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These programs can print non-fatal diagnostics to stderr prior to
exec'ing a subsidiary program. However, if we thought the situation
warranted a diagnostic, we insist that the diagnostic be printed
without error, rather than blindly exec, as it may be a security risk.
For an example, try 'nice -n -1 nice 2>/dev/full'. Failure to raise
priority (by lowering niceness) is not fatal, but failure to inform
the user about failure to change priority is dangerous.
* src/nice.c (main): Declare failure if writing advisory message
to stderr fails.
* src/nohup.c (main): Likewise.
* src/su.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/nice: Test this.
* tests/misc/nohup: Likewise.
* NEWS: Document this.
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Match gcc, perl, bash, ksh, tcsh, ... in supporting \e.
* src/printf.c (print_escape_char): Output \x1B when \e encountered.
* src/echo.c (main): Likewise.
* src/stat.c (print_escape_char): Likewise.
* doc/coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Add \e to the list.
* tests/misc/printf: Verify that \e outputs \x1B.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behaviour.
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Exposed by env a=b=c printenv a=b.
* src/printenv.c (main): Silently reject = in names.
* tests/misc/printenv: Test for it.
* NEWS: Document this.
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Allows for unambiguous processing when environment values (or even
non-portable names!) contain newline.
* src/env.c (longopts): Add new option.
(usage): Document it.
(main): Implement it.
* src/printenv.c (longopts): New variable.
(usage): Document new option.
(main): Implement it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): New macro optNull.
(du invocation, env invocation, printenv invocation): Use it.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* tests/misc/env-null: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run it.
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* src/env.c (main): Use unsetenv rather than putenv to remove
items from environ, and check for failure.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add unsetenv.
* tests/misc/env: Test this.
* NEWS: Document it.
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* src/nice.c (perm_related_errno): New function.
(main): Use it, rather than testing only errno == EPERM.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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* src/timeout.c (install_signal_handlers): Handle any user
specified signal, so that if it does not cause the child
to exit then we don't exit and orphan the child. Previously this
for example, would leave an orphan dd process running:
timeout -sUSR1 1s dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
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* src/nohup.c (NOHUP_FAILURE): Rename...
(POSIX_NOHUP_FAILURE): ...to this.
(main): Pay attention to POSIXLY_CORRECT, to determine whether to
use status 125 or 127.
* doc/coreutils.texi (nohup invocation): Document this.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* tests/misc/invalid-opt (exit_status): Adjust expected results.
* tests/misc/help-version (expected_failure_status): Likewise.
* tests/misc/nohup: Likewise.
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* src/chroot.c (main): Use EXIT_CANCELED, not EXIT_FAILURE.
* src/env.c (main): Likewise.
* src/nice.c (main): Likewise.
* src/su.c (change_identity, main): Likewise.
* doc/coreutils.texi (chroot invocation, env invocation)
(nice invocation, su invocation): Document this.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* tests/misc/invalid-opt (exit_status): Adjust expected results.
* tests/misc/help-version (expected_failure_status): Likewise.
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* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* src/tail.c (check_fspec): New function.
(tail_forever_inotify): Ensure there is no new data before entering the
inotify events wait loop.
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* src/md5sum.c (main): Set stdout to line buffered mode
to ensure parallel running instances don't intersperse
their output. This adds 5% to the run time in the worst case
of many zero length files, or 2% with standard file sizes.
* src/sum.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-parallel: New test for atomic output.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference it.
* NEWS: Mention the fix
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* src/touch.c (no_dereference): New flag variable.
(longopts): Add -h/--no-dereference.
(touch): Add symlink handling.
(usage): Document new option.
(main): Accept new option.
* NEWS: Document it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (touch invocation): Likewise. Also mention
birthtime.
* tests/touch/no-dereference: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run it.
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* src/chcon.c (main): Now that gnulib provides getfilecon wrappers,
we can revert most of the 2009-10-05 commit 3a97d664, "chcon: exit
immediately if SELinux is disabled", since chcon is still useful as
long as the file system provides handlers for the security.*
name space. gnulib's getfilecon wrappers ensure that an offending
context now evokes a return value of -1.
