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On 06/14/2010 01:45 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> quoting your reply out of order:
>
> * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:22:31PM CEST:
>> On 06/13/2010 12:50 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
ter programmer.
>
> Thank you, and with out further ado, here is the patch.
>
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On 06/10/2010 11:12 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> -k option of sort only allow a range of files. But I would like a list
> of fields. For example, field 7, field 3 then field 8. Would you
> please let me know how to do it?
sort -k7,7 -k3,3 -k8,8
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> Basically, I want the original 1st field as the new 2nd field and the
> original 2nd field the first. Is reordering fields possible with cut.
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e, with a secondary sort key of the
entire line. '--key=2,2' implies a primary sort key of just the second
field, with a secondary sort key of the entire line. You want
'--key=2,2 --stable', which disables the secondary sort over the entire
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; [>> seems to be to separate me from as much as my budget as they can
> [>> get.
Can you confirm Pádraig's google analysis that 252 is ENOTSUP on your
platform? If we have a symbolic name, then we can patch the code quite
easily. We can also patch the gnulib strerror and
* src/cat.c (usage): Clarify that -b overrides -n.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Likewise.
* THANKS: Update.
Suggested by Chas. Owens, in bug 6383.
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> The -n option is documented as "number all output lines", but when -b
> is present it only numbers non-blank lines. The documentation
ock your shell script (something that won't happen
with regular files).
>
> $ cat a.txt
> In a.txt
> $ cat b.txt
> In b.txt
> $ cat main.sh
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>
> mkfifo a.suffix
> cat a.txt >a.suffix &
> mkfifo b.suffix
> cat b.txt >b.suff
> +
> +# Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
How much of this content comes from other files from 2006, vs. new
content needing only 2010?
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gt;> +if NAME contains no /'s, output `.' (meaning the current directory).\n\
>
> Looks fine. I know it was there in the original too,
> but s/output/print/ sounds a little better.
Pushed with that tweak.
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* doc/coreutils.texi (dirname invocation): Reword to be more
precise.
* src/dirname.c (usage): Likewise.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Filipus Klutiero, bug 6175.
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On 05/17/2010 09:36 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 05/17/2010 09:17 AM, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
[revisiting an older
cumentation, your contribution would probably be non-trivial and
>> require copyright assignment to the FSF. Let us know if you'd like to
>> start that process.
>>
>>
> Yes, I'm interested in starting that process.
I'm sending you some details off-list.
-i or cp -i by default, which will catch
common errors like this.
For more information on globbing, see this FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#expr-2-_002a-3-does-not-work
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an be swayed if you can present
good arguments why the addition is better than using existing tools.
>
> PS: I can try to provide a patch if my bug is accepted
Patches speak volumes, although by the time you add the code and the
documentation, your contribution would probably be non-trivia
NU/Linux system with 732 installed locales. But it is highly
likely that you could be in a non-UTF-8 locale, or that the Solaris
multibyte functions are not as robust as glibc at detecting valid UTF-8
sequences. If it is indeed a bug in Solaris strcoll(), then gnulib can
probably be taught to wo
nto coreutils is sufficient
for writing a windows port, since the cygwin project is pretty reliable
at porting coreutils to windows.
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to get the size of a block device is to open() it,
then do lseek(fd,0,SEEK_END). Other more efficient methods, like an
ioctl, may exist for some platforms, but then it could become a
maintenance nightmare to figure out where the shortcuts are available.
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Some sed required the trailing newline; you need to use:
v=`printf %s\\n "$v" | sed "$tag_sed_script"`
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rt of coreutils in running things like du.
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s for the report. However, I don't think it is a bug. The empty
line, when forced to take on a numeric value, is equivalent to 0. And
since you specified unique entries only, sort only printed the empty
line (the first of the two matching lines that it encountered).
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> [I'm not urging that this be done, merely that it be discussed. In my
> view, Ubuntu is at fault for introducing nonstandard options, and
> messing up the boot PATH, and failing to use explicit paths on
> critical boot-time commands.
Your view is correc
riorities work (although again, the default is
likely to be that each process inherits the priority from its parent).
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well, reachable from) the root directory, as evidenced by '/../'
resolving to '/'. But that doesn't work as well with the '<2
components' wording above, so I'm feeling more comfortable with leaving
the corner-cases undocumented in the terse --help outpu
aps a more correct
formulation, while still being concise, is along these lines:
Strip the last component and resulting trailing slashes; if the file
name contains only one component, print '.'.
