Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.1.30-0f8bb

2009-12-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: gnulib Passed Skipped Failed Passed \--- Fedora core 5 x86 | 363 48 0 Fedora 11

[PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the make distcheck vulnerability

2009-12-09 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, From 23c0cecaa8ca102292fe33d771c8cd2220249b59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:04:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the make distcheck vulnerability * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention implications of the make distcheck change. This

Re: touching -

2009-12-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: Eric Blake ericbl...@comcast.net writes: $ ls - ls: cannot access -: No such file or directory ls is not one of those commands. So rather than listing stdin or stdout (neither of which makes sense) Actually, it would make a lot of sense for 'ls' to list stdin, no? 'ls'

Re: git coreutils 'make check' hangs

2009-12-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Alan, * Alan Curry wrote on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:11:53AM CET: Ralf Wildenhues writes: * Pádraig Brady wrote on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:00:20AM CET: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: for some time now, 'make check' in the git coreutils tree hangs for me: [...] I think it may be a gdb

Re: touching -

2009-12-09 Thread Eric Blake
Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU writes: ls is not one of those commands. So rather than listing stdin or stdout (neither of which makes sense) Actually, it would make a lot of sense for 'ls' to list stdin, no? 'ls' could apply fstat to stdin and show the results. POSIX says: Where a

Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.1.30-0f8bb

2009-12-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, Passed Skipped Failed \- Linux From Scratch x86 | 362 49 0 Only one minor observation here; 'make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check' appears to result in a full rebuild of the