/chgrp), see
coreutils.check3. I haven't yet had time to figure out how to get any
further.
2005-01-11 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* src/Makefile.am (check-README, check-AUTHORS): Account for
$(EXEEXT).
* man/Makefile.am (all_programs): Account for $(EXEEXT).
- --- src
] Error 127
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* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Don't use $(EXEEXT).
Also, I noticed that you have both coreutils-5.3.0/tests/tr/repeat-compl.I
and coreutils-5.3.0/tests/tr/repeat-Compl.I in the tarball (and the
problem still exists in CVS
without flags.
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.PHONY: subdirs $(SUBDIRS)
subdirs: $(SUBDIRS)
$(SUBDIRS):
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foo: baz
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* src/Makefile.am (all_programs.list): Strip $(EXEEXT) and remove
duplicates.
* man/Makefile.am (all_programs): Revert previous patch; updated
all_programs.list fixes this.
(.x.1): No need to add $(EXEEXT).
2005-01
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that
notation for remote machine shared drive access). XBD 3.2 defines
absolute path as A pathname beginning with a single or more than two
slashes, and XBD 4.11 agrees, so you are only allowed to collapse 3 or
more leading slashes.
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According to Eric Blake on 1/20/2005 9:36 PM:
When compiling coreutils/src/stty.c, I got a warning:
stty.c:106:1: warning: CSWTCH redefined
In file included from /usr/include/termios.h:4,
from stty.c:40:
/usr/include/sys
-01-29 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tiny change)
* tests/Makefile.am (.PHONY): Add check-root, check-recursive,
and root-hint.
* tests/rwx-to-mode: Ignore ACL designation.
* tests/setgid-check: Likewise.
* tests/chown/separator: Quote user and group names
is needed in the testsuite to turn a SKIP into a
PASS on cygwin:
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* tests/du/8gb: Detect sparse files on NTFS under cygwin.
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unchanged on non-XSI systems.
I ask, because at the moment, cygwin's implementation only makes a sparse
file on write() after lseek(), although the developers are considering
making ftruncate() after lseek() also create a sparse file.
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than these things I can't imagine what would create the
behavior you are seeing.
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* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Copy regular files in binary mode.
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before the POSIX committee?
I agree, and just posted the issue to the austin group.
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for `dircolors --help' to
point to the info pages rather than trying to repeat the input file format
inline (right now it is still pointing to `dircolors -p').
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like you
want, for the locale you are using.
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help2man offer to help us acheive this? Do we need a new section name?
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if that fails or -P was specified, print the physical path.
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something like
one of these two options:
$ alias which type
$ which()
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preserves the inode, but changes the file type from pipe to a regular file
(read-only at that).
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* tests/mv/mv-special-1: Use our own test(1) to check that
hierarchy was correctly moved.
* tests/mv/setup (dot_mount_point): Dereference symlinks when
learning device number.
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platforms). Not all versions of kill(1) can
convert names to numbers, but this is coreutils.
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and ash by Eric Blake.
* tests/install/basic-1: Skip this test if ../../src/dd isn't readable.
* tests/install/trap: Skip this test if trap '' CHLD doesn't work.
What was wrong with my
bad decisions).
I doubt the coreutils list can give you any more help than to suggest that you
change your PATH environment variable so that nmake finds Microsoft's link like
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* tests/misc/nice (tests): Don't use `set -', it resets -x.
* tests/mv/part-hardlink (fail
a working
d_ino member would detect that cygwin's implementation is broken on NTFS drives.
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from an older version of cygwin, is probably returning EINVAL still.
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: raw stat field entries (is this like coreutils -t?)
- -s: quote output, suitable for shell variable initialization
- -x: more verbose
- -t timefmt: format dates with input similar to date(1)
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According to Paul Eggert on 4/29/2005 3:07 PM:
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bash TAB-completion with readline's `set visible-stats on' uses '%'
for character-special devices and '#' for block-special devices.