Prompted by comments from Stephen Smalley in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18378/focus=18394
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add the following FS types,
from <linux/magic.h>: afs, anon-inode FS, btrfs, cgroupfs,
cramfs-wend, debugfs, futexfs, inotifyfs, minux3, securityfs,
selinux, xenfs.
Also add "nilfs".
* src/Makefile.am (fs-kernel-magic): New rule.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.
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* src/stat.c (human_fstype) [CIFS, HFS]: Add new file system types.
Prompted by a report from Stuart Kemp.
Normalize the form of a few hexadecimal magic numbers.
Alphabetize on S_MAGIC_ case names.
* src/Makefile.am (fs-magic-compare, fs-def, fs-magic): New rules, to
automate comparison of our list with that in the Linux statfs man page.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Accept openssl checksum syntax, which
differs only by two spaces from that of the bsd checksum tools:
openssl: MD5(f)= d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
bsd: MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
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* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
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* NEWS: Record release date.
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* src/tail.c (tail_forever, tail_forever_inotify): Close a race in
tail_forever_inotify where new data written after the file check by
a now dead process, but before the pid check, is not output. We use
the POSIX guarantee that read() and write() are serialized wrt each
other even in separate processes, to assume full file consistency
after exit() and so poll for new data _after_ the writer has exited.
This also allows us to not redundantly _wait_ for new data if the
process is dead.
* tests/tail-2/pid: Remove the now partially invalid sub second sleep
check as we now don't unconditionally wait, and replace it with a check
for the redundant sleep. Also clarify some of the existing comments.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
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Previously for `ls -Ls` (but not `ls -Lsl`), we referenced
the st_blocks returned from the previous failed stat() call.
This undefined value was seen to be 0 for dangling symlinks at least.
* src/ls.c (print_file_name_and_frills, length_of_file_name_and_frills):
Don't use st_blocks if the previous stat() failed
* tests/ls/dangle: Add a test case
* NEWS: Mention the fix, and roll up related items into a single entry.
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* src/stat.c (do_stat): Interpret a command line argument of "-"
to mean "standard input", like many other tools do.
(do_statfs): Fail upon any attempt to use "-".
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
* tests/misc/stat-hyphen: New test, to exercise the above.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/stat-hyphen.
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* src/ls.c (format_inode): Access f->stat only if f->stat_ok is set.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Improved-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
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ls prints inode numbers two ways: for long (-l) listings,
and for short ones, e.g., ls -li and ls -i. The code to print
long listings properly printed "?" when the inode was unknown,
but the code for handling short listings would print 0 instead.
Factor out the formatting code into a new function so ls prints
the right string ("?") from both places:
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* src/ls.c (format_inode): New function.
(print_long_format): Use it here.
(print_file_name_and_frills): Use it here, too.
* tests/ls/dangle: Exercise this fix.
Reported by Yang Ren in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/525400
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* src/ls.c (print_dir): Diagnosing the cycle is not enough.
Also set exit status to 2. This is what Solaris' /bin/ls does, too.
* tests/ls/infloop: Rework test: match both expected stdout and stderr.
Require an exit status of 2 in this case.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Mention that a loop provokes
in an exit status of 2.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Yang Ren in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/525402.
* THANKS: Correct ordering of Yang Ren's names.
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* src/ln.c (STAT_LIKE_LINK): Delete.
(logical): New flag.
(long_options): Add -L, -P.
(usage): Mention them.
(main): Choose between them.
(do_link): Perform correct action.
* tests/ln/misc: Move hard-to-sym portion of test...
* tests/ln/hard-to-sym: ...into new test, and add more.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run new test.
* NEWS: Document this.
* doc/coreutils.texi (link invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add linkat.
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* NEWS: Provide a blurb about recent gnulib improvements. Fix typo
in readlink blurb.
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* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Move rename...
(gnulib_modules): ...here. Add symlink.
* NEWS: Document the change in readlink.
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Likewise.
* tests/readlink/can-f: Update test to new semantics, and add test
of loop.
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* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): Use consistent syntax for
all file and directory subtypes, and fall back to the color
of the base type if there is no enabled color for the subtype.
This allows turning off specific colors for o+w dirs for example.
* tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: Add a case to test that turning off
coloring for o+w directories, falls back to standard dir color.
* NEWS: Mention the fix
Introduced by commit ac467814, 2005-09-05,
"Colorize set-user-ID ... files and sticky ... directories."
