bug#49741: basenc --base64url decoding bug

2021-08-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 49741 fixed close 49741 stop On 2021-08-22 4:15 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: Attached a suggested fix. pushed in: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=709d1f8253072804cc27189a6f2b873d8d563399

bug#50151: Coreutils, aarch64 and chroot

2021-08-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 50151 notabug close 50151 stop On 2021-08-25 12:54 p.m., Frans de Boer wrote: On 8/25/21 10:16 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:   qemu-aarch64 -strace -L /newroot \   /newroot/usr/sbin/chroot /newroot /usr/bin/env --version 2&1 \   | tee log.txt @assaf: your suggestions no. 1 a

bug#50151: Coreutils, aarch64 and chroot

2021-08-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2021-08-24 2:39 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: However, I think it'll be a better use of our time for you to debug this one yourself. It doesn't sound like a Coreutils problem; it sounds like a problem in your virtual machine setup, and you're the best expert on that setup. Few

bug#49741: basenc --base64url decoding bug

2021-08-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 2021-08-17 3:37 a.m., Jim Meyering wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 2:02 AM Pádraig Brady wrote: On 16/08/2021 22:17, Assaf Gordon wrote: Attached a suggested fix. minor nit in NEWS: a nit in the commit log: Thanks, attached updated patch. Will push this week if there are no other

bug#49741: basenc --base64url decoding bug

2021-08-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Emil and all, Thanks for the clear and easily reproducible bug report. Attached a suggested fix. Comments very welcomed, - Assaf >From 11330058443e7cc92b4a53322d810725d42b4e34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:03:36 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] basenc:

bug#49741: basenc --base64url decoding bug

2021-08-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hi, I will also work on it this weekend. -assaf On 2021-08-12 7:37 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Simon, this looks like some sort of minor buffering problem in 'basenc --base64', since plain 'base64' works correctly. Is this something you have time to look into? https://bugs.gnu.org/49741

bug#44704: uniq: replace repeated lines with a message about how many repeated lines

2020-11-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 44704 notabug severity 44704 wishlist stop Hello, On 2020-11-17 6:32 a.m., Brian J. Murrell wrote: It would be a useful enhancement to uniq to replace all lines considered non-uniq (i.e. those that would be removed from the output) with a message about how many times the previous line was

bug#43684: Problem with numerical splitting with files > 90*l

2020-09-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 29/09/2020 02:18, ned haughton wrote: When splitting with -d, the numbering screws up after 89: In addition to Pádraig explanation, please see previous similar discussion here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2017-02/msg00050.html http://bugs.gnu.org/25832

bug#42340: Fwd: bug#42340: "join" reports that "sort"ed input is not sorted

2020-07-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2020-07-15 2:12 p.m., Beth Andres-Beck wrote: If that is the intended behavior, the bug is that: printf '12,\n1,\n' | sort -t, -k1 -s 1, 12, does _not_ take the remainder of the line into account, and only sorts on the initial field, prioritizing length. It is at the very least

bug#42340: "join" reports that "sort"ed input is not sorted

2020-07-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 42340 notabug close 42340 stop Hello, On 2020-07-12 5:57 p.m., Beth Andres-Beck wrote: In trying to use `join` with `sort` I discovered odd behavior: even after running a file through `sort` using the same delimiter, `join` would still complain that it was out of order. [...] Here is a

bug#40530: feature proposal: coreutils -> sort: adding sorting ability for Hebrew numerals

2020-04-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, > On Apr 9, 2020, at 3:23 PM, Zeev Pekar wrote: > > it would be nice to be able to sort (coreutils -> sort) Hebrew numerals: An interesting idea, but I think it is a bit too niche to be included in the coreutils “sort” program (tradeoff of usefulness vs bloat). However, such

bug#38003: date --date=-1month gives same month today

2019-10-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 38003 notabug close 38003 stop Hello, On 2019-10-31 2:34 a.m., Ilja Honkonen wrote: Please CC me as I'm not on this list. Running date (GNU coreutils) 8.26 on fedora 30 today (date --utc  -I: 2019-10-31) with --date=-1month gives the same month which doesn't make sense: $ date --utc -I

