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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.
2007-01-24* NEWS: sort temp file compression: tweak wording.Jim Meyering
* src/sort.c (struct sortfile) [name]: Declare member to be const.
2007-01-24* src/sort.c (MAX_FORK_RETRIES_COMPRESS, MAX_FORK_RETRIES_DECOMPRESS):Dan Hipschman
In pipe_fork callers, use these named constants, not "2" and "8". (proctab, nprocs): Declare to be "static". (pipe_fork) [lint]: Initialize local, pid, to avoid unwarranted may-be-used-uninitialized warning. (create_temp): Use the active voice. Describe parameters, too. 2007-01-21 James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> Centralize all the uses of sigprocmask(). Don't restore an invalid saved mask. * src/sort.c (enter_cs, leave_cs): New functions for protecting code sequences against signal delivery. * (exit_cleanup): Use enter_cs and leave_cs instead of calling sigprocmask directly. (create_temp_file, pipe_fork, zaptemp): Likewise 2007-01-21 Dan Hipschman <dsh@linux.ucla.edu> Add compression of temp files to sort. * NEWS: Mention this. * bootstrap.conf: Import findprog. * configure.ac: Add AC_FUNC_FORK. * doc/coreutils.texi: Document GNUSORT_COMPRESSOR environment variable. * src/sort.c (compress_program): New global, holds the name of the external compression program. (struct sortfile): New type used by mergepfs and friends instead of filenames to hold PIDs of compressor processes. (proctab): New global, holds compressor PIDs on which to wait. (enum procstate, struct procnode): New types used by proctab. (proctab_hasher, proctab_comparator): New functions for proctab. (nprocs): New global, number of forked but unreaped children. (reap, reap_some): New function, wait for/cleanup forked processes. (register_proc, update_proc, wait_proc): New functions for adding, modifying and removing proctab entries. (create_temp_file): Change parameter type to pointer to file descriptor, and return type to pointer to struct tempnode. (dup2_or_die): New function used in create_temp and open_temp. (pipe_fork): New function, creates a pipe and child process. (create_temp): Creates a temp file and possibly a compression program to which we filter output. (open_temp): Opens a compressed temp file and creates a decompression process through which to filter the input. (mergefps): Change FILES parameter type to struct sortfile array and update access accordingly. Use open_temp and reap_some. (avoid_trashing_input, merge): Change FILES parameter like mergefps and call create_temp instead of create_temp_file. (sort): Call create_temp instead of create_temp_file. Use reap_some. (avoid_trashing_input, merge, sort, main): Adapt to mergefps.
2007-01-17Make "rm --interactive=never ..." never prompt.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Mention this. * src/remove.h (enum rm_interactive): New ternary type. (struct rm_options) [interactive]: Use it, here -- rather than bool. * src/remove.c (prompt): Reflect type change. * src/mv.c (rm_option_init): Initialize to RMI_NEVER now. * src/rm.c (main): Add a FIXME comment for '-d' option. Adapt to type change of rm_options.interactive. * tests/rm/i-never: New file. Test for the above fix. * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add i-never.
2007-01-02Now, "ls -FRL" always follows symbolic links on Linux.Paul Eggert
* NEWS: Mention this bug fix. * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Fix bug reported by Nobuyuki Tsuchimura in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-12/msg00152.html where "ls -FRL" didn't follow a symbolic link in some cases on Linux. * tests/ls/follow-slink: Add a test for this case. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2006-12-22* NEWS: dd bs= operands now silently override later ibs= and obs=,Paul Eggert
as POSIX requires. * src/dd.c (scanargs): Implement it. * tests/dd/misc (outbytes): Test it. * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify that bs=N overrides later ibs and obs, undoing part of the previous change. (The behavior was wrong.)
2006-12-21"rm -rf /etc/motd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic.Jim Meyering
* src/remove.c (remove_entry): Handle EACCES for a non-directory, too. Karl Berry reported that a cross-partition "mv /etc/issue ~" failed with the um,... suboptimal diagnostic, "mv: cannot remove `/etc/issue': Not a directory". * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add fail-eacces. * tests/rm/fail-eacces: New file. * NEWS: Mention that both mv and rm are affected.
