Re: ls -Rd behavior

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to John Cowan on 8/17/2007 10:35 AM: > Eric Blake scripsit: > >> Since POSIX states "The use of -d with -R produces unspecified results," >> should >> we change ls to reject -Rd and -dR as invalid option combinations rather >> than >> th

Re: mv executed incompletely due to insufficient privileges

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Elmar Stellnberger on 8/17/2007 1:13 PM: > package/version: coreutils-5.93-20 Consider upgrading. The latest stable coreutils is 6.9. > > In this case the privileges suffice for creating a new directory entry > for the destination file

Re: [PATCH] Wrong date format in Polish translation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis on 8/17/2007 4:12 PM: > Polish translation of output of `ls -l` contains date format which isn't used > in Poland. > I'm attaching a patch which fixes this bug. Thanks for the patch. However, translat

[PATCH] Wrong date format in Polish translation

Polish translation of output of `ls -l` contains date format which isn't used in Poland. I'm attaching a patch which fixes this bug. --- po/pl.po +++ po/pl.po @@ -4463,11 +4463,11 @@ #: src/ls.c:684 msgid "%b %e %Y" -msgstr "%b %e %Y" +msgstr "%d.%m.%Y " #: src/ls.c:692 msgid "%b %e %H:%M

mv executed incompletely due to insufficient privileges

mv /opt/kde3/share/services/basket_config_features.desktop ~/unbenutzt/ mv: Entfernen von „/opt/kde3/share/services/basket_config_features.desktop“ nicht möglich: Keine Berechtigung (E.: removing 'opt/kde3/share/services/basket_config_features.desktop' not possible: insufficient privileges) package

Re: mv can't change filename case on case-insensitive file systems

Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lacking an efficient standardized API, checks for case-insensitivity are only > needed when stricmp() succeeds when strcmp() fails (actually, I'm not sure > whether choice of locale can affect case-insensitive equality of filenames?). > I would figure

Re: security bug in cp(1)

Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Soren Spies on 8/16/2007 8:16 PM: >> I just noticed that cp -p doesn't update the group on a file before >> writing data into the target. That means that during the copy, users >> you didn't intend to be able to read the file can read the file

Re: mv can't change filename case on case-insensitive file systems

Jonathan Lennox cs.columbia.edu> writes: > On Cygwin using non-managed mounts (and presumably other operating systems > when using a case-insensitive file system), it's not possible to use > Coreutils mv to change the case of a filename; mv reports that they are the > same file. There is another

Re: ls -Rd behavior

Eric Blake scripsit: > Since POSIX states "The use of -d with -R produces unspecified results," > should > we change ls to reject -Rd and -dR as invalid option combinations rather than > the current behavior of ignoring -R when -d is present? Better yet, why not DTRT? -R is about what objects

ls -Rd behavior

Since POSIX states "The use of -d with -R produces unspecified results," should we change ls to reject -Rd and -dR as invalid option combinations rather than the current behavior of ignoring -R when -d is present? -- Eric Blake ___ Bug-coreutils m

Re: proposal : remove hostname from coreutils

Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 23 July 2007, Gabriel Barazer wrote: >> The "hostname" utility in coreutils-6.9 is still a very old version, and >> the "hostname" from net-tools 1.60 (released ~2001) is a better featured >> utility. Since net-tools doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, what >> a

Re: proposal : remove hostname from coreutils

On Monday 23 July 2007, Gabriel Barazer wrote: > The "hostname" utility in coreutils-6.9 is still a very old version, and > the "hostname" from net-tools 1.60 (released ~2001) is a better featured > utility. Since net-tools doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, what > about updating the "hostname"