bug#14108: Bug in dd

2013-03-31 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 14108 + notabug close 14108 thanks Haneef Mubarak wrote: dd doesn't have a quiet option, ie: dd --quiet Having a quiet option would allow for an easier use of piping with dd The dd manual documents this as status=none: `status=WHICH' Transfer information is normally output to

bug#14108: Bug in dd

2013-03-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: However errors are reported normally. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/full bs=1k count=1 dd: writing ‘/dev/full’: No space left on device 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000184665 s, 0.0 kB/s I meant to say: $ dd status=none if=/dev/zero

bug#14023: dirname/basename unexpected results when run by xargs -I

2013-03-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Juho-Pekka Kuitunen wrote: Eric Blake wrote: By the way, your question is mostly related to shell, and a bit with xargs, and practically nothing to do with dirname. Your confusion on WHEN $() is expanded would apply no matter what executable you plug in instead of dirname. But since

bug#14023: dirname/basename unexpected results when run by xargs -I

2013-03-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Juho-Pekka Kuitunen wrote: Reproduce example; $ echo testdir/testfile | xargs -I '{}' echo '{}', dir: $(echo dirname '{}') = $(dirname '{}') Thank you for the report and the very nice test case. It made debugging this problem so very much simpler. Expected output; testdir/testfile, dir:

bug#13912: Feedback on coreutils 8.13

2013-03-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Ellis N. Thomas wrote: As I said before: The different effect for this Mac version might or might not be of relevance to Gnu developers!. You would be surprised. Most of us have spent a large portion of our lives porting software from one platform to another! :-) If it would

bug#14012: Bug#703565: [coreutils] Please add timestamps to the output of tail -f

2013-03-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Filipus Klutiero wrote: tail --follow is useful to see what is being added to a file. However, if the monitored file is followed for a certain period, it doesn't indicate when the new content was added. It would be nice if tail allowed to prepend timestamps to the output, as MultiTail's -ts

Re: Octal file permissions in ls

2013-03-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Blake wrote: Sakse Dalum wrote: Anywho, I've attached a diff to this mail, which may or may not be applicable to the most recent version (I just did an apt-get source in Trisquel 6.0 to get the source for coreutils). Thanks for the attempt. We prefer patches against libvirt.git;

bug#13912: Feedback on coreutils 8.13

2013-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Ellis N. Thomas wrote: As you have appreciated, I seem to have been caught in a can't do this until you have done that sequence! But I now seem ready to proceed with building gcc. Not to stop someone from working the problem and doing a good job of it but it might be easier to simply

bug#13938: Bug: date(1) -d relative-to-skipped-time problem (also in touch(1) -d)

2013-03-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 13938 + moreinfo thanks Aleš Kantor wrote: Set date to Mar 10, 2013 (the day clocks moved fwd) In which timezone? Please tell us what timezone you are in because the tzdata is different for everyone. Instead of setting the time simply include the date in the timestamp. But for the

bug#13913: Regarding cat command?

2013-03-09 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 13913 + notabug close 13913 thanks Naveen wrote: I am naveen kumar, currently studying B.Tech CSE 3 rd year. I am developing a application in linux 10.04 by using java. In my application am showing battery status of system. for that am accessing the file cat

bug#13897: Linux command - wc

2013-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: On 03/07/13 03:38, Francisco José Tena wrote: The next command is returning 5 chars: $ echo TEST | wc -m Tha's correct, since the 'echo' is outputting 5 characters: T, E, S, T, and newline. See also the output from od. $ echo TEST | od -tx1 -c 000 54 45

Re: ls and root directory indicator

2013-02-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Sami Kerola wrote: Secondly,pardon my ignorance, I thought '/' and '//' or how ever many slashes are the same root. Is this some non-obvious portability gotcha? A link to education material would be great. Correct. Anywhere except in the leading position the number of '/' characters is not

bug#13742: Is this soft link directory bug?

