Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-16 Thread Jim Meyering
C de-Avillez wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:06 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: C de-Avillez wrote: Yet another one, on check-root. I am starting to wonder if this may be a problem with my setup, since nobody has reported errors on tail. FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1)

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: C de-Avillez wrote: FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) == ... + chattr +a f + echo x + test 1 = 0 + fail=0 + sleep 1 + pid=29813 + tail --pid=29813 -f f + fail=1 What type of file system is that? (i.e., run this: df -hT .) I

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: C de-Avillez wrote: FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) == ... + chattr +a f + echo x + test 1 = 0 + fail=0 + sleep 1 + pid=29813 + tail --pid=29813 -f f + fail=1 What type of file system is that? (i.e., run

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-16 Thread C de-Avillez
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 13:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: C de-Avillez wrote: FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) == ... + chattr +a f + echo x + test 1 = 0 + fail=0 + sleep 1 + pid=29813 + tail --pid=29813 -f f + fail=1

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I was wondering about printing the warning, and was wary about now silently not preserving symlink times. I.E. being silently inconsistent. I guess it's better to be quiet in this case? That also means I can reinstate the mv/part-symlink test on systems without

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: In that case, the configure-time check for is-an-ELF-system must be failing on cygwin: No: configure:43745: checking whether this is an ELF system configure:43761: result: no But there might be some missing holes where 'make check' tries to build

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: In that case, the configure-time check for is-an-ELF-system must be failing on cygwin: No: configure:43745: checking whether this is an ELF system configure:43761: result: no But there might be some missing holes where 'make

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: The test is still running. misc/stdbuf hangs (cygwin still has some fifo issues that might be at play, but more importantly, dd appears to be stuck trying to write to a fifo that never gets filled because stdbuf isn't working). I had to kill two different

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: The test is still running. misc/stdbuf hangs (cygwin still has some fifo issues that might be at play, but That should not run if stdbuf is not built. Here's a patch: From 6c077c1633e31c36d17253ee7c946b47791dfd8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-14 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: The test is still running. The final list of failures on cygwin 1.7 (I'll need to investigate further, and still want to rerun this under pristine conditions. I'm not even going to bother running this under cygwin 1.5.x): FAIL: misc/invalid-opt FAIL:

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to be

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: C de-Avillez wrote: Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built make check, and got two errors. First one is here, I will re-run the second error by itself in a few. Running on Ubuntu 9.10 (kernel 2.6.31.5 with Ubuntu mods, libc6

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: While I'm at it here's a patch to improve that test. cheers, Pádraig. From c720e160a96b813a7c24c5ac8a9a9a37590f4190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= p...@draigbrady.com Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:46:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tests: improve

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Subject: [PATCH] tail: fix tail -f failure when inotify used * src/tail.c (tail_inotify_forever): Use the correct bounds in the error check of the return from inotify_add_watch(). Reported by C de-Avillez. --- src/tail.c |2 +- 1 files

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Subject: [PATCH] tail: fix tail -f failure when inotify used * src/tail.c (tail_inotify_forever): Use the correct bounds in the error check of the return from inotify_add_watch(). Reported by C de-Avillez. --- src/tail.c |

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: These highlighted a couple of issues I think on systems without utimensat(). 1. The symlink _target_ gets its time updated 2. If 1 fails then the process returns a failure I've fixed both in the attached patch hopefully by only doing the explicit

no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to be released in the next few days.

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi Jim, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:42:59PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Erik Auerswald wrote: Hi Jim, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:42:59PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to be

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to be released in the next

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: AFAIK, I am the only one who has built the latest snapshot: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17604 Though it's been only two days. Unless I hear of new bug reports or portability problems soon, expect coreutils-7.5 to be

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks for the testing and report! Are these new failures? If they are, it might be worth fixing. Otherwise, FC5 is so old that I won't worry. Reverting the symlink timestamp patch make the tests pass $ wget -q -O- 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/'\

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:54 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Are these new failures? If they are, it might be worth fixing. Otherwise, FC5 is so old that I won't worry. Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built make check, and got two errors. First one is here, I will re-run the second error

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
C de-Avillez wrote: Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built make check, and got two errors. First one is here, I will re-run the second error by itself in a few. Running on Ubuntu 9.10 (kernel 2.6.31.5 with Ubuntu mods, libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu6). FAIL: tail-2/pid + tail

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 17:15 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: I'd better try and pay attention in this meeting ;) Heh. Please let me help you get distracted ;-) Second error, also on tail: FAIL: tail-2/pid (exit: 1) == + tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 7.4.115-c9c92

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
Yet another one, on check-root. I am starting to wonder if this may be a problem with my setup, since nobody has reported errors on tail. FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) == + tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 7.4.115-c9c92 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: C de-Avillez wrote: Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built make check, and got two errors. First one is here, I will re-run the second error by itself in a few. Running on Ubuntu 9.10 (kernel 2.6.31.5 with Ubuntu mods, libc6 2.10.1-0ubuntu6). FAIL: tail-2/pid

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: While I'm at it here's a patch to improve that test. Thanks, Pádraig. Building testing right now both of them on the snapshot; then on git. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:22 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: While I'm at it here's a patch to improve that test. cheers, Pádraig. OK. Both tests now succeed on the snapshot. I will apply them to git now (where I also had the same error). Cheers, ..C.. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
C de-Avillez wrote: Yet another one, on check-root. I am starting to wonder if this may be a problem with my setup, since nobody has reported errors on tail. FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) == Thanks for the reports. How did you run those tests? When I do

Re: no feedback on snapshot? coreutils-7.5 coming soon

2009-08-12 Thread C de-Avillez
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:06 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: C de-Avillez wrote: Yet another one, on check-root. I am starting to wonder if this may be a problem with my setup, since nobody has reported errors on tail. FAIL: tail-2/append-only (exit: 1) ==