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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>
2007-07-31Add a test for du not counting size of inaccessible directories.Jim Meyering
* tests/du/inacc-dir: New file. Test for fts.c bug fixed yesterday. * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add inacc-dir. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-07-29Attempt to copy a regular file, even if stat says it is empty.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Document this bug fix. * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Read from a regular file, even if it appears (stat.st_size == 0) to be empty. This reverts an optimization introduced on 2005-11-23 for coreutils-6.0. Otherwise, "cp /proc/cpuinfo /tmp" creates an empty file, on e.g., linux-2.6.20. * tests/cp/proc-zero-len: New file. Test for the above. * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-zero-len. Reported by Dan Berrangé.
2007-07-24NEWS: Move the other "sort" entry from the 6.9 section into 6.10 "Bug fixes".Jim Meyering
2007-07-24sort: add a test to exercise the affected code.Jim Meyering
* tests/sort/Test.pm (realloc-buf): Exercise the code that changed yesterday. No other test in all of "make check" does this. * NEWS: Mention the fix.
2007-07-20Document and add a test for today's sort bug fix.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Describe the bug fix. * tests/sort/Test.pm (obs-inval): Add a test for today's fix.
2007-07-19"cp -i --update older newer" no longer prompts; same for mvJim Meyering
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Perform "update" check before the possible interactive prompt. Reported by zeno_AT_biyg_DOT_org in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/248591> * tests/mv/update: Add tests for the above. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
2007-07-14Remove long-deprecated options.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention this. * src/df.c, src/ls.c: Remove --kilobytes option. * src/du.c: Remove --kilobytes and --megabytes options. * src/who.c: Remove -i and --idle options. * src/ptx.c: Remove --copyright option. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-07-13Warn about non-portable use of unescaped backslash at end of string,Jim Meyering
and treat it as if it were escaped. * src/tr.c (unquote): Considering that such usage would make GNU tr from coreutils-5.2.1 and earlier *fail*, the least we can do now is to warn about it. Solaris' tr ignores it. * NEWS: Mention this.
2007-07-10Skip "arch" test if it's not built.Jim Meyering
* tests/misc/Makefile.am (built_programs): Define. (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Add $(built_programs), for... * tests/misc/arch: ...this: skip the test if arch is not built. * src/Makefile.am (built_programs.list): New rule. * tests/Makefile.am (built_programs): Rename from all_programs. (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Use built_programs, not all_programs. * tests/help-version: Likewise. * NEWS: Mention that using --enable-no-install-program=X may cause "make check" to fail. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-07-10Add support for enabling/disabling installation of specified programs.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention new configure-time options. Mention that neither arch nor su is built/installed, by default. * m4/include-exclude-prog.m4: New file. * configure.ac: Use new macro, gl_ADD_PROG, rather than manually appending to OPTIONAL_BIN_PROGS and MAN. Move the code that adds "df" to the list of programs to build from m4/jm-macros into this file. Use gl_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG, then handle special cases: ginstall, [. (NO_INSTALL_PROGS_DEFAULT): AC_SUBST it. Used by man/Makefile.am. * man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Remove from this list all man pages corresponding to "bin" programs. Add $(MAN) instead. (optional_mans): Remove all uses. (check-x-vs-1): Adapt to work even though arch and su are typically no longer built (and neither are their .1 files). * src/Makefile.am (install_su): Rename from INSTALL_SU, now that INSTALL_SU has a different meaning. Use the new $(INSTALL_SU) value.
