Re: loss of ascii-betizing?

2004-06-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:13:58PM -0500, Paul Garrett wrote: Dear GNU.org, In the new RedHat/Fedora, ls no longer ASCII-betizes, but alphabetizes, and even ignores leading dots, so dotfiles are mixed in among other files. Is this a feature? Yes it is. You can control ls' (and other

Re: a suggestion for rm

2005-10-29 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:00:40AM +0300, M Atakan G?rkan wrote: Would it not make more sense for rm to fail completely if one of the files on the command line is not found? For example if I intend to delete the file foo1 and type rm foo 1 and by chance have a file named foo, it will be gone;

Re: feature-request: add banner to coreutils as a standard GNU/Linux utility

2006-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:22:36PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I don't find the BSD one very useful, who has continuous tractor feed paper printers these days? :-) A... Bzzzzrzzrzrzrzzrzz zrzzrzzrrzzr. Week. Bzzzrzzrzzr rzzr zrrzrrrzzrzrrzrzrzz.

Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
error; please apply the attached patch. Regards, Thomas 2006-07-20 Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/copy.c (set_author): Correctly access SRC_SB's element ST_AUTHOR. Index: src/copy.c === RCS file: /sources

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:58:55PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: [...] Immediatelly (i.e. especiall that there was no ``long failure period'' like said in the bounce message) after sending the mail I received the attached bounce. I'm ccing this very email to another email address

`touch' broken on GNU

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' broke? #v+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ src/touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas users 0 Jan 1 1970 foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $

Re: Tiny error w.r.t. change from 2005-12-05

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:24:19PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #v+ 2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher * src/copy.c [!HAVE_FCHOWN]: Define fchown(...) to -1. (set_owner, preserve_author): New functions, factored out of copy_reg

Re: `touch' broken on GNU

2006-07-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:41:02AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch' broke? Thanks for the report. Which version of 'touch'? The email didn't say. Is this CVS coreutils or some

Re: Getting a file_t from a file descriptor

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 04:08:44PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please tell if you (or anyone else, of course) need access to a GNU/Hurd system. I'm afraid it's a lot to learn all at once; That was meant to be a general offer (i.e. in case

Re: Bug - report

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:28:28PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command, who when used with any two arguments like who am am... displays the result of who am i. #v+ $ who --help Usage: who [OPTION]... [ FILE | ARG1 ARG2 ] [...] -monly hostname and user

Re: logical paths (was: (no subject))

2006-09-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Not an answer to the question, but it might be interesting nevertheless. On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:48:11PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Kartik K. Agaram wrote: Does POSIX require that coreutils commands use only physical path rather than pwd to resolve relative paths? When pwd

Re: FYI: new test for a hard-to-detect race fix, using gdb(!)

2006-12-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:21:34PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: [...] +( gdb --version ) gdb.out 21 +if test ! -s gdb.out; then + echo $0: can't run gdb. Skipping this test. 12 + (exit 77); exit 77 +fi #v+ $ ( nonexistent ) out 21 $ test ! -s out echo can\'t run || echo

``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Please tell me if that has been discussed before -- I couldn't come up with good search terms to check myself. Automake section. I was thinking about the following: when in a package P1 (using Automake) e.g. C header files are installed via ``make install'', they are installed

Re: ``install -C'' / unnecessarily updating time stamps

2006-12-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[I added the patch's author, Akim Demaille, to the cc list, as it was not sure if he's still reading the list.] Hello! On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 04:21:50PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: Benoit Sigoure [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: LC_ALL=C bug

2007-01-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:16:22PM +0100, Michael Heinzinger wrote: sorry dont can write in english hope i can help I will translate to English once we figured out what the actual issue is. Aufruf: uname [OPTION]... Bestimmte Systeminformationen ausgeben. Ohne OPTION dasselbe wie

Re: a coreutils release is imminent

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[Cced to bug-hurd@gnu.org.] Hello! On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:41:42PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz.sig Please build it and run make -k check on a few unusual systems today or tomorrow and report

Re: [FAQ] ARG_MAX and POSIX

2007-09-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:06:53PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Isn't the Hurd also one of the systems that does not have an ARG_MAX limit? Correct. #v+ $ uname -a GNU flubber 0.3 GNU-Mach 1.3.99/Hurd-0.3 i686-AT386 GNU $ getconf ARG_MAX undefined #v- [glibc]/manual/process.texi #v+ [...]

Re: /bin/cat : argument list is too long

2007-11-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:06:29AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: According to Manickam Muthuraman on 11/21/2007 4:47 AM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/HHpred/scop_hmm cat *.hhm scop70_1.72.hhm { echo *.hhm | xargs cat; } scop70_1.72.hhm.tmp I was looking at these two command lines and wondered

Wrong behavior of ``readlink -f''?

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! I'm a bit stumped with this behavior of ``readlink -f'', as it doesn't match what I had expected. #v+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ mkdir a-long [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ touch a-long/f [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ ln -s a-long a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ readlink -f a/f

Re: Wrong behavior of ``readlink -f''?

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ readlink -f a/../a/f $ echo $? 1 ... readlink (GNU coreutils) 5.97 Why doesn't it resolve the latter case just as the previous ones? Because there are two symbolic links

Re: avoid mkdir/selinux failure when mknod is a shell built-in

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:30:57PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Jim Meyering on 4/16/2008 2:33 AM: | This test would fail not only because the built-in mknod | doesn't support -Z, but because it doesn't know about 'p' pipes. | |