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2009-07-29maint: make update-copyright work in yet another caseJim Meyering
* build-aux/update-copyright: Handle the case in which "\n#" appears between the final year number and the copyright holder name. * m4/lib-check.m4: Update copyright year list. Reported by Joel E. Denny.
2009-07-29maint: update NEWSJim Meyering
* NEWS (New features): Mention it.
2009-07-29cp: support btrfs' copy-on-write file clone operationGiuseppe Scrivano
* src/copy.c [HAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H]: Include <sys/ioctl.h>. (BTRFS_IOCTL_MAGIC, BTRFS_IOC_CLONE): Define. (clone_file): New function. (copy_reg): Use the btrfs clone operation if possible.
2009-07-29maint: update sleep.c's copyright year listJim Meyering
* src/sleep.c: Update copyright year list to include 2009. * tests/sort-time/rand-gen: Remove long-unused file. * tests/sort-time/README: Likewise.
2009-07-29maint: improve update-copyright ruleJoel E. Denny
* Makefile.am (update-copyright): Relax the selection rule to match any file containing the word "Copyright". Correct the exclusion rule so that it also excludes ChangeLog and COPYING files that are not in the top level directory.
2009-07-29maint: update-copyright: fix just-introduced bugJim Meyering
* build-aux/update-copyright: ... and revert-for-now the change that made this script invoke localtime only once.
2009-07-29maint: make update-copyright handle more casesJim Meyering
* build-aux/update-copyright: Handle cases in which the final year number and copyright holder are on separate lines. Prompted by a report from Joel E. Denny. Also, do not invoke localtime for each line we process.
2009-07-28doc: fix the generated HTML indexPádraig Brady
* doc/coreutils.texi: Move the "SELinux context" section down below the "System context" nodes so that the HTML index is generated correctly. Also some extraneous and missing '.' characters were corrected in the index. Reported by Benno Schulenberg.
2009-07-28tail: use the inotify backend also with --pid=PIDGiuseppe Scrivano
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): When a PID is specified, use select to block for no more than sleep_interval seconds at a time, and check for process death upon timeout. (main): Adapt to new tail_forever_inotify interface.
2009-07-27tests: new test for bug in ls -1U dir arg ...Jim Meyering
* tests/misc/ls-misc (multi-arg-U1): New test.
2009-07-27ls -1U dir arg ... now works againKamil Dudka
* src/ls.c (print_dir): Emit "$dir_name:\n" *before* accumulating (and possibly printing) directory entry names. The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.0 via commit 8d974b00, 2008-07-30, "ls -U1 now uses constant memory". Reported by Julian Bradfield. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
2009-07-27tr: improve --help's description of --complement (-c)Heikki Orsila
2009-07-27doc: add a sort by line length examplePádraig Brady
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add an example showing how to sort data not directly supported by the sort command.
2009-07-27doc: mention realpath in the readlink infoPádraig Brady
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Add realpath to the index, and also mention it in the readlink description so people searching for that functionality can easily make the connection.
2009-07-26build: use a fixed-name temporary in man/Makefile.amJim Meyering
* man/Makefile.am (check-x-vs-1): Using a fixed-name temporary file is better than one ending in -$$, because many -$$-suffixed files may accumulate over time.
2009-07-24doc: improve readlink description here, tooKamil Dudka
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Update menus. Add @cindex entries.
2009-07-24readlink: improve one-line summary: prints canonical file names, tooJim Meyering
* src/readlink.c (usage): Adjust one-line summary. * man/readlink.x: Likewise. Suggested by Kamil Dudka.
2009-07-21build: update from gnulibJim Meyering
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
2009-07-14doc: point to Guile's ChangeLog-writing guidelinesJim Meyering
* HACKING (Commit log requirements): Point to Guile's http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/changelogs/guile-changelogs_3.html. Mention that a bit of prose can be welcome.
2009-07-11tail: adjust type of a local variableJim Meyering
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Declare "len" to be of type size_t, not ssize_t, since the former is what safe_read returns.
2009-07-09tests: avoid false-positive cp/link-heap failureJim Meyering
* tests/cp/link-heap: Increase address space limit from 14000KB to 16000KB, to avoid failure with Debian unstable's libc6-dev-2.9-19
2009-07-09build: avoid build warn/failure due to -Wstack-protectorJim Meyering
* configure.ac: Do not enable -Wstack-protector. Otherwise, at least df.c would provoke a warning.
2009-07-08copy.c: remove a duplicate expressionOndřej Vašík
* src/copy.c (copy_attr_error): remove a redundant expression added in commit e0cf592f, 2009-04-27, "factor out test for errno ...".
