bug#71986: RFC: date @ to support ms.

2024-07-08 Thread Andreas Schwab
I suggest that it would be nice if date had an input format that would > let me specify that the value is in ms? $ date --date='@1720378861.258' --rfc-3339=ns 2024-07-07 21:01:01.25800+02:00 -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2

bug#70219: Bug/Issue with timeout and signals

2024-04-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
e with what you are saying but the > execution of the program fails. $ timeout -k USR1 1s sleep 10 timeout: invalid time interval ‘USR1’ Try 'timeout --help' for more information. $ timeout -s KILL 1s sleep 10 Killed -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint

bug#70070: FAIL: test-localtime_r

2024-03-29 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Mär 29 2024, Bruno Haible wrote: > Yes. And make sure that it has a time zone database installed at all. Why? That doesn't make any sense.

bug#70070: FAIL: test-localtime_r

2024-03-29 Thread Andreas Schwab
me_r-mt (exit status: 134) -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#69939: test utility bug: "test -a -a -a" and "test -o -o -o" fail

2024-03-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
-a FILE True if file exists. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#64588: BUG: stat -f incorrectly reports a BTRFS device as a tmpfs

2023-07-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jul 13 2023, support wrote: > # function: is_btrfs > # parameter: path to a mounted filesystem A device node is not a path to a mounted filesystem -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now fo

bug#64540: [PATCH] od: exit out on failure to write to stdout

2023-07-09 Thread Andreas Schwab
SIGPIPE breaks a > lot of programs, and 'od' would be just one of them. All other utilities (including cat) handle ignored SIGPIPE correctly. $ (trap '' PIPE; cat /dev/zero | :) cat: write error: Broken pipe -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprin

bug#64390: cksum: cannot --check untagged sums file

2023-07-01 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jul 01 2023, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > $ cksum -c sums.untagged > cksum: sums.untagged: no properly formatted checksum lines found $ cksum -a sha512 -c sums.untagged -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9D

bug#63349: Bug in date when using UTC/GMT timeszones in the TZ variable

2023-05-07 Thread Andreas Schwab
n; otherwise, it shall be west (which may be indicated by an optional preceding '+' ). Thus TZ=UTC+2 means two hours before UTC. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#62249: uniq -D long option name missing from man page

2023-03-18 Thread Andreas Schwab
t take an argument. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#60981: Bug in man page for the "test" command

2023-01-21 Thread Andreas Schwab
The man page already addresses this: Except for -h and -L, all FILE-related tests dereference symbolic links. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#60489: Programs should exit after EIO from FICLONE or copy_file_range()

2023-01-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
== EBADF > +|| errno == EXDEV || errno == ETXTBSY; Should this be refactored to avoid duplication? -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#59819: Bug Report: [coreutils] echo command interprets wildcards, when read with the 'cat' command from a file, in a for-in loop

2022-12-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
all other expansions (just before quote removal). This is basic shell operation knowledge that everyone using the shell should remember. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#56710: ls vs. stat display of st_size

2022-07-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
$ ls -l /proc/kcore -r 1 root root 18446744000862892032 Jun 21 00:00 /proc/kcore $ stat -c %s /proc/kcore -72846659584 -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#54785: for floating point, printf should use double like in C instead of long double

2022-04-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
aving to shift around the mantissa, and having to handle the shifted out bits specially. For IEEE quad with its 112 bits of mantissa and the hidden bit, this format is again more convenient. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A

bug#54681: timeout: Program called by timeout cannot interact with tty stdin when timeout is called by exec()

2022-04-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
l (and thus remains in that group), but for the inner instance the process group no longer matches the terminal process group, and thus the children cannot read from the TTY. You can use timeout --foreground to avoid that. $ timeout 10 timeout --foreground 5 cat -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m

bug#54427: df command doesnt report correct output

2022-03-16 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Mär 16 2022, Fariya F wrote: > Any idea what is the Overhead blocks and why the Overhead blocks is showing > a huge number? Looks like the filesystem superblock has been corrupted. You should probably copy the data to a new storage medium. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org G

bug#46808: Man page of "tail"

2022-02-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Feb 27 2021, Reuti wrote: > I'm not a `groff` expert, but the sequence "\,some-text\/" appears a couple > of times. What effect does it have for the formatting as the "," and "/" are > not output? \, and \/ add some space as italic correction, see

bug#53982: date (GNU coreutils) 8.30 bug report "17 april 2022 + 37 week 5pm"

2022-02-14 Thread Andreas Schwab
in place of %Y. $ date -d "17 april 2022 + 37 week 5pm" +'%G/%V %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.0Z' 2022/52 2023-01-01T17:00:00.0Z -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#53033: date has multiple "first saturday"s?

