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2011-11-20port to GNU hosts, where getuid and friends can failPaul Eggert
* src/groups.c (main): * src/install.c (need_copy): * src/su.c (log_su): * src/test.c (unary_operator): * src/whoami.c (main): Don't assume that getuid and friends always succeed. This fixes the same problem that we recently fixed with 'id'.
2011-11-20maint: avoid gitlog-to-changelog diagnostic about unused entriesJim Meyering
* build-aux/git-log-fix: Comment out two unused entries. Each of those two entries does indicate an error in a commit log, but precedes the cut-off date, so has an actual VC'd ChangeLog entry. I.e., gitlog-to-changelog generates ChangeLog entries since 2008-02, and these two predate that. * ChangeLog-2008: Make the indicated correction.
2011-11-20ln: fix position of --backup values descriptionErik Auerswald
* src/ln.c (usage): A paragraph describing interactions of -s with -L and -P somehow snuck in between the description of the --backup option and the values used to control it. Fix this by moving the value description up.
2011-11-18scripts: rewrite git commit-msg hook in PerlJim Meyering
* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Rewrite in perl. This is still a work in progress in that it hard-codes coreutils- specific program names and policies that should be easy to selectively enable or disable without modifying the script.
2011-11-16sort: clarify wording on -k syntaxEric Blake
* src/sort.c (usage): Use KEYDEF instead of POS, and call out the specific OPTS that can occur in KEYDEF. Based on a report by Lars Noodén, http://bugs.gnu.org/10019
2011-11-15id: fix bug when euid != ruidPaul Eggert
* src/id.c (main): Report an error if no args are given and getuid fails, because print_full_info needs ruid. Redo code so that getuid and friends are invoked only when needed; this makes the code easier to follow, and is how I found the above bug.
2011-11-15ls: another reword of generic size noteRuediger Meier
* src/system.h (emit_size_note): Use "unit" rather than "suffix", and move multiplication to example instead of in suffix list. See additional discussion in Bug#9939.
2011-11-15id: tweak commentEric Blake
* src/id.c (main): Replace confusing use of "etc.".
2011-11-15id: handle (uid_t) -1 more portablyPaul Eggert
* src/id.c (GETID_MAY_FAIL): Remove. (main): Check for nonzero errno, rather than having a compile-time GETID_MAY_FAIL guess. Suggested by Roland McGrath in <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10021#47>. Also, the old code was incorrect if uid_t was narrower than int. (print_full_info): Remove unnecessary cast to -1.
2011-11-15id: undo previous commit, which was done by mistakePaul Eggert
* src/id.c (GETID_MAY_FAIL, main, print_full_info): Undo previous change.
2011-11-15doc: update for ISO/IEC 80000-13Paul Eggert
* doc/coreutils.texi (Block size): IEC 60027-2 has been superseded by ISO/IEC 80000-13, so prefer the newer standard but also mention the old. The new standard specifies Zi and Yi, so they are no longer GNU extensions. Fix stale URL to BIPM. 2011-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> id: handle (uid_t) -1 more portably * src/id.c (GETID_MAY_FAIL): Remove. (main): Check for negative return values, not for -1. The old code was incorrect if uid_t was narrower than int, regardless of whether we were on a GNU or a POSIX platform. The new code is simpler and doesn't need GETID_MAY_FAIL. (print_full_info): Remove unnecessary cast to -1.
2011-11-14id: fail when getuid, getgid, etc. fail, e.g., on GNU/HurdLudovic Courtès
POSIX-conforming getuid, geteuid, etc. functions cannot fail, but on GNU/Hurd systems and some others, they may. * src/id.c (main) [__GNU__]: Detect and diagnose any such failure. * tests/id/gnu-zero-uids: New file. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it to the list. * tests/init.cfg (require_gnu_): New function.
2011-11-13tests: avoid rare fp failure in du/move-dir-while-traversingNix
* tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing: Boost the mkdir iteration count yet again.
2011-11-13maint: adjust git hook to allow "copy: ..." on line 1 of commit messageJim Meyering
* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Add "copy" to the list of valid command-name-like summary line prefixes.
2011-11-13maint: id, groups: use conforming diagnosticsJim Meyering
* src/groups.c (main): Don't capitalize the first word of diagnostic. * src/id.c (main): Likewise. Reported by Ludovic Courtès.
2011-11-13maint: avoid new syntax-check failure due to indentation with TABsJim Meyering
* cfg.mk (tbi_2): Exempt pre-applypatch, since it too is from git.