bug#37702: Suggestion for 'df' utility

2019-10-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Bernhard, On 2019-10-13 3:57 p.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 2019-10-13 23:28, Paul Eggert wrote: In any sane system there would be only four lines of non-header output (for tmpfs etc, /, /home, and /media/eggert/B827-D456), but df is outputting 28 lines. What is so special about

bug#37702: Suggestion for 'df' utility

2019-10-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 2019-10-13 3:28 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: [..] I mean c'mon, here's the output of 'df' on the Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS workstation I'm typing this particular message on. In any sane system there would be only four lines of non-header output (for tmpfs etc, /, /home, and /media/eggert/B827-D456),

bug#37702: Suggestion for 'df' utility

2019-10-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hi all, On 2019-10-13 2:27 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/13/19 2:41 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: I wonder could we key (also) on used==0||available==0. Yes, looking at the sample output I gave earlier, I'd say we could by default drop filesystems where usage is 1% or less. That would solve the

bug#37093: wc runs 100% cpu when in pipeline or tee >(wc)

2019-08-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 37093 notabug close 37093 stop Hello, On 2019-08-19 10:44 p.m., Edward Huff wrote: In the demo below, dd uses 0.665s to write 1GiB of zeros. sha256sum uses 4.285s to calculate the sha256 of 1GiB of zeros. wc uses 32.160s to count 1GiB of zeros. [...] baseline results: $ dd if=/dev/zero

bug#37058: Error message with local deployment of Galaxy-k8s

2019-08-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 37058 notabug close 37058 stop Hello, Two issues are mixed here. First: On 2019-08-16 2:17 p.m., Gao, Jianliang wrote: I followed https://github.com/phnmnl/phenomenal-h2020/wiki/QuickStart-Installation-for-Local-PhenoMeNal-Workflow with Older Galaxy chart to deploy local galaxy-k8s

bug#36985: tail

2019-08-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 36985 stop Hello, On 2019-08-09 12:55 a.m., Rob Hearne wrote: root@kafka-robh-vmdub-04:/kafka/bin# tail -f Control tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘Control’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling This has been fixed in version 8.25

bug#36901: Enhance directory and file moves where target already exists

2019-08-03 Thread Assaf Gordon
DESCRIPTION [...] In the second synopsis form, mv shall move each file named by a source_file operand to a destination file in the existing directory named by the target_dir operand [...] This second form is assumed when the final operand names an existing directory I

bug#36901: Enhance directory and file moves where target already exists

2019-08-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
A Walsh wrote: > > On 2019/08/02 19:47, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> Can new merging features be added to 'mv'? yes. >> But it seems to me these would be better suited for 'higher level' >> programs (e.g. a GUI file manager). > --- > But neither the person who posted th

bug#36831: Enhance directory move. (was Re: bug#36831: enhance 'directory not empty' message)

2019-08-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-08-02 9:56 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: On 2019/08/02 19:47, Assaf Gordon wrote: Can new merging features be added to 'mv'? yes. But it seems to me these would be better suited for 'higher level' programs (e.g. a GUI file manager). --- But neither the person who posted

bug#36831: Enhance directory move. (was Re: bug#36831: enhance 'directory not empty' message)

2019-08-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:41:31AM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > On 2019/07/28 23:28, Assaf Gordon wrote: > > > > > > $ mkdir A B B/A > > $ touch A/bar B/A/foo > > $ mv A B > > mv: cannot move 'A' to 'B/A': Directory not empty >

bug#36831: enhance 'directory not empty' message

2019-08-01 Thread Assaf Gordon
that uses 'rename' or 'link' or similar > syscalls, and which reports an error if the syscall fails. OK, I will work on that next. -assaf >From 8dc6158a6fde668e55312b5fb69384f438b7e55a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:23:20 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] mv: improve err

bug#36831: enhance 'directory not empty' message

2019-08-01 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:03:45PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Assaf Gordon wrote: > > An explicit error explicitly saying "cannot move", and mention the source > > and > > destination, and also "blames" the target directory seems the most > &g

