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2008-04-19Version 6.11.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record release date. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-04-19pr -e, with a mix of backspaces and TABs, could corrupt the heapJim Meyering
* tests/pr/Test.pm: New tests for the above. * src/pr.c (char_to_clump): Ensure that "input_position" never goes below 0. Also, elide any backspace encountered when input_position is 0, to be compatible at least with /bin/pr from Solaris 10. This bug is present in the original version: b25038ce9a234ea0906ddcbd8a0012e917e6c661 * NEWS [Bug fixes]: Mention this. Report and diagnosis by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13272
2008-04-19md5sum -c: ignore a line with a NUL byte among checksum hex digitsJim Meyering
* src/md5sum.c (hex_digits): Require that all "digest_hex_bytes" be hexadecimal digits, not just those before the first NUL byte. This bug dates back to the original version: 3763a4f24eb21be40674d13ff7b04e078f473e85 * tests/misc/md5sum (nul-in-cksum): Test for the above. * NEWS [Bug fixes]: Mention this. Prompted by a report from Flóki Pálsson in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/439531
2008-04-15md5sum, sha1sum, etc: handle invalid input (i.e., don't segfault)Jim Meyering
* src/md5sum.c (bsd_split_3): Return right away if s_len == 0. * tests/misc/md5sum (bsd-segv): New test for the above. * tests/misc/sha1sum (bsd-segv): Likewise. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler.
2008-04-02"touch E; mkfifo F; cp -fR F E" no longer fails due to existing EJim Meyering
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Revert change of 2005-03-01, 4303f0454592421eea48be87777d32a49e1d5e5b Prompted by Michael Stone, who pointed me to an old bug report from Ian Jackson: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/7504 * tests/cp/special-f: New file. Test for the above. * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add special-f. * NEWS: mention this bug fix.
2008-03-31"rm -r DIR" would mistakenly prompt about very long namesJim Meyering
* src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Return 0(-1) when euidaccess_stat pronounces a writable(not-writable) file, not -1(0). * tests/rm/deep-2: New file. Test for the above-fixed bug. * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add deep-2. Discovered while reviewing this change: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13071
2008-03-31* NEWS: Note the dd bug fix. The bug was introduced over 8 years ago:Jim Meyering
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2008-03-28mknod, mkfifo: don't segfault when diagnosing invalid SELinux contextJim Meyering
Identical to the bug fixed by 72d052896a9092b811961a8f3e6ca5d151a59be5. * src/mkfifo.c (main): Use "scontext", not NULL optarg in diagnostic. * src/mknod.c (main): Likewise. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler. * tests/mkdir/selinux: Test for the above fixes. * NEWS: Mention the fixes.
2008-03-28Fix typo in old NEWS and ChangeLog: s/commmand/command/.Jim Meyering
* ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * NEWS: Likewise. Prompted by http://bugzilla.redhat.com/439410
2008-03-27paste -d\\: avoid heap overrun for backslash at end of delim listJim Meyering
* src/paste.c: Include "quotearg.h". (collapse_escapes): Handle backslash-escaped backslash explicitly. Handle unescaped backslash at end of string by returning nonzero, rather than by overrunning memory. (main): Diagnose an invalid delimiter list -- carefully. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler. * tests/misc/paste-no-nl (delim-bs): Add a test to demonstrate the heap-smashing capability. (delim-bs2): Prior to coreutils-5.1.2, this bug was a little harder to demonstrate: it would corrupt a first-argument containing e.g., \b * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Reflect renaming. * tests/misc/paste: Rename from paste-no-nl. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-03-26mkdir -Z x d: don't segfault when diagnosing invalid context "x" (tiny change)Daniel Dunbar
* src/mkdir.c (main): Use "scontext", not NULL optarg in diagnostic. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
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.
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