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e coreutils man page was definitely
more biased towards 'pwd -P' behavior. But if you still think that
there is anything to tweak in the current upstream documentation, we'd
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e following:
> mkdir dirA dirB
> cd dirA
> ln -s ../dirB/ lnkB
> cd lnkB
> pwd
Try '/bin/pwd' instead of 'pwd' to see the difference. And to prove to
yourself that you were getting the shell built-in, try 'pwd --help',
contrasted with '/bin/pwd
sider
> "
> + "also specifying `b'"), keynum);
> +
> +
> + /* Warn about numeric comparisons spanning fields,
Why two blank lines?
> @@ -3884,6 +3985,18 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
>if (debug && outfile)
> error (SORT_FAILURE, 0, _("options -o and --debug are incompatible"));
Why?
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rst?
If not, I can probably get around to this in another day or two.
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On 05/12/2010 07:53 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 05:39 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> The attached patch gives warnings about questionable
>> option combinations. For example:
>>
>> $ sort --debug -rb -k1,1n /dev/null
>> ! options `-b' are ignored
>&g
hat looks awkward, both when compared to the GCS convention of listing
the program name rather than !, and in respect to plurality:
sort: option `-b' is ignored
sort: option `-r' only applies to last-resort comparison
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n reparse. So before we apply
this patch, we would first need a patch to gnulib's getdate.y that
allows parsing of an rfc3339 style with a 'T' instead of a space.
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> Perhaps they're copying coreutils without looking at what POSIX says.
Or, more likely, perhaps they are independently obeying what POSIX says,
without reference to either coreutils or busybox.
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options that the implementation may provide as an extension. For
example, if the standard utility foo is listed as taking no options, and
the application needed to give it a pathname with a leading , it
could safely do it as:
foo -- -myfile
and avoid any problems with -m used as an ext
ithout reference to either coreutils or busybox.
>
> So, I think I should reassign the bug to busybox?
Yes.
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e() functions to call this new
formatting system. It does sound like a nice project, but it's not my
highest priority.
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an that many scripts
> would have to be fixed.
Yes, many broken scripts need to be fixed. But that is the fault of
those broken scripts, not coreutils.
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On 05/06/2010 07:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> According to POSIX[*], basename and dirname take no options (examples
>> in POSIX also assume that), so that this would make BusyBox's behavior
>> correct.
>
> No, you're missing one other key point of POSIX:
>
b in your second
argument is expanded by the shell independently of the * in the first
argument, and mv never knows that either variant was a glob.
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t would be better to forward your request to the
nautilus team.
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rmal-order_0021
Try again with 'LC_ALL=C sort aaa.txt' to see the difference.
Personally, I have 'export LC_COLLATE=C' in my ~/.bashrc in order to
guarantee traditional sorting, while everything else continues to follow
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8.5. And someday I'll get around to creating the new gnulib interface
>> for gracefully enforcing binary streams without clobbering O_APPEND.
But I'd still like to commit this in time for coreutils 8.5 later today
if there are no complaints.
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an portably do, then, is capture stderr, then check
the exit status of dd; if the exit status is 0, discard the captured
stderr; otherwise, pass the stderr on to the logfile:
foo | dd of=a seek=$n 2>b; st=$?; if test $st != 0; then cat b >&2; \
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; s/The/The obsolete/
Pushed, with those tweaks.
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rly enable binary mode
without clobbering append mode, but haven't gotten back to it. However,
the effect on cygwin of keeping the current code is no different than it
was for 8.4 (that is, it is not a showstopper to fix it before releasing
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* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention the conversion.
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How about this followup, copying the comment from Pádraig's patch into
our documentation?
doc/coreutils.texi |5 +
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
i
ur test
app compiled against glibc, and if that still doesn't meet your needs,
then open a bug report against glibc. And if glibc works, then open a
bug report against gnulib that gnulib and glibc disagree.
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n some fixes
to chcon in the meantime. Would you mind repeating your tests with the
latest version, in case you are tripping up on one of the bugs we have
already addressed?
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ecause it would have been very helpful in demonstrating
my reply.
>
> The result is the same. If I make the same executions with sort 5.0 it
> works properly.
