Re: [coreutils] Re: Bug#609049: du: process_file: Assertion `level == prev_level - 1' failed

2011-01-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 09/01/11 22:05, Jim Meyering wrote: >> diff --git a/tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing >> b/tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing > >> +# We use a python-inotify script, so... >> +python -m pyinotify -h > /dev/null \ >> + || skip_ 'python-inotify package not installed' > >

Re: [coreutils] Re: Bug#609049: du: process_file: Assertion `level == prev_level - 1' failed

2011-01-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 09/01/11 22:05, Jim Meyering wrote: > diff --git a/tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing > b/tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing > +# We use a python-inotify script, so... > +python -m pyinotify -h > /dev/null \ > + || skip_ 'python-inotify package not installed' A small point is that error is a

Re: [coreutils] Re: Bug#609049: du: process_file: Assertion `level == prev_level - 1' failed

2011-01-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: ... > While I do have a reproducer that will become a test suite addition > (coming soon), it relies on python (a first) and the python-inotify > package, so I'll have to be careful to skip the test when those > prerequisites aren't installed. Also, there's an inherent race con

Re: [coreutils] RFC for adding file creation mode feature into touch utility.

2011-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Rakib Mullick wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > > Why do you want an option for this when you can already use touch > > to create a file with selected permissions via your umask? > > I think umask change the the file creation mask system wide. I might > not want it for every file I create. No. The

Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] coreutils buglets, useless-if-before-free

2011-01-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Karl Heuer wrote: > `useless-if-before-free --help' prints a literal > NUL character instead of the backslash-zero that > was intended. Also, the "must lie within the > first 8 lines" line is on line 9, and hence not > getting automatically updated. This patch fixes > the former by adding a backs