2022-01-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jan 05 2022, Darryl Okahata via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > $ date -d "first saturday" > Sat Jan 8 00:00:00 PST 2022 > > Unless there is some weird definition of "first Saturday", shouldn't this be > the 1st (New Year's Day)

bug#52115: Suggestion: LN command should swap TARGET and LINK_NAME if LINK_NAME already exists

2021-11-30 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Nov 29 2021, Bob Proulx wrote: > The more I think about it the more I think it should say CONTENT > rather than either TARGET or SOURCE. Because it is actually setting > the content of the symbolic link. A hard link doesn't have content. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@

bug#51793: FAIL: tests/misc/env-signal-handler

2021-11-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Nov 12 2021, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I've never seen this, and I can't see the race. There is an obvious race: if env needs more than .1 seconds to set the SIGINT handler. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 D

bug#51793: FAIL: tests/misc/env-signal-handler

2021-11-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
/env-signal-handler.sh (exit status: 1) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#51793: FAIL: tests/misc/env-signal-handler

2021-11-13 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Nov 12 2021, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/11/2021 19:25, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> --- exp-err6 2021-11-11 22:58:04.360716802 + >> +++ err6 2021-11-11 22:58:04.752716821 + >> @@ -1,2 +1 @@ >> timeout: sending signal INT to command 'env'

bug#51793: FAIL: tests/misc/env-signal-handler

2021-11-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
env timeout --verbose --kill-after=.1 --signal=INT .1 env --ignore-signal sleep 10 > /dev/null 2> err7t FAIL tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh (exit status: 1) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA A

bug#50151: Coreutils, aarch64 and chroot

2021-08-26 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Aug 26 2021, Frans de Boer wrote: > I was not sure, but I tried the same also with x86_64 cross compiled > programs using qemu-i386, which worked. Of course, they can be natively executed. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D6

bug#49994: upgrade: have "-s" of 'ls' display alloc'd sizes for specified "--block-size"

2021-08-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
There is stat and numfmt. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#45648: `dd` seek/skip which way is up?

2021-01-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
> if @samp{oflag=seek_bytes} is specified, @var{n} is interpreted > as a byte count rather than a block count. > > +@item oseek > +@item iseek The second @item needs to be @itemx. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510

bug#42135: [PATCH] Fix spurious testsuite failure

2020-06-30 Thread Andreas Schwab
# Send lots of signals immediately to ensure dd not killed due # to race setting handler, or blocking on open of fifo. -- 2.27.0 -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#42034: option to truncate at end or should that be default?

2020-06-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Jun 24 2020, L A Walsh wrote: > A second option would be to truncate the file to the last position > written. $ truncate -r $src $dest Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now fo

bug#41634: 'timeout' returning 124 and 133

2020-05-31 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Mai 31 2020, Jonny Grant wrote: > Could the 124 and 137 be documented on the man page? What's wrong with the last paragraph in the DESCRIPTION section? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 &quo

bug#41518: Bug in od?

2020-05-30 Thread Andreas Schwab
you need to think about UCS-2 characters. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#41554: chmod allows removing x bit on chmod without a force flag, which can be inconvenient to recover from

2020-05-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
t to recover. It will likely fail with EPERM. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#40958: date command give current time zone regardless of seconds since epoch requested.

2020-04-29 Thread Andreas Schwab
68 and 31 October 1971, when there was a reversion to the previous arrangement. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."

bug#38627: uniq -c gets wrong count with non-ascii strings

2020-02-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
>> 0342, 0201, 0277, 0341, 0265, 0230, 0313, 0241, 0313, 0241, 0 >>}; >>unsigned char iraq[] = { >> 0334, 0245, 0334, 0235, 0334, 0252, 0334, 0220, 0334, 0251, 0}; >> >>printf("%s\n", null); >>printf("%s\n", iraq);

bug#28927: ln -fs dir name doesn't force

2017-10-21 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Okt 21 2017, "Sven C. Dack" wrote: > The link should have been set to "bar" with the "-f" or "--force" option, > shouldn't it? The file baz/bar has been overwritten. You need to use -n if you want to overwrite a link to a directory. Andr

bug#28859: Segmentation fault with NULL pointer dereference in 'stty'