2013-02-18 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 13742 + moreinfo notabug close 13742 thanks Taroe90 wrote: sorry for my poor english Please do not worry. But there are questions. ping@ping-kubuntu:~/mywork/test/shell/ln/a$ ll What is the ll command? And alias for ls -l? Or an alias for ls -lF? Or something different? 总用量 8

bug#13742: Is this soft link directory bug?

2013-02-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Simpler with shorter paths. $ mkdir a $ ln -s a b # -- Creates b symink to a $ ln -s a b # -- Creates a/a symlink due to existence of b To avoid using portable syntax. (Okay for System V systems [HP-UX, others].) $ mkdir a $ ln -s a b

bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users'

2013-02-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: One more point: a long time ago, I too thought about adding -h as an alias for --help for these 100-or-so programs, but even then, there were numerous commands for which -h was already accepted, but with a different meaning. Yes. That is also an issue. Because -h is so

bug#13738: Add --all option to 'users' command

2013-02-18 Thread Bob Proulx
anatoly techtonik wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: anatoly techtonik wrote: The 'users' command shows users who are currently online. It will be nice to have --all option to show all users. Do you mean the equivelent to this? $ getent passwd | awk -F: '{print$1}' Yes. And also

bug#13742: Is this soft link directory bug?

2013-02-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Taroe90 wrote: 于 2013年02月19日 02:18, Bob Proulx 写道: ping@ping-kubuntu:~/mywork/test/shell/ln/a$ ll What is the ll command? And alias for ls -l? Or an alias for ls -lF? Or something different? alias ll='ls -alF' Okay. The -F is what added that trailing '/' and now we know it wasn't part

bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users'

2013-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 13737 wishlist tag 13737 + wontfix thanks anatoly techtonik wrote: It is very inconvenient to type --help every time when you need to read help. It will be useful to have -h shortcut (a de-facto standard in a Python world and probably scripts in other languages). You can already use

bug#13738: Add --all option to 'users' command

2013-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 13738 + moreinfo thanks anatoly techtonik wrote: The 'users' command shows users who are currently online. It will be nice to have --all option to show all users. Do you mean the equivelent to this? $ getent passwd | awk -F: '{print$1}' Bob

Re: Cmd mv: Owner/group copy

2013-02-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Filip Kocina wrote: I'd like to ask you why the owner and the group of a file is retained while moving a file via mv. Moving a file on the same filesystem does not copy the file. Moving a file from one directory to another on the same filesystem simply creates a new inode pointer in the new

bug#13635: Strange ls bug (Combination of -a and --color)

2013-02-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Joshua Rogers wrote: I just rsync'd my remote server for backup, and on my local machine I run the command 'ls -lh csf/' Well.. Here's the result; $ ls -lh csf/ ls: cannot access csf/.: Permission denied ls: cannot access csf/..: Permission denied total 0 d? ? ? ? ?

bug#13635: Strange ls bug (Combination of -a and --color)

2013-02-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Joshua Rogers wrote: $ ls -ld csf drw--- 2 toil toil 4096 2013-02-05 19:26 csf Yes. :-) So it seems that you may be correct. That chmod fixes the problem, Yes. You said you rsync'd data from another machine. Was the permissions copied from the remote machine the same there? But it

bug#13635: Strange ls bug (Combination of -a and --color)

