Do any of you know if there is a `hostname' program that is
featureful and portable enough that we could simply remove hostname
from coreutils -- or at least stop installing it?
I would strongly object to the removal of `hostname' in coreutils. On
GNU/Hurd it would essentially result in
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> So here's a better spec:
>>
>> If canonicalize_file_name (FILE) succeeds, work exactly as now.
>> else if lstat (FILE) succeeds,
>> linkname = readlink (FILE)
>> if linkname starts with `/', print lin
Martin MOKREJÅ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I never got final emails from developers regarding a fix to this problem.
IMHO, this isn't a big problem.
But if someone provides a patch to make coreutils' hostname support
more options, along with appropriate documentation, that'd be great.
Do any o
Hi,
I never got final emails from developers regarding a fix to this problem.
There were mentioned other tools being buggy or behave in a different
way(i.e. conform POSIX) like tail(1), head(1) etc. Please refresh
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00779.html thread and
possibly bui
Jim Meyering wrote:
> > http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecmnet.html
> > http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecm-5.0.3.html
>
> I like that idea. Thanks!
> I've always wanted factor to accept arbitrarily large inputs.
Although you can input an arbitrarily large integer, the limit of what
t
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 08:14, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > So here's a better spec:
> > If canonicalize_file_name (FILE) succeeds, work exactly as now.
> > else if lstat (FILE) succeeds,
> > linkname = readlink (FILE)
> > if linkname starts with `/
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So here's a better spec:
>
> If canonicalize_file_name (FILE) succeeds, work exactly as now.
> else if lstat (FILE) succeeds,
> linkname = readlink (FILE)
> if linkname starts with `/', print linkname
> otherwise, print $(readlink -f $(di
