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diff --git a/ChangeLog-2008 b/ChangeLog-2008 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aac9febeb --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog-2008 @@ -0,0 +1,374 @@ +2008-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + We *do* need two different version files. + One for tarball-only, the other to be updated any time we + get a new value of $(VERSION). + * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Create .tarball-version in dist tarball. + * GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Make git-version-gen use it. + * .gitignore: Ignore it. + + Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/. + * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation): + Spotted by Bert Wesarg. + + * NEWS [6.9.90]: Mention the added feature that head, od, split and + tail now accept the standard size suffixes (kB, M, MB, G, GB, and + so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y) on arguments to selected options. + +2008-02-06 Steven Schubiger <schubiger@gmail.com> + + mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr. + * src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function. + (announce_mkdir): Use it. + * src/split.c (usage): Update. + * src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr. + * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention + of --verbose output being printed to stderr. + * tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr. + * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. + * NEWS: Mention this change. + * TODO: Remove this item. + +2008-02-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + * Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment. + +2008-02-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Clarify a comment. + * tests/sort/Test.pm: Replace a vague ChangeLog reference with a URL. + +2008-01-31 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> + + Improve wording of date and time man page. + * man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING. + * man/touch.x: Likewise. + Suggested by A. Costa. + +2008-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Remove alignment constraint from the sha*_read_ctx functions. + * lib/sha256.c (set_uint32): New function. + (sha256_read_ctx, sha224_read_ctx): Use it. + * lib/sha512.c (set_uint64): New function. + (sha512_read_ctx, sha384_read_ctx): Use it. + * lib/sha256.h: Remove warning about alignment constraint. + * lib/sha512.h: Likewise. + Prompted by similar changes in gnulib's sha1 and md[45] modules. + + Adapt to new version of vc-list-files. + * tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Adapt to new constraint + that vc-list-files be run only from $(top_srcdir). + + Pull vc-list-files from gnulib. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vc-list-files. + * build-aux/vc-list-files: Remove file. + + Improve the cp/parent-perm test. + * tests/cp/parent-perm: Also check that perms of existing dest + dirs are changed to match those of corresponding src dir + +2008-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Don't modify argv in dd due to ',' in arguments. + * src/dd.c: Include quotearg.h. + (operand_matches): New function. + (parse_symbols, operand_is): Use it. + (parse_symbols): 1st arg is now const pointer. Don't modify it. + msgid arg is now just the message, not a format. + (scanargs): Add some 'const's to check for problems like the above. + +2008-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets, again. + + Now that system.h defines is_empty_dir, include "openat.h". + * src/system.h: Include "openat.h" here, ... + * src/chcon.c: ... not here. + * src/chmod.c: Likewise. + * src/chown-core.c: Likewise. + * src/remove.c: Likewise. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets. + + Improve "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty" + * src/rmdir.c (remove_parents, main): With --ignore-fail-on-non-empty, + suppress a diagnostic also for other errno values, which can arise + with read-only media or when the parent directory has the immutable + attribute (set via chattr +i). + (errno_may_be_empty, ignorable_failure): New functions. + * src/remove.c (is_empty_dir): Move function to ... + * src/system.h (is_empty_dir): ...here, and make it inline. + Suggested by Josselin Mouette in <http://bugs.debian.org/363011> + via Bob Proulx. + * NEWS: Mention the improvement. + +2008-01-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Don't modify argv in dd. + * src/dd.c (operand_is): New function. + (scanargs): Use it so that we don't need to modify argv, as a nicety. + Problem reported by Adam Goode in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00264.html>. + +2008-01-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + * Makefile.am (BUILT_SOURCES): Ensure that .version exists. + Reported by Bob Proulx. + +2008-01-29 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> + + Improve the man pages of --date=STRING for 'date' and 'touch'. + * man/date.x: Add a compact description of the --date=STRING. + * man/touch.x: Likewise. + Reported by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/363011 + +2008-01-29 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> + + Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics. + * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats + upon normal termination and upon SIGINT. + +2008-01-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removed + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .version. + (.version): New rule. + (dist-hook): Don't create $(distdir)/.version here, now that it's + being distributed. + * man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Use ../.version, not ../VERSION. + (../VERSION): Remove rule. + * GNUmakefile (dummy): Create .version, not VERSION. + Add an extra "...:= $(shell..." statement to ensure that + .version exists even when the preceding code is not run. + * .gitignore: Remove both .version and VERSION. + + ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinux + * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Work around a bug in libselinux1-2.0.15 + whereby getfilecon returns 0 yet sets the context to NULL. + Reported by Jan Moringen via Michael Stone in + http://bugs.debian.org/463043 + * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-selinux-segfault. + * tests/ls/proc-selinux-segfault: Test for the above fix. + * NEWS: Mention the fix. + +2008-01-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Work around Darwin9's set-GID-like group ownership inheritance. + This avoids another spurious Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) test failure. + * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Accept a group ID of 0, as well. + Reported by Elias Pipping. + + Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page, + rather than just "info PROG". The latter would often fail + or simply display the man page. + * man/help2man: Change the template. + Prompted by http://bugs.debian.org/399684 + + chcon: correct description of --no-dereference (-h) option. + * src/chcon.c (usage): Remove invalid reference to lchown. + Reported by Göran Uddeborg. + + Ensure that each version string change propagates to man pages. + * man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Don't depend on configure.ac for + version changes. Instead, depend on ../VERSION. + (../VERSION): New rule. + * Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): Define. + * GNUmakefile: Update ./VERSION. + * .gitignore: List VERSION. + Reported by Sven