Re: snapshot in a few hours

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> If anyone knows of bug-related fixes that aren't yet applied,
> please speak up.  I'm thinking of making a snapshot today,
> leading to a bug-fix release, coreutils-7.6, next week.

It would be nice to get Ondřej's fix for copy xattrs from readonly files.
I might be able to look at that in a couple of hours.

There's also this one that popped up in our recent favorite: tail-2/wait

>From a23afe7b726cabd70f1afa7c4164fc8d36fe1c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Salinger <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:58:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix a tail-2/pid failure on GNU/kFreeBSD

* tests/tail-2/wait: Increase the file name recheck frequency to
fix a failure on systems without inotify and a file timestamp precision
of 1 second (like GNU/kFreeBSD).
---
 tests/tail-2/wait |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/tail-2/wait b/tests/tail-2/wait
index abe22d7..a5f189f 100755
--- a/tests/tail-2/wait
+++ b/tests/tail-2/wait
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ test $? = 124 || fail=1

 test -s tail.err && fail=1

-tail -s.1 -F k > tail.out &
+tail -s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=2 -F k > tail.out &
 pid=$!
 sleep .5
 mv k l
-- 
1.6.2.5