2013-02-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Joshua Rogers wrote: Okay, I understand that, but the d? ? ? ? ?? . d? ? ? ? ?? .. That is a bug, no? No it isn't. Since ls didn't have permission to search the directory it could not stat those files and therefore could not report any

bug#13582: [PATCH] stat: add ext4 to the ext2/ext3 list

2013-01-30 Thread Bob Proulx
reopen 13582 severity 13582 wishlist thanks Bernhard Voelker wrote: I feel very sorry if my words were a bit harsh. Admitted, you refer to this in README: If your patch adds a new feature, please try to get some sort of consensus that it is a worthwhile change. One way to do that is

bug#13582: [PATCH] stat: add ext4 to the ext2/ext3 list

2013-01-30 Thread Bob Proulx
I am just adding references here to tie in the previous discussions. The bugzilla.redhat.com discussion actually has the best analysis of the problem. However let me summarize (and plagarize) as best as I can here. In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485507 Eric Sandeen proposed

bug#13582: [PATCH] stat: add ext4 to the ext2/ext3 list

2013-01-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernhard Voelker wrote: Reading (again) through it, it seems to me that we have 2 arguments: a) basically, it would be good to be able to distinguish ext2/ext3 from ext4 while it is problematic in the real world due to EXT4's nature - or at least would bring a lot of code into stat. Yes.

bug#13582: [PATCH] stat: add ext4 to the ext2/ext3 list

2013-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Frysinger wrote: Since ext4 returns the same info as ext2/ext3, add it to the list. This fixes the output of running `stat -f / -c %T` on my system that has an ext4 rootfs. * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add ext4 to the S_MAGIC_EXT2 and FSTYPE_EXT2FS cases. Previous discussion (wow,

bug#13453: comm

2013-01-16 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 13453 + moreinfo thanks Dennis Miller wrote: Not really a bug per se, but a nice feature would be if a check was done to just sort the given files before hand. If you don't sort it, you will get undesired output, and this would be a good safety check. Have you seen the GNU comm

bug#13447: ln foo gives misleading error message

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 13447 + notabug close 13447 thanks Ken Irving wrote: (Previously sent in error to the bug-gnu-utils list.) Sending it to bug-gnu-utils was of course perfectly fine since ln is one of the GNU utils and that is a good mailing list for all of the utils as a general catchall. I even answered

bug#13447: ln foo gives misleading error message

2013-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Interestingly I notice that solaris for example allows a NULL old_path. That Solaris behavior is contrary to POSIX 2008 http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlink.html Where does it say this? I read it through in detail but I

Re: date conversion from locale-specific format to any other date-format

2013-01-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Derek Ashley Thomas wrote: I have a string with a custom date format written in Japanese: 2013年 1月8日20時19分. I wish to convert this string to any other format using date. I expected to use date -d 2013年1月8日 20時19分 +%F %R but this produces the wrong date 2013-01-08 20:13 because it sees the

bug#13372: bug in date with last week calculation

2013-01-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Tomas Dabašinskas wrote: I'm getting week number 53 when trying to get last week on Mon Jan 7 09:46:19 EST 2013: $ date Mon Jan 7 09:46:19 EST 2013 $ date -d'last week' +%W 53 Expecting to get week 1 You are using %W which is described as: `%W' week number of year, with Monday

tag -1 stuff

2012-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
I figure I better give a report on the usage. I have been seeing people use -1 to refer to the current bug in the upstream BTS. If the control message has the bug number in the subject then it can extract the number from it and it doesn't need to be included in the command. Seemed very

bug#13300: tail - backwards compatibility (tail +$line $filename)

2012-12-28 Thread Bob Proulx
tag -1 notabug close -1 thanks Martyn Hare wrote: I think I've found a backwards-compatibility issue with tail. I know that invoking tail without the -n argument when skipping lines (`tail +10 file.txt`) is bad syntax, but it needs to be supported for backwards-compatibility. Any chance

bug#13301: patch to preserve field order in cut

2012-12-28 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 13301 wishlist thanks Brad Cater wrote: I found that echo a,b,c | cut -d, -f1,2 gives the same result as echo a,b,c | cut -d, -f2,1 This is because 'cut' has always behaved that way way back forty years for forever. So people like me don't consider it a bug. It is just the way it

bug#13243: [PATCH] enhancement: modify md5sum to allow piping

2012-12-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Blake wrote: In your case, you can do: dd if=/dev/sda3 | pbzip2 -c2 | tee (md5sum /tmp/sda3.dat.bzip2.md5) | netcat 192.168.1.123 45678 I would also mention the GNU dd extension status=none which avoids what is probably the unnecessary for this purpose records in / records out status

Re: installation error?

