On 11/02/2015 08:47 AM, Evan Rempel wrote:
> While I agree in principle with the general rule, I do not agree in this
> case. All of the solutions I can find on the web, including the one your
> cite, involve using a different programming language to write a program
> that solves the problem.
On 08/31/2015 06:39 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> There are probably other variants of base64 in use
> (like also transforming the '=' padding char for
> easier to read URLs), and so using the external tr
> solution is more general.
FYI, Base58, base64, and hexadecimal are fairly common
I would also like to make a request about mount options:
Figure out exactly what you want to do FIRST, and then do ALL
of it - changing the mount options and defaults less often than
once a year. And if you can, aim for June 14 EVERY year you
do it.
I say this because every last one of the last
On 06/30/2015 02:04 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Bob Proulx bob-5cAygf9QrE/qt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org writes:
Hmm... I don't know. Should this work?
No. POSIX doesn't have leap seconds.
Andreas.
I can definitely see the point in maintaining a simplified
notion of time for most
On 06/05/2015 08:59 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/05/2015 08:44 AM, Michael Felt wrote:
xattrs can include more than ACLs; and meanwhile, while ACLs are often
implemented by xattrs they can also be implemented in other means.
Which is why libvirt shows '.' for the presence of xattrs that
Is there any comprehensive list of all the utilities
and interfaces one needs to implement in order to create
a usable filesystem?
I think that allowing users to manage the delegation of
their own permissions to programs in the same way that
root manages the delegation of privileges to users is
I have compiled my own 'sort' which deliberately ignores
locale, (more precisely deliberately uses the 'C' locale
by default) for exactly this reason. I don't want to
screw with an environment variable that affects dozens
of things just to get sort to work predictably.
A while ago I offered a
On 03/12/2015 12:46 PM, Mike Hodson wrote:
We prefer the full documentation in the info page for a reason.
Can you either point me to an already elaborated mention of this reason, on
some web page, or elaborate a bit more here?
I _hate_ texinfo.
Let me wax poetic upon the ways. Should
On 03/12/2015 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
It's easy
to use help2man to generate man pages from --help output, but I don't
know of any good conversion from texinfo to man. So the man page ends
up being as concise as --help output, while including a pointer to the
full documentation.
On 02/23/2015 01:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
didier chavaroche wrote:
Ok, I recognize trying to clone 23 disks a once can be a little bit
hard for my system.
Yes. To say the least! That could be a very large amount of data.
All divided by the total available bus bandwidth which will be
On 10/13/2013 05:43 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
I'm somehow tempted to read that as but don't do it if nothing has
changed. Fixing the code accordingly wouldn't be too hard ... _but_
that would stand in contrast to commit f8e66794 [3] which (probably
precautionarily?) did it the other way
On 04/08/2013 08:00 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/08/2013 01:27 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
It turns out that 'sort' is grabbing locale information now and
doing a locale-aware sort.
Yes, this behavior has been required by POSIX for more than
20 years,
Really. Hm. It wasn't that long ago
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