bug#36831: enhance 'directory not empty' message

2019-07-31 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Paul, On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 7/29/19 1:28 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > > + if (rename_errno == ENOTEMPTY || rename_errno == EEXIST) > > +{ > > + error (0, 0, _("cannot move %s to %s: Targe

bug#36831: enhance 'directory not empty' message

2019-07-29 Thread Assaf Gordon
others think? If this is a desired improvement, I'll finish the patch with news/tests/etc. regards, - assaf >From 430b30104234db719bf15e6fc681a62312c7124f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:23:20 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] mv: improve ENOTEMPTY/EEXI

bug#36674: Sort Suggestion

2019-07-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 36674 notabug close 36674 stop Hello, On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:42:01AM -0700, Marshall Lake wrote: > Even though this isn't a bug, I was asked to send the following to this > email address. (General suggestions and discussions are better suited for coreut...@gnu.org mailing list, that way

bug#36671: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling

2019-07-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 36671 notabug close 36671 stop Hello, On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 06:22:47PM +0200, John Koppolu wrote: > tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. > please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling You've previously reported this 4 days ago,

bug#36600: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling

2019-07-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 36600 notabug close 36600 stop Hello, On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 05:53:16PM +0200, John Koppolu wrote: > unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. please > report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling > This has system (overlayfs, commonly used with Docker

bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus

2019-06-26 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Paul, On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:57:14PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > GNU sort uses the same algorithm as glibc strverscmp, I think that both sort and ls use 'filevercmp' - a simplified version that does not support locales (and doesn't fail). The change (from 'strvercmp') was made in:

bug#35939: version sort is incorrect with hyphen-minus

2019-06-26 Thread Assaf Gordon
(Adding Ian Jackson for dpkg/debian-version details) Hello, On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 02:53:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > With GNU coreutils 8.30 under Debian/unstable, I get: > > $ LC_ALL=C ls > ab-cd abb abe > $ LC_ALL=C ls -v > abb abe ab-cd > > The hyphen-minus character should

bug#35654: We've found a vulnerability of gnu chown, please check it and request a cve id for us.

2019-06-26 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 35654 close 35654 stop Hello, On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:53:11PM +0800, st0n3 ss wrote: > Hello! we have found a vulnerability of command chown, please check it.If > it is a vulnerability. please request a cve id for use, thank you!chown -h > bypass Given Paul's and Bob's detailed answers,

bug#36130: split bug

2019-06-26 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 36130 notabug close 36130 stop Hello, On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 04:50:20PM -0600, Assaf Gordon wrote: > On 2019-06-10 12:28 p.m., Heather Wick wrote: > > Verbose: This seems to have made the same number of files this time; not > > sure why the other 3-4 times I ran it it did n

bug#35632: date Parse of '13:00 + 2 hours' Broken.

2019-06-26 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 35632 notabug close 35632 stop Hello, (sorry for the delayed reply) On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 12:57:10PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Using date from coreutils 8.31-1 on Arch Linux. > This surprised me. > > $ TZ=UTC0 /bin/date -d '1pm + 2 hours' > Wed 8 May 15:00:00 UTC 2019 >

bug#36383: date command processes timezone differently when doing math

2019-06-26 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 36383 notabug close 36383 stop Hello, On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:10:07PM -0700, Brian Woods wrote: > When doing a math operation to a date command it appear to process the > timezone differently. [...] > > #echo $datNow > 2019-06-25 15:21:34 > > #date -d "$datNow + 1 minute" "+%Y-%m-%d

bug#36130: split bug

2019-06-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-06-10 12:28 p.m., Heather Wick wrote: Thank you so much for your response. Here are the results of the tests you sent: Verbose: This seems to have made the same number of files this time; not sure why the other 3-4 times I ran it it did not. They appear to be the same size,

bug#36130: split bug

2019-06-07 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:48:44PM -0400, Heather Wick wrote: > Yes, sorry, I should have specified that I already checked that the > original fastq files are indeed paired and sorted with the same number of > lines and same starting/ending IDs, narrowing down the issue to a problem > with

