Re: 'make test' error

2008-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-gnulib, since this affects the gnulib module c-stack] According to Bruce Dugan on 11/30/2008 9:40 PM: > I'm not sure what system information you need. > > System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33) > Kernel Version: Darwin 9.5.0 > frei

Re: [Patch] Add dirent.d_type support to Cygwin 1.7 ?

2008-11-30 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I can see, the variable type is assigned in

Re: special characters in filenames in error messages

2008-11-30 Thread Karl Berry
pb> I think for \n too. I don't see why \n should be special? > - use \a \b \f \n \r \t \v for ASCII 7-8-12-10-13-9-11 > - use \" \\ for " and \ The simplicity and regularity of having one and only one quoting mechanism seems appealing to me. Filenames containing any of these chara

Re: special characters in filenames in error messages

2008-11-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:09:34PM CET: > > > The \ooo convention could be used for any character, but in an 8-bit > > clean environment, I believe it is only *required* for " and \. > > I think for \n too. Also, is this supposed to be machine- or > human-readable? If it i

Re: special characters in filenames in error messages

2008-11-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> The \ooo convention could be used for any character, but in an 8-bit > clean environment, I believe it is only *required* for " and \. I think for \n too. Also, is this supposed to be machine- or human-readable? If it is human-readable, I think it is better to: - use \a \b \f \n \r \t \v for