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2008-12-27doc: mention long option abbreviationEric Blake
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): Give example of abbreviating options. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Adam Jimerson.
2008-12-23doc: stty: Clarification of some input and output settingsPádraig Brady
* doc/coreutils.texi (stty invocation): Clarify any ambiguity in regard to the direction of input and output settings. Add some notes on the case changing settings. Most of the text was supplied by Dan Jacobson.
2008-12-02du: read and process --files0-from= input a name at a time,Jim Meyering
rather than by reading the entire input into memory and *then* processing each file name. * src/du.c: Include "argv-iter.h", not "readtokens0.h". (main): Rewrite to use argv-iter. Call xfts_open on each argument, rather than on the entire argv list at once. Call print_size here, not from du_files. Diagnose read failure. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. * THANKS: update. Reported by Barry Kelly. More details in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/15159/
2008-10-13doc: ls: clarify exit status descriptionOndřej Vašík
* src/ls.c (exit_status): Clarify comments. (usage): Clarify exit status description in --help output. * doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Clarify exit status documentation Reported by Greg Metcalfe in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/446294>.
2008-09-28THANKS: add Erik AuerswaldJim Meyering
2008-08-18sort: improve usage wordingEric Blake
* src/sort.c (usage): Mention that -k defaults to end of line if POS2 omitted. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Tim Ryan. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
2008-08-14mktemp, sort, tac: don't use undefined after mkstemp failureJim Meyering
When mkstemp fails, the template buffer may have undefined contents, so we must not print it. * src/sort.c (create_temp_file): Use temp_dir, not "file" when diagnosing failed mkstemp, because "file" may be undefined. * tests/misc/sort-merge: Adjust for new expected output. Jeph Cowan and Ralf Wildenhues reported the test failure: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14235/focus=14257 * src/tac.c (copy_to_temp): Don't use template buffer after failed mkstemp call, since its contents may be undefined. * tests/misc/tac (pipe-bad-tmpdir): New test for the above. * src/mktemp.c (main): Save a copy of the template string, solely for use in case mkstemp fails. * tests/misc/mktemp (pipe-bad-tmpdir): New test for the above.
2008-07-19* THANKS: Update, now that I have a name for jemm4jemm.Jim Meyering
2008-07-04install with just-built ./ginstall only when not cross-compilingJim Meyering
* src/Makefile.am (install-exec-am): ...otherwise, use the default value, $(INSTALL_PROGRAM). Reported by Brian Silverman.
2008-06-28doc: add "..." to Usage, to indicate there may be multiple OPTIONsJim Meyering
* src/base64.c (usage): Likewise. * src/cat.c (usage): Likewise. * src/md5sum.c (usage): Likewise. * src/mkdir.c (usage): Likewise. * src/mkfifo.c (usage): Likewise. * src/split.c (usage): Likewise. * src/stat.c (usage): Likewise. Heiko Marr reported the problem with mkdir.
2008-06-17* THANKS: Add name and email for Carl Roth.Jim Meyering
2008-06-13od: align multiple -t specsEric Blake
* src/od.c (struct tspec): Add pad_width field, and adjust print_function prototype. (decode_one_format): Rewrite all fmt_string values to account for pad width. (FMT_BYTES_ALLOCATED): Adjust to new format style. (main): Compute pad width per spec. (write_block): Account for pad width. (dump): Don't print padding-only fields. (PRINT_TYPE, print_named_ascii, print_ascii): All print functions adjusted to use variable pad width. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add test. * tests/misc/od-multiple-t: New file. * THANKS: Update. * NEWS: Mention the improvement. Reported by Gary Johnson.
2008-06-13skip (don't fail) root-only tests for common set-up failuresJim Meyering
Address 2 of 4 failures reported by Jarod Wilson in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/442352. More details here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13803 * tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Skip the test if "mkfs -t ext2" fails. * tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Skip the test if "rm" is not accessible.
2008-06-11fix another unportable use of 'tr'Jim Meyering
* configure.ac [EXTRA_PROGRAMS]: Add omitted space in tr's STRING2. Spotted by Denis Excoffier, upon Solaris 8 build failure.
2008-06-06improve 'date +%C' documentationEric Blake
* src/date.c (usage): Use 20, not 21, for current century. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Dameon G. Rogers, fix suggested by Philip Rowlands. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
2008-06-02accommodate older SELinux which lacks matchpathcon_init_prefixJim Meyering
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Check for matchpathcon_init_prefix. * src/install.c [!HAVE_MATCHPATHCON_INIT_PREFIX] (matchpathcon_init_prefix): Define away. * gl/lib/se-selinux.in.h (matchpathcon_init_prefix): Define. Reported by Ilya N. Golubev in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13686>.
2008-04-21tests: skip (don't fail) rm/one-file-system when mount --bind failsJim Meyering
* tests/rm/one-file-system: Reported by Allen Hewes.
2008-04-19* THANKS: Update my address, correct encoding for a name.Sven Joachim
2008-04-06remove.c: accommodate systems with negative errno valuesJim Meyering
This is required at least on Haiku and BeOS. * src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Return 1 for a write- protected non-symlink, 0 if we determine it's not, and -1 upon error (setting errno accordingly only in this final case). (prompt): Deal with the changed semantics of the above function. Based on this patch from Axel Dörfler: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13071
2008-04-05Accommodate building on OS/2 (www.ecomstation.com Ecs v2 rc4)Jim Meyering
* configure.in: Also filter out carriage returns from the value of $no_install_progs_default. Reported by Elbert Pol.
2008-03-21ptx: avoid heap overrun for backslash at end of optarg stringJim Meyering
* src/ptx.c (copy_unescaped_string): Ignore a lone backslash at end of string. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler. Details here: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13005>. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add ptx-overrun. * tests/misc/ptx-overrun: New file. Test for the above fix. * NEWS: Mention the fix. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
2008-03-19mv: never unlink a destination file before calling renameJim Meyering
While cp --preserve=links must unlink certain destination files, mv must never do that. * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Pull the '! x->move_mode' test "up", so it affects the entire condition, and not just DEREF_NEVER mode. Reported by James Ralston in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/438076>. * tests/mv/atomic2: New file. Test for the above fix. * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add atomic2. * NEWS: Mention the bug-fix. [Bug introduced in 367719ba5f1dbd5e2f7fa2466c441f23f66a7c9e]
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.
2006-10-17*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
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