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2008-02-07Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/.Jim Meyering
* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation): Spotted by Bert Wesarg.
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.
2008-01-26Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1)Jim Meyering
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".". Reported by Elias Pipping.
2008-01-26Avoid misinterpreting mgetgroups failure in running root-only tests.Jim Meyering
* src/setuidgid.c (main): Don't misinterpret as size_t an error return from mgetgroups. Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos.
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.
2007-12-31doc: Put braces around multi-digit exponents.Jim Meyering
Reported by Darrel Francis.
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.
2007-10-21tr: 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>
2007-08-14od: 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.
2007-07-29Attempt 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.
2007-07-15ls --color: Don't stat symlinks when neither ORPHAN nor MISSING attribute ↵Jim Meyering
has a color. * src/ls.c (main): Don't set check_symlink_color when C_EXEC is colored, unless ln=target (aka color_symlink_as_referent) is set. (gobble_file): Set f->linkok = true also when !check_symlink_color. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/10608/focus=10927 Reported by Jeremy Maitin-Shepard. * tests/strace: New file, contents extracted from... * tests/mv/atomic: ...here. Source strace. * tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks: New file. Test for the above. Use strace to ensure that in this corner case, ls does not call stat. * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add stat-free-symlinks. * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add strace.
2007-07-08THANKS: Add Pádraig Brady.Jim Meyering
2007-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-06-16Make chgrp and chown diagnostics consistent.Jim Meyering
* src/chown.c (main): Emit the diagnostic before the file name, not after it, to be consistent with chgrp's diagnostic. * src/chgrp.c (parse_group): Emit a ":" between the diagnostic and the file name. Reported by Egmont Koblinger. * THANKS: Add Egmont Koblinger.
2007-06-13rmdir: give better diagnosticsJim Meyering
* src/rmdir.c (remove_parents): Give a more descriptive/consistent diagnostic upon failure. (main): Likewise. Suggestion from Joey Hess. * THANKS: Add Joey Hess.
2007-06-11README: Also mention README-hacking,Jim Meyering
for whose who start from cloned/checked-out sources rather than from a distribution tarball. Reported by Steve Ward. * THANKS: Add Steve Ward. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
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>.
2007-05-04tr -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.
2007-05-02Invoke rm via 'setuidgid ... env PATH="$PATH" ...', as in fail-eperm.Jim Meyering
* tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Patch from AIDA Shinra. Reported by Peter Dyballa. * THANKS: Add AIDA Shinra and Peter Dyballa.
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.
2007-04-16cut synopsis: fix coreutils.texi, too.Jim Meyering
* doc/coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Adjust synopsis to show that an * THANKS: Add Rudolf Kastl. OPTION is required. Reported by Rudolf Kastl.
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.
2007-03-18Fix 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.
2007-02-20* src/env.c (main): When invoked with no arguments (i.e. when printingJim Meyering
the environment), use a local variable to iterate through the global "environ" array, rather than "environ" itself. This is solely to avoid changing the environment for an LD_PRELOAD-substituted "puts" or "exit" function. Tiny patch by Harvey Eneman. See <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/9735>. * THANKS: Update.
2007-01-03Document what the ".0" in e.g., "-k 2,3.0" means, and...Evan Hunt
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ... that it can be applied to the field-end spec, but not the field-start one. Patch from Evan Hunt. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
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.
2006-12-15* tests/cp/open-perm-race: Correct the gdb-existence check.Jim Meyering
Don't run either subsequent gdb command in a sub-shell. Reported by Thomas Schwinge. * THANKS: bring up to date.
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2006-07-05* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't work around old NFS clients likeJim Meyering
SunOS-4.1.4 and Irix 5.3 that set errno to values like EIO and ENOTEMPTY upon failed rename. Otherwise, we risk misinterpreting a banal failure as a recursive move-into-self failure. Reported by Florent Bayle in <http://bugs.debian.org/376749>.
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