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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.
2007-06-10bug-fix: cp would fail to write through a dangling symlinkJim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * src/copy.c (copy_reg): When open fails with EEXIST, the destination is lstat'able, and a symlink, call open again, but now without O_EXCL. * tests/cp/thru-dangling: New file, to test for the above fix. * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add thru-dangling. * THANKS: Add Michael McLagan. Bug report from Michael McLagan in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/243588>.
2007-05-26wc: ignore multibyte-character decoding errorsJames Youngman
* src/wc.c (wc): Don't issue an error message when mbrtowc indicates that we have seen an invalid byte sequence. This makes "wc /bin/sh" bearable (though the word and line counts are likely not to be useful). * NEWS: Mention the change.
2007-05-22cut: diagnose a range starting with 0 (-f 0-2) as invalid, andJim Meyering
give a better diagnostic for a field-number/offset of 0. * NEWS: Mention the fix. * src/cut.c (ADD_RANGE_PAIR): Add an explicit check for 0. Based on a patch from James Youngman. * tests/misc/cut: Add tests for the above.
2007-05-22"cut -f 2-0" now fails; before, it was equivalent to "cut -f 2-"Jim Meyering
Also, diagnose the '-' in "cut -f -" as an invalid range, rather than interpreting it as the unlimited range, "1-". * NEWS: Mention these changes. * src/cut.c (set_fields): Don't interpret an accumulator "value" of 0 as an unspecified range endpoint. Give better diagnostics. Adjust a comment so that it is true also for 64-bit size_t. * tests/cut/Test.pm: Add tests for the above.
2007-05-22stty: diagnose an invalid hex value in 35-colon commmand-line argumentJim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention this. * src/stty.c (strtoul_tcflag_t, strtoul_cc_t): New functions. (recover_mode): Use those functions (not sscanf), to parse the string robustly. * tests/stty/invalid: New file. Test for the above. * tests/stty/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add invalid. * .x-sc_prohibit_atoi_atof: Don't exempt stty.c from this check. Add tests/stty/invalid so we don't have to obfuscate the comment about sscanf therein. * Makefile.maint (sc_prohibit_atoi_atof): Mention sscanf in the diagnostic, too.
2007-05-13Add -z option to uniq. Originally proposed by Egmont Koblinger.James Youngman
* NEWS: Mention uniq's new option: --zero-terminated (-z). * src/uniq.c: Add new option, --zero-terminated (-z), to make uniq use the NUL byte as separator/delimiter rather than newline. (check_file): Add a parameter: delimiter. Update caller. Use readlinebuffer_delim in place of readlinebuffer everywhere. (main): Handle the new option. (usage): Describe new option the same way sort does. * doc/coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): Describe the new option.
2007-05-07* NEWS: Mention that last week's tr bug dates back to 1992.Jim Meyering
2007-05-04tr -c: don't abort when translating with S2 larger than complement of S1Jim Meyering
* src/tr.c (main): Remove invalid assertion triggered by e.g., tr -c a '[b*256]'. There's nothing wrong with having Set2 larger than Set1. Reported by Guntram Blohm. * tests/tr/Test.pm (no-abort-1): Test for the above. * NEWS: Mention this bug fix. * THANKS: Add Guntram Blohm.
2007-04-24* THANKS: Add Andreas Frische.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention today's ls --color fix. * tests/ls-2/tests (sl-dangle): Add a test for today's fix.
2007-04-12split --line-bytes=N (-C N): don't create an empty file.Paul Eggert
* src/split.c (line_bytes_split): Don't create an empty line afterwards if the last buffer happens to be exactly full. * tests/misc/split-fail: Add a test case for this. * NEWS: mention this.
2007-04-07Add a test for, and document, today's fix.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention today's ls --color fix. * tests/ls-2/tests (sl-target): Add a test for today's fix. * THANKS: Add Kirk Kelsey.
2007-04-02* src/ls.c (print_horizontal): Fix bug reported by Mike Frysinger:Paul Eggert
ls -x DIR would sometimes output the wrong string in place of the first entry. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * tests/ls/x-option: New file. * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add x-option.
2007-03-30* NEWS: Mention these SELinux changes.Jim Meyering
2007-03-23Post-release version change.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Add a line for 6.9+. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set new version string.
2007-03-22Version 6.9.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record release date and new version number. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): New version number.
2007-03-18Fix a bug in how pr -m -s works.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Describe how the fix affects pr. * src/pr.c (init_parameters): The --merge (-m) option does not imply --expand-tabs (-e), so don't set "untabify_input". Reported by Wis Macomson. * tests/misc/pr: New file. Test for the above fix. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add pr. * THANKS: Update.
2007-03-03Fix a bug: cp -x would fail to set mount point permissions.Andrew Church
* NEWS: mention cp -x bug fix * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't return immediately after copying a mount point that we do not intend to recurse under. Based on a patch by Andrew Church.
2007-02-27Make df -P immune to effects of e.g., the BLOCK_SIZE envvar.Paul Eggert
* NEWS: With -P, the default block size and output format is not affected by DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, or BLOCKSIZE. * src/df.c (main): Implement this. * doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): With -P, the default block size and output format is not affected by DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, or BLOCKSIZE.
2007-02-25Post-release version change.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Add a line for 6.8+. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set new version string.
2007-02-24Version 6.8.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record release date and new version number. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): New version number.
2007-02-24* NEWS: Use a simple "+" suffix to denote pre-release, not "-dirty".Jim Meyering
Nicer connotations. * configure.ac: Use 6.7+, not 6.7-dirty.
2007-02-24* NEWS: sort no longer compresses temporaries by default.Paul Eggert
* bootstrap.conf: Remove findprog. * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): The default is to not compress. Don't treat "" specially. * src/sort.c: Don't include findprog.h. (create_temp): Compress only if the user specified --compress-program. * tests/misc/sort-compress: Adjusts tests to match new behavior.
2007-02-19* NEWS: sort now uses a --compress-program option rather thanPaul Eggert
an environment variable. * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document this. * src/sort.c (usage): Likewise. (COMPRESS_PROGRAM_OPTION): New const. (long_options, create_temp, main): Support new option. * tests/misc/sort-compress: Test it.
2007-02-03Test for today's gnulib/lib/getcwd.c fix affecting pwd and readlinkJim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: New file. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Ad pwd-unreadable-parent.
2007-02-03* NEWS: Document fix for cp --preserve=mode.Paul Eggert
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Omit the group- or other-writeable permissions when creating a directory, to avoid a race condition if the special mode bits aren't right just after the directory is created. * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Likewise. * tests/cp/parent-perm-race: Test for the "cp --preserve=mode" race fix in copy.c.
2007-02-03* NEWS: Document fix for cp --parents.Paul Eggert
* src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Report the error sooner with "cp --parents DIR/FILE DEST" when DIR is a non-directory, thus not creating the directory, DEST/DIR. * tests/cp/cp-parents: Test for the non-race-condition bug fixed by the above change.
2007-01-24* NEWS: New option sort -C, proposed by XCU ERN 127, which looksPaul Eggert
like it will be approved. Also add --check=quiet, --check=silent as long aliases, and --check=diagnose-first as an alias for -c. * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document this. Also, mention that sort -c can take at most one file. * src/sort.c: Implement this. Include argmatch.h. (usage): Document the change. (CHECK_OPTION): New constant. (long_options): --check now takes an optional argument, and is now treated differently from 'c'. (check_args, check_types): New constant arrays. (check): New arg CHECKONLY, which suppresses diagnostic if -C. (main): Parse the new options. * tests/sort/Test.pm (02d, 02d, incompat5, incompat6): New tests for -C.