2012-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
sreekanth dhulipalla wrote: when iam trying to install the apache 2.2.23 in my linux pc i get the below error? You have reached the GNU Coreutils mailing list. The GNU Coreutils are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU Operating System. You can learn more about GNU

Re: error : shell doesn't find the path?

2012-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
sreekanth dhulipalla wrote: This is the error iam getting when iam run the command ./startadmin.sh startadmin.sh is an executable file when iam trying to run it shows the below error You have reached the GNU Coreutils mailing list. The GNU Coreutils are the basic file, shell and text

bug#13213: Local Echo CentOS6.2

2012-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 13213 + notabug close 13213 thanks Juergen Schiedhering wrote: after upgrade from some server to CentOS6.2 (from 6.0) i have problems with the serial console. You have submitted a bug to the GNU Coreutils project. The GNU Coreutils are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities

bug#13216: head(1) man page not talking about kilobytes

2012-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Man you guys are bananas using K here: -c, --bytes=[-]K print the first K bytes of each file; with the leading `-', print all but the last K bytes of each file It was much worse when we used N there. People were often

bug#13216: head(1) man page not talking about kilobytes

2012-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Curry wrote: To summarize, a single-letter name was found to be confusing, so you change it to another single-letter name because surely that'll not be confusing and because you like the look of Kth as a replacement for Nth. Bleargh. I can't really disagree. But there were objections to

bug#13144: comm bug or strange behaviour

2012-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Matteo Zambelli wrote: Hi, i was trying to find common lines between the two attached files(both created with dpkg --get-selections filename.txt) with this command: comm -12 squeeze-xfce-installed_packages.txt squeeze-xfce-installed_packages.txt result.txt then i noticed that the

Re: New feature in mv

2012-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Raphael S Carvalho wrote: So what do you think? Which language should I use? I'm going to sleep in few minutes, so I would get started tomorrow. As Bernhard Voelker we could create a C program which would use those tools (mv, cp, ln). It would be hard to object to a C program. But this is

bug#13071: Date and month ago

2012-12-03 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 13071 + notabug moreinfo close 13071 thanks Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: Hi, Hi! :-) Running into a problem with date and month... Since you aren't really submitting a bug report but just asking questions I am going to go ahead here and mark the accounting of the bug as closed. If a bug report

bug#13058: European date format

2012-12-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Ohad Basan wrote: Hey Hey back! Regarding 'date' command. the -d parameter doesn't know how to receive a european date format e.g. DD/MM/ I am assuming by doesn't know how to receive you mean it produces a different result than one you wish? Because of course it parses it. It just

bug#13001: Reporting potential bug | uname -p and uname -i return unknown on Debian

2012-11-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Pádraig Brady wrote: We should either deprecate the options, or try to standardise them a bit. I would deprecate them. By working at all they suck people into using them when they should be avoided. From POSIX we have ... In HP-UX we have: $ uname -m 9000/800 $ uname -i

bug#12995: syntax in documentation of date

2012-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12995 + notabug close 12995 thanks Blabla Quentin wrote: hello, I am an user of Xubuntu, and in the documentation (manual page) of _date_, I've red a small syntax error in the details of 'output format': if you write 'minute (00..59)' or 'hour (00..23)', I think you must write 'second

bug#12975: A puzzling issue with tee.

