Status on coreutils?

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Apr 2 14:12:00 GMT 2004


On Apr  2 08:02, Mark Blackburn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Huh?  What should be the reason for this?  The recursive commands from
> >fileutils are runnning fine under 1.5.9.  And I have a local build of
> >coreutils which also doesn't have problems under 1.5.9.
> >
> 
> fileutils is irrelevent because the recursion code was overhauled (the 
> bds fts library is used). My local build of coreutils gives me problems 
> for chgrp -R, I'm assuming there are problems with other commands:
> [...]
> mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
> $ chgrp.exe -R None d
> 
> mark@althor ~/src/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.0/.build/src
> $ ./chgrp.exe -R None d
> ./chgrp: `d': No such file or directory

That only happens on the second call?

> $ ./chgrp.exe --version
> chgrp (coreutils) 5.2.0
> Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

Hmm, my coretutils is somewhat older, version 5.0.  The code review must
have happened between 5.0 and 5.2.

What's the actual reason that that happens?

Corinna

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