Re: [PATCH] Rebasing on Padraig's gnulib fallocate module and cleaning up

2009-06-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
Eric Sandeen wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: ... On a related note it looks like fallocate64() which is required on 32 bit systems will not be supported in glibc-2.10 as it was released as a glibc-2.11 symbol. That means that 32 bit `cp` built on glibc-2.10 will not allocate extents for a

Re: [PATCH] Rebasing on Padraig's gnulib fallocate module and cleaning up

2009-06-15 Thread Matej Cepl
Eric Sandeen, Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:38:34 -0500: I'd personally rather see a separate, dedicated fallocate tool ... but maybe that's just me. You might run it by the fsdevel-list, or maybe I've bike-shedded enough already. :) I still have in my patch and I plan to push into coreutils (if

Re: [PATCH] Rebasing on Padraig's gnulib fallocate module and cleaning up

2009-06-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
Matej Cepl wrote: Pádraig Brady, Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:19:36 +0100: I was thinking that truncate --allocate would call posix_fallocate() which guarantees that the file is allocated even if the filesystem does not support fallocate(). I.E. we would need to add a posix_fallocate() gnulib module

Re: [PATCH] Rebasing on Padraig's gnulib fallocate module and cleaning up

2009-06-15 Thread Matej Cepl
Pádraig Brady, Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:48:47 +0100: http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/gnulib-fallocate.diff Could I get a branch of it? I hate following patches... ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org

Re: Bug#532814: coreutils: cp -aL creates hardlinks where none were present before

2009-06-15 Thread Jim Meyering
[resending to bug-coreutils, not just to the debian bug tracker] Jim Meyering wrote: brian m. carlson wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 7.4-2 Thanks for taking the time to report that. If I create a directory structure such as the following: a: total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 bmc bmc 1024

Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux

2009-06-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: ... This is the new version: Subject: [PATCH] tail: Use inotify if it is available. * NEWS: Document the new feature. * m4/jm-macros.m4: Check if inotify is present. * src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): New function. (main): Use the inotify-based function, if

MAJOR Putty bug

2009-06-15 Thread Derrick Manor
I am using, or trying to use Putty to change a file ownership on an Apache server. However, the chown command does not work. Tells me there is no such directory or file Just wanted to let you know so you can fix it. i will check for an update soon.. thanks. Derrick Manor

Re: MAJOR Putty bug

2009-06-15 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Derrick Manor wrote: I am using, or trying to use Putty to change a file ownership on an Apache server. However, the chown command does not work. Tells me there is no such directory or file There's not enough information to tell what's causing the problem here. Please

Can't chmod file (was: MAJOR Putty bug)

2009-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Derrick Manor wrote: I am using, or trying to use Putty to change a file ownership on an Apache server. You seem to be confusing putty with chmod. Those utilities are not related to each other. People looking at your subject line will believe that this thread is talking about putty when in

Re: Can't chmod file

2009-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Derrick, Please keep the discussion on the mailing list. Use the list-reply feature of your mailer. Or if your mailer doesn't have that then use the group follow-up or reply-to-all feature. This way everyone can participate in the discussion and correct my mistakes. Also others who look for

Re: MAJOR Putty bug

2009-06-15 Thread Philip Rowlands
[ re-adding bug-coreutils to keep discussion on-list ] On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Derrick Manor wrote: sorry: using this basic command: chown username home/username/public_html/path_to_directory You've used example usernames and file paths here. Please give the exact command as it's typed, and