2012-11-23 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12975 + notabug close 12975 thanks liyu wrote: There is a issue puzzling me. We welcome your discussion but in the future please post discussion questions to coreut...@gnu.org and not to the bug tracker. Thanks. When I use the tee command, the log of a.out will lose if I use ctrl+c to

bug#12497: a bug for man pwd

2012-11-23 Thread Bob Proulx
It has been since 23 Sep 2012 that this bug was submitted and two requests for feedback and more information were asked. No response has been seen. Therefore I am closing the bug report. If you wish to provide more information please simply follow-up and we will see it and can reopen the bug as

BTS Mail-Followup-To submitter email

2012-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Just an FYI for frequent bug tracking system users... Glenn Morris made a nice improvement to the Mail-Followup-To header that is added to the closed bug email. The closed bug email includes a MFT header to keep follow-ups from going to the -done address and closing a possibly later reopened

bug#12907: Possible Bug in sort core utility

2012-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12907 + moreinfo thanks Coffey, Terrence (Terrence) **CTR** wrote: I think I might have located a bug. I'm using Redhat 6.3. What locale are you using? You can print out your locale settings with the locale command. $ locale Very often the locale is set to a human locale where case is

bug#12794: Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr

2012-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: You're 40 years too late on this one. This kind of condescending attitudes do not improve matters. Please no ad-hominem attacks. Thanks. What is an ad-hominem attack? Isn't that an attack against the person? Clearly, the poster was talking

bug#12794: Bug in dd: it sends wrong messages to stderr

2012-11-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Ganton wrote: Sorry, but dd is older than POSIX Paul Eggert wrote dd is [...] part of the POSIX standard and I wrote consequently, if the dd specification is broken, then the POSIX standard is broken, too. The task of the POSIX standard was to document existing behavior and standardize it

bug#12783: info for sort has an illogical example

2012-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: (reformatted and numbered) A, In that case, set the `LC_ALL' environment variable to `C'. B. Note that setting only `LC_COLLATE' has two problems. B1. First, it is ineffective if `LC_ALL' is also set. B2. Second, it has undefined behavior if `LC_CTYPE' (or `LANG', if

bug#12772: date : Bug in handling human readable dates

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12772 + notabug moreinfo thanks Guido Ackermann wrote: today i discovered a bug in the programm date handling human readable timeformats. Thank you for the bug report. And also thank you very much for including the version you are using. However you are tripping over a common

bug#12675: find RFE test verb -inodes

2012-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: A useful thing to be a test on the number of non-structural entries in a directory. By non structural, it would work like ls -A, and not include entries that are part of the directory structure like . and .. -- with the idea of being able to quickly determine if a

bug#12659: the join command bug report!

2012-10-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:19 AM, Michael wrote: # sort -n file1 file3 # sort -n file2 file4 # join file3 file4 That won't work. You have to join with the same sorting order that you sorted with. This is discussed in the manual. Since this seems to have been resolved

bug#12664: Not possible to list directories recursiv (-d switch ignores -R)

2012-10-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Vamp898 wrote: Documentation says the following: -d, --directory :: list directory entries instead of contents, and do not dereference symbolic links and -R, --recursive :: list subdirectories recursively And this is what i get when i use ls -dR / $ ls -dR / / Right. Because

bug#12650: Bug in date command

2012-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12650 + moreinfo thanks Thiago Picharski wrote: I'm trying run this command date -d 12-10-21, but occur the follow error, date: invalid date 12-10-21 and finalize with error code 1. What timezone are you in? Almost certainly that timezone experienced a daylight savings time change and

Re: Using sendfile in cp since Linux 2.6.33

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Ivan Korotkov wrote: this is an enhancement proposal to use sendfile instead of read/write loop in cp(1) on Linux 2.6.33 and above to speed up copying. WDYT? The feature is very new. It think it is too new to use in a coreutils command like cp. For anyone who uses a single binary on multiple

bug#12606: Make mv work better with SELinux.

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12606 + notabug close 12606 thanks Daniel J Walsh wrote: I will work on the patch, if people agree with the idea. This would be a perfect topic for the discussion list. Could we hold the discussion there? Until this because a trackable bug I am going to go ahead and close the bug ticket.