bug#36130: split bug

2019-06-07 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 02:23:15PM -0400, Heather Wick wrote: > I am using split to split up some large, paired fastq files [...]: > > zcat MH1_R1.fastq.gz | split - -l 4000 DHT_R1_ > zcat MH1_R2.fastq.gz | split - -l 4000 DHT_R2_ > > This creates 96 chunks for the R1 and 95

bug#35587: sort order wrt lower/upper case

2019-05-05 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 35587 notabug close 35587 stop Hello, On 2019-05-05 1:01 p.m., Toralf Förster wrote: I'd expect "B" being the first line here: echo a B c d | xargs -n 1 | sort using sys-apps/coreutils-8.30 at a stable hardened Gentoo Linux, but it is "a". Is this a bug or a feature? This is

bug#34825: New fails in tests/{misc,cp} in v8.31 on OpenIndiana

2019-04-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34825 fixed close 34825 stop Hello, On 2019-04-10 5:05 a.m., Michal Nowak wrote: the patch worked on OpenIndiana as well. Thanks for confirming, I'm closing this bug. regards, -assaf

bug#35289: closed (Re: bug#35289: date+%-Y -d "- N years" errors when N > 111)

2019-04-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-04-15 5:10 p.m., O. Emmerson wrote: For me it gives: $ ./inv-year time() = 1555369320 localtime() = 2019-04-16 00:02:00 (mday=16 wday=2, isdst=1) struct tm (after adjustment) = 0009-04-16 00:02:00 (mday=16 wday=2,

bug#35289: closed (Re: bug#35289: date+%-Y -d "- N years" errors when N > 111)

2019-04-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-04-15 11:55 a.m., C de-Avillez wrote: 19.04: It is worth noting that Ubuntu 19.04 has not been officially released yet, so you are testing on a development branch (or a release-candidate, or a special built infrastructure as hinted by your path).

bug#35109: date 'tomorrow' bug

2019-04-02 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 35109 notabug close 35109 stop Hello, On 2019-04-02 7:23 a.m., Maximilian Gleißner wrote: I have encountered a possible bug with the date function using both SuSE LEAP 15.0 and SuSE 10.2. This bug occurs when asking date for 'tomorrow' when there is a daylight saving timechange. This is

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34488 fixed close 34488 stop Hello, The original request of "sort --limit" resulted in an improved "env" with options new options, which was included in the recent version 8.31. I'm therefor closing this item. -assaf

bug#34700: rm refuses to remove files owned by the user, even in force mode

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34700 notabug severity 34700 wishlist retitle: rm: add new --force option deal with read-only directories stop Hello, As explained by several people in this thread, This is not a bug in "rm -f", but the mandated behavior. Bob and others provided work-arounds ( https://bugs.gnu.org/34700#17

bug#34825: New fails in tests/{misc,cp} in v8.31 on OpenIndiana

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 34825 OpenIndiana: tests/{misc,cp} fail in v8.31 stop Hello, On 2019-03-11 1:10 a.m., Michal Nowak wrote: on OpenIndiana 2018.10 (illumos kernel) the test suite has three new fails in v8.31 (amd64) compared to v8.30: FAIL tests/misc/timeout-parameters.sh (exit status: 1) FAIL

bug#34894: Another solaris 10 ln issue on 8.31

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34894 fixed close 34894 stop On 2019-03-17 3:17 p.m., John Marino wrote: On 3/17/2019 15:28, Paul Eggert wrote: John Marino wrote: After applying the recent patch to 8.31 ln to fix functionality on solaris 10, I saw some improvement but I think there's something else wrong. Thanks.

bug#34923: Message/race bug in 'dd'

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34923 notabug severity 34923 wishlist retitle 34923 dd: add messages about IO errors stop On 2019-03-19 9:44 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Daniel A. Gauthier wrote: NOTICE that the "+nn" value on the line is always one off.  It says +0 after the first error, +1 after the second, etc. until the

bug#34968: (no subject)

