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2008-03-21ptx: avoid heap overrun for backslash at end of optarg stringJim Meyering
* src/ptx.c (copy_unescaped_string): Ignore a lone backslash at end of string. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler. Details here: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13005>. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add ptx-overrun. * tests/misc/ptx-overrun: New file. Test for the above fix. * NEWS: Mention the fix. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-03-21Write NEWS and update c99-to-c89 patch for today's rm improvement.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: call this a "portability improvement" ;-) * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets.
2008-03-19mv: never unlink a destination file before calling renameJim Meyering
While cp --preserve=links must unlink certain destination files, mv must never do that. * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Pull the '! x->move_mode' test "up", so it affects the entire condition, and not just DEREF_NEVER mode. Reported by James Ralston in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/438076>. * tests/mv/atomic2: New file. Test for the above fix. * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add atomic2. * NEWS: Mention the bug-fix. [Bug introduced in 367719ba5f1dbd5e2f7fa2466c441f23f66a7c9e]
2008-03-10install, rmdir: write --verbose output to stdout, not to stderr.Ondřej Vašík
* src/install.c (announce_mkdir): Write verbose output to stdout, not to stderr. * src/mkdir.c (announce mkdir): Use prog_fprintf for verbose output. * src/prog-fprintf.c (prog_fprintf): New function and file. * src/prog-fprintf.h: New file. * src/rmdir.c (main): Write verbose output to stdout, not to stderr. Quote directory name in a diagnostic. * src/rmdir.c (remove_parents): Write verbose output to stdout, not to stderr. * doc/coreutils.texi: Mention that shred verbose output is to stderr. * NEWS: Mention the changes. Signed-off-by: Ondřej Vašík <ovasik@redhat.com>
2008-03-05Work around AFS bug: id and groups would print invalid group number.ribalba
* src/id.c (main): Call print_group_list with a user name, if possible. * src/groups.c (main): Likewise. * NEWS: Mention this. For details, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12852 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12875 Signed-off-by: ribalba <geerd.dietger.hoffmann@gmail.com>
2008-02-21id: use getgrouplist when possibleJames Youngman
* gl/m4/mgetgroups.m4: Check for getgrouplist. * gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Use getgrouplist, if available. * TODO: Remove the item about switching to getgrouplist. * NEWS: mention this
2008-02-20sort: add --sort=... option.Andreas Schwab
* src/sort.c (SORT_OPTION): New enum. (sort_args, sort_types): Define. (usage, long_options, main): New option --sort. * tests/sort/Test.pm: Test it. * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document --sort option. * NEWS: Mention this.
2008-02-19seq: give better diagnostics for invalid formats.Steven Schubiger
* src/seq.c: (validate_format): New function. (main): Use it. * tests/misc/seq (fmt-d, fmt-e): Test for expected diagnostics with invalid formats. * NEWS: Mention this change. * TODO: Remove this item. [jm: src/seq.c: make diagnostics more consistent tests/misc/seq (fmt-eos1): adjust the expected diagnostic ]
2008-02-19join: new options: --check-order and --nocheck-order.James Youngman
* src/join.c: Support --check-order and --nocheck-order. New variables check_input_order, seen_unpairable and issued_disorder_warning[]. For --check-order, verify that the input files are in sorted order. For the default case, check the order only if there are unpairable lines. (join): Perform ordering checks after reaching EOF on either input. (usage): Mention --check-order and --nocheck-order. (dupline): Save a copy of the previously-read input line so that we can detect disorder on the input. (get_line): Temporarily save a copy of the previous line (by calling dupline) and check relative ordering (by calling checkorder) before returning the newly-read line. (getseq, join): Tell get_line which file we are reading from. (advance_seq): New function, factoring out some of the code commonly surrounding calls to getseq. (checkorder): New function. Verifies that a pair of consecutive input lines are in sorted order. * doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Document the new options --check-order and --nocheck-order. * tests/join/Test.pm (tv): Added tests for --check-order and --nocheck-order. * NEWS: Mention this new feature.
