bug#22880: cut does a strange cut

2016-03-04 Thread Matteo Melli
Hi Pádraig, Thank you for the help. I tryed to update but seem that this fedora i18n bug is still affecting rawhide. I ended up changing cut for awk to not depend on fedora i18n patches that broke coreutils and go ahead with my tasks. I will send an email to fedora bug mailing list asking to fix

bug#22909: Manpage test(1): Obsolescent logical operators

2016-03-04 Thread Martin Gebert
The -a and -o operators of test(1) have been marked obsolescent for a while now; see link below. However, while the HTML manual is updated, the current man page, still my primary source of reference, is missing a hint to that: http://linux.die.net/man/1/test See also

bug#22909: [PATCH] test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable

2016-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/04/2016 10:51 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 04/03/16 08:55, Eric Blake wrote: >> ... +NOTE: Use of binary -a and -o create inherently

bug#22909: [PATCH] test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable

2016-03-04 Thread Jim Meyering
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 04/03/16 08:55, Eric Blake wrote: ... >> +NOTE: Use of binary -a and -o create inherently ambiguous situations. I like that, too. Thanks. One nit: s/create/creates/

bug#22909: [PATCH] test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable

2016-03-04 Thread Jim Meyering
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 04/03/16 08:55, Eric Blake wrote: > ... >>> +NOTE: Use of binary -a and -o create inherently ambiguous situations. > > I like that, too.

bug#22909: Manpage test(1): Obsolescent logical operators

2016-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/04/2016 04:15 AM, Martin Gebert wrote: > The -a and -o operators of test(1) have been marked obsolescent for a > while now; see link below. However, while the HTML manual is updated, > the current man page, still my primary source of reference, is missing a > hint to that: > >

bug#22909: [PATCH] test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable

2016-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
POSIX recommends avoiding -a and -o, for good reason. src/test.c (usage): Mention that inherent ambiguities exist with binary -a and -o. Problem reported by Martin Gebert in: http://bugs.gnu.org/22909 --- src/test.c | 5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/test.c b/src/test.c

bug#22909: [PATCH] test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable

2016-03-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 04/03/16 08:55, Eric Blake wrote: POSIX recommends avoiding -a and -o, for good reason. src/test.c (usage): Mention that inherent ambiguities exist with binary -a and -o. Problem reported by Martin Gebert in: http://bugs.gnu.org/22909 --- src/test.c | 5 + 1 file changed, 5