On 01/31/2013 11:25 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> A less clear cut example is printf(1).
> POSIX states that LC_NUMERIC controls the format
> of the numbers _written_.
> In coreutils we're careful to reset to the C locale
> so that strtod etc. work consistently.
POSIX says that in non-C locales, strt
On 01/30/2013 11:05 PM, Benny Amorsen wrote:
Apparently ping has now started interpreting its command line arguments
depending on locale. I.e. ping -i 0.1 no longer works in locales where
comma is the decimal separator.
This makes it difficult to call system commands. The only workaround is
to s
Chet Ramey writes:
> It's a cheap and easy way to protect yourself from `rm *'.
If you put it in gitignore you don't need to clutter up the repository.
Andreas.
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Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -
DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' -
DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'
> The TOOL variant will automatically search for a $host prefixed program
> (e.g. x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) rather than looking for `ar` only. This is
> useful when cross-compiling and it matches the behavior of the other
> tools that configure relies on (e.g. cc & ranlib).
Thanks for the fix.
Chet
> Guessing it was added by accident while testing.
You guessed wrong.
It's a cheap and easy way to protect yourself from `rm *'.
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On 1/30/13 1:03 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> Hi everyone, and welcome to another edition of IBOTD (IFS-bug-of-the-day),
> featuring everyone's favorite Bourne shell kludge: word-splitting!
>
> On today's episode - inconsistencies within assignments that depend upon
> quoting. Though I can't take cre
Guessing it was added by accident while testing.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
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The TOOL variant will automatically search for a $host prefixed program
(e.g. x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) rather than looking for `ar` only. This is
useful when cross-compiling and it matches the behavior of the other
tools that configure relies on (e.g. cc & ranlib).
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
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