Re: Some question regarding tail and option -c

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Milasan wrote: Hello, I think I found an issue, but not sure if it's a bug or feature :) That is always the hardest question! :-) When using option -c from tail there are 3 ways, two working and one not: 1. cat /etc/passwd|tail -c 10 (doesn't work) 2. cat /etc/passwd|tail -c -10

bug#12566: ls case-insensitivie

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: $ ls -lFGgd [G-G]* drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Apr 8 13:13 GC/ $ ls -lFGgd [F-G]* drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Apr 8 13:13 GC/ drwxr-xr-x 16 4096 Jun 11 15:43 gtk+-2.24.4/ Thanks for the report. But you are misunderstanding that it is it is shell that is expanding the file glob.

bug#12566: ls case-insensitivie

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: Thanks for your quick and detailed reply to a mistaken bug report. My other mistake: $ export LC_ALL=en_AU.utf-8; export LC_COLLATE=C; locale Ah, right. LC_ALL is the highest priority control. It overrides LC_COLLATE. So in practice LC_ALL=C is useful to

bug#12478: cat SEGV when I press Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-1 on text console

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Rafal W. wrote: Thanks for your help. I've reported this bug against Ubuntu. Follow-up: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1060767 Since you are using Ubuntu that is the right place to pursue the key mapping problem. Your report there included good information. But...

bug#12478: cat SEGV when I press Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-1 on text console

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Proulx
bronek wrote: Yes, coreutils was a mistake, because they've stupid autocomplete textfield, when typing kernel, ubuntu or other keywords which I've tried, all the time was too general, so how do I know what other options are if I don't see any results (at last first 10?)? So I was happy to type

bug#12551: ls -l

2012-10-01 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12551 + moreinfo thanks Chen,Wei wrote: When I typed 'ls -l *chr4*' in linux, it gave me this: bash-4.1$ ls -l *chr4* ls: invalid option -- '4' Try `ls --help' for more information. It used to work for me, why? You are expanding a file glob *chr4* in the current directory. This

bug#12478: cat SEGV when I press Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-1 on text console

2012-10-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Rafal W. wrote: Thanks. Without Control more things are working. Alt-SysRq-m and other letters works, doesn't kill the process. So the only problems are numbers: Alt-SysRq-1 to 9 (exempt 5 6) is killing the process. Looks like 5 and 6 have some special privileges. Typically 5 and 6 will

bug#12478: cat SEGV when I press Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-1 on text console

2012-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Rafal, Any news? Please try the steps that Alan has suggested. I marked the bug ticket as needing more information. Bob

bug#12498: tail: unrecognized file system

2012-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
merge 12301 12498 thanks Jim Meyering wrote: Marius Bjørnstad wrote: I get this message when doing tail -f on a file which is stored on ZFS. tail: unrecognized file system type 0x2fc12fc1 for `messages'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling [I normally

Re: [HEADS-UP] Rawhide: /tmp is now on tmpfs

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Pádraig Brady wrote: Thinking a bit more about this, as I see it: /tmp = stateless /var/tmp = stateful Yes. Because /tmp is typically cleared on a reboot. But reboots are either scheduled regularly *or* never scheduled and can be quite few and far between. But that is a different

bug#12336: test bug

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12336 - moreinfo close 12336 thanks I haven't seen anything new on this for a week. I believe this to be a usage problem. Therefore I am closing this bug ticket. If you have different or new information please feel free to respond with it. Bob

bug#12162: [date] wrong time returned from provided relative date description

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12162 - moreinfo close 12162 thanks I haven't seen a response to this in a month. Therefore I am closing the ticket as resolved. If you have new information or clarification please feel free to continue the discussion. Bob

bug#11949: Symbolic links

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 11949 - moreinfo close 11949 thanks Pádraig Brady wrote: On 07/15/2012 05:56 PM, Nick Thomas wrote: Hello! I tried to create a symbolic link using ln -s ... but instead of getting a link of size about 20 bytes I obtained an executable file of length 1.9Mb i.e. a copy of the

