I co-maintain GNU coreutils and wrote the Neon 'wc -l' code, for reference. Based on my quick look at the source code, it looks like this program can handle ASCII whitespace. GNU coreutils uses iswspace, which is…
The others and I, working on GNU coreutils, frequently use 'yes' to generate a bunch of garbage input for testing programs. It is nice that it can do so quickly.
The author states that they are not a lawyer, which is all good and okay. However, immediately afterwards they seem to claim that they know the law better than GNU, the FSF, and their lawyers. It confuses me how the…
> Why would you mention the labs in connection to a question specifically about bio weapons? Which situation do you think looks worse, admitting to having biological research facilities (unrelated to weaponry), or…
> is it really that big of a jump to connect gain of function research and bioweaponry? Have you seen any evidence for the bio-weaponry claim? > to be fair the world genuinely believes COVID spontaneously manifested…
The whole "biolab" thing is pretty common Russian propaganda [1]. Unsurprising to hear Gabbard parroting it yet again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_...
This came up again recently when I added SHA-3 support to 'cksum'. I think the conclusion was that OpenSSL was still faster. All of Assaf's points are good too, though.
No need to apologize at all. Doing it in one cd invocation would fail since the file name is longer than PATH_MAX. In that case passing it to a system call would fail with errno set to ENAMETOOLONG. You could probably…
Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too easy to write TOCTOU races using std::fs.…
> There are some pretty substantial differences. Russia is on the strategic back foot here trying to figure out a way to stop NATO's advance. His rationale for invading Ukraine was to "demilitarise and denazify" it. The…
Another maintainer and I follow issues and pull requests on a GitHub mirror. But email works fine for us and many other projects. Regarding poor UX, it is difficult to dispute with that claim without a specific example.…
Well the TOCTOU issues do not require you to run untrusted scripts to be exploited. Another user on your system can use a legitimate command that you may run to make changes to files they shouldn’t be able to, or…
fileutils-1.0 was released in 1990 [1]. shellutils-1.0 was released in 1991 [2], and textutils-1.0 was released a month later in the same year [3]. Those three packages were combined into coreutils-5.0 in 2003 [4]. [1]…
The bar for adding new options, especially short options, is quite high for coreutils. We have a (likely outdated) page of rejected requests [1]. Some of the changes people have strong feelings about... [1]…
I don't think this addresses the main point of my question, though. Do you know any prominent Democrats, e.g., representatives, senators, or presidents, who have called for a Republican to be killed?
Trump appointed him. Do you put not blame on him for choosing "uniparty birds" and "shades of grifters"? Or do you live in his colon.
It seems like they learned a lot from the Letitia James and James Comey cases, which are going great (not in the way they intended).
MacOS's utilities are really just FreeBSD's with some patches. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/text_cmds https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds…
FreeBSD 6.0 added 'env -S'. They have adopted a few different GNU inspired options recently, which I am happy about.
2 GNU coreutils maintainers, including myself, monitor the issues and PRs on a GitHub mirror that we have [1]. Generally the mailing list is preferred though, since more people follow it. [1]…
Minor correction, but that bug was never in any "official" coreutils release. The bug was in a multi-byte character patch that many distributions use (and still use). There have been other CVEs in that patch [1]. But…
> See also the recent insanity of GNU grep suddenly tossing an error when invoked as "fgrep". You just don't do that folks. The 'fgrep' and 'egrep' didn't throw errors, it would just send a warning to standard error…
> While half of the language design of C is questionable and outright dangerous, making its functions locale-sensitive by all popular OSes was an avoidable mistake. Yet everybody did that. Just the existence of this…
Note that uutils does not work if the file does not fit into memory. With GNU coreutils: $ base64 /dev/zero | head -c 1 | wc -c 1 With uutils doing the same would exhaust your systems memory until either it freezes or…
Interesting, there must be something wrong here. Here is a benchmark using the same commit and default options other than adjusting '--with-openssl=[yes|no]': $ dd if=/dev/random of=input bs=1000 count=$(($(echo 10G |…
I co-maintain GNU coreutils and wrote the Neon 'wc -l' code, for reference. Based on my quick look at the source code, it looks like this program can handle ASCII whitespace. GNU coreutils uses iswspace, which is…
The others and I, working on GNU coreutils, frequently use 'yes' to generate a bunch of garbage input for testing programs. It is nice that it can do so quickly.
