Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:03, mwoehlke wrote: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=15043 Is this going to get fixed, or what? There is a trivial fix available, it just needs

omitting -DHAVE_CONFIG_H from coreutils

2006-08-26 Thread Paul Eggert
I installed the following to remove the -DHAVE_CONFIG_H clutter from make output. 2006-08-25 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] * .x-sc_no_if_have_config_h: Remove; no longer needed. * .x-sc_prohibit_assert_without_use: Remove; it was empty. *

[bug #15043] ls assigns colors inconsistently

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of bug #15043 (project coreutils): Status:None = Fixed ___ Follow-up Comment #4: Thanks again. I've just checked in a fix for coreutils-6.2:

[bug #5477] mv --backup some_directory cannot overwrite directory

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of bug #5477 (project coreutils): Status:None = Fixed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Thanks for the report. This is fixed in coreutils-6.0.

[bug #15043] ls assigns colors inconsistently

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of bug #15043 (project coreutils): Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15043 ___

[bug #5477] mv --backup some_directory cannot overwrite directory

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of bug #5477 (project coreutils): Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?5477 ___

[bug #12651] sort Feature request: random order

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of bug #12651 (project coreutils): Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?12651 ___

[bug #5971] RFE: a trashcan command

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of bug #5971 (project coreutils): Status:None = Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: Thanks for the

[bug #5971] RFE: a trashcan command

2006-08-26 Thread Richard Neill
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #5971 (project coreutils): Agreed - it's no longer required now that coreutils bug 5477 has been fixed. That said, might I suggest appending something like the following to the man page of rm, so that the hint is more widely available: -- Unthinking use of rm is

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: I've checked this in on the trunk: * tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: New file. Test for the above fix. I am seeing this test failure. make[3]: Entering directory

bootstrap change to not require wget, for the buildbot

2006-08-26 Thread Paul Eggert
I observed the test failure due to the recent dircolors fix on Solaris 10, so it's not just an HP-UX thing. Jim is the expert in that area, though. I also noticed that the buildbot was failing on ia64 hpux11.23 hpcc 32-bit and 64-bit due to a failed configure, because these platforms lacked

mv: minor bug fix with --verbose --backup and directories

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
This fixes a minor inconsistency. With --verbose, mv would report the backup file name for a non-directory destination, but not for directories: $ rm -rf a b; touch a b; mv --verbose --backup -T a b `a' - `b' (backup: `b.~2~') ^ But for directories, no (backup:

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 2006-08-26 Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] This test was failing in some environments. * tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: Don't rely on eval `dircolors -b` to set LS_COLORS in the environment. * tests/envvar-check: Instead, ensure

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks for the quick report! I wonder why I can't reproduce it here... I think you identified the problem as being associated with the LS_COLORS variable. I am running with 'env -i ...stuff...' and so LS_COLORS is not set in my build environment prior to building and

Re: bootstrap change to not require wget, for the buildbot

2006-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: I observed the test failure due to the recent dircolors fix on Solaris 10, so it's not just an HP-UX thing. Jim is the expert in that area, though. I actually observed it on all platforms and reported the results from my Debian amd64 desktop. (shrug) In any case the fix to

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-26 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks for the quick report! I wonder why I can't reproduce it here... I think you identified the problem as being associated with the LS_COLORS variable. I am running with 'env -i ...stuff...' and so Ah ha! With env -i, there

[bug #17540] cp: cannot backup `./.': Device or resource busy

2006-08-26 Thread Andreas Schwab
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17540 Summary: cp: cannot backup `./.': Device or resource busy Project: GNU Core Utilities Submitted by: schwab Submitted on: Samstag 26.08.2006 um 23:11 Category: None

Re: coreutils-6.1: needs 'ls' patch (bug #15043)

2006-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I think you identified the problem as being associated with the LS_COLORS variable. I am running with 'env -i ...stuff...' and so Ah ha! With env -i, there would be no TERM setting, so dircolors -b would output this: LS_COLORS=''; export

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: file permissions race in mkdir, mknod, mkfifo (CAN-2005-1039)]

2006-08-26 Thread Paul Eggert
Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do not see the issue for mkfifo -- what can possibly go wrong with open()ing and fchmod()ing a freshly created FIFO? If mkfifo opens the FIFO for reading, and some other process then opens the FIFO for writing without O_NONBLOCK, the other process will

bootstrap typo fix

2006-08-26 Thread Paul Eggert
I installed this to fix a think-o in my previous change: --- bootstrap 26 Aug 2006 18:33:08 - 1.5 +++ bootstrap 27 Aug 2006 03:33:25 - @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ get_translations() { printf rm -f %s/%s.po; }; } \n, subdir, lang } END { print : } -' | sh;; +