2008-02-18seq: give a proper diagnostic for an invalid --format=% optionJim Meyering
* src/seq.c (long_double_format): Handle '%' at end of string. * tests/misc/seq [fmt-eos1, fmt-eos2]: New tests for the bug. * NEWS: Mention this. Reported by Pádraig Brady.
2008-02-17ls --color no longer outputs unnecessary escape sequencesEd Avis
In --color mode, plain files do not get any color, not even white. When no highlighting is required, ls outputs no escape sequence at all. * src/ls.c (print_with_color): (used_color): New global. (indicator_no) [C_RESET]: New enum value. (indicator_name) ["rs"]: Corresponding new string. (color_indicator): Make the 'normal' and 'file' markers be NULL. Use "rs" (C_RESET) to reset to ordinary colors. (process_signals): Restore default colors only if necessary. (main): Don't call prep_non_filename_text here. (print_name_with_quoting): Call it here, instead. (prep_non_filename_text): Use C_RESET, not C_NORM. (print_color_indicator): Return bool, not void. Print nothing, when possible. (put_indicator): Call prep_non_filename_text the first time. * tests/misc/ls-misc: Test for above. * tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: Adapt: no escapes around regular file name. * TODO: Remove item. * NEWS: Mention this.
2008-02-13Replace groups.sh with groups.c.James Youngman
* src/groups.c (main): New file, replacing groups.sh. * src/group-list.c, src/group-list.h: New files, factored out of id.c, implementing the functionality that "id" and "groups" have in common. * src/id.c (print_full_info): Avoid a segfault when trying to print an error message if getgroups fails. (print_group_list): Move to group-list.c. (print_group): Likewise. * man/Makefile.am: When building groups.1, obtain the help text from src/groups.c, not src/groups.sh. (noinst_HEADERS): Add group-list.h. (group): Remove rule. (dist_man_MANS): Remove groups.1. * doc/coreutils.texi (groups: Print group names a user is in): Explain why "groups" and "groups $(id -un)" give different results in existing login sessions after you change the group database. (id: Print user identity): Likewise for "id". * po/POTFILES.in: Add src/group-list.c and src/groups.c. * NEWS: mention this. * AUTHORS: Update.
2008-02-07NEWS [6.9.90]: head, od, split and tail accept the standard size suffixesJim Meyering
2008-02-07mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr.Steven Schubiger
* 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.
2008-01-30Improve "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty"Jim Meyering
* 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.
2008-01-29ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinuxJim Meyering
* 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.
2008-01-22* NEWS: Record release date.Jim Meyering
2008-01-16NEWS: Mention the configure.ac fix.Jim Meyering
2008-01-12Version 6.9.92Jim Meyering
2008-01-11tests/tr/Test.pm: Prefer en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.iso88591.Jim Meyering
Suggestions from James Youngman and Pádraig Brady in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218/focus=12227
2008-01-07NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix.Jim Meyering
2008-01-06touch: add a test for today's change.Jim Meyering
* 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.
2008-01-06Avoid tr case-conversion failure in some locales.Jim Meyering
* 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.
2007-12-18Note that sorting uniq's input is often useful.Jim Meyering
Suggested by Eric Blake.
2007-12-15Version 6.9.91.Jim Meyering
2007-12-11Add a test to exercise today's bug fix.Jim Meyering
* tests/misc/selinux: Test for today's bug fix. * NEWS: Mention the SELinux "ls -l" fix.
2007-12-11* NEWS: Add the "Bug fixes" heading.Jim Meyering
2007-12-09"rm" as root would fail to unlink a non-directory on OS X 10.4.xJim Meyering
* src/remove.c (remove_entry) ["can unlink directories"]: Fix a mistakenly reversed condition. * NEWS: Mention this bug fix. Reported by Pieter Bowman.