The author states that they are not a lawyer, which is all good and okay. However, immediately afterwards they seem to claim that they know the law better than GNU, the FSF, and their lawyers. It confuses me how the…
> Why would you mention the labs in connection to a question specifically about bio weapons? Which situation do you think looks worse, admitting to having biological research facilities (unrelated to weaponry), or…
> is it really that big of a jump to connect gain of function research and bioweaponry? Have you seen any evidence for the bio-weaponry claim? > to be fair the world genuinely believes COVID spontaneously manifested…
The whole "biolab" thing is pretty common Russian propaganda [1]. Unsurprising to hear Gabbard parroting it yet again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_...
This came up again recently when I added SHA-3 support to 'cksum'. I think the conclusion was that OpenSSL was still faster. All of Assaf's points are good too, though.
No need to apologize at all. Doing it in one cd invocation would fail since the file name is longer than PATH_MAX. In that case passing it to a system call would fail with errno set to ENAMETOOLONG. You could probably…
Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too easy to write TOCTOU races using std::fs.…
> There are some pretty substantial differences. Russia is on the strategic back foot here trying to figure out a way to stop NATO's advance. His rationale for invading Ukraine was to "demilitarise and denazify" it. The…
Another maintainer and I follow issues and pull requests on a GitHub mirror. But email works fine for us and many other projects. Regarding poor UX, it is difficult to dispute with that claim without a specific example.…
Well the TOCTOU issues do not require you to run untrusted scripts to be exploited. Another user on your system can use a legitimate command that you may run to make changes to files they shouldn’t be able to, or…
fileutils-1.0 was released in 1990 [1]. shellutils-1.0 was released in 1991 [2], and textutils-1.0 was released a month later in the same year [3]. Those three packages were combined into coreutils-5.0 in 2003 [4]. [1]…
The bar for adding new options, especially short options, is quite high for coreutils. We have a (likely outdated) page of rejected requests [1]. Some of the changes people have strong feelings about... [1]…
I don't think this addresses the main point of my question, though. Do you know any prominent Democrats, e.g., representatives, senators, or presidents, who have called for a Republican to be killed?
Trump appointed him. Do you put not blame on him for choosing "uniparty birds" and "shades of grifters"? Or do you live in his colon.
It seems like they learned a lot from the Letitia James and James Comey cases, which are going great (not in the way they intended).
MacOS's utilities are really just FreeBSD's with some patches. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/text_cmds https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds…
FreeBSD 6.0 added 'env -S'. They have adopted a few different GNU inspired options recently, which I am happy about.
2 GNU coreutils maintainers, including myself, monitor the issues and PRs on a GitHub mirror that we have [1]. Generally the mailing list is preferred though, since more people follow it. [1]…
Minor correction, but that bug was never in any "official" coreutils release. The bug was in a multi-byte character patch that many distributions use (and still use). There have been other CVEs in that patch [1]. But…
> See also the recent insanity of GNU grep suddenly tossing an error when invoked as "fgrep". You just don't do that folks. The 'fgrep' and 'egrep' didn't throw errors, it would just send a warning to standard error…
> While half of the language design of C is questionable and outright dangerous, making its functions locale-sensitive by all popular OSes was an avoidable mistake. Yet everybody did that. Just the existence of this…
Note that uutils does not work if the file does not fit into memory. With GNU coreutils: $ base64 /dev/zero | head -c 1 | wc -c 1 With uutils doing the same would exhaust your systems memory until either it freezes or…
Interesting, there must be something wrong here. Here is a benchmark using the same commit and default options other than adjusting '--with-openssl=[yes|no]': $ dd if=/dev/random of=input bs=1000 count=$(($(echo 10G |…