2006-12-20"cut -f 2- A B" no longer triggers a double-free bugJim Meyering
* src/cut.c (cut_fields): Set file-scoped global to NULL after freeing it. This avoids a double-free (and core dump on some systems) for this usage: "echo 1>a; echo 2>b; cut -f2- a b". Reported by James Hunt in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/220312>. * NEWS: List this bug fix. * THANKS: Mention him. * tests/misc/cut: New file. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cut.
2006-12-14* NEWS: --preserve-root now works with chgrp, chmod, and chown.Jim Meyering
* src/chmod.c (process_file): Do honor the --preserve-root option. * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Likewise, but here, also handle the case in which a traversal would go "through" a symlink to root. Reported by Matthew M. Boedicker * tests/chown/preserve-root: Test for the above. * tests/chown/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add preserve-root.
2006-12-14* NEWS: Mention the chmod fix induced by the recent change to gnulib's ↵Jim Meyering
openat.m4.
2006-12-09* NEWS: With the change from "-pre" to "-dirty" suffix, also changeJim Meyering
from NEXT_VER-pre to CUR_VER-dirty. So, this is 6.7-dirty. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): s/6.8-dirty/6.7-dirty/.
2006-12-08Post-release version change.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Add a line for 6.8-dirty. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set new version string.
2006-12-08Version 6.7.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record release date. Remove '-pre' suffix. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove version string suffix.
2006-12-07cp -p now clears special bits if it fails to preserve owner or groupPaul Eggert
* NEWS: Document the cp -p fix for special bits. * src/copy.c (set_owner): Now returns a three-way result, so that the caller can clear the special bits. All callers changed. (copy_reg): Don't set the special bits if chown failed. (copy_internal): Likewise. * tests/cp/special-bits: Test this fix. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2006-12-06* NEWS: Document the cp --preserve=ownership fix.Paul Eggert
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for fchmod. * src/copy.c (fchmod_or_lchmod): New function. (copy_reg): New arg OMITTED_PERMISSIONS. All uses changed. Omit confusing and unused ", dst_mode" arg to 'open' without O_CREAT. When creating a file, use O_EXCL, so we're more likely to detect funny business by other processes. At the end, if permissions were omitted, chmod them back in. (copy_internal): If the ownership might change, omit some permissions at first, then restore them after chowning the file. * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Likewise. * src/copy.c (cached_umask): New function. * src/copy.h (cached_umask): New decl.
2006-12-06NEWS: the du bug affects coreutils-6.4, 6.5 and 6.6.Jim Meyering
2006-12-03* NEWS: du --one-file-system (-x) would skip subdirectories of anyJim Meyering
directory listed as second or subsequent command line argument. * tests/du/one-file-system: New file. Test for today's fts.c fix. * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add one-file-system.
2006-11-22Post-release version change.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Add a line for 6.7-pre. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.7 and add "-pre" suffix.
2006-11-22Version 6.6.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record release date. Remove "-pre" suffix. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-pre" suffix from version string.
2006-11-22* NEWS: Mention the three noteworthy changes, all fixed via gnulib.Jim Meyering
2006-11-19Post-release version change.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Add a line for 6.6-pre. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.6 and add "-pre" suffix.
2006-11-19Version 6.5.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record release date. Remove "-cvs" suffix. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string.
2006-11-18"ln --backup f f" now produces a sensible diagnosticJim Meyering
2006-11-12* NEWS: Mention this bug fix.Jim Meyering
2006-10-25new feature: rm accepts new option: --one-file-systemJim Meyering
Suggested by Steve McIntyre in <http://bugs.debian.org/392925>. * src/remove.h (struct rm_options) [one_file_system]: New member. * src/rm.c (rm_option_init): Initialize it. (usage): Document the option. * src/mv.c (rm_option_init): Likewise. * src/remove.c (remove_dir): With --one-file-system and --recursive, for each directory command line argument, do not affect a file system different from that of the starting directory. And give a diagnostic. * src/rm.c (ONE_FILE_SYSTEM): New enum. (main): Handle new option. * tests/rm/one-file-system: Test the above. * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add one-file-system. * tests/Makefile.am (check-root): Add the rm/one-file-system test to the list. (EXTRA_DIST): Add other-fs-tmpdir. * tests/mv/setup: Removed. Renamed to... * tests/other-fs-tmpdir: ...this new file. * tests/mv/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove setup. * tests/mv/acl: Reflect renaming: use ../other-fs-tmpdir. * tests/mv/backup-is-src: Likewise. * tests/mv/hard-link-1: Likewise. * tests/mv/leak-fd: Likewise. * tests/mv/mv-special-1: Likewise. * tests/mv/part-fail: Likewise. * tests/mv/part-hardlink: Likewise. * tests/mv/part-rename: Likewise. * tests/mv/part-symlink: Likewise. * tests/mv/partition-perm: Likewise. * tests/mv/to-symlink: Likewise. * tests/mv/into-self-2: Likewise. [doc/ChangeLog] * coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Describe --one-file-system.