Actually, sort 5.0 was buggy in this area. Sort 8.4 has a number of bug
fixes for bad behavior in sort 5.0.
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> +multi-statement loop:
seems redundant with this paragraph. Besides, it makes for an awkward flow:
when omitting is good
when it is bad
example of good
when it is bad
example of bad
Deleting the paragraph in question makes for a nicer flow, with no loss
of information:
when it is good
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8.4, and there have been some fixes for bugs in tail within the last
year. We need more information before we can either repeat this or
definitively state that you have encountered one of those already-fixed
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rns a
>> success. Any suggestions?
What shell are you using? Typically, false is also a shell builtin, so
maybe your particular shell has a bug.
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At any rate, there's nothing in the source code that introduces any case
insensitivity, and the documentation is correct, that match and : behave
identically.
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On 03/30/2010 09:14 AM, Phil Dumont wrote:
> It sure would be nice if the sort command had a --human option:
>
> du -s --human * | sort --human
It does, as of coreutils 7.5. Are you running something older?
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Follow-up Comment #4, bug #29349 (project coreutils):
Huh? Notice that required_mon_width is declared at file scope, with the
static modifier. C89 _guarantees_ that it is therefore initialized to 0 at
program startup. The comment above its declaration states that 0 means to not
use precomputed
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #29349 (project coreutils):
abmon_init is already conditional; it returns 0 if HAVE_NL_LANGINFO is not
defined. I think a better patch would be something that unconditionally fixes
the logic to deal with abmon_init returning 0 because we can't determine a
variable size,
if it re-appears later on.
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>
> Thanks for the reply...
>
> John
Glad we could be of help.
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t stable version is 8.4). What
version of coreutils is pre-installed in your redhat 5.x?
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, if you use bash, you can add this to
your ~/.bashrc, and get a mkcdir function that does exactly what you want:
mkcdir () {
mkdir "$1" && cd "$1"
}
You can even get fancier and add logic to support passing options to mkdir.
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src/wc.c, in the usage() function, to alter the wording according to
your desires?
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s like an interesting
filter to add.
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chroot and timeout at least should be
> modified as you suggest. I still think I'm missing something though?
I don't think you're missing anything. Because timeout takes options in
addition to --help/--version, it does not need to use
parse_long_options, but should do everything itself
Crontab uses a different set of environment variables than your login
session. My guess is that you have $TZ defined differently between the
two execution environments. Explicitly set TZ in your crontab if you
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> + { echo '$(ME): the above files lack a space-before-open-paren' \
> + 1>&2; exit 1; } || :; \
> + else \
> + echo '$(ME): skipping test $@: cppi not installed'
On 03/19/2010 07:51 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Eric Blake writes:
>
>> On 03/17/2010 04:14 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Paul Gerber writes:
>>>
>>>>> /bin/ls: No match
>>>
>>> That message comes from the shell (csh or tcsh).
>&
On 03/17/2010 09:36 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Here it is in patch form. I'll commit it tomorrow unless there are
> further suggestions today.
>
> +Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover\n\
> +some of its contents, given sufficient experti
tyle
escapes; but we now have the wiggle room to change to BSD semantics, if
we ever wanted to (but I agree with your decision to keep things with \n
and not \012).
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, but still legible:
s/octal /c-style/
Either way, it's a one-liner that makes --help match reality.
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On 03/17/2010 04:14 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Paul Gerber writes:
>
>>> /bin/ls: No match
>
> That message comes from the shell (csh or tcsh).
Or bash, if you turn on the non-default failglob option (which exists to
match the non-POSIXy behavior of csh).
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nice syntax-check rule to push upstream into gnulib (of
course, projects with other notions of formatting style, like libvirt,
would have to update cfg.mk to avoid that rule).
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wasn't clear, try:
$ echo /bin/ls *.pdb *.pdb.Z *.pdb.gz
to see what you are passing to ls on the command line, which might
explain why ls is then issuing a message.
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* src/rm.c (usage): Update wording to make two points more
apparent: undelete is not trivial, and partial recovery should be
a consideration factor in deciding whether rm is secure enough.
Initially suggested by Reuben Thomas.
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Consider upgrading - the latest stable coreutils is 8.4, and there have
been some bug fixes to date in the meantime (although none in the
particular behavior you were questioning, since that is not a bug).
