Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.14.116-1e18d

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> On 01/03/2012 04:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> FYI, here's a snapshot of what will soon be coreutils-8.15,
>> expected on Thursday or Friday.
>>
>> coreutils snapshot:
>>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz      5.2 MB
>
> misc/stty was the only failure on:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux deluxe 2.6.26-2-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Thu Jan 27 03:27:39 UTC 2011
> sparc64 GNU/Linux
> $ src/nproc
> 32
> $ head -n1 /etc/issue
> Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l
>
> That's because `stty -icanon` _sometimes_ fails, with this error:
> "stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations"
> Hmm that's familiar, ah yes:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7228#14
>
> I might just exclude icanon for this reason?
> At least on ppc*|sparc*

Good idea.  That's been a sticking point for ages.