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touch -c behaves incorrectly (non-POSIX)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439033 POSIX says about ‘touch'[*]: -c Do not create a specified file if it does not exist. Do not write any diagnostic messages concerning this condition. [*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/touch.html But under some conditions, ‘touch’ writes a diagnostic message when the file doesn’t exist. For instance: vin:~> mkdir dir vin:~> chmod 000 dir vin:~> /usr/bin/touch -c dir/file …

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coreutils: ls –quoting-style=c and | (pipe) symbol

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432945 output of ls –quoting-style=c is incorrect when filename contains | (pipe) symbol. Steps: mkdir /tmp/bla touch “/tmp/bla/filename with | pipe” ls –quoting-style=c /tmp/bla returns: “filename with | pipe” thanks, -Mathieu Ref: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/0db8070def6a4453

coreutils: stty reports bogus error.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404497 Consider the session below: $ stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600 $ stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -g > stty.ttyS0.txt $ stty -F /dev/ttyS0 115200 $ stty -F /dev/ttyS0 `cat stty.ttyS0.txt` stty: /dev/ttyS0: unable to perform all requested operations $ stty -F /dev/ttyS0 `cat stty.ttyS0.txt` $ As far as I can tell, the (bogus) error message is due …

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dd oflag=append : imply notrunc, or improve documentation

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373736 On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > You probably want conv=notrunc uh! thanks for the tip but still I see some kind of bug in this, lets say a documentation bug 1) conv=???? is supposed to be “convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list” IMHO, …

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