From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2/4 v2] e2fsck: make a prompt message simpler and thus translatable
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:25:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401888336.22807.125078021.186DE367@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140604125650.GF27426@thunk.org>
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014, at 14:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:23:21PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> >
> > Running 'make check' now, I see these messages along the way:
> >
> > mktemp: too few X's in template `r_64bit_big_expand.XXXXXX.tmp'
This "too few X's" is misleading -- what it intends to say is that it
sees zero X's in the final component of the name, "tmp".
> Hmm... what OS and if Linux, version of coreutils are you using?
Ubuntu Lucid, 2010.04, mktemp --version | head -1
mktemp (GNU coreutils) 8.13
> On my system, from "man mktemp":
>
> Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its
> name. TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive 'X's in
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> last component.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Same here. It still says "*last* component".
Regards,
Benno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-04 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 19:48 [PATCH 1/4] po: describe more precisely the %B expansion Benno Schulenberg
2014-06-02 19:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] e2fsck: make a prompt message translatable by not using fill-in words Benno Schulenberg
2014-06-02 23:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-03 20:35 ` [2/4 v2] e2fsck: make a prompt message simpler and thus translatable Benno Schulenberg
2014-06-04 2:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-04 12:23 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-06-04 12:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-04 13:25 ` Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2014-06-04 14:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-04 15:38 ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-06-04 16:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-02 19:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] e2fsck: make two comments match the messages Benno Schulenberg
2014-06-04 2:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-02 19:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] e2fsck: sort the abbreviations better Benno Schulenberg
2014-06-04 2:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-04 2:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] po: describe more precisely the %B expansion Theodore Ts'o
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