2007-12-02* NEWS: Add the usual "Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.91..." line.Jim Meyering
2007-12-01NEWS: Remove the now-untrue statement about cp vs. dangling symlinksJim Meyering
2007-12-01* NEWS: Mention some of the SELinux changes.Jim Meyering
Record release date and new version number. * src/stat.c (main): Adjust a comment.
2007-11-24"cp -p" tries to preserve GID even if preserving the UID fails.Lasse Collin
* NEWS: Mention this new feature. * src/copy.c (set_owner): Try to preserve just the GID, when initial fchown/lchown fails. * src/cp.c (re_protect): Likewise.
2007-11-23Add tests to show new class of strings accepted by date -d.Jim Meyering
* tests/misc/date (rel-1day, rel-plus1): New tests for the recent change in gnulib's getdate.y. * NEWS: Mention the fix.
2007-11-22cp: by default, refuse to copy through a dangling destination symlinkJim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention this change. * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe the new behavior. * src/copy.c: No longer include "canonicalize.h". (copy_reg): Upon failure to open a dangling destination symlink, don't canonicalize the name, but rather fail (default) or, with POSIXLY_CORRECT, repeat the open call without O_EXCL (potentially dangerous). * src/copy.h (struct cp_options) [open_dangling_dest_symlink]: New member. Reorder the others, grouping "bool" and "enum" members together. * tests/cp/thru-dangling: Test for changed and new behavior. * src/cp.c (cp_option_init): Initialize new member. * src/install.c (cp_option_init): Likewise. * src/mv.c (cp_option_init): Likewise. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2007-11-17"seq .1 .1" would mistakenly generate no output on some systemsJim Meyering
* NEWS: Say this. * src/seq.c (print_numbers): Handle another floating point corner case. This avoids failure of seq's eq-wid-7 test on FreeBSD 6.1.
2007-11-03Fix bug with "seq 10.8 0.1 10.95", plus another bug with %% in format.Paul Eggert
* NEWS: Mention the %%-in-format bug fix. * src/seq.c (struct layout): New type. (long_double_format): New arg LAYOUT. Fill it in. Fix mishandling of %% in formats. (print_numbers): New arg LAYOUT. Don't convert LAST to output format when deciding whether to go slightly past LAST. Instead, convert X to output format and back. This fixes a bug reported by Andreas Schwab in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00237.html> where "seq 10.8 0.1 10.95" would output 11.0 on platforms where 10.95 rounds to a value that prints as 11.0 when only one digit past the decimal point is asked for. (main): Compute layout, for benefit of print_numbers. * tests/misc/seq (float-3): Undo previous change, since the bug should be fixed now. (fmt-b): New test, for the %% bug.
2007-10-21* NEWS: Mention the printf fix.Jim Meyering
2007-10-21tr: do not reject an unmatched [:lower:] or [:upper:] in SET1.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention this. * src/tr.c (get_next) [RE_CHAR_CLASS]: Don't skip the loop when processing [:lower:] and [:upper:]. (main): Require [:lower:] or [:upper:] in SET1 only when when one of those is specified in SET2. * tests/tr/Test.pm: Add tests for this fix. Reported by Per Starbäck. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2007-10-08rm could malfunction under unusual circumstances:Jim Meyering
When operating on a relative name longer than 511 bytes, and (when either processing a directory that is neither writable nor readable (but still searchable) or when determining whether to prompt), and encountering an ENOMEM error while forming the file name, rm would operate on a truncated-to-511-byte name starting with "[...]" rather than the intended one. * NEWS: Describe the bugs. * src/remove.c: Correct two misuses of full_filename: (full_filename0, xfull_filename): New functions. (full_filename_): Rewrite to use full_filename0. (AD_pop_and_chdir): Use xfull_filename, not full_filename. (write_protected_non_symlink): Likewise.