2017-10-17 Thread Andreas Schwab
ents that were already parsed. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#28506: coreutils 8.28 test suite hangs on APFS filesystem

2017-09-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
#x27;-'. > nor why it's specifically a problem on APFS, Presumably APFS is case insensitive. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#26741: Numeric sort in ls

2017-05-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
le sort option, with later options overriding previous ones. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

2017-01-08 Thread Andreas Schwab
breaks existing > scripts and behavior. Does it? $ touch 'a b' $ ls -1 | grep "'" Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#24744: coreutils: dircolors - recognize both st and stterm

2016-10-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
gnized terminal with > name "stterm". Why can't stterm continue to use the "st" terminal? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#24561: Unmathematical bc exponentiation behavior

2016-09-28 Thread Andreas Schwab
than ^, thus it is parsed as (-(1))^2. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#23677: sort --debug not ignoring punctuation when sort does

2016-06-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
Karl Berry writes: > Due to the locale rules, the punctuation characters are being ignored > (presumably), They are not ignored, just considered only secondary, if the first order characters didn't provide an ordering. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key

bug#23422: stat -c %N returns strange results for file names including

2016-05-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ruediger Meier writes: > On Wednesday 04 May 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Ruediger Meier writes: >> > Anyways the incompatible change is IMO not acceptable. %N is >> > probably most likely used in scripts wh

bug#23422: stat -c %N returns strange results for file names including

2016-05-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ruediger Meier writes: > Anyways the incompatible change is IMO not acceptable. %N is probably > most likely used in scripts which rely on the known style. The style was never documented (and still isn't). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint

bug#22568: "grep ... | tee file" drops the 'n' in its output

2016-02-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
oldefoxx writes: > IFS=\n This is the same as IFS=n. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#22455: sort-V not sorting correctly when minor version decimal places differ

2016-01-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
lt; 49, so that looks correct. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#21603: touch silently ignores '-d 2014'

2015-10-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
George Shuklin writes: > touch -d 2014 /tmp/new_file > > is not changing date for the file. All other formats (f.e. -d > 2014-01-01) work fine. Try date -d 2014 to see what it gets. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 175

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

2015-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
up properly? Yes. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

2015-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
te newline to carriage return. Non-POSIX@. May be negated. BTW, non-POSIX is misleading. Most of those extensions are now part of POSIX, but XSI shaded. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#21571: [patches] some small message improvements

2015-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
The column pointer shall also be set to 0 if the CR character is actually transmitted. So ONLRET is mostly about properly keeping track of the column. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#21094: cp: add option to sort when copying

2015-07-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > For the progress use case, one can use rsync, > or perhaps an explicit progress option in cp. rsync also sorts. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something

bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under /.

2015-07-18 Thread Andreas Schwab
Linda Walsh writes: > But step 4 on that page says that rm should remove empty directories > without requiring other special switches. Please read step 2a. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "

bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under /.

2015-07-18 Thread Andreas Schwab
or dot-dot are specified as the basename portion of an operand (that is, the final pathname component) or if an operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands." Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.

bug#21051: direct/file deletion

2015-07-15 Thread Andreas Schwab
Bob Proulx writes: > But you could also delete it using the full path. > > rm -rf ~/fpc_i2cs_cpld # warning: recursive removal A relative name will do as well. $ rm -rf ../fpc_i2cs_cpld Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1

bug#20733: coreutils build problem

2015-06-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
gle_binary_progs)'; \ for p in $$progs; do Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#19933: LC_TIME category in Coreutils

2015-02-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
r than libc to provide only > LC_MESSAGES, so I didn’t think such collisions could happen. glibc's locale files are supposed to reside in $(libdir)/locale, not $(datadir)/locale, so there is no conflict. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#19456: GNU coreutils - touch / add -v, --verbose option

2014-12-28 Thread Andreas Schwab
jari writes: > To see progress of touched files. With wild cards, it's usually > not obvious what files were affected. (set -x; touch *) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And n

bug#19218: Inconsistent spacing of output of "ls --full-time [file argument]"

2014-11-29 Thread Andreas Schwab
"Michael Salem" writes: > I was trying to use it to extract file timestamps using "cut", Don't do that. Use stat(1) instead. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#5926: feature request: mv -p to create missing target dir

