Re: Invalid gettext preprocessing causes broken format strings and sigsegv at runtine

2006-07-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please keep replies on the list, so that others may see the resolution of this thread. According to Zygmunt Krynicki on 7/20/2006 2:05 AM: Dnia 19-07-2006, śro o godzinie 07:07 -0600, Eric Blake napisał(a): According to Zygmunt Krynicki on

Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! #v+ 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher * src/copy.c [!HAVE_FCHOWN]: Define fchown(...) to -1. (set_owner, preserve_author): New functions, factored out of copy_reg. (copy_reg): Use them. (copy_internal): Use them here, too. #v- There was a tiny transformation

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:58:55PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: [...] Immediatelly (i.e. especiall that there was no ``long failure period'' like said in the bounce message) after sending the mail I received the attached bounce. I'm ccing this very email to another email address of

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! #v+ 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher * src/copy.c [!HAVE_FCHOWN]: Define fchown(...) to -1. (set_owner, preserve_author): New functions, factored out of copy_reg. (copy_reg): Use them. (copy_internal): Use them here,

`touch' broken on GNU

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' broke? #v+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ src/touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas users 0 Jan 1 1970 foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $

Re: `touch' broken on GNU

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' broke? #v+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ src/touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas users 0 Jan 1 1970 foo

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:24:19PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #v+ 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher * src/copy.c [!HAVE_FCHOWN]: Define fchown(...) to -1. (set_owner, preserve_author): New functions, factored out of copy_reg.

Re: `touch' broken on GNU

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' broke? Thanks for the report. Which version of 'touch'? The email didn't say. Is this CVS coreutils or some other version? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for the fix. By the way, is there some way in the Hurd to change the author of a file, given only its Unix file descriptor? I'd like to fix the FIXME about 5 lines before your fix, as that problem leads to a potential race condition. I'd appreciate any info you can provide for how to map

Re: `touch' broken on GNU

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:41:02AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' broke? Thanks for the report. Which version of 'touch'? The email didn't say. Is this CVS coreutils or some

Re: Getting a file_t from a file descriptor

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Eggert
Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I'm not that proficient in these issues, Nor am i. /* Return the io server port for file descriptor FD. This adds a Mach user reference to the returned port. On error, sets `errno' and returns MACH_PORT_NULL. */ Thanks, that looks

[COREUTILS] dirname line commands

2006-07-20 Thread Warren Crossing
hello, i tried this simple command today to find all asterisk directories locate asterisk | xargs dirname | sort | uniq dirname: too many arguments Try `dirname --help' for more information. dirname: too many arguments Try `dirname --help' for more information. dirname: too many arguments Try

Re: [COREUTILS] dirname line commands

2006-07-20 Thread Eric Blake
dirname: too many arguments Try `dirname --help' for more information. instead i had to get jiggy and issue for i in `locate asterisk` ; do dirname $i ; done | sort | uniq why doesn't dirname eat the stdin from xargs ( i tried a bunch or xargs switches -d and -e to no avail.)