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* NEWS: It is an old bug.
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A valid command like "touch -t 197101010000.60 F" would fail due
to the suffix of ".60". This bug is fixed via the latest change
to gnulib's posixtm module.
* tests/touch/60-seconds: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Temporarily set u+rw on the destination file
to allow GNU/Linux to set xattrs.
* tests/misc/xattr: Test that change.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Ernest N. Mamikonyan.
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* NEWS: Use a slightly less technical description.
Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
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* NEWS (rm -r, without -f): Mention that the N in "O(N)" represents
hierarchy depth. Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
(rm -r, standards conformance): Make wording more accurate.
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* src/id.c (print_full_info) [POSIXLY_CORRECT]: Don't print context.
Reported by Ulrich Drepper.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (id invocation): Document that id also prints the
security context, when possible, and when POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set.
* tests/id/no-context: New file. Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
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where N is the depth of the deepest hierarchy rm is processing.
* src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Use faccessat to
avoid O(N)-per-entry cost of calling euidaccess.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for faccessat.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
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* remove.c: Don't include "unlinkdir.h"; no longer used.
Do not include <setjmp.h> or "cycle-check.h". Likewise.
Include "xfts.h".
(dir_name, dir_len): Remove definitions.
(CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Likewise.
(INODE_SORT_DIR_ENTRIES_THRESHOLD, NEED_REWIND, D_TYPE): Likewise.
(struct dirstack_state, Dirstack_state): Likewise.
(g_buf, g_n_allocated): Remove declarations.
(hash_freer, hash_compare_strings, rm_malloc): Remove functions.
(rm_free, push_dir, top_dir, pop_dir, right_justify): Likewise.
(full_filename0, xfull_filename, full_filename_): Likewise.
(AD_stack_height, AD_stack_top, AD_stack_pop, AD_stack_clear): Likewise.
(obstack_init_minimal, ds_init, ds_clear, ds_free): Likewise.
(AD_pop_and_chdir, AD_ensure_initialized, AD_mark_helper): Likewise.
(AD_mark_as_unremovable, AD_mark_current_as_unremovable): Likewise.
(AD_push_initial, AD_push, AD_push, AD_is_removable): Likewise.
(write_protected_non_symlink): Change 3rd parameter from
dirstack_state "ds" to full_name.
(prompt): Adjust parameters. Now, state comes from FTS/FTSENT pair.
Those replace fd_cwd and "ds". Remove "filename". Remove pdirent_type
in favor of new "is_dir" parameter. Rename is_empty to is_empty_p.
(DO_RMDIR, DO_UNLINK): Remove definitions.
(remove_entry, fd_to_subdirp, compare_ino): Remove functions.
(dirent_count, dirent_inode_sort_may_be_useful): Likewise.
(preprocess_dir): Likewise.
(fts_skip_tree, mark_ancestor_dirs, excise, rm_fts): New functions.
(remove_cwd_entries, remove_dir, rm_1): Remove functions.
(rm): Rewrite as a simple loop calling fts_read and dispatching
each entry via rm_fts.
* src/rm.c (main): Adapt to new signature of rm().
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove unlinkdir, no longer used.
* src/Makefile.am (sc_tight_scope): Also recognize an extern "enum"
declaration.
* tests/rm/empty-name: Adjust expected output to match new diagnostic.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
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* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
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* NEWS: Record release date.
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Before this change, :>f; ln -T f no-such/ would succeed on Solaris 10.
After it, ln fails, as it should: ln: accessing `z/': Not a directory
The command, link f no-such/, had the same problem on that system.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add "link".
* tests/ln/slash-decorated-nonexistent-dest: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS (Portability): Mention the improvement.
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* src/dd.c (dd_copy) [C_UNBLOCK]: Always print the final newline for
non-empty output, not just when output size is a multiple of cbs.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation) [conv=unblock]: Mention that dd
prints a newline after each output record, not just when replacing
trailing spaces.
Reported by Ulrich Drepper.
* tests/dd/unblock: New file. Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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* src/tail.c (main): Adapt piped-stdin test to use the same isapipe,
test as was used in the preceding POSIXLY_CORRECT condition.
Remove the now-subsumed POSIXLY_CORRECT test.