Aack. FreeBSD ls uses
leading // (at
least on cygwin, leading // should start after //MACHINE/Share/), but not
all POSIX-compliant hosts have the same semantics for leading //, so I
don't know how well such a special case would fold into upstream coreutils.
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rwxXstugo is required as perm/permcopy.
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* makepath.c (make_path): chdir to //, not /, if the file name
starts with exactly two slashes. This doesn't solve the problem
in general but it's better than nothing. Problem reported by
Pierre A. Humblet via Eric Blake.
Below
platforms), allocating dirpath with alloca is
asking for problems with the potential of stack overflow.
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not reading closely enough after a long
day. I should learn not to hit send before re-reading :) But my other
comment about dirpath being allocated with alloca on potentially unlimited
length input is still an issue.
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as a starting point for folding in upstream (of
course, it would also need NEWS and coreutils.texi documentation, and
updated to apply against CVS HEAD).
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Add imode= and omode= to dd:
* src/dd.c (input_mode, output_mode, modes, set_fd_mode
. In my opinion, dd should
default to binary when neither text nor binary is specified (of course,
that makes iflag=binary pretty much a no-op).
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as aspected but it only shifts the cursor on
y and when I type n and then RETURN the file foo.txt is REMOVED!
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a cygwin compilation of bash.
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it to (if it is even possible in those ports). Or
consider using cygwin, so that you can use POSIX quoting rules even on Windows
(which is what I personally do). You won't get much more help from this list.
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(exit 77); exit 77
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. Should
this assumption in system.h be changed, or my patch tweaked to ignore the
value of SET_MODE?
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* src/dd.c (set_fd_flags): Handle mode changes with SET_MODE,
since Cygwin cannot change mode with fcntl.
(main
-zero O_BINARY but zero O_TEXT.
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+
This change broke cygwin. Cygwin does not have struct dirent.d_type, so
DT_IS_DIR is defined as do_not_use_this_macro. I think protecting this if
statement with HAVE_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE, and letting cygwin fall through
to the unlink, will fix the problem.
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to disable it?
See my earlier reply to why I think POSIX requires the exact opposite - that
`touch dangling' must fail, not create the new file pointed to by dangling.
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` ''
But the same cannot be said for rm when -f is not in effect. Should this be
mentioned in the autoconf portability documentation? Are there any systems
out there where rm -f `` has non-zero status?
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, but that
would be more work (the gnulib library file_has_acl already returns
-1 on failure, 0 on no ACL, and 1 on ACL; perhaps make it return
2 on indeterminate). Should such a change be propagated to
coreutils and gnulib, or left as a cygwin-local patch?
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want to consider
carefully the decision between opening the coded file in text vs. binary
modes on platforms where they are different. The decoded file must
definitely be opened binary.
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* regcomp.c (init_dfa, build_range_exp): Store __btowc value
in wint_t, not wchar_t.
Index: lib/regcomp.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils/lib/regcomp.c,v
, except that POSIX guarantees that they must be integer types
(with no further limitations, such as unsigned or not exceeding long). All
I could think of that won't truncate bits on some theoretical platform is
to cast to uintmax_t, which must work since they are integral.
2005-07-08 Eric Blake
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ls.c and stty.c use ioctl without including sys/ioctl.h,
triggering a warning about implicit declarations. Even worse, since
ioctl is a varargs function, this is undefined C (luckily, it
compiles and links okay on cygwin).
Thanks for reporting
. However, there is no need to
systematically change the notice in every old file.
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* src/system.h [O_BINARY __CYGWIN__]: Include actual headers
for setmode and fileno.
Index: src/system.h
a distinct //, leaving other platforms to continue having just
a single slash returned? I would argue that cross-platform consistency
is more important than reducing the output where // has no special
semantics, so the change should probably be made for all platforms.
