-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
$ echo abc | tail -c +1
tail: cannot open `+1' for reading: No such file or directory
$ echo abc | tail -c+1
abc
$ tail --version | head -n1
tail (GNU coreutils) 7.6
Shouldn't -c behave the same, whether or not there is a space before the
count argume
Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> Maybe you want a new option to enable this behavior when
> does not do an atomic rename, but it will never be the
> efault, because it would cause a huge performance hit
> when copying many files between devices.
>
True, it's the classic reliability vs performance tradeo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to Jim Meyering on 10/3/2009 2:30 AM:
> There have been *many* changes in gnulib since the previous snapshot,
> and the changes in coreutils are non-negligible, so please give
> this a try. I'd like to make the beta release on Monday.
> I'll
Hi Jim,
Jim Meyering schrieb:
> This is what I meant:
> ...
> - i = 0;
> + size_t i = 0;
>while (ISWHITE (s[i]))
> ++i;
ok, added.
> "make check" runs most tests.
>
> Use this
>
> make check -C tests TESTS=misc/md5sum VERBOSE=yes
>
> to run just the one you changed.
thanks, tests p
Guenter Knauf wrote:
> Jim,
> thanks for the very quick review.
>
> Jim Meyering schrieb:
>> Guenter Knauf wrote:
>>> - size_t i;
>>> + size_t i = 0;
>>>bool escaped_filename = false;
>>>size_t algo_name_len;
>>>
>>> - i = 0;
>>>while (ISWHITE (s[i]))
>>> ++i;
>>
>> Instead, pl
Jim,
thanks for the very quick review.
Jim Meyering schrieb:
> Guenter Knauf wrote:
>> - size_t i;
>> + size_t i = 0;
>>bool escaped_filename = false;
>>size_t algo_name_len;
>>
>> - i = 0;
>>while (ISWHITE (s[i]))
>> ++i;
>
> Instead, please move the declaration "down".
hmm,
Hi Jim,
Jim Meyering schrieb:
> Would you like to write the patch (including NEWS and
> a small doc update), following these guidelines?
>
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/HACKING
I've just tested a bit, and it seems that its enough to hack around the
first place where the blank
> Since the patch is really small I would like to ask you for a review
> without urging me to go through all the git stuff;
It's really not that hard.
Have you looked at the instructions here?
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/HACKING
> if you accept the
> simple patch then I will
drwowe wrote:
> I was moving some files with mv from a hard drive to a flash drive. The
> flash drive is very slow. The mv command finished and the original files
> were gone but I realized the operating system still had a gigabyte or so of
> data in RAM which was in the process of being written
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to da Silva, Joe on 10/1/2009 10:18 PM:
> Slosh/slash problem in DU 5.3.0 Windows build :
5.3.0 is quite old; the latest stable version is 6.7, and may have
portability fixes that have improved the behavior of du on Windows.
However, we don'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to barnettm...@comcast.net on 10/3/2009 2:59 AM:
> Hello!
>
> This particular default version of tail cannot handle the argument,
> +line-number.
Not a bug. This behavior is required by newer versions of POSIX.
Use 'tail -n +line-numbe
Hello!
This particular default version of tail cannot handle the argument,
+line-number.
This shortcoming does not permit portability. The work-around is to do more
math than is necessary.
Examples:
Old version of tail.
[mbarn...@corp bin]$ tail --version
tail (coreutils) 5.2.1
Written
I was moving some files with mv from a hard drive to a flash drive. The
flash drive is very slow. The mv command finished and the original files
were gone but I realized the operating system still had a gigabyte or so of
data in RAM which was in the process of being written to the flash disk. I
Slosh/slash problem in DU 5.3.0 Windows build :
Specifying "du c:\" results in lots of error messages like :
...\DU.EXE: cannot access 'c:\\/WINDOWS' : Permission denied
...\DU.EXE: cannot access 'c:\\/My Documents' : Permission denied
...\DU.EXE: cannot access 'c:\\/COMMAND.COM' : Permission den
There have been *many* changes in gnulib since the previous snapshot,
and the changes in coreutils are non-negligible, so please give
this a try. I'd like to make the beta release on Monday.
I'll probably call it coreutils-8.0.
coreutils snapshot:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz
15 matches
Mail list logo
