Re: configure issue: getfsstat(), 'struct statfs' and 'struct fsstat'

2018-07-11 Thread Barath Aron
On 07/11/2018 05:54 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: This is a question for upstream gnulib. Before we move the discussion there and it is an already-fixed issue there, did you try to build findutils from latest Git as well? (4.6.0 is the latest release, but already quite aged...) Have a nice day,

[bug #46305] Doing "find -L . -type d -delete" fails on symlinks to directories.

2018-07-11 Thread Tavian Barnes
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #46305 (project findutils): I think this is an actual bug, despite the general danger of running -delete together with -L. In this setup: $ mkdir foo $ mkdir bar $ ln -s ../foo bar/baz $ find -L bar -delete find: cannot delete ‘bar/baz’: Not a directory find: cannot del

Re: Manual Readability Feedback

2018-07-11 Thread Dale R. Worley
A couple of quite minor items: Bernhard Voelker writes: >> "Only use 'assert' to catch fully-implemented features of your code." > ^~~~ > > This sounds odd to me - as non-native English speaker - as well. > What about "Avoid to use 'assert' to m

Re: Manual Readability Feedback

2018-07-11 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 06/28/2018 07:12 AM, Christopher Leonard wrote: > I am writing to inform you of my brief feedback regarding the readability of > your manual. This message does not regard a “bug”; this message is an > informal suggestion to improve the experience of the human manual-reader. Thanks for the fee

Re: configure issue: getfsstat(), 'struct statfs' and 'struct fsstat'

2018-07-11 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 07/11/2018 02:00 PM, Barath Aron wrote: > Hello, > > I have a little issue around the detection of the getfsstat() function. > > According to multiple manuals from different BSD versions [1,2], the > signature of the BSD's getfsstat() is this: > int getfsstat(struct statfs *buf, long bufsize,

configure issue: getfsstat(), 'struct statfs' and 'struct fsstat'

2018-07-11 Thread Barath Aron
Hello, I have a little issue around the detection of the getfsstat() function. According to multiple manuals from different BSD versions [1,2], the signature of the BSD's getfsstat() is this: int getfsstat(struct statfs *buf, long bufsize, int mode); Note, it refers to 'struct statfs'. The st