Joachim. + + Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) + * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".". + Reported by Elias Pipping. + + Improve a warning about non-portable "mv" usage. + * doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Adjust the warning: moving a + dir-symlink-specified-with-a-trailing-slash works in a surprising + manner only on some systems. Reported by Tomas Pospisek in + http://bugs.debian.org/343652. + +2008-01-26 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> + + * src/dircolors.hin (TERM): Add jfbterm. + +2008-01-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Clean up build-related rules. + * Makefile.cfg (gnulib_dir): Update comment. + * Makefile.maint (announcement) [cl_date, utc_date]: Don't set + now-unused variables. + + * TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist. + +2008-01-23 Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il> + + Add a ";", so "make install" works with --enable-install-program=su. + * src/Makefile.am (install_su): Add a semicolon. (tiny change) + +2008-01-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Avoid misinterpreting mgetgroups failure in running root-only tests. + * src/setuidgid.c (main): Don't misinterpret as size_t an error + return from mgetgroups. Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos. + + * README: Remove/convert a few stray mentions of CVS. + +2008-01-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Require automake-1.10.1, for its support of dist-lzma. + * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.10.1. + + Version 6.10. + + * NEWS: Record release date. + + * README-hacking: Update to reflect existence of automake-1.10.1. + +2008-01-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Update README. + * README: Remove a note about failing tests on SunOS 4. + On Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1), you'll need --disable-acl. + (Running tests as root): Recommend using "check-root", not "check". + +2008-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Do not define-away __attribute__ when __STRICT_ANSI__ is set. + * src/system.h (__attribute__): Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ disjunct. + It has been unnecessary since approximately gcc-2.6, and now, leaving + it would cause gcc -Werror -ansi to fail to compile csplit.c. + * gl/lib/randread.c (__attribute__): Likewise. + +2008-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + * NEWS: Mention the configure.ac fix. + + * TODO: Add an introduction. + Remove a few entries. Update a few others. + +2008-01-13 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Remove each output redirection target before writing to it. + * tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Remove t1 and t2 _first_, + in case they exist beforehand and are not writable. + * build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Likewise, remove $@-t. + +2008-01-13 Elias Pipping <pipping@gentoo.org> + + * configure.ac: Correct a non-portable use of sed. + +2008-01-12 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> + + * src/dircolors.hin (image formats): Add the .svg suffix. + +2008-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Use new version of announce-gen. + * Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove use of the + --gnulib-snapshot-time-stamp option. + Use new --gnulib-version option instead. + (gnulib-version): New variable. + +2008-01-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + * Version 6.9.92. + + * tests/tr/Test.pm: Prefer en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.iso88591. + Suggestions from James Youngman and Pádraig Brady in + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218/focus=12227 + +2008-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + * README-hacking: Add Git to the list of required tools. + +2008-01-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix a minor race condition when using cp -p --parents. + * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): If stat fails on the parent + directory, do not add it to the list of directories whose modes + might need fixing later. Also, do not bother invoking 'stat' + unless the stat results might be needed later. + +2008-01-08 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + parent-perm: avoid a bizarre test failure. + * tests/cp/parent-perm: Accommodate the situation in which + chmod ("dir", 02755) returns 0 yet fails to set the S_ISGID bit. + + Remove uses of now-undefined Makefile variable. + * src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD, ls_LDADD, vdir_LDADD): Remove uses + of no-longer-defined variable, $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL). + +2008-01-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + cp (but not copy.c): plug a small leak. + * src/cp.c (do_copy) [--parents]: Free the attribute list. + + Make a racy test failure less likely to happen. + * tests/misc/tty-eof: Uncomment a debug "warn". + This change happens to make this test far less likely to fail. + With that statement commented out, this test would fail about + 20% of the time on my desktop. Now, it's gone 100 iterations + in a row with no failure. + + * NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix. + +2008-01-07 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> + + cp --parents: don't use uninitialized memory when restoring permissions + * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Always stat each source + directory, in case its permissions are required in re_protect, + when setting permissions of a just-created destination directory. + +2008-01-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + cp: add a test for today's bug fix. + * tests/cp/parent-perm: New script. Test today's change. + Based on reproducer from Jan Blunck. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add parent-perm. + +2008-01-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + touch: add a test for today's change. + * tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: New script. Test today's change. + * tests/touch/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add now-owned-by-other. + * tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add td, a new root-only test. + (td): New target. + * NEWS: Mention the improvement. + +2008-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + touch: ignore "-d now" option, when appropriate + * src/touch.c (main): Treat "-d now" as if it were absent, if + neither -a nor -m is specified. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson in: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00010.html + +2008-01-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + + Avoid tr case-conversion failure in some locales. + * src/tr.c (skip_construct): New function. + (main): When processing a pair of case-converting classes, don't + iterate through the elements of each [:upper:] or [:lower:] class. + Reported by Gerald Pfeifer in + <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218>. + * tests/tr/Test.pm [tolower-F]: New test for the above fix. + [upcase-xtra, dncase-xtra]: New tests, for a related code path. + * NEWS: Mention the tr bug fix. + +2008-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .gitignore: Ignore lzma-compressed files, too. + + Update copyright date. + * tests/sample-test: Likewise. + * doc/coreutils.texi: Likewise. + + + ----- + + Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Copying and distribution of this file, with or without + modification, are permitted provided the copyright notice + and this notice are preserved. |