2011-11-12maint: install customized git hooks to keep commit logs consistentJim Meyering
* bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Copy (with backup) coreutils-supplied git hooks into .git/hooks, to help keep commit logs normalized.
2011-11-12maint: add rule to ensure that our commit hook copies are up to dateJim Meyering
* Makefile.am (check-git-hook-script-sync): New rule -- not used anywhere, because it depends on having very recent git. * scripts/git-hooks/pre-applypatch: New file.
2011-11-12maint: sync pre-commit script with git'sJim Meyering
* scripts/git-hooks/pre-commit (allownonascii): Remove double quotes around $(...) construct, to make this file identical to git's sample hook script.
2011-11-12build: update gnulib for fstatat cross-compile improvementJim Meyering
2011-11-12maint: adjust the URL that will appear in the generated announcementJim Meyering
* cfg.mk (url_dir_list): Use this http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$(PACKAGE) for the first link listed in the generated announcement. announce-gen now provides the faster mirror link automatically.
2011-11-12ls: plug a per-argument leakJim Meyering
Using ls -l on an SELinux-enabled system would leak one SELinux context string per non-empty-directory command-line argument. * src/ls.c (free_ent): New function, factored out of... (clear_files): ...here. Use it. (extract_dirs_from_files): Call free_ent (f), rather than simply free (f->name). The latter failed to free the possibly-malloc'd linkname and scontext members, and thus could leak one of those strings per command-line argument. * THANKS.in: Update. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. Reported by Juraj Marko in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/751974.
2011-11-12* tests/misc/sort-continue: Port to Fedora 15.Paul Eggert
Redirect with the shell command, not in a separate 'exec'. Without this patch, Fedora 15 x86-64 /bin/sh (i.e., Bash 4.2.10) complained about running out of file descriptors in the shell.
2011-11-12* tests/ls/block-size: Make it executable.Paul Eggert
2011-11-11* src/system.h (emit_size_note): Reword for clarity.Paul Eggert
See discussion in Bug#9939.
2011-11-11ls: -k no longer affects -l's file sizesPaul Eggert
This fixes an incompatibility with POSIX 2008 and with BSD. Problem reported by Abdallah Clark (Bug#9939) via Alan Curry (Bug#10016). * NEWS: Document this. * doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Document the new -k behavior, and --kibibytes. * src/ls.c (file_human_output_opts): New static var. (long_options, usage): Add --kibibytes. (decode_switches, gobble_file, print_long_format): Implement the new -k behavior. * tests/ls/block-size: New file. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
2011-11-08doc: fix typo in sort descriptionEric Blake
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Fix typo.
2011-11-05build: update gnulib for more openat changesJim Meyering
2011-11-04build: do use fstatat and unlinkat modules, now that they're separateJim Meyering
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add fstatat and unlinkat.
2011-11-04build: update gnulib to pull in openat module separation changesJim Meyering
No semantic change.
2011-11-03tests: avoid signal issues in timeout-groupPádraig Brady
These issues were seen on an OpenSuse 10.3 system (kernel 2.6.22.5 x86_64, glibc 2.6.1-18, bash updated to 4.2), and also on a 64 bit SLES system with a 2.6.16 kernel. Both systems had 2 CPUs. There were two issues seen. 1. Occasionally the timeout.cmd shell script would block SIGINT until the sleep command exited. 2. Much less frequently the signal handler in the timeout command itself was ignored, causing SIGALRM to kill the process. * tests/misc/timeout-group: Detect the above two cases, and skip rather than fail. Note only issue 2. causes a failure unless skipped, but we skip for case 1. also, for diagnostic purposes.
2011-11-03tests: fix a race in timeout-groupPádraig Brady
This could cause a false failure, or even an infinite loop in rare circumstances. * tests/misc/timeout-group: Increase the timeouts passed to the timeout command, so that they're effectively not used. Instead the command termination is triggered by the kill commands when everything is in the correct state. Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
2011-11-02build: adapt to gnulib's recent openat/fchmodat separationJim Meyering
* gnulib: Update to latest, pulling in the openat/fchmodat separation. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add fchmodat, now that gnulib has moved it into its own module.
2011-11-02maint: fix git-log typos when generating ChangeLogJim Meyering
* gnulib: Update to latest, for new gitlog-to-changelog. * Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): Use its new --amend=F option. * build-aux/git-log-fix: New file, with ChangeLog fixes.
2011-11-02stat: avoid compilation failure with gnulib's new alignofJim Meyering
* src/stat.c: Include <stdalign.h>, not "alignof.h" for alignof use.