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34968 notabug close 34968 stop On 2019-03-24 9:12 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: I don't know Dutch, but this looks to me like the regular output of "sha256sum --help" from an older version of coreutils (<8.25, because the --ignore-missing option is not yet there). What is wrong with it?

bug#34988: mv: check before asking users useless questions

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34988 notabug severity 34988 wishlist retitle 34988 mv: omit useless 'overwrite?' question stop On 2019-03-25 4:47 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: On 3/24/19 11:05 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: $ mv a b mv: overwrite 'b'? y mv: cannot overwrite non-directory 'b' with directory 'a' User thinks

bug#34905: uname: -i/-p returns "unknown"

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34905 moreinfo retitle 34905 uname: -i/-p returns "unknown" stop On 2019-03-19 9:48 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Wellington Almeida wrote: When using the -p and -i functions in the uname command I noticed that it returned an unknown result, can this be a bug? It could be a bug in the uname

bug#35032: date ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 formats

2019-03-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 35032 wishlist retitle 35032 date: adjust rfc8601/3339 formats to W3C standard stop On 2019-03-28 11:20 a.m., Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Would it be possible to make them both optional in --rfc-3339, and both mandatory in --iso-8601 ? Or add a --w3c option that conforms to the W3C

bug#33646: [PATCH] doc: improve wording of the --kibibytes option description

2019-03-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33646 fixed close 33646 stop On 2019-03-15 8:38 a.m., Kamil Dudka wrote: Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1527391 --- doc/coreutils.texi | 8 +--- I can see no more comments on this. Could you please proceed to push it? Thanks for the reminder. Pushed here:

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
E && src/env --list-signal-actions ) PIPE (13): ignore Comments very welcomed, - assaf >From 02cba657e2f63c05f859daf18a7d1032fdc32c6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:31:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] env: new options -p/--default-signal=SIG

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-02-19 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-02-19 1:24 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 2/18/19 11:20 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: [...] what do you think ? To Eric's suggestion, I'd remove the RESET_OPTIND function argument, because it's never used. +1 Re. OPTIND: what about resetting the values of all involved

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-02-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-02-15 1:19 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 2/15/19 12:32 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: There is at least one change in behavior, not sure if this is bad enough to be a regression or doesn't really matter:   $ yes-OLD me -- --help | head -n1   me -- --help   $ yes-NEW me -- --help

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:31:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] env: new options -p/--default-signal=SIG/--ignore-signal=SIG New options to set signal handlers to default (SIG_DFL) or ignore (SIG_IGN) This is useful to overcome POSIX limitation that shell must not override inh

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-02-17 1:12 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Assaf Gordon wrote: I don't mind either way (env feature or new program). This should be a new feature of 'nohup' not 'env', as 'nohup' is already about signal handling.  I don't see a need for a new program. With 'nohup' I don't think

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 2019-02-16 4:56 p.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 2/15/19 10:40 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: $ seq | env --default-signal PIPE sort -n | sed 5q | wc -l src/env.c| 90 +++- That's quite a lot of new code. What about a new

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
so can always start with default SIGPIPE handler: #!/usr/bin/env -S -P sh seq inf | head -n1 comments welcomed, - assaf >From d65ddf38cd5cf60ba6fc4f1bf60f7324a3e6bebd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Assaf Gordon Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:31:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] env: new option

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-02-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Eric and all, Thanks for the quick and detailed review. I've amended all the issues you mentioned. On 2019-02-13 8:20 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: 15 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-) Nice diffstat. These are of course Bernhard's improvements, I just did the testing

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34488 wishlist retitle 34488 doc: sort: expand on "broken pipe" (SIGPIPE) behavior stop Hello, On 2019-02-15 7:43 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: Things start out cheery, but quickly get ugly, $ for i in 9 99 999 9; do seq $i|sort -n|sed 5q|wc -l; done 5 5 5 5 sort: write

bug#34475: Mention even more worries for test -a

2019-02-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34475 wishlist retitle 34475 doc: test: expand on -a/-o usage stop Hello, On 2019-02-13 6:00 p.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: First, on the test(1) man page, at [...]> Say instead [...] I'm marking this as "wishlist" item, patches always welcomed. -assaf

bug#34487: dd (coreutils) 8.30 – A written ISO image cannot not be booted from BIOS