2009-07-08build: update from gnulibJim Meyering
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
2009-07-08tail: use size_t for counter and index variables, ...Jim Meyering
* src/tail.c (any_live_files): ... not "int" or even unsigned int (tail_forever, tail_forever_inotify, main): Likewise.
2009-07-08tail: declare "file descriptor" variable to be "int", not size_tJim Meyering
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Use "int", not size_t as the type of a file descriptor variable.
2009-07-04move argv-iter module to gnulibJim Meyering
* gl/lib/argv-iter.c: Remove file. * gl/lib/argv-iter.h: Remove file. * gl/modules/argv-iter: Remove file. * gl/modules/argv-iter-tests: Remove file. * gl/tests/test-argv-iter.c: Remove file. * gnulib: Update submodule, to get argv-iter
2009-07-04tests: refactor code to use require_proc_pid_status_Giuseppe Scrivano
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Read the process status using the test-lib.sh require_proc_pid_status_ function.
2009-07-04tests: use the "nobody" user's group as the default group idGiuseppe Scrivano
* tests/chroot/credentials: Use the group id, not its name. * tests/test-lib.sh (NON_ROOT_GROUP): Use the "nobody" user's group in place of "nogroup".
2009-07-03build: update from gnulibJim Meyering
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
2009-07-03sort: allow SI and IEC units on separate human sort fieldsPádraig Brady
* src/sort.c: Store the si_present state per key rather than globally * tests/misc/sort: Add a check that would have previously failed. Also add a test to demonstrate that invalid IEC/SI mixtures are not always noticed when they're not significant to the sort.
2009-07-03tail: avoid an inotify portability problem in kernels prior to 2.6.21Giuseppe Scrivano
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Handle the special case in which an old inotify watcher returns 0. Affects kernels in [2.6.13, 2.6.21).
2009-07-03tests: tail-2/wait: rename internal file nameJim Meyering
* tests/tail-2/wait: Rename file from not_accessible to unreadable, since all the test cares about is readability.
2009-07-03tests: tail-2/wait: don't fail when run as rootGiuseppe Scrivano
* tests/tail-2/wait: Ensure that the unreadable file really is not readable before trying to run "tail -f" on it.
2009-07-03doc: update the info on sort -b and -kPádraig Brady
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention in the description of -b, that the locale can also affect whether blanks are significant. Update the list of ordering options for a --key that cause it to not inherit any global ordering options. Update the list of ordering options that implicitly skip whitespace.
2009-07-03maint: generalize the development prerequisites docsPádraig Brady
* README-hacking: Add a little more high level info and merge notes on specific developer prerequisites into README-prereq * README-prereq: Remove the Fedora 8 specific information and generalize the information to be applicable to any system.
2009-06-29tail: add comments noting potential inotify-related problemsJim Meyering
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Add two FIXME comments.
2009-06-28maint: bootstrap: merge changes from gnulibJim Meyering
* bootstrap: Indent using spaces, not TABs.
2009-06-28maint: bootstrap: sync submodule usage from gnulibJim Meyering
* bootstrap: Config for git submodule use only if .gitmodules exists.
2009-06-28maint: bootstrap: split a few long linesJim Meyering
* bootstrap (found_aux_dir): Avoid lines longer than 80 columns.
2009-06-27maint: don't change COPYINGJim Meyering
* COPYING: Don't modify Copyright date list in imported file. This file is one of very few exceptions in that we version-control it, even though its primary source is another package. Spotted by Eric Blake.
2009-06-27maint: add a rule to automate the annual copyright-year-update processJim Meyering
* build-aux/update-copyright: New file. * Makefile.am (changelog_etc): Add update-copyright. (update-copyright): New rule.
2009-06-27stdbuf: fix to stop -i option causing an assertionPádraig Brady
* src/stdbuf.c (main): Fix the array bounds check in the assert * tests/misc/stdbuf: Add a test for all standard streams
2009-06-25doc: clarify the tail inotify NEWSPádraig Brady
* NEWS: Say why inotify was used
2009-06-23maint: update all Copyright year lists to include 2009Jim Meyering
2009-06-23maint: remove old TODO filesJim Meyering
* lib/TODO: Remove file. * tests/join/TODO: Likewise.
2009-06-23doc: README-hacking tweakJim Meyering
* README-hacking: Move the "While building..." sentence down to where it belongs.
2009-06-23tests: tail-2/pid: include more info upon failureJim Meyering
* tests/tail-2/pid: Print unexpected $state upon failing.
2009-06-20doc: typo fix in README-hackingJim Meyering
* README-hacking: Fix a typo. Don't make building from a git-cloned tree sound so hard.
2009-06-20build: update from gnulib (hash module updates; maint.mk tweak)Jim Meyering
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.