Re: doc: add "version sort" chapter

2019-07-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 10/07/19 19:57, Assaf Gordon wrote: I would like to suggest adding a new chapter to the manual, detailing the nitty-gritties of "version sort" in coreutils. Attached the updated version, including improvements Bernhard sent off-list. Comments welcomed, With no further comments, pushed

[PATCH 1/1] cp: leverage copy_file_range syscall for copy

2019-07-15 Thread Olga Kornievskaia
From: Olga Kornievskaia Add an option of --copy-offload that instead of doing a traditional copy will utilize a copy_file_range() system call. For local file system this system call adds the benefit that no copy from kernel space into user space buffers provided by the copy will be done.

bug#36666: Minor bug/inconsistency in ls command

2019-07-15 Thread hoffelmann
Hi, I am using ls from the cureutils 8.31 on arch linux (5.2.0 x86_64) and think it has a bug/inconsistant in printing an file type indicator (-F) while using the long listing format (-l). If I use `ls -F ~` I get the following output:

bug#36674: Sort Suggestion

2019-07-15 Thread Marshall Lake
Hi, Even though this isn't a bug, I was asked to send the following to this email address. Re: SORT Command from GNU coreutils 8.25 A suggestion for an additional option to the SORT command is to ignore non-alphanumeric characters. As an example, in attempting to sort an index ...

bug#36671: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling

2019-07-15 Thread John Koppolu
tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling -- */John Koppolu'/* *​ * */Technical Director,/* */PrimeTel PTY LTD T/A NConnect ,/* */Plot 1266 Luthuli Road, /* */Gaborone +267 3912016 +267 77 8 999 51/*

bug#36671: tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling

2019-07-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 36671 notabug close 36671 stop Hello, On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 06:22:47PM +0200, John Koppolu wrote: > tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for ‘/var/log/messages’. > please report this to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. reverting to polling You've previously reported this 4 days ago,

bug#36674: Sort Suggestion

2019-07-15 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 36674 notabug close 36674 stop Hello, On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:42:01AM -0700, Marshall Lake wrote: > Even though this isn't a bug, I was asked to send the following to this > email address. (General suggestions and discussions are better suited for coreut...@gnu.org mailing list, that way