[bug #30777] using "-exec {} +" syntax silently gobbles excess strings

2010-08-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
URL: Summary: using "-exec {} +" syntax silently gobbles excess strings Project: findutils Submitted by: vapier Submitted on: Sun 15 Aug 2010 05:11:56 AM GMT Category: find

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 14 August 2010 16:46, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: >>> I'm not sure the two options need to be exclusive. >> >> Fair enough, especially as it's machine generated, so the maintenance >> problem I

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread Bruno Haible
Reuben Thomas wrote: > gnulib people: you seem to be unhappy with code-generated > documentation. How would you like to proceed? It's OK to have documentation include pieces of the code if the extraction and update is done by us (the maintainers). What we would like to avoid is that people/distros

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 14 August 2010 16:46, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> >>> "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English >>> definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that each is >>>

Re: Documentation question

2010-08-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English >> definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that each is >> defined as a strict combination of features. Would you