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[bug #24949] coreutils pwd not implementing latest POSIX features

2008-11-26 Thread Eric Blake

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #24949 (project coreutils): This has been brought up repeatedly in the past; see this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-10/msg00293.html ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: what a pitiful explanation for sha1sum

2008-11-26 Thread Jon Stanley

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't 'sha1sum --help' already provide this information? Or the man or info pages? I had to look last night when this came in and I was at a loss to find any poor documentation. __

credo

2008-11-26 Thread Bauke Jan Douma

Hi Jim and all you coreutils maintainers, I've a feeling a tremendous amount of work has been done over the past year. The coreutils are being perfected by the minute. Might I take a moment to say: Thanks! At the risk of sounding corny: Who's cute and cool in cure and chore? Why it's the

Re: what a pitiful explanation for sha1sum

2008-11-26 Thread Eric Blake

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [please keep the list in the loop, and don't top-post] According to landon kelsey on 11/26/2008 8:45 AM: >> Thanks for the report, I guess. Unfortunately, the body of your message >> is blank, and the subject doesn't quite tell us what you think is wr

Re: dd skip bug?

2008-11-26 Thread Jim Meyering

Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spent a little more time on this issue. > The attached patch makes the following changes for seekable inputs and > outputs. > Note skip is for input, and seek is for output in the following: > > skip beyond end of file > before: immediately exit(0);

[bug #24949] coreutils pwd not implementing latest POSIX features

2008-11-26 Thread Paul D. Smith

URL: Summary: coreutils pwd not implementing latest POSIX features Project: GNU Core Utilities Submitted by: psmith Submitted on: Wed 26 Nov 2008 03:50:44 PM EST Category: None

Re: [PATCH]: typo in last units factorization patch

2008-11-26 Thread Jim Meyering

Ondřej Vašík <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I spotted typo in your last factorization patch. > Patch to fix that attached, it also removes runcon/chcon item from TODO. > > From: =?utf-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Va=C5=A1=C3=ADk?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix typo in units factorization, remo

[PATCH]: typo in last units factorization patch

2008-11-26 Thread Ondřej Vašík

Hi Jim, I spotted typo in your last factorization patch. Patch to fix that attached, it also removes runcon/chcon item from TODO. Ondřej From 26563a7e759b5f9c2515d06b1efe7d1ccc2ca0ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Va=C5=A1=C3=ADk?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 200

[bug #24934] confusing description of -c option

2008-11-26 Thread Pádraig Brady

Update of bug #24934 (project coreutils): Status: In Progress => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: [bug #24934] confusing description of -c option

2008-11-26 Thread Jim Meyering

Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. That looks fine. Please push it with a log like this: doc: tail: fix description of --bytes=N (-c) * doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Use @var{n} consistently, not a mix of that and @var

Re: dd skip bug?

2008-11-26 Thread Pádraig Brady

I spent a little more time on this issue. The attached patch makes the following changes for seekable inputs and outputs. Note skip is for input, and seek is for output in the following: skip beyond end of file before: immediately exit(0); after : immediately printf("cannot skip: Invalid argum