2019-02-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34487 notabug close 34487 stop Hello, On 2019-02-15 5:02 a.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: Hi. An ISO image cannot not be booted from BIOS [...] # dd if=debian-9.7.0-amd64-DVD-3.iso of=/dev/sdc A CD/DVD image is not the same as a hard drive. The internal structure differs, and one can not be

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-02-13 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-02-12 7:00 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 2/12/19 7:21 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: + optind = 1; Why are you doing this in every caller, instead of doing it just once inside the body of parse_gnu_standard_options_only(), so that the state is left unchanged at optind==1 if there were

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-02-12 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, A follow-up and more details: On 2019-01-12 11:30 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 2019-01-12 8:42 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 1/11/19 6:23 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: -  optind = 0; +  optind = 1; Ouch. You're hitting the portability problem of the difference between BSD and glibc. I

bug#34345:

2019-02-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 2019-02-09 1:18 p.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: Covered object by values '1994 s', '2014.25 s' seems to be a unique time elapsed. Those values can therefore be expected to be identical, either '1994 s' or '2014.25 s' – 2014 s and 25 hundredths of s –. The command was: # dd if=/dev/zero

bug#34220: failure to building with CompCert, patch proposed

2019-02-08 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34220 wontfix close 34220 stop Hello, On 2019-01-27 9:03 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: DAVID MONNIAUX wrote: under CompCert, floating-point values are not simplified at compile time [...] please file a bug report for CompCert so that its maintainers can fix the bug in the compiler. Given

bug#34340: cp -a doesn't copy acls

2019-02-08 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34340 moreinfo stop Hello, On 2019-02-05 4:50 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: and it is not on the manpage, but tar copies acls and has them on the manpage. It guess it is an oversite that cp copies over 'xattrs' but not acls? First, Can you verify the 'cp' binary you are using was compiled

bug#34345: coreutils v.8.30 – Two fractional digits accuracy. Appropriate notation regarding time elapsed.

2019-02-08 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34345 wishlist retitle 34345 dd: report elapsed time as HH:MM:SS.NNN stop Hello, Ricky Tigg's original message was sent to coreut...@gnu.org (not to bug-coreutils@gnu.org), and did not create a new bug report: https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-02/msg3.html This is of

bug#34349: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630

2019-02-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-02-06 5:16 a.m., Matt Wilder wrote: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/syslog’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling Thank you for the report. This has been fixed in version 8.25 and later, for more details see

bug#34143: [coreutils 8.28] du -x is reporting a lower disk usage for /mnt when partitions are mounted

2019-01-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34143 notabug close 34143 stop Hello, On 2019-01-19 3:11 p.m., Joseph Paul wrote: It may not be a bug at all, but I was surprised to find out that 'du -x' is reporting a lower disk usage on /mnt when partitions are mounted. This is not a bug. Technically, as you wrote

bug#32198: tail -f -F unexpected behavior

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32198 notabug close 32198 stop Hello, It seems your message has not been replied to in a long while. Sorry about that. On 2018-07-18 8:24 a.m., Matthew Guidry wrote: I was doing some experimentation with nano v2.9.3 and tail, watching the output of tail after saving in nano and

bug#32455: cp gets confused by symlinks to parent directory

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32455 notabug close 32455 stop Hello, It seems your message has not been replied to in a long while. Sorry about that. On 2018-08-16 8:47 a.m., Mike Crowe wrote: If cp is passed the -d option and told to copy a symlink to the directory containing the symlink then it ends up removing the

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-01-18 2:56 a.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote: the code isn't the most welcoming to dive into I've ever seen ;) Two online resources that might help in exploring the code: http://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/

bug#8960: stdbuf on bi-arch systems

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 8960 wishlist stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2011-07-04 10:15 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 29/06/11 21:47, Bruno Haible wrote: The program 'stdbuf' on bi-arch x86 / x86_64 systems cannot work on all kinds of programs. [...] I would like to have a single binary that works on

bug#12339: Gnu rm, changed only recently (4-5 years), and didn't follow letter of posix...(statement follows)

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 12339 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, This long and winding thread covers several topics relating to rm(1), historical unix and POSIX compatibility (and a bugfix or two in the mix). An enlightening read for those interested... ( https://bugs.gnu.org/12339 ) But the bottom line is:

bug#12400: rmdir runs "amok", users "curse" GNU...(as rmdir has no option to stay on 1 file system)...