2014-10-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Bob Proulx writes: > The mv command causes an atomic rename(2) to occur if on the same file > system. That is not possible when using cp + rm. Therefore mv is > required. Also, you can rename a file that you cannot read. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fi

bug#18531: [PATCH] man: Fix an inverted test that prevented dummy-man from working

2014-09-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
uot; >> -test $# -le 1 || fatal_ "too many non-option arguments" >> +test $# -gt 1 || fatal_ "too many non-option arguments" >> >> baseout=`basename_ "$output"` >> sed 's/^/WARNING: /' >&2 < > Nice one. Huh?

bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

2014-09-08 Thread Andreas Schwab
y doesn't seem to exist in Debian, this > section could be removed, but this problem may reappear in the future. > So, it's better to use the capital letter C. Having info dir entries only differing in case seems like a bad idea. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m6

bug#18057: [PATCH] Find tail.c in srcdir, not builddir

2014-07-26 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > Bernhard was referring to the other instances with VPATH issues, > that may only be passing now accidentally. Please don't mix unrelated issues. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214

bug#18057: [PATCH] Find tail.c in srcdir, not builddir

2014-07-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
Bernhard Voelker writes: > On 07/19/2014 05:26 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> diff --git a/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh b/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh >> index c25f354..7140871 100755 >> --- a/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh >> +++ b/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh >

bug#18062: [PATCH] chroot: always change to / if not changing credentials

2014-07-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Bernhard Voelker writes: > And why should "chroot /" invoke chroot(2) What else do you expect from a command called chroot??? > Why's that? Don't waste your time with red herrings. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7

bug#18062: [PATCH] chroot: always change to / if not changing credentials

2014-07-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Bernhard Voelker writes: > This effectively reverts the idea behind v8.22-94-g99960ee: This should be ripped out completely, chroot is not su. > Why do you think the change is needed? https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:AndreasSchwab/hdf/13.1/x86_64 Andreas. -- A

bug#18062: [PATCH] chroot: always change to / if not changing credentials

2014-07-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
don't + change working dir. */ + if (! is_root (argv[optind]) || !(userspec || groups)) { /* We have to look up users and groups twice. - First, outside the chroot to load potentially necessary passwd/group -- 2.0.2 -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key f

bug#18057: [PATCH] Find tail.c in srcdir, not builddir

2014-07-19 Thread Andreas Schwab
_builddir/src/tail.c" +break_src="$abs_top_srcdir/src/tail.c" break_line=$(grep -n ^tail_forever_inotify "$break_src") || framework_failure_ break_line=$(echo "$break_line" | cut -d: -f1) || framework_failure_ -- 2.0.2 -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.o

bug#17904: issue with split command

2014-07-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#17904: issue with split command

2014-07-03 Thread Andreas Schwab
000 bytes. You should produce the output in a separate directory not located below the current one. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#15945: chown: Does now allow setting user and users login group with numerical user ID

2013-11-21 Thread Andreas Schwab
Eric Blake writes: > so it looks like we have a bug that if OWNER is numeric, we aren't > looking up OWNER's login group. There may not be a unique uid to user name mapping. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D

bug#15571: -su: 31: export: : bad variable name

2013-10-09 Thread Andreas Schwab
way to solve this. >> Am a beginner, and I use ubuntu 12.04 on a 32 bit. > > For starters, are you even sure that you are using coreutils' su? More likely this is bash being called as "-su". Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA

bug#14951: Cannot rm file

2013-07-25 Thread Andreas Schwab
; ls: cannot access web.process.heartbeat: No such file or directory >> total 0 >> ?? ? ? ? ?? web.process.heartbeat > > Notice the "? " at the start of the file name. > Seems like you have a file with non standard characters in the name. I don'

bug#14383: cp --one-file-system / will not copy whole root filesystem

2013-05-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#14189: ls -d bug ??

2013-04-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
Eric Blake writes: > bash-specific: > $ (shopt -s nullglob; ls -d */ .[!.]/ .??*/) $ (shopt -s dotglob; ls -d */) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#13498: "cut -f" lags a line

2013-01-19 Thread Andreas Schwab
r a line buffered or unbuffered stream, stdout is flushed. This is traditional Unix behaviour, but AFAIK not required by any standard. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#12847: comm wrong output

2012-11-09 Thread Andreas Schwab
/[pq]C>/tmp/-23 > > the 2 comm commands produce identical output! > oughtn't the latter command only show lines unique to FILE1? Since the files have nothing in common, -3 has no effect. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756

bug#12715: coreutils-8.20: bad dependency information with man page generation

2012-10-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
Stefano Lattarini writes: > There is also a patch available, but it doesn't seem to have > encountered much acceptance unfortunately: > > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-09/msg00132.html> The easiest way to solve that is to use order-only dependencies.

bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.