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technical lists]
On 03/14/2010 06:11 AM, islam said wrote:
> Hello Eric Blake
>
> all i'm looking for is the -l option on aix with SU command
> i tried to install the Coreutils package but it seems not working
or integration into GNU RCS. It seems that tempfile(1) is Debian-specific.
What does tempfile(1) do that mktemp(1) does not?
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ieved ('some' is weaker than 'the', and definitely
gives the desired connotation that it is not easy).
Now if someone would submit this rewording in actual patch format...
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$ make
$ make install
will give you /usr/local/bin/su that understands -l
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r than rm at killing
data, while at the same time reducing the newbie impression that
recovery is easy, since it usually is not.
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ALL=C sort' to see the difference.
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ace of my gnome-terminal shows non-ASCII characters.
To be expected, if any of those files had non-ASCII contents. But that
does not make it a bug in head.
Perhaps you wanted 'head file', rather than 'head file *'?
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m $TZ in the environment:
$ TZ=UTC date
Fri Mar 5 13:45:10 UTC 2010
$ TZ=UCT date
Fri Mar 5 13:45:13 UCT 2010
If it is a typo in your environment, then check your configuration files
(such as ~/.bashrc...) for who might have been setting it wrongly in the
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of multiple
separate lines of underscores, one per key, much easier to follow in
understanding how each line is broken down into fields and keys, than I
would in trying to parse inline notations that change the line's contents.
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at I marked the string for
translation. Actually, depending on the syscall you used to determine
whether the directory is non-empty, you may want to use errno directly
rather than hardcoding ENOTEMPTY, in case there are other failures also
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s hard to tell you reasons for what you are seeing. And
without a more detailed explanation of what you typed, what you expected,
and why what happened is different from what you expected, we can't tell
whether it was your expectations or the tool that had the problem.
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x and frequently changing that the work of programmable
completion is better delegated to the package rather than to the
programmable completion library. Coreutils probably falls in the latter
(it is stable and the interfaces change slowly enough that the
bash-completion project has no problem
my desktop displaying the color coding
> active within the terminal for your review. The terminal color code sequence
> is fairly standard and should help verify what I'm reporting.
It's better to copy and paste contents of the terminal than it is to send
screenshots of text data (mu
urce and destination directories? Also, are the
two directories on the same disk, where rename(2) would work, or was it a
cross-device move, where mv(1) has to create the copy before deleting the
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Solaris 8 i386 with ZFS-backed NFSv3 mounts.
I've applied your patch, after adding a ChangeLog entry.
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is certainly a step in the right direction.
I'll let others decide whether to apply it, but you have my +1.
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Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682
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r own locales to a specific directory.
> It seems that sort doesn't depend on LC_ALL on Solaris and Cygwin,
> but it does on Linux. Besides LC_ALL, what does the sort order depend
> on? Build settings?
LC_ALL takes precedence. But if LC_ALL is unset, then it is up to
LC_COLLATE;
but not with the C
locale. Remember that in some locales, like en_US, whitespace is ignored
as insignificant in collation.
Try '... | LC_ALL=C sort' to see the difference.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021
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According to Pádraig Brady on 2/26/2010 9:29 AM:
> I'll probably add a test before pushing
Also some NEWS. But the fix looks sensible to me.
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Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682
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t the point remains - such "helps" can only be enabled via an extension
(since they change the POSIX-specified behavior), and thus do no good if a
user does not request that extension.
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Eric Blake e...@byu.net
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According to Jim Meyering on 2/23/2010 2:10 AM:
>> Once that is decided, then I can merge today's changes to bootstrap into
>> coreutils.
>
> Thanks!
Here's the sync to coreutils. Anyone want to review before I push?
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According to Eric Blake on 2/25/2010 8:41 AM:
> According to Eric Blake on 2/18/2010 7:18 AM:
>> According to jida...@jidanni.org on 2/18/2010 6:54 AM:
>>> EB> jidanni, it would be a two-line patch to expr.c. Would you care to
>>> write
>>> EB>
According to Eric Blake on 2/18/2010 7:18 AM:
> According to jida...@jidanni.org on 2/18/2010 6:54 AM:
>> EB> jidanni, it would be a two-line patch to expr.c. Would you care to write
>> EB> such a patch, rather than just complaining?
>>
>> It would be much more
would be helpful to let us know what led you to choose this
mailing address as the place to send your report, in case there is some
documentation that could be patched to prevent others from making the same
mistake.
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