2011-11-02scripts: reject references to long-form bug URLsJim Meyering
* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Require the normalized/shortened form of bugzilla.redhat.com and bugs.gnu.org bug URLs.
2011-11-01doc: date: mention that the hardware clock might not be setPádraig Brady
* doc/coreutils.texi (Setting the time): Reorganize slightly and mention that the hardware clock might need to be explicitly updated by the user as is the case on Fedora 16 currently. See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/749516
2011-11-01build: adapt to gnulib's recent openat/fchownat separationJim Meyering
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add fchownat, now that gnulib has moved it into its own module. * gnulib: Update to latest.
2011-10-30build: update gnulib for GNUmakefile fixJim Meyering
2011-10-30maint: avoid new "make syntax-check" failure due to stdalign definitionJim Meyering
* gl/modules/randread (Depends-on): Add stdalign. * gl/lib/randread.c: Include <stdalign.h>, so we can ... [!_STRING_ARCH_unaligned]: remove definition of stdalign.
2011-10-30tests: update gnulib to latest to avoid FP DST-related test failureJim Meyering
Otherwise, "make check" would fail after e.g., a CEST-to-CST daylight savings transition. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/28825
2011-10-30tests: doc: fix stale comment in new rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOMJim Meyering
2011-10-29tests: don't make tail's pipe-f2 test take the full 10 secondsJim Meyering
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f2: Don't always wait 10 seconds. Before, this test would always wait 10 seconds. Now, it stops early when it detects that tail -f has written output. BTW, the race condition that prompted changing the timeout from 1 second to 10 was that tail -f could be killed by the timeout before producing any output.
2011-10-27date: reinstate the --iso-8601 (-I) optionJim Meyering
We deprecated and undocumented the --iso-8601 (-I) option mostly because date could not parse that particular format. Now that it can, it's time to restore the documentation. * src/date.c (usage): Document it. * doc/coreutils.texi (Options for date): Reinstate documentation. Reported by Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski in http://bugs.gnu.org/7444.
2011-10-27build: avoid bootstrap failure when using patch-2.5.8Jim Meyering
* gl/modules/tempname.diff: Regenerate to correct bogus offsets and adjust for 1-line offset. Eric Blake reported that this patch failed to apply when using patch-2.5.8. Note that it applies fine using patch-2.6.1.
2011-10-25build: do not remove definition of ENODATA, after allJim Meyering
* src/system.h (ENODATA): Restore definition. gnulib defines it only on native Windows systems, so removing our definition would have provoked build failure on systems that use it, like FreeBSD. Reported by Bruno Haible in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/28739/focus=28795 * gnulib: Update to latest, to get new ENODATA-exempting maint.mk rule.
2011-10-24doc: NEWS: correct "bug introduced in ..." version numberEric Blake
* NEWS: s/7.0/8.0/
2011-10-24rm: update gnulib to get an fts fix for Cygwin+NWFS/NcFsd file systemsJim Meyering
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. As far as we know, this fix affects only Cygwin with NWFS or NcFsd file systems. See these: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=71f13422f3e634 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/28739 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/msg00365.html * src/system.h (ENODATA): Remove fall-back definition, now that gnulib provides one. Caught by the sc_prohibit_always-defined_macros syntax-check rule. Also remove now-irrelevant "Don't use bcopy..." comment.
2011-10-23maint: add git hook scriptsJim Meyering
We find it worthwhile to use consistent commit summary prefixes. To that end, the commit-msg script requires that all commits I make start with "$P: " (where $P is one of ~100 programs in coreutils) or one of a few other words, like gnulib tests maint doc build. It allows more than one word, so e.g., "cat tail head: " would also be accepted. Pádraig Brady wrote the initial version, with its 72-column and blank-if-present second line checks. The pre-commit script is the same as the git-supplied sample script, modulo a bug fix and the "exec 1>&2" redirection. * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: New file. * scripts/git-hooks/pre-commit: New file. * scripts/git-hooks/applypatch-msg: New file. Verbatim from .sample. * cfg.mk: Exempt two of the new scripts from the no-leading-TABs check, since they're nearly verbatim from git, and we want to stay in sync. Exempt the commit-msg script from the no-"fail=0" check.
2011-10-21tail: with -f, use nanosleep (not inotify) on a GPFS file systemMartial Bornet
Because tail's fremote function did not designate GPFS as a remote file system type, tail -f would mistakenly attempt to use inotify, which cannot work with a remote file system. * src/tail.c (fremote): List GPFS as a remote file system type. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. Reported in http://bugs.debian.org/646022.
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