Re: free() and implicit conversion to a function pointer

Am 17.03.2017 um 09:30 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Mar 17 00:49, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: [...] Wasn't that supposed to go to the newlib list where this has been discussed originally? Ah, of course it was. That explains the confusion, too. Sorry for that. I'll repost there. HBB --

Re: Providing/Packaging a Postinstalled SUSV4 Doc only Package a la Debian

> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:01:00 -0800 David Stacey wrote: > On 10/03/17 20:24, Achim Gratz wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:10:23 +0100 Corinna Vinschen writes: >>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:43:35 + David Stacey wrote: On 2017-03-06 13:42, Brian Inglis wrote: [sorry for not responding

Re: [PATCH] [base-files] Don't clobber prompt set in /etc/profile.d

Daniel Santos writes: > When I build my own machine, I prefer to set my own default prompt in > /etc/profile.d. This makes it easier on me, but still allows other > users to set whatever prompt they please. This line in bash.bashrc > incorrectly clobbers whatever prompt is set in /etc/profile.d.

Re: How to get GNU Parallel working with Cygwin

Matt D. writes: > I noticed today that we don't have this package. "We" don't have this package because it can't work correctly on Cygwin in certain circumstances (see below) and upstream didn't want to change the way semaphores work to accomodate this situation. > I tried building it > from

Re: [PATCH] Implement getloadavg()

On 17/03/2017 17:50, Jon Turney wrote: winsup/cygwin/Makefile.in | 5 +- winsup/cygwin/common.din | 1 + winsup/cygwin/fhandler_proc.cc | 10 ++- winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stdlib.h | 4 + winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h | 3 +-

[PATCH] Implement getloadavg()

Signed-off-by: Jon Turney --- winsup/cygwin/Makefile.in | 5 +- winsup/cygwin/common.din | 1 + winsup/cygwin/fhandler_proc.cc | 10 ++- winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/stdlib.h | 4 + winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h |

[PATCH] [base-files] Don't clobber prompt set in /etc/profile.d

When I build my own machine, I prefer to set my own default prompt in /etc/profile.d. This makes it easier on me, but still allows other users to set whatever prompt they please. This line in bash.bashrc incorrectly clobbers whatever prompt is set in /etc/profile.d. Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos

unable to open fifo multiple times with same access mode

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setup redownloads everything all the time, including the packages list, and also has a foolish UI

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:14:09 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > By design, setup searches through all the download directories, keeps > track of all the versions, should know exactly what you've already got and > never re-download something you already have; if it ever does, it's a

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Hello, Today, I noticed a strange behaviour of tcsh regarding rmstar. 32 bit version of tcsh 6.20.00 stops until interrupted by ^C when executing 'rm *', if 'rmstar' is set. This can be reproduced by following steps. --- form here --- set rmstar unalias rm mkdir testdir cd testdir rm * --- to

Re: free() and implicit conversion to a function pointer

On Mar 17 00:49, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 16.03.2017 um 22:46 schrieb L A Walsh: > > Going by subj and talk below, this is a bit confusing... > > > > But it looks like you are testing 'free' for a value? > > Not really. The idea is to test free for _exixtence_. Which only makes > sense