2006-10-23* NEWS: Add a line for 6.5-cvs.Jim Meyering
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.5 and add "-cvs" suffix.
2006-10-22Remove -cvs suffix here, too.Jim Meyering
2006-10-22Version 6.4.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record the 6.4 release date. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string.
2006-10-22* NEWS: (cp --backup fix): Fix a typo.Jim Meyering
2006-10-14* NEWS: cp -r --backup dir1 dir2, would rename an existing dir1/dir2Jim Meyering
to dir1/dir2~. * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Although we do create a backup of each destination directory when in move mode, don't do that when copying. Reported by Peter Breitenlohner, in <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/8616>. * tests/cp/backup-dir: New file. Test for the above.
2006-10-13* NEWS: Mention the above.Jim Meyering
2006-10-09* NEWS: Fix typo: iso-8602 -> iso-8601. Problem reported byPaul Eggert
Bob Proulx.
2006-10-03* NEWS: Update here, too.Jim Meyering
2006-10-03With --force (-f), rm no longer fails for ENOTDIR.Jim Meyering
* src/remove.c (ignorable_missing): New function. Use it everywhere, rather than open-coding the test. Andreas Schwab reported the ENOTDIR problem. (ignorable_missing): Similarly, don't fail for ENAMETOOLONG. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * tests/rm/ignorable: New file. Test for the ENOTDIR case. * tests/rm/ignore-name-too-long: New file. Test for ENAMETOOLONG. * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the new file names.
2006-10-02* NEWS: Add a line for 6.4-cvs.Jim Meyering
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.4 and add "-cvs" suffix.
2006-09-30Version 6.3.Jim Meyering
* NEWS: Record the 6.3 release date. * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string. * NEWS: Mention Paul's Solaris 8 vs. 10 work-around.
2006-09-29* NEWS: Mention Paul's fix (to gnulib's canon-host.c) forJim Meyering
the pinky segfault.
2006-09-29* src/shuf.c (read_input): Fix an off-by-one error thatJim Meyering
would cause an infloop for piped input of 8KB or more. * NEWS: Mention the fix. * tests/misc/shuf: Test for the above fix.
2006-09-29Work around a readdir bug in Darwin 7.9.0 (MacOS X 10.3.9) on HFS+Jim Meyering
and NFS, whereby rm would not remove all files in a directory. * src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Reduce to 10. (NEED_REWIND): New macro, so that we incur the cost of the work-around rewinddir only on afflicted systems. * NEWS: Clarify and correct. * tests/rm/readdir-bug: New file. Test for the above fix. * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it. Prompted by testing and analysis from Bruno Haible: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00326.html
2006-09-26* NEWS: rm works around a bug in Darwin 8.6.1 w/NFS that keptJim Meyering
it from removing a directory containing 188 or more entries. * src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Decrease by 20, go work around the buggy readdir on Darwin 8.6.1 with NFS. Reported by Matthew Woehlke.
2006-09-26[ChangeLog]Paul Eggert
* NEWS: "groups user" no longer outputs "user :"; you need at least two users. "groups" now processes options like --help more compatibly. * src/groups.sh: Implement the option-processing change. Handle user and group names with special characters more robustly. Report write errors instead of exiting silently with status 1. [doc/ChangeLog] * coreutils.texi (groups invocation): "groups" no longer prefixes the output with "user :" unless more than one user is specified.
2006-09-26* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.Jim Meyering
* src/groups.sh: Don't hide a write failure. Reported by Iain Calder <ic56@rogers.com>.
2006-09-24* NEWS: Mention these fixes.Jim Meyering
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): With --verbose (-v), print "removed `file_name'" just after unlinking a file. (copy_internal): Likewise, in three more places. Marc Lehman reported that "touch x; ln x y; mv -v x y" was silent.
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