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should this patch be made globally, or should it be limited to only
systems that have a distinct //, leaving other platforms to continue
having just a single slash returned?
Limit it to just those systems, please.
I take it a simple autoconf test
__DJGPP__
+# if defined __CYGWIN__
+# include io.h
+# include stdio.h
+# elif !defined __DJGPP__
What is io.h? Why does both it and stdio.h need to be included?
stdio.h is not needed, but io.h is needed for setmode().
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remove_suffix() in that case?
Boy, I really need to get my copyright papers completed - I'll try
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-standard hosts out there that don't treat ab as
a synonym to a per POSIX, and if so, should we cater to them
with a gnulib module? It is much more readable to write this as:
char const *mode_string = (append ? ab : wb);
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to make any judgements about the validity of string as a
pathname; it just follows the specified algorithm to produce a result
string.
Currently, coreutils returns ''. I don't want to change this unless
anyone else thinks it should be changed for compatibility. Comments?
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closed FILE* result in undefined behavior; but you are right that in
general, a closed stream will gracefully cause further errors that will be
detected by the existing code rather than crashing the system.
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path.
What's wrong with the already-existing `readlink -f'?
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a lot further in the request if
you posted the source code and documentation along with your
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(or find a precompiled version) and install banner there
yourself, and update your $PATH to find it. In your case, that is
probably faster than waiting for coreutils to decide whether to include
such an app, then waiting for the next coreutils release.
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expr by name, it does mention problems with * as a shell
metacharacter, which needs to be quoted.
Try echo expr 2 * 3 to see what you are really doing. And compare that
to echo expr 2 \* 3.
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Is it causing trouble?
No, I was just wondering why it was there, and you answered my
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in this case). The code path for `mkdir -p' uses stat(2) while the code
path for regular `mkdir' does not. Now that you've reported it, the
cygwin team will probably write a cygwin-specific patch to `mkdir -p' to
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), but dircolors fails without -b because
SHELL was not exported to the environment.
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of the coreutils come from varied backgrounds, with varying levels of
documentation, and there is no cohesive design document (besides reading
the code itself). Contributions to improve the documentation and code
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What about parsing /proc/cpuinfo, on machines that have that? (Cygwin
falls into the same camp as linux, where this information is in
/proc/cpuinfo, but not available from any easy system call.)
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+166,29 @@ my @Tests =
Where are the tests for %::z and %:::z?
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But that will break scripts like mad... :(
Since POSIX doesn't document -p or -i, they are already non-portable
options. But you do have a point that just deleting the options
may have far-reaching effects...
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- coreutils is not going to add -h where it does not
already exist, because --help already exists.
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Also, section 4.7 mentions common long options, and their short
option equivalents where appropriate, and neither --help nor
--version are given a short option listing in the GCS.
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by POSIX (and,
as you note, released versions of coreutils reject it), so you may
want to consider fixing your scripts to be portable anyway.
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The POSIX spec is a moving target.
This has been fixed in the latest sources (available via cvs).
There have been quite a few changes since 5.3.0 in January.
Is it time to make a 5.3.1 release, so we can point people
to a release instead of CVS?
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, it should be propagated into gnulib.
Works fine. Thanks for the quick fix.
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behavior in rename(2), maybe we can get away with deciding that
mv(1) always behaves as --strip-trailing-slashes - is there anything
in POSIX that would prohibit us from always stripping the trailing
slash and acting on the symlink without an explicit option requesting
that behavior?
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] == '/'
|| (name[len - 1] == '.'
(name[len - 2] == '/'
|| (name[len - 2] == '.' name[len - 3] == '/'
{
errno = EINVAL;
return -1;
}
return rmdir (name);
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to clean this up
with the austin group; surely they intended to document
historical behavior.
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semantics. POSIX
also requires kill(1) to be an external program, invocable by
env, nice, xargs, etc. (it requires this of all non-special builtins),
with the documented effect that when invoked externally, job
syntax does not have to work.
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