bug#23539: tail -f file name headings displayed too many times after suspend

2016-05-14 Thread Janne Snabb
Hi, I have a habit of running "tail -F /some/log/file /other/log/file" in my shell window. Whenever I need that shell window for something else, I hit ctrl-Z to suspend the tail. Then I do whatever I need to do. After I am done I do "fg" to get back to displaying the tail of the log files. I get

bug#23538: Tail command exception

2016-05-14 Thread Dan Sichitiu
Hello, Please be advised that tail command is reporting an exception when applied to a file stored on Oracle ACFS (Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System): Unrecognized file system. . . Regards, DS

bug#23537: timeout test gets false-positive for duration of -1.189731495357231765e+4932

2016-05-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering wrote: > But that's CentOS6-era glibc, so maybe not worth it for such a corner case. Yes, I tend to agree, this is quite low priority.

bug#23537: timeout test gets false-positive for duration of -1.189731495357231765e+4932

2016-05-14 Thread Jim Meyering
On systems with recent glibc, this abuse of timeout elicits the expected error: $ src/timeout -- -1.189731495357231765e+4932 sleep 0 src/timeout: invalid time interval ‘-1.189731495357231765e+4932’ Try 'src/timeout --help' for more information. But with glibc-2.12's strtod, that input maps