Re: Bug#183858: assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 07:00:07PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: That said, removing -p and -i option may be problematic. It should be done upstream. I'm tired of people complaining about the "unknown" entries. They're not required and they are useless on these systems, so there's no point in having t

Re: Bug#183858: assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 04:51:17PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > >The problem is that the kernel provides no way to > >get the required information. > > s/no way/no reasonable way/ > > It is possible to parse /proc/cpuinfo (that's what the experiment

Re: Bug#183858: assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 04:51:17PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: The problem is that the kernel provides no way to get the required information. s/no way/no reasonable way/ It is possible to parse /proc/cpuinfo (that's what the experimental patch in the debian coreutils-4.5.2-1 did) but that's a losin

Re: Bug#183858: assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183858 > > Given the information I previously provided, I do not even understand > how it's possible to think that the bug 183858 is a kernel issue. The problem is that the kernel provides no way to get

assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
I've just compiled coreutils 4.5.3 and still got the bug. So the bug is maybe really a kernel issue, but informations when closing bug is still important. And the bug exists, even if it need to be reassigned. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english sp

assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
About http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183858 Given the information I previously provided, I do not even understand how it's possible to think that the bug 183858 is a kernel issue. I'm not familiar with the kernel neither with coreutils code. That said, I explicitely said when th