2012-09-03 Thread Andreas Schwab
perand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte

2012-08-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
Eric Blake writes: > On 08/02/2012 07:18 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >>> For bash, one solution is: >>> >>> $ printf '\na\nb'|tac -rs '.\|'$(printf "\n") >> >> No, command substitution strips trailing newlines.

bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte

2012-08-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
ntf "\n") No, command substitution strips trailing newlines. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte

2012-08-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering writes: > Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Jim Meyering writes: >> >>> (note that below there's the added advantage of not having to >>> double-quote to include $nl and hence not having to double-backslash) >> >> You can have that with

bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte

2012-08-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering writes: > (note that below there's the added advantage of not having to > double-quote to include $nl and hence not having to double-backslash) You can have that with the variable as well. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58C

bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug.

2012-07-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
ormat. # date -s @$(date +%s.%N) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#11675: stty bad C semantics

2012-06-11 Thread Andreas Schwab
the initial value of any padding bytes.) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#11472: Message src/fmt.c:285 marked as c-formatted string erroneously

2012-05-14 Thread Andreas Schwab
Petr Pisar writes: > The problem is such string does not pass through msgfmt tool while compiling > the catalog because the '% ' is not a valid printf sequence. Actually, it is. The format is 'o' with a space flag. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org

bug#11406: Bug? df uses f_bsize instead of f_frsize to calculate file system sizes

2012-05-11 Thread Andreas Schwab
ies in /proc/mounts, and that makes df hang if even > one of the corresponding file systems is hard-mounted, but not available. This is no longer true if the kernel is at least 2.6.36. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5

bug#11406: Bug? df uses f_bsize instead of f_frsize to calculate file system sizes

2012-05-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
ere. statvfs is explicitly rejected with glibc, and there is no alternative that uses statfs with f_frsize. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#11256: make check problems with coreutils 8.16 and earlier

2012-04-19 Thread Andreas Schwab
'type date' date is a function date () { : } date is /bin/date Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#11246: Is this a bug in tee?

2012-04-16 Thread Andreas Schwab
would a synchronous execution change anything here? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#11228: Bug in ls?

2012-04-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > Note find is more general for scripts etc. > as it can deal with an arbitrary amount of files, > but only when used in the form: > > find /tmp/z1 -name '*bk*' -print0 | xargs -r0 mv -t /tmp/z2 or find /tmp/z1 -name '*bk*' -exec mv -t

bug#10363: /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink affects df(1) output for

2012-01-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
tory instead of a mountpoint and > entries outside the chroot should not be listed at all. You can get such a view from /proc/self/mountinfo. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#10442: maybe a bug for "tail"

2012-01-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
output stops. Does it also happen if you use "tail -F"? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2011-09-28 Thread Andreas Schwab
Sandro Santilli writes: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:19:22AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Pádraig Brady writes: >> >> > $ TZ=Japan+1 date >> >> This is a well-formed POSIX timezone. > > Meaning UTC+1 ? The timzone name has no meaning, only

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > $ TZ=GB-Eire+1 date A POSIX timezone name cannot have dashes. > $ TZ=Japan+1 date This is a well-formed POSIX timezone. > $ TZ=Japan date This is a non-POSIX timezone that happens to match an Olson timezone. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > $ TZ=NZ+1 date # No zone reported This is undefined. A zone name in a POSIX time zone must have at least three letters. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for s

bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
ke 2011 > > Yes, that is per POSIX. This is not a POSIX format, since it lacks the offset. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."

bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
Paul Eggert writes: > On 09/27/11 13:07, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Padding bits can change any time. > > Is there any way to compare the non-padding parts of long doubles? By ignoring the padding. > There ought to be *some* way to get the fractional part of a NaN, no? You n

bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering writes: > However, I am dismayed that with glibc's strtold the values of those bits > is not deterministic. Padding bits can change any time. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 &

bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop

2011-09-27 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering writes: > The statement "long double x = NAN;" (inside glibc's strtold) leaves many > bits of "x" uninitialized. You are looking at padding bits, which have unspecified contents. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerp

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