Re: Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-02-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/02/10 02:14, Michael Stone wrote: FAIL: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 (exit: 1) == tail: `f' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line 34: kill: (13733) - No such process ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line

Re: Bug#569020: coreutils: failure of install-C test on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-02-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/02/10 10:29, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/02/10 02:14, Michael Stone wrote: FAIL: tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2 (exit: 1) == tail: `f' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory ./tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: line 34: kill: (13733) - No such

strange automated path truncation with chmod

2010-02-11 Thread dh-bugs
hello i faced a very strange behaviour with the coreutils 8.4 chmod tool: i mounted a dvd-ram and didn't recognize that it was mounted read-only (don't know why, actually). my first thought was that the access rights to the files were set improper. because the disk stores only archival stuff for

please fix the output of du -h

2010-02-11 Thread dh-bugs
hello using -h with du on a directory tree can produce results several gigabytes *below* the actual value. this is quite annoying (and just plain wrong), especially when trying to burn a cd/dvd. regards, Dennis Heuer dh-b...@online.de

Re: please fix the output of du -h

2010-02-11 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, dh-b...@online.de wrote: using -h with du on a directory tree can produce results several gigabytes *below* the actual value. this is quite annoying (and just plain wrong), especially when trying to burn a cd/dvd. du -h doesn't do what you expect. Quoting the manual:

Unicode characters in tail and head

2010-02-11 Thread Richard . Wossal
Hello! My question is the following: Will there be a '-m' or '--chars' option for tail and head? Because, when processing Unicode, the -c (--bytes) option isn't very useful. Well, of course, it does what it should do - but I think it was designed with byte==char in mind (which is probably why

Re: Unicode characters in tail and head

2010-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
According to richard.wos...@gmx.de on 2/11/2010 6:10 AM: Hello! My question is the following: Will there be a '-m' or '--chars' option for tail and head? Because, when processing Unicode, the -c (--bytes) option isn't very useful. Eventually, when someone contributes a maintainable patch

Re: strange automated path truncation with chmod

2010-02-11 Thread jeff.liu
dh-b...@online.de 写道: hello i faced a very strange behaviour with the coreutils 8.4 chmod tool: i mounted a dvd-ram and didn't recognize that it was mounted read-only (don't know why, actually). my first thought was that the access rights to the files were set improper. because the disk

Re: strange automated path truncation with chmod

2010-02-11 Thread dh-bugs
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:54:19 +0800 jeff.liu jeff@oracle.com wrote: could you supply more info? am not shure what you want to hear? as written, there was no message on screen. after the mistake, i remounted the dvd-ram with -o rw and tried again (using arrow up and enter) and it worked.

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com writes: I noticed a few more extraneious '.' in --help output +++ b/src/base64.c @@ -62,10 +62,9 @@ Base64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.\n\ \n), program_name); fputs (_(\ -w, --wrap=COLS Wrap encoded lines

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/02/10 15:25, Eric Blake wrote: Pádraig BradyPat draigBrady.com writes: I noticed a few more extraneious '.' in --help output +++ b/src/base64.c @@ -62,10 +62,9 @@ Base64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.\n\ \n), program_name); fputs (_(\

Re: Ubuntu stty

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Curry wrote: I already answered this the first time it was sent. The archive has my message: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00020.html Sorry. I missed seeing that message when it went by. But there it is in the archive. I had missed it. Thanks for

Re: Stty bug?

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Curry wrote: Tom writes: I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit). I'm trying to use an ASR-33 Teletype (uppercase only) Are you trying to write the best message this mailing list has ever aseen? Because so far, it is. I agree. It puts my vt100 to shame. :-) As you can see, iuclc is set

Re: Stty bug?

2010-02-11 Thread Tom Lake
-- From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:32 PM To: Tom tl...@twcny.rr.com; bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Stty bug? Alan Curry wrote: Tom writes: I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit). I'm trying to use an ASR-33

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: ... Actually there are a few more instance of that (due to me): $ grep -E -.* [A-Z] *.c | grep -v FILE base64.c: -d, --decode Decode data\n\ base64.c: -i, --ignore-garbage When decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters\n\ base64.c: -w, --wrap=COLS

Re: Final point in new option of join

2010-02-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/02/10 21:29, Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: ... Actually there are a few more instance of that (due to me): $ grep -E -.* [A-Z] *.c | grep -v FILE base64.c: -d, --decode Decode data\n\ base64.c: -i, --ignore-garbage When decoding, ignore non-alphabet

Re: strange automated path truncation with chmod

2010-02-11 Thread jeff.liu
dh-b...@online.de 写道: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:54:19 +0800 jeff.liu jeff@oracle.com wrote: could you supply more info? am not shure what you want to hear? as written, there was no message on screen. after the mistake, i remounted the dvd-ram with -o rw and tried again (using arrow up

Feature Request kill and ps

2010-02-11 Thread Jan Girke
Hi All I had my thunderstorm cloud flying over my head again and managed to drop this mail. I suggest kill eatin' names instead of numbers example: kill 'process name' and ps sorting processes alphabetically example: ps -'free letter' thanks, have a good time and don't make myself bad weather,

Changing man page format

2010-02-11 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
Is it possible to change the formatting of man pages so that they are not justified and have no hyphenation? If so, which files have to be modified, and what would need to be changed? -- Chris F.A. Johnson, http://cfajohnson.com Author: Pro Bash

Re: Feature Request kill and ps

2010-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
According to Jan Girke on 2/11/2010 3:36 PM: Hi All I had my thunderstorm cloud flying over my head again and managed to drop this mail. I suggest kill eatin' names instead of numbers example: kill 'process name' And how exactly do you propose mapping 'process name' back to a particular

Re: Feature Request kill and ps

2010-02-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 11 February 2010 17:36:55 Jan Girke wrote: I suggest kill eatin' names instead of numbers example: kill 'process name' what's wrong with `killall` ? -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.