Re: mv

2007-03-23 Thread James Youngman
On 3/23/07, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The fact that you mailed the obsolete bug-fileutils list implies that you may be due for an upgrade. fileutils merged into coreutils, and the latest stable version is now 6.9. Is it time perhaps to

Re: mv

2007-03-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello maintainers of the mv command, I have a problem with the mv command. I cannot rename a file to lower case. I used mv because Konqueror also fails. Is there an explanation to this issue? Greetings, Fabian. You're trying this on a USB key right? They generally

Re: mv

2007-03-23 Thread Jim Meyering
James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/07, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact that you mailed the obsolete bug-fileutils list implies that you may be due for an upgrade. fileutils merged into coreutils, and the latest stable version is now 6.9. Is it time perhaps to

Re: install.c: fix obscure compile-time failure on Linux

2007-03-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: diff --git a/src/install.c b/src/install.c index 8fc6a8a..0457751 100644 --- a/src/install.c +++ b/src/install.c @@ -566,11 +566,10 @@ strip (char const *name) error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _(cannot run strip)); break; default:

Re: install.c: fix obscure compile-time failure on Linux

2007-03-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: + if (waitpid (pid, status, 0) 0) +error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _(waiting for strip)); That mishandles EINTR. It would mishandle EINTR if EINTR occurred, but 'install' doesn't use signal handlers, so

pathchk.c includes euidaccess.h?

2007-03-23 Thread Paul Eggert
I noticed that pathchk.c includes euidaccess.h but doesn't use it. Perhaps a leftover from old code? Anyway, here's a cleanup patch. 2007-03-23 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/pathchk.c: Don't include euidaccess.h, as we don't call euidaccess. diff --git a/src/pathchk.c

'rm -r dir' performance improvement when removing symlinks, or root

2007-03-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Currently 'rm -r dir' invokes three system calls for each directory entry removed, e.g. (on Debian stable): lstat64(/proc/self/fd/5/output.0, ...) access(tmp/autom4te.cache/output.0, W_OK) unlink(/proc/self/fd/5/output.0) If we are root, the lstat and access calls aren't needed. Also,

Autoresponding for obsolete coreutils lists

2007-03-23 Thread James Youngman
Dear Mailman administrator, The GNU file /com/mailer/aliases includes alias defintions like this: # merged into bug-coreutils on 2004-08-17 bug-fileutils: bug-coreutils # merged into bug-coreutils on 2004-08-17 bug-sh-utils: bug-coreutils # merged into bug-coreutils on 2004-08-17 bug-textutils:

Re: pathchk.c includes euidaccess.h?

2007-03-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that pathchk.c includes euidaccess.h but doesn't use it. Perhaps a leftover from old code? Anyway, here's a cleanup patch. Precisely: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d177f684a 2007-03-23 Paul Eggert [EMAIL

coreutils 6.9 directory update

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now that coreutils 6.9 is released, please update the directory entry at http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/coreutils.html. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-