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 12400 rmdir: add --one-file-system option severity 12400 wishlist tags 12400 wontfix stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2012-09-09 11:22 p.m., Bob Proulx wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: If you are going to only provide 1 mode of functionality, it should be to only rmdir dirs on the same

bug#33211: coreutils.mo is in both LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES folders

2019-01-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33211 notabug close 33211 stop Hell0, On 2018-10-30 3:33 p.m., scootergrisen wrote: I wonder if its a mistake that in Fedora i can see coreutils.mo in both: /usr/share/locale/*/LC_TIME /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES They seem to be identical. This is not a mistake (nor a bug). Not

bug#33646: [PATCH] doc: improve wording of the --kibibytes option description

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2018-12-06 6:32 a.m., Kamil Dudka wrote: Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1527391 --- doc/coreutils.texi | 8 +--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f8339d73f..e93fe71a0 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi

bug#33718: Syntaxe problem? I can't find the solution :-(

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33718 moreinfo stop Hello, On 2018-12-13 1:54 a.m., Rudy BROSTEAUX wrote: Environment: AIX 7.2 TL3 SP1 (on IBM Power Systems) Origin of the coreutils RPM used @release 8.30 is perzl.org Installed using a yum server. *** /root> /usr/bin/time timeout 2.3 sleep 5 timeout: warning:

bug#9089: pipe failure with cat and head of coreutils 6.12

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 9089 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2011-07-15 5:30 a.m., Philipp Thomas wrote: I'm trying to track down a bug in cat of coreutils 6.12. Doing cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | head -n70 under ksh consistently fails with 'cat: write error: Connection reset by peer'. It does not fail when

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34110 wishlist retitle 34110 du: add dual-column showing apparent-size and disk-size stop Hello, On 2019-01-17 3:13 a.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote: On Wednesday January 16 2019 16:06:50 Assaf Gordon wrote: I hope this helps to clarify "apparent-size". Yes and no :) I under

bug#13738: Add --all option to 'users' command

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 13738 wontfix close 13738 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2013-02-18 2:01 p.m., Bob Proulx wrote: anatoly techtonik wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: anatoly techtonik wrote: The 'users' command shows users who are currently online. It will be nice to have --all option to show all users.

bug#16282: revisit; reasoning for not using ENV vars to provide workarounds for POSIX limitations?

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 16282 wishlist tags 16282 wontfix close 16282 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2013-12-28 1:03 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote: [...] if it makes a standard utility behave in odd ways, it'll break scripts that don't expect the odd behavior. That's the essential objection here. Yes,

bug#12820: FWIW, this is still happening as of gnulib 4a82904

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 12820 stop (triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2013-02-28 10:08 a.m., Paul Eggert wrote: Perhaps there's a bug in nap () but if so the bug should be fixed there. Given the above, and with no further comments in almost 6 years, I'm closing this bug. Discussion can continue by replying to

bug#33785: df: don't suppress remote mounts

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 33785 notabug close 33785 stop Hello, On 2018-12-19 10:05 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote: On 17/12/18 22:42, lzhong wrote: According to the following commit commit 2e81e62243409c5c574b899f52b08c000e4d99fd df: only suppress remote mounts of separate exports with --total [...] The

bug#34115: coreutils v. 8.30– Document's content gets deleted using cat(1)

2019-01-17 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 34115 notabug close 34115 merge 34115 33823 stop Hello, On 2019-01-17 5:53 a.m., Ricky Tigg wrote: [...] $ cat > .inputrc set enable-bracketed-paste on Press *Return*, then *Ctrl D*. [...] Content of *.inputrc*, which is expected to be still present, has been This sounds very

