Re: [PATCH] test-lchown.h: "symlink ownership not supported" is indicated by EOPNOTSUPP

2018-12-20 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
Hi Bruno, On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Such convention concerning the meaning of EOPNOTSUPP was also stated > > in The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 > > IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition > > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/functions/lchown.html); > > however,

Re: [Grep-devel] handling of non-BMP characters

2018-12-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Arnold, > > >2) change those gnulib modules that don't behave well with beyond-BMP > > > characters on Windows and AIX to use char32_t instead of wchar_t. > ... > I assume you'll make parallel changes in dfa.c at the same time? If dfa.c does have bugs w.r.t. beyond-BMP characters, ye

Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix syntax-check on macOS/FreeBSD

2018-12-20 Thread Roman Bolshakov
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 06:34:51PM +0300, Roman Bolshakov wrote: > Hello, > > There was an issue with syntax-check on FreeBSD reported a few years > ago: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-August/msg00758.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2015-08/msg00019.html >

Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Ingo, Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate that you give true consideration to arguments. > But i guess discussing such considerations in detail would be > off-topic on this mailing list We can stay on this mailing list. I'm not going to go deep into OpenBSD specific system design arguments

[PATCH] version-etc: allow zero authors

2018-12-20 Thread Paul Eggert
* lib/version-etc.c (version_etc_arn): If no authors are given, omit authorship info instead of dumping core. No need to include stdlib.h now. --- ChangeLog | 6 ++ lib/version-etc.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index

Re: OpenBSD locale system

2018-12-20 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 09:55:25PM +0100: > I have now submitted a request to add such a method to POSIX. Here: > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1220 Yes, i had seen that request. > I used OpenBSD 6.2 as an example in there, not to bash OpenBSD, Nothing is

Re: Changed behavior in sed 4.6

2018-12-20 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:49 PM Jan Palus wrote: > I've just happened to notice a difference in behavior between sed 4.5 and 4.6 > when building VirtualBox. It seems to be locale dependent: > > $ echo 'foo(bar '|LC_ALL=C sed -e 's/\([^*] *\)\bbar\b/\1foo */g' > foo(bar > > $ echo 'foo(bar '|LC_ALL

Re: [Grep-devel] Changed behavior in sed 4.6

2018-12-20 Thread arnold
Jim Meyering wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:49 PM Jan Palus wrote: > > I've just happened to notice a difference in behavior between sed 4.5 and > > 4.6 > > when building VirtualBox. It seems to be locale dependent: > > > > $ echo 'foo(bar '|LC_ALL=C sed -e 's/\([^*] *\)\bbar\b/\1foo */g' >

Re: [Grep-devel] Changed behavior in sed 4.6

2018-12-20 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:13 PM wrote: > > I expect to revert the mentioned mentioned gnulib commits, and then to > > make new releases of both grep and sed. > > Please add a test case ... You should know me better by now. I didn't mention the required NEWS update either.

Re: [Grep-devel] Changed behavior in sed 4.6

2018-12-20 Thread Jim Meyering
I've attached the patch I expect to push in less than 30 minutes, in case someone wants to review or test quickly. I've also created a snapshot here: sed snapshot: https://meyering.net/sed/sed-ss.tar.xz 1.3 MB https://meyering.net/sed/sed-ss.tar.xz.sig https://meyering.net/sed/sed-4.6.2

Re: [Grep-devel] Changed behavior in sed 4.6

2018-12-20 Thread Jim Meyering
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 9:30 PM Jim Meyering wrote: > I've attached the patch I expect to push in less than 30 minutes, in > case someone wants to review or test quickly. > I've also created a snapshot here: > > sed snapshot: > https://meyering.net/sed/sed-ss.tar.xz 1.3 MB > https://meyer