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Re: Portability fixes for coreutils-5.2.1
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Portability fixes for coreutils-5.2.1 |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:59:57 +0100 |
address@hidden wrote:
> attached are three patches to fix issues on DragonFly.
> src/ls.c uses DTTOIFF in one place without checking whether it exists at
> all. This is inconsistent with the rest of the file.
> src/paste.c depends on FILE being a complete type, which breaks on
> DragonFly intentionally. The patches changes it to use explicit boundary
> checks for the upper limit and NULL for closed files, both are in my
> opinion improvements to the current behaviour.
> fpending.m4 currently doesn't include stdio.h, resulting in an unability
> to detect __fpending on DragonFly.
Thanks for those.
I've applied the first and third patches.
The problem with paste.c was fixed for coreutils-5.3.0.
There are a few real bugs in 5.2.1.
You should consider upgrading to the latest: coreutils-5.93.