version is 6.5.30). 8.21 fails when building set-mode-acl.c source='lib/set-mode-acl.c'