rm man page

2003-02-22 Thread Quel Qun
Hi, Just discovered today that rm support classes like rm *[aeiou]* Could this special case be added in the man page? Maybe ranges too if they are supported. Thanks, =-= kk1 _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months

Re: configure test "working C stack overflow detection" seems to loop

2003-02-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried out the new 4.5.8 release and it doesn't exhibit the same > symptoms. It runs the check and determines that I don't have a > working C stack overflow, but without using up all the RAM. > > Is this normal for a Linux system? Yes, it's expected

Re: configure test "working C stack overflow detection" seems to loop

2003-02-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
On February 21, 2003 02:15 pm, you wrote: > > It seems to loop infinitely until it gets killed by the kernel. The test > > runs for a few minute in which is consumed 512 MB RAM and 128 MB swap. It > > then gets killed by the kernel and that's the end of that. I doubt it is > > intended like this? >

Re: Patch for coreutils 4.5.7 on Mac OS X

2003-02-22 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Paul Eggert] > Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why does the code read '#if HAVE_SYSCTL_H then #include > > '? This do not make sense. > > It's a bit of a hack, but we don't know of any system where it breaks, > and the is certainly needed on some BSD systems. Does > the

Re: [Coreutils-announce] coreutils-4.5.8 released

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Dawe
Hello. Jim Meyering wrote: [snip] > But I'm still not done with du. > This began some time ago when I realized that the presence of > a very deep hierarchy (on the order of 25,000-30,000 levels) > could cause du to segfault due to its recursion exceeding > a system's stack size limit. Using nftw