Re: Canonicalize bug?

2015-08-31 Thread Paul Eggert
John W. Eaton wrote: No, we are not supporting VMS. It doesn't matter much to me personally, but I think some people would like to see the result contain only \ on Windows systems. We could always post-process the result, but would you accept a patch that makes this change inside the gnulib

Re: [PATCH] Add me_mountroot to mount_entry for linux machines

2015-08-31 Thread Dave Chiluk
I agree with all suggestions. I'm posting a revised patch shortly. Dave. On 08/28/2015 07:42 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 28/08/15 21:41, Dave Chiluk wrote: >> Add me_mountroot to mount_entry so linux machines based on >> /proc/self/mountinfo can distinguish between bind mounts and original >>

[PATCH] Add me_mountroot to mount_entry for linux machines

2015-08-31 Thread Dave Chiluk
Add me_mountroot to mount_entry so linux machines based on /proc/self/mountinfo can distinguish between bind mounts and original mounts. In reality bind mounts aren't treated any different than mountroot=/ mounts by the kernel, but this is still confusing to the user, and a change in behavior

Re: [bug #45445] AIX make check test-getdelim.c:72: assertion failed Abort(coredump)

2015-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
[adding gnulib] On 08/31/2015 02:50 PM, John F. Trudeau wrote: > Follow-up Comment #1, bug #45445 (project findutils): > > AIX7.1 libc.a contains getdelim/getline. I cannot find any AIX documentation > on theses functions. Apparently the AIX getdelim does not expand the output > buffer. I was

Re: Canonicalize bug?

2015-08-31 Thread Gisle Vanem
John W. Eaton wrote: It doesn't matter much to me personally, but I think some people would like to see the result contain only \ on Windows systems. So you're on Windows? Then perhaps you can use 'GetFullPathName()' directly?

Canonicalize bug?

2015-08-31 Thread Juan Pablo Carbajal
Dear gnulib devs, In the GNU Octave community with run into a problem with canonicalize functions. It is not clear yet, but it seems that '/' is used for path regardless of the platform. One of our devs, Rik, reported this recently https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45816#comment3 Is this a bug in

Re: Canonicalize bug?

2015-08-31 Thread Paul Eggert
Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote: Is this a bug in gnulib? Do you have file systems where '/' does not work to separate file name components? Like VMS or something? If so, it's a problem, though I'm not sure it's a bug, as most of gnulib doesn't claim to port to VMS. If not, then I don't see

Re: Canonicalize bug?

2015-08-31 Thread John W. Eaton
On 08/31/2015 09:54 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote: Is this a bug in gnulib? Do you have file systems where '/' does not work to separate file name components? Like VMS or something? If so, it's a problem, though I'm not sure it's a bug, as most of gnulib doesn't claim to