bug#11164: reporting of bugs in lfs

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 11164 - moreinfo close 11164 thanks http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11164 It has been five months since more information was requested on this bug. Without further information nothing can be resolved. Therefore I am closing this ticket. If you do have more information

bug#10799: mv on virtual Ubuntu

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag -1 - moreinfo close -1 thanks Bob Proulx wrote: I think you have it diagnosed. PATH must be set to directories that are finding other versions of 'mv' down in path and in the above located over a gvfs filesystem. It has been many months since 18 Feb 2012 the last exchange on this bug. I

bug#10774: runcon'|

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
close 10774 thanks robert ethridge wrote: what does this do (...'|) in relation to runcon? It has been many months since Feb 2012 when more information was requested. Therefore I am closing this ticket. If you have more information please feel free to continue the discussion. Bob

bug#9921: ./configure coreutils 8.14 on oneiric ubuntu 64 bit errors - see config.log

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 9921 - moreinfo close 9921 thanks Paul Eggert wrote: On 10/31/11 06:19, Martin Suchanek wrote: I have got some errors and warnings which you can see in attached log file. It's normal for 'configure' to generate warnings for conflicting types and whatnot. Is there any error and/or

bug#6970: gnu cp problem

2012-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
It has been quite a while since 01 Sep 2010 when this bug ticket last had any activity. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6970 Has the relevance of this issue expired? Thanks, Bob

Re: add speed limit to dd tool

2012-09-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Davide Brini wrote: igro...@gmail.com wrote: Just a suggestion that it woild be good idea to have speed limit in dd tool so one can use it to for example spare network bandwidth when copying file ... You can use a tool named pv (available in all the distros I've worked with) to

bug#12400: rmdir runs amok, users curse GNU...(as rmdir has no option to stay on 1 file system)...

2012-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: or how do I remove all the files in /tmp, but not have it descend into any file systems mounted in tmp? I think it is really problematic to mount filesystems under /tmp. That would be a really crazy situation. I wouldn't do it. But... find /tmp -xdev -mindepth 1 -delete

bug#12400: rmdir runs amok, users curse GNU...(as rmdir has no option to stay on 1 file system)...

2012-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: If you are going to only provide 1 mode of functionality, it should be to only rmdir dirs on the same file system as the starting args. But rmdir really only removes the directories you tell it. What is the command you are complaining about? Are you using --parents or

bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366: Writing unwritable files

2012-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: Paolo Bonzini wrote: Atomic file replacement is what matters for security. Unfortunately, 'sed's use of atomic file replacement does not suffice for security. For example, suppose sysadmins (mistakenly) followed the practice of using 'sed -i' to remove users from

bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.

2012-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: ... GNU needs to be clear their priorities -- maintaining software freedom, or bowing down to corporate powers... POSIX isn't While POSIX is in general a very good baseline, no one here conforms blindly. If POSIX is wrong, we'll lobby to change

bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing unwritable files

2012-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: If some other process is writing F while I run 'sed -i F', F is not replaced atomically. How not so? For example: echo ac f sed -i 's/a/b/' f sed -i 's/c/d/' f wait cat f If 'sed' were truly atomic, then the output of this would always be 'bd'. But it's

bug#12336: test bug

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Please keep the mailing list in the reply. I have set Reply-To accordingly. Bala Murugan wrote: I am using bash shell. When I tried to do this i getting this.I am getting this error. [balamup2@cl-flor-dvvm026 ~]$ echo $SHELL */bin/bash* I am sure that those '*' characters are not there.

bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.

