Re: lib/exclude.c calls towlower() without checking for wideline support

2009-09-04 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 13:51 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 13:24 +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: Alan Hourihane al...@fairlite.co.uk ha escrit: Yes, but I get this nm exclude.o | grep towlower U _towlower And my libc doesn't define

link-follow and mingw

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a pre-requisite to linkat, and implementing POSIX 2008 ln(1) -L and -P options. It will make it possible to decide whether linkat should call plain link, readlink/link, or error out with ENOSYS (on the few remaining systems where link()

Re: lib/exclude.c calls towlower() without checking for wideline support

2009-09-04 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi Alan, Sorry to ping again, but because coreutils 7.5 has the newer version of gnulib it's blocking me from upgrading. Sorry for the delay: I was busy with other projects. I will provide a patch during this weekend. Stay in touch. Regards, Sergey

Re: avoiding obsolete macros like AC_TRY_RUN

2009-09-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:59:48AM CEST: I have three problems with your patch. Four, I would say: ;-) 0) You have been used to the old ways for a decade. This may sound offensive, but isn't meant to be, really. When new users ask questions about quoting on

Re: avoiding obsolete macros like AC_TRY_RUN

2009-09-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello All, esp. Ben, Paolo, Paul, Sergey, Simon, the patch below removes obsolete macros from modules not maintained by Bruno or Jim. Special here is check-math-lib.m4:gl_CHECK_MATH_LIB which uses macro arguments. Is this a public macro? All in-tree users do not mind the change from

Re: avoiding obsolete macros like AC_TRY_RUN

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello All, esp. Ben, Paolo, Paul, Sergey, Simon, the patch below removes obsolete macros from modules not maintained by Bruno or Jim. Special here is check-math-lib.m4:gl_CHECK_MATH_LIB which uses macro arguments. Is this a public macro? All in-tree users do not

Re: avoiding obsolete macros like AC_TRY_RUN

2009-09-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: Ben Pfaff for m4/check-math-lib.m4 m4/isfinite.m4 m4/round.m4 m4/roundf.m4 Looks fine. Thank you, Ralf. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

Re: brand new failure: ln/misc

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 9/4/2009 3:26 PM: I don't have time to investigate right now, so... == GNU coreutils 7.5.55-860a3: tests/test-suite.log

test-openat-safer failure on older kernel

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On on older machine (2.6.16.29 kernel, glibc 3.4.6), when using /proc emulation, openat(fd,,O_RDONLY) was accidentally succeeding in opening a copy of /proc/self/fd/n (ie. the directory pointed to by fd) instead of failing with ENOENT. Fixed as