Re: coreutils-7.0 beta test runs

2008-10-10 Thread Jim Meyering
HggdH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:37 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: I have run the tests both as root and as a normal user. I have failures on both runs. I ran the tests as 'make tests', which I *think* was what was required. Thanks for testing. Do you want the

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

2008-10-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: Hi Pádraig, I think that the only problem can raise when the sent signal is received by the monitor process after the handler is reinstalled. In that case the signal will be dispatched again to the process group. This can repeat again and again until it is finally

Re: coreutils-7.0 beta test runs

2008-10-10 Thread HggdH
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:38 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks. Those failures show merely that you built with profiling in such a way that every binary drops a gmon.out file in the current directory. Then, any test that expects certain files to be present finds an anomaly: the unexpected

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 10/10/2008 6:44 AM: On the other hand, POSIX is explicit that mixing signal and sigaction is not portable. For that matter, now that gnulib provides a guaranteed sigaction, why don't we just change all of coreutils to

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

2008-10-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
Eric Blake wrote: On the other hand, POSIX is explicit that mixing signal and sigaction is not portable. For that matter, now that gnulib provides a guaranteed sigaction, why don't we just change all of coreutils to use it? Affected are: csplit, dd, install, ls, nohup, sort, tee, and

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

2008-10-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: Hello, do you have suggestions on this patch? It replaces any `signal' with `sigaction'. [snip] diff --git a/src/timeout.c b/src/timeout.c index 8b506f0..6ef7218 100644 --- a/src/timeout.c +++ b/src/timeout.c @@ -278,8 +278,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)

Re: Patch to check for required programs when building from source checkout

2008-10-10 Thread Ed Avis
Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes: A few tools are required to build coreutils from a git checkout, but not checked in a friendly way. The newer automake-1.10a is actually required. Ah, ok, it could do with a comment because at first it appears that 1.10.1 should be newer than 1.10a.

FAIL: df/total-awk.log

2008-10-10 Thread Ed Avis
With current coreutils source from git, one test fails on my machine. It is a Fedora 9 box with a few Windows filesystems mounted. Here is the tests/test- suite.log. === GNU coreutils 7.0.5-42df6-dirty: tests/test-suite.log

Re: Bug

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to cathy on 10/10/2008 10:00 AM: Bonjour, suite a des problemes de resolution d'ecran, j'ai bidouille dans le terminal. Le probleme de resolution reglee reste en memoire une fois sur deux quand j'eteins et dpuis, c'est mon clavier qui ne

Re: [PATCH] Replacement for the sigs_to_ignore hack in timeout.c

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Giuseppe Scrivano on 10/10/2008 2:34 PM: Hello, do you have suggestions on this patch? It replaces any `signal' with `sigaction'. The size of this patch is not trivial; are you willing to assign copyright to FSF? If so, I can get