2007-10-07New program: mktemp.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention this. * README: Add mktemp to the list. * AUTHORS: Add this: mktemp: Jim Meyering * src/mktemp.c: New file. * src/Makefile.am (bin_PROGRAMS): Add mktemp. (mktemp_LDADD): Add $(LIB_GETHRXTIME). * man/mktemp.x: New file. * man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Add mktemp.1. (mktemp.1): New dependency. * man/.cvsignore: Add mktemp.1. * man/.gitignore: New file. * src/.cvsignore, src/.gitignore: Add mktemp. * tests/misc/mktemp: New file. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add mktemp. * tests/Coreutils.pm (run_tests): Give the POST-test function access to stdout and stderr contents, so it can verify that the named-on-stdout file/dir does indeed exist and has proper permissions, etc. [po/ChangeLog] * POTFILES.in: Add src/mktemp.c.
2007-09-24* NEWS: The recent rm-diagnostic fix also affects cross-partition "mv".Jim Meyering
2007-09-22rm: give a sensible diagnostic when failing to remove a symlinkJim Meyering
On some systems (those with openat et al), when rm would fail to remove a symlink, it would fail with the misleading diagnostic, "Too many levels of symbolic links". * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * src/remove.c (is_nondir_lstat): New function. (remove_entry): Use it to catch failed-to-remove symlink (and any other non-dir) here so that we don't fall through and try to treat it as directory, which -- with a symlink -- would provoke the bogus ELOOP failure. * tests/rm/fail-eacces: Add a test for the above. * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust offsets.
2007-09-07chmod: don't ignore a dangling symlinkJim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * src/chmod.c (process_file): Handle the case of FTS_SLNONE, i.e., give a diagnostic saying we cannot operate on such a file. * tests/chmod/thru-dangling: Compare new stderr output with expected.
2007-08-23Don't let ln be a party to destroying user data.Jim Meyering
* src/ln.c: Include "file-set.h", "hash.h" and "hash-triple.h". (dest_set, DEST_INFO_INITIAL_CAPACITY): New globals. (do_link): Refuse to remove a just-created link. Record a name,dev,ino triple for each link we create. (main): Initialize dest_set, if needed. * tests/mv/childproof: Test for the above fix. * NEWS: Document this. Reported by Eric Blake. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-08-21By default, do not install hostname anymore.Jim Meyering
* configure.ac: Add "hostname" to the list of not-installed programs. * src/Makefile.am (no_install__progs): Add "hostname" here, too. * NEWS: Mention this.
2007-08-20NEWS: note that a cp -p bug fixed in 6.7 affected releases before 6.0.Paul Eggert
Problem reported by Soren Spies in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg00106.html>. To be conservative, just say the bug was in all versions through 6.6.
2007-08-20Avoid consuming too much seekable input when yesno is used.Eric Blake
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Grab closein. * src/system.h (includes): Also include closein.h. * src/mv.c (main): Use close_stdin, not close_stdout. * src/cp.c (main): Likewise. * src/ln.c (main): Likewise. * src/rm.c (main): Likewise. * src/install.c (main): Likewise. * NEWS: Document the fix.
2007-08-15od --skip (-j) works even on files in /proc, when the kernel liesJim Meyering
* src/od.c (skip): Don't let kernel misinformation (nonempty files in /proc with stat.st_size == 0) make "od -j N" misbehave. Patch by Paul Eggert. * NEWS: Document this work-around. * tests/misc/od-zero-len: New file, test for the above.
2007-08-14od: fix a bug that arises when skipping exact length of fileJim Meyering
* NEWS: Document the bug fix. * src/od.c (skip): Call fseek even when n_skip is exactly the same as the length of the current file. Otherwise, the next iteration would use unadjusted input stream pointer, thus ignoring the desired "skip". Report and patch by Paul GHALEB.
2007-07-31du: print size (probably incomplete) of each inaccessible directoryJim Meyering
* src/du.c (process_file): Print what we know of the size of a directory even when it is inaccessible. What we print is just the size of the directory itself, not counting any of its contents. * tests/du/inacc-dir: Test for this. * NEWS: Mention this change. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
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