bug#28054: coreutils 8.27 test failure on x86_64-foxkit-linux-musl

2017-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 13/08/17 09:22, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 11/08/17 11:49, A. Wilcox wrote: >> >>> FAIL: tests/misc/csplit-io-err >>> == >> This was due to an inconsistency in the errors output by seq. >> A fix for that buglet i

bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

2017-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
tag 28082 notabug close 28082 stop On 13/08/17 14:35, Jonny Grant wrote: > Hello > > Can this be resolved please? Seems a shame in 2017 on a machine with > 16GB of ram I suffer this. Each filename is around 40 bytes. > > Roughly 60,000 files > > So total strings around 2.4 MBytes. Quite a smal

bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

2017-08-13 Thread Paul Eggert
Jonny Grant wrote: Can this be resolved please? It cannot be resolved by sending email to bug-gnu-utils, because the problem is due to a limit enforced by your operating system kernel, not by bash or by 'rm' or by any other GNU utility. Please file a bug report with whoever maintains your ke

bug#28082: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

2017-08-13 Thread Jonny Grant
Hello Can this be resolved please? Seems a shame in 2017 on a machine with 16GB of ram I suffer this. Each filename is around 40 bytes. Roughly 60,000 files So total strings around 2.4 MBytes. Quite a small limit. $rm jonny*.* bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long rm (GNU coreutils) 8.25

bug#27136: info coreutils

2017-08-13 Thread Paul Eggert
kalle wrote: no one is responding anymore. No change in cat-Documentation then? Nothing so far, yes. No specific wording changes have been proposed, as far as I can see from . You can propose a wording change by sending us the output of "diff -u" or "git send-email

bug#28079: find -type l -xtype and recursive symbolic links

2017-08-13 Thread Poor Yorick
When a find expression includes both the -type and -xtype options and a symbolic link that points to itself is encountered (a recursive symlink), find fails with the error message, "Too many levels of symbolic links". the -L option combined with the -type option also triggers the error: fi

bug#28054: coreutils 8.27 test failure on x86_64-foxkit-linux-musl

2017-08-13 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 11/08/17 11:49, A. Wilcox wrote: > >> FAIL: tests/misc/csplit-io-err >> == > This was due to an inconsistency in the errors output by seq. > A fix for that buglet is attached. > >> FAIL: tests/misc/printf-surpri

bug#27136: info coreutils

2017-08-13 Thread kalle
hmm. no one is responding anymore. No change in cat-Documentation then? Am 25.07.2017 um 00:31 schrieb kalle: > > > Am 30.05.2017 um 00:08 schrieb Pádraig Brady: >> On 29/05/17 14:06, kalle wrote: >>> hello, >>> I think it is not obvious for everyone how to deal with Standard Input in >>> the `

bug#28054: coreutils 8.27 test failure on x86_64-foxkit-linux-musl

2017-08-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/08/17 11:49, A. Wilcox wrote: > FAIL: tests/misc/csplit-io-err > == This was due to an inconsistency in the errors output by seq. A fix for that buglet is attached. > FAIL: tests/misc/printf-surprise > Depending on exit 141 couple