2012-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: Could you be thinking of some other rm? Coreutils' rm has rejected that for a long time: ... POSIX requires rm to reject any attempt to delete an explicitly specified . or .. argument (or any argument whose last component is one of those): Hmm... Wow. I decided to check

bug#12336: test bug

2012-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12336 + notabug moreinfo thanks Bala Murugan wrote: we are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8. Our default shell is BASH. while using *test command* for single file its working fine.But when we use test command for multiple files we are facing this issue. I will paste the

bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.

2012-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Linda Walsh wrote: Now there seems to be a special check for . and disallow it as a rm target. But that was a safe and portable way to delete all contents. ... I would expect it to delete all but the current inode I'm parked on, and for it -- either issue an error or silently ignore ...

bug#12318: gnu date has incorrect date when using date math during a leap year

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Proulx
John Mizell wrote: gnu date has incorrect date when using date math during a leap year Thank you for the report. But this appears to be incorrect usage. Here are the steps to reproduce Thank you very much for providing your reproducing steps. It makes diagnosis easy. So many people do not

bug#12318: gnu date has incorrect date when using date math during a leap year

2012-08-31 Thread Bob Proulx
SciFi wrote: I am just a passerby here. But when I see these specific kinds of errors, especially due to month usages, I always have a thought: How would we make GNU-date to operate on the Month Number Itself when we type month in the --date string, and stop its assumption that we mean 30

bug#12248: sleep is not arware of suspend mode

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12248 + notabug close 12248 thanks Philipp Thomas wrote: Albrecht Frenzel wrote: sleep 5m switch system to suspend mode for 2m wake up The shell will be resumed after 7m That's how it should be. The complete system is frozen and after resuming continue where they

bug#12249: not latin letters

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12249 + moreinfo unreproducible retitle 12249 ls unable to list files with latin letters thanks gymka wrote: command ls not sees folders with not latin letters(in my case with Lithuanian). eg. there is folder folderą command ls -d don't sees it, command ls sees it. I cannot reproduce this

bug#12248: sleep is not arware of suspend mode

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: That is the expected behavior. It's not the behavior *I* expect. I expect 'sleep' to use realtime seconds, not seconds of some arbitrary clock that's way far from real time. Sleep has always been a pause in relative time from when the call is made

bug#12249: not latin letters

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
tag 12249 - moreinfo + notabug close 12249 thanks gymka wrote: looks like i misunderstood use of -d:) it's my fault. Thanks for letting us know. In that case I will close the bug ticket. Bob

bug#12162: [date] wrong time returned from provided relative date description

2012-08-09 Thread Bob Proulx
tags 12162 + moreinfo thanks Andris Pavenis wrote: Noticed problems with command date: Thanks for the report. However I do not understand what problem you are trying to report. Showing the output that you expected would help. [apavenis@callisto Test]$ ./date-test.sh + date Thu Aug 9

Re: Split command wait - Request

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Quinton Dunning wrote: Sometimes when I execute the split command I want to use removable media and take a file part over to another machine. To do this, the split command would have to have a switch that would pause and wait for a keystroke before writing the next file. I remember having

bug#11991: tr bug

2012-07-19 Thread Bob Proulx
retitle 11991 shell file globbing confusion tag 11991 + notabug close 11991 thanks Xiao, Bellon (NSN - CN/Cheng Du) wrote: We found a bug of tr, the version is tr (coreutils) 5.2.1 Thank you for your report. But this is not a bug in tr but simply a misunderstanding of how your command line

bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug.

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Meyering wrote: Andreas Schwab wrote: Jim Meyering writes: To get the behavior you want (a nominally no-op date-setting command), you should use this instead: date -s $(date '+%F %T.%N') That fails to be a no-op during the ambigous end-of-dst period. Better use an

bug#11835: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x61756673

2012-07-01 Thread Bob Proulx
forcemerge 11823 11835 thanks Brett Kuskie wrote: I noticed this error today when running tail on a web server log (residing on the aufs filesystem) tail: unrecognized file system type 0x61756673 for `/var/log/lighttpd/access.log'. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to

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