Reported by Pádraig Brady.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Document this change.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Reclassify, clarify.
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* src/tail.c (main): Tailing a pipe "forever" is not useful,
and POSIX specifies that tail ignore the -f when there is no
file argument and stdin is a FIFO or pipe. So we do that.
In addition, GNU tail excludes "-" arguments from the list of files
to tail forever, when the associated file descriptor is connected
to a FIFO or pipe. Before this change, ":|tail -f" would hang.
Reported by Ren Yang and Ulrich Drepper.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f: Test for this.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f2: Ensure tail doesn't exit early for a fifo.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add these tests.
* NEWS (POSIX conformance): Mention it.
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* NEWS (dd): Tweak wording.
Two blank lines between sections.
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* src/tail.c (main) [HAVE_INOTIFY]: When stdin (i.e., "-", or no args,
but not /dev/stdin) is specified on the command line, don't use inotify.
Reported by Bill Brelsford in <http://bugs.debian.org/545422>.
* tests/tail-2/follow-stdin: New file. Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the test.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
This bug was introduced in coreutils-7.5 via commit ae494d4b,
2009-06-02, "tail: use inotify if it is available".
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* src/tail.c (main): Flush any output from tail_file,
before calling tail_forever_inotify, which can block.
* tests/tail-2/flush-initial: New file. Test for the bug.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add tail-2/flush-initial.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
This bug was introduced in coreutils-7.5 via commit ae494d4b,
2009-06-02, "tail: use inotify if it is available".
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* src/df.c (main): If open or fstat fails when we're trying to ensure
that all arg-partitions are automounted, fall back on using stat.
Inspired by the report and patch from Olivier Fourdan in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/520630.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/df/unreadable: New test for the above.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add df/unreadable.
The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.3 via commit dbd17157,
2009-04-28, "df: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting".
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* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't return from the function after an
unsuccessful and required preservation of extended attributes.
This resulted in leaking the copy buffer and file descriptors.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.
The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.1 via commit 0889381c, 2009-01-23,
"cp/mv: add xattr support".
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On most unix- and linux-based kernels, ls -i DIR_CONTAINING_MOUNT_POINT
would print the wrong inode number for any entry that is a mount point.
It would do that by relying on readdir's dirent.d_ino values, while
most readdir implementations return the inode number of the underlying,
inaccessible directory. Thus, it is not consistent with what you'd
get when applying stat to the same entry. This bug led to surprising
results like "ls -i" and "ls -i --color" printing different numbers (ls
must usually "stat" a file to colorize its name). This change makes it
so that on offending systems, ls must stat non-command-line-arguments
for which otherwise it would be able to use "for free" dirent.d_ino
values. Regardless of this change, ls is already required to stat every
command-line argument. Note: versions of GNU ls prior to coreutils-6.0
did not perform the invalid optimization, and hence always printed
correct inode numbers. Thus, for the sake of correctness, ls -i is
forgoing the readdir optimization, for any kernel (including linux!)
with POSIX-nonconforming readdir. Note that currently, only Cygwin has
been agile enough to conform.
* src/ls.c (RELIABLE_D_INO): Define.
(print_dir): Use it.
For plenty of discussion, see this long thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14020
This bug was introduced by the 2006-02-26 commit, 33eb3efe:
"In ls, avoid calling stat for --inode (-i), when possible."
* tests/ls/readdir-mountpoint-inode: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: Don't suppress failure of this test,
now that ls -i is fixed. Though note that it doesn't test well,
since it compares only the always-stat'd command-line arguments.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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* src/copy.c (copy_reg): When cloning only skip the data copying
* tests/cp/reflink-perm: New test to check times and modes copied
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
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* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document the new
"auto" and "always" options to --reflink.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Fall back to a standard copy
when reflink() is not supported and --reflink=auto specified.
* src/copy.h [struct cp_options] (reflink): Change type s/bool/enum/.
* src/cp.c (usage): Describe the --reflink={always,auto} options
and expand a little on what --reflink does.
(main): parse the new parameters to --reflink and allow all
--sparse options with --reflink=auto.
* src/install.c (cp_option_init): Init the enum instead of bool.
* src/mv.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
* tests/cp/reflink-auto: A new test for falling back to normal copy.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
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