2007-07-10New program: archKarel Zak
* NEWS: Mention arch. * README: Add arch to the list of programs. * AUTHORS: Add arch. * src/uname.c: Include "uname.h". (PROGRAM_NAME): Handle arch, too. (ARCH_AUTHORS): Define. (uname_long_options, arch_long_options): Renamed and new globals. (usage): Handle arch-mode as well as uname-mode. (decode_switches): New function, extracted from main, to handle arch-mode as well as uname-mode. (main): Handle both modes. * src/uname-arch.c: New program, alias for "uname -m". * src/uname-uname.c: New file, default uname mode. * src/uname.h: New file, uname modes. * src/Makefile.am (EXTRA_PROGRAMS): Add arch. (uname_SOURCES, arch_SOURCES): Define. * man/arch.x: New file. * man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Add arch.1. (arch.1): New dependency. * tests/misc/arch: New test, compare "arch" with "uname -m" * configure.ac (OPTIONAL_BIN_PROGS): Add arch. (MAN): Add arch.1. * .x-sc_require_config_h: Exempt uname-arch.c and uname-uname.c from the always-include-<config.h> rule. Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-07-04pr -F no longer suppresses the footer or the first two blank header linesPaul Eggert
Here's a patch along the lines of <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/10849/focus=10857>. It's a bit large since it changes the test cases to match the behavior, and the test cases' file names depend on the behavior! * NEWS: pr -F no longer suppresses the footer or the first two blank lines in the header. * doc/coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Likewise. Also, a too-short page length implies -t, not -T. * src/pr.c (lines_per_header, lines_per_footer): Now constants. (init_parameters): Don't try to change them. (print_header): Use the same header and footer format regardless of wither form feeds are being used. (usage): Adjust to above change when describing too-short page length. Too-short page length impliesy -t, not -T. * tests/pr/2-S_f-t_notab: Adjust to the fact that -F now affects only formfeed handling; it does not change the header. * tests/pr/2-Sf-t_notab: Likewise. ... * tests/pr/3-5l17f-t: Remove, since it's been renamed to another file whose name has a line count 7 larger, reflecting the new line count needed for this behavior. * tests/pr/3a3l8f-t: Likewise. ... * tests/pr/w72l24f-ll: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-06-23seq no longer mishandles cases like "seq 0 0.000001 0.000003",Paul Eggert
where it would not print the desired last number. * doc/coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove advice about workaround for seq off-by-one problem, since the bug is fixed now. Replace it with more-generic advice about rounding errors. * src/seq.c (long_double_format, print_numbers): New arg NUMERIC_FORMAT. All uses changed.
2007-06-18A few more symlink-related fixes. Fix a bug triggered by cpPaul Eggert
--parents and symlinks. Close some race conditions possible when the destination replaces a newly-created file with a symlink. * NEWS: Document that 'cp --parents' no longer mishandles symlinks in file name components of source. * src/copy.c (HAVE_LCHOWN): Default to false. (lchown) [!defined HAVE_LCHOWN]: Define to chown, for convenience. * src/cp.c (lchown) [!HAVE_LCHOWN]: Likewise. * src/install.c (lchown [!HAVE_LCHOWN]: Likewise. * src/copy.c (set_owner): Use lchown instead of chown, for safety in case the file got replaced by a symlink in the meantime. * src/cp.c (re_protect): Likewise. * src/install.c (change_attributes): Likewise. * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use ordinary C rather than an #if. * src/cp.c (lchown) [!HAVE_LCHOWN]: Define to chown, for convenience. (struct dir_attr): Cache the entire struct stat of the directory, rather than just its mode, so that we needn't stat the directory twice (which can lead to races). (re_protect): Don't use XSTAT as that's not appropriate in this context (symlinks should be followed here). Instead, use the cached stat value. (make_dir_parents_private): Save dir's entire struct stat, not just its mode. * tests/cp/cp-parents: Add test to check against bug with cp --parents and symlinks.
2007-06-15Correct cp's handling of destination symlinks in some cases.Paul Eggert
* NEWS: "cp" no longer considers a destination symlink to be the same as the referenced file when copying links or making backups. * src/copy.c (copy_reg): When following a symlink, use the followed name in later chown etc. requests, so that the created file is affected, rather than the symlink. Use O_NOFOLLOW on source when not dereferencing symlinks; this avoids a race. Preserve errno correctly when doing multiple open attempts on the destination. (copy_internal): Follow destination symlinks only when copying a regular file and only when we don't intend to remove or rename the destination first, regardless of whether following source symlinks; this is because since POSIX and tradition (e.g., FreeBSD) say we should ordinarily follow destination symlinks if the system calls would ordinarily do so. * src/copy.h (struct cp_options): Add comment that 'dereference' is only for source files. * src/cp.c (usage): Note that --derereference etc. are only for source files. (make_dir_parents_private): Follow symlinks, regardless of whether --dereference is specified, because these are destination symlinks. * tests/cp/same-file: Adjust tests to match revised behavior. Filter out perror output since it might vary from host to host. Use sed alone instead of also using echo. * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document the behavior better when the destination is a symlink. Clarify source versus destination symlinks. Describe the new behavior for destination symlinks. 2007-06-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * src/copy.c: Include "canonicalize.h". (copy_reg): Use canonicalize_filename_mode to follow the symlink, so that we can always open with O_EXCL and avoid a race.
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