-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to Jim Meyering on 9/15/2009 5:49 AM:
But couldn't, because stat didn't accept - as meaning standard input.
Here's a patch to make it do that (and make the above print what's displayed):
This is just FYI.
Of course I'll add the usual
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Jim Meyering on 9/15/2009 5:49 AM:
But couldn't, because stat didn't accept - as meaning standard input.
Here's a patch to make it do that (and make the above print what's
displayed):
This is just FYI.
Of course I'll add the usual NEWS, log and tests and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to Jim Meyering on 9/29/2009 6:44 AM:
stat has two modes of operation: the default is to interpret each
argument as a file on which to call stat or lstat.
Then there's the --file-system (-f) option.
The - == stdin approach makes sense
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Jim Meyering on 9/29/2009 6:44 AM:
stat has two modes of operation: the default is to interpret each
argument as a file on which to call stat or lstat.
Then there's the --file-system (-f) option.
The - == stdin approach makes sense for the first case.
Since I
Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes:
But how would you make it work *with* -f? You don't know the path of the
file used to create stdin (and in the case of a pipe, there is no path),
There is no need for an actual file name, since fstatfs
takes a file descriptor. Of course, there's
Eric Blake wrote:
Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net writes:
But how would you make it work *with* -f? You don't know the path of the
file used to create stdin (and in the case of a pipe, there is no path),
There is no need for an actual file name, since fstatfs
takes a file descriptor. Of
In looking at Pádraig's report of a tail test failure with ksh,
I wanted to see how ksh pipes differed from bash/zsh ones,
by doing this:
for i in sh zsh bash ksh; do printf $i: ; $i -c ':|./stat --format=%F -';done
sh: fifo
zsh: fifo
bash: fifo
ksh: socket
But couldn't, because stat didn't
I noticed this test fail when run from this directory:
/dev/shm/.j/coreutils-7.5.54-70ea
Here's the fix:
From c392c4b8ef5de84d67d354bb2ecdd544466c50c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:06:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: ls/stat-vs-dirent
Here are the symptoms:
./stat-vs-dirent: test failed: /export/duryea: d_ino(42214) != st_ino(2)
./stat-vs-dirent: This may indicate a flaw in your kernel or file system implem\
entation.
./stat-vs-dirent: This flaw won't impact coreutils, but it may well
./stat-vs-dirent: affect other tools