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-16 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, I'll address only the "apparent-size" issue (not the two-columns, or compressed file-systems): On 2019-01-16 1:13 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote: According to `du --help`, the apparent-size option reports a size that is not the actual disk usage. The numbers above seem to show the

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-01-12 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Eric, On 2019-01-12 8:42 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 1/11/19 6:23 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: -  optind = 0; +  optind = 1; Ouch. You're hitting the portability problem of the difference between BSD and glibc. Otherwise many things fail like so:   $ ./src/dd   ./src/dd: unrecognized

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Berny and all, On 2018-11-29 1:48 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote: The attached are quite raw attempts to address this - yes, as a function instead of a macro. ;-) * [PATCH] long-options: add parse_gnu_standard_options_only gnulib patch! For the gnulib patch, I believe the following

bug#25159: chown bug ? or sys glitch ?

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 25159 stop On 2018-10-28 1:35 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 2016-12-10 6:51 a.m., ahfc wrote: Maybe a system glitch or a chown bug so just fyi. [...] chown: changing ownership of ‘/run/media/rest_/of_/path_/filename ': Operation not permitted If this is still an issue for you, can

bug#29285: Error building coreutils 8.28.32-a4eed under Archlinux from AUR

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 29285 stop On 2018-10-29 8:09 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote: On 2017-11-13 7:43 a.m., timofonic timofonic wrote: As the coreutils build system reported, I'm sending the following building error from using the coreutils-git Arch User Repository package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages

bug#33204: Failed to modify 'Access Time' for files without extension using the Touch tool ver 8.4

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
close 33204 stop Hello, On 2018-10-31 7:10 a.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 10/30/18 3:49 AM, ˮ��֮�� wrote: HI,Dear developer of GNU tools:   I found a possible bug when using the Touch tool. Most likely, this is not a bug in coreutils, but a limitation between the operating system and file

bug#15328: Bug or dubious feature?

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 15328 notabug close 15328 stop Hello, On 2013-09-10 3:01 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote: Whatever the problem is, it's not in 'mv'... Given the above, and no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this item. regards, - assaf

bug#15727: Bug: cp <-a|-archive> (w/<-f|--remove-destination>) breaks if one of files is a dir and other not

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 15727 wishlist retitle 15727 doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest stop Hello, On 2013-10-29 12:20 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote: [...] You need to make the docs much more clear about "cp"s limitations. update isn't eally update, and -T is certainly wrong at the very least. 

bug#22022: ls - error making symbolic links with relative paths

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
retitle 22022 ln: error making symbolic links with relative paths tags 22022 notabug close 22022 stop Hello, On 2015-11-26 9:13 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: [...] You may be interested in trying 'ln --relative -sv b/* c/' instead, which creates 'c/a' as a symlink to '../b/a', and therefore resolves

bug#34009: warn that mkdir --mode doesn't affect parents created

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 34009 wishlist retitle 34009 doc: mkdir: warn that --mode doesn't affect parents stop Hello, On 2019-01-07 8:36 a.m., 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: do warn that --mode doesn't affect any parents created. $ mkdir --mode 700 -p /tmp/g/h/i $ find /tmp/g -ls 55795 0 drwxr-xr-x 3

bug#20775: cp -a -u destroys files after they are copied

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 20775 wishlist retitle 20775 cp: improve hardlink dups handling with "cp -a -u" stop With no further comments in more than 3 years, I'm marking this as a "wish list" item. -assaf

bug#32291: Fwd: ls -ltcr and ls -lrt report different modification dates

2019-01-11 Thread Assaf Gordon
tags 32291 notabug close 32291 stop Hello, Seems your message was not replied to in 6 months - sorry about that. On 2018-07-27 3:48 a.m., Ludovic Tolhurst-Cleaver wrote: `ls -ltcr` seems to be the one showing the correct date here. I like to use `ls -ltc` because it's my initials. My

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