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2009-04-04maint: clean up Makefile.am, rename remaining ChangeLog filesJim Meyering
* Makefile.am (changelog_etc, syntax_check_exceptions): Define. (EXTRA_DIST): Use. Remove names that are now automatically included: build-aux/git-version-gen, build-aux/vc-list-files. * build-aux/ChangeLog-2007: Rename from */ChangeLog. * doc/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * lib/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * m4/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise. * po/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
2007-10-05List two systems on which chroot works when run by non-root.Jim Meyering
2007-09-19* coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Correct description of relativeJim Meyering
operator precedence. Reported by hanpingtian@gmail.com.
2007-08-26Avoid case-insensitive clash in one-page-per-node html docs.Eric Blake
* coreutils.texi (Concept index): Rename from Index.
2007-07-15* coreutils.texi: Revise node structure per new fdl.texi.Jim Meyering
2007-06-06* coreutils.texi (rmdir invocation): Fix a tiny typo.Jim Meyering
2007-06-03Remove constants.texi from version control.Jim Meyering
This file has always been generated. * .gitignore: Add constants.texi. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-04-28* src/nohup.c (usage): Describe how standard input and output are redirected.Paul Eggert
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.
2007-03-22* coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Document escapes in outputEric Blake
format. Reported by Armijn Hemel.
2007-03-16Fix manual in response to bug reports by Dan Jacobson.Paul Eggert
* coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Explain numeric sorts better. Compress self-congratulation into a simple "comparison is exact" notice; the --general-numeric-sort option already explains the tradeoffs. (seq invocation): Add example of -f.
2007-03-12* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that --preserve=timestampsJim Meyering
doesn't preserve time stamps on symbolic links. Reported by Polo Talnir in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866>.
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.
2007-01-30* coreutils.texi: @item -> @itemx to fix some typos.Paul Eggert
2007-01-30* coreutils.texi (mkdir invocation): Say how to set the filePaul Eggert
permission bits of a parent directory with mkdir -p.
2007-01-29Document new syntax: "chown +0:+287 file", "chgrp +99 file"Jim Meyering
* coreutils.texi (Disambiguating names and IDs): New section. (chown invocation, chgrp invocation): Mention the new syntax with an xref to the new section.
2007-01-19* coreutils.texi (ls: General output formatting): Mention theJim Meyering
workarounds to accommodate the Apple Terminal bug.
2007-01-04[ChangeLog]Jim Meyering
When decoding, always allow newlines in input, with almost no performance impact. * src/base64.c (do_decode): Initialize decode context. Call base64_decode one more time, after all input is processed. (usage): When decoding, newlines are always accepted. * tests/misc/base64: Add a bunch of tests, for the above. * gl/lib/base64.c: Include <string.h>. (base64_decode_ctx_init, get_4, decode_4): New functions. (base64_decode): Efficiently handle interspersed newlines. (base64_decode_alloc): Update signature. * gl/lib/base64.h (struct base64_decode_context): Define. (base64_decode_ctx_init): Add prototype. (base64_decode, base64_decode_alloc): Update prototypes. [doc/ChangeLog] * coreutils.texi (base64 invocation): When decoding, newlines are always accepted.
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>
2006-12-21* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify that bs=N overrides only anyJim Meyering
_preceding_ ibs and obs settings. Spotted by Andreas Schwab.
2006-12-21* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Add to the description of cbs.Jim Meyering
2006-12-21* coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Improve the documentationJim Meyering
for bs, ibs, obs, and cbs. Suggestion from Dan Jacobson. Patch by Olivier Delhomme.
2006-12-14chgrp, chown: Don't prohibit -RLh, aka -RL with --no-dereference.Jim Meyering
* src/chgrp.c (main): Don't prohibit -RLh, aka -RL with --no-dereference. * src/chown.c (main): Likewise. * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Add to a comment. * tests/chown/preserve-root: Add tests. * doc/coreutils.texi (Treating / specially): With --preserve-root, chgrp and chown will not modify "/", even through a symlink.
2006-12-14* coreutils.texi: Remove two doubled words.Jim Meyering
2006-11-28* perm.texi (Mode Structure): Fix typo: s/setgid/setuid/.Jim Meyering
Reported by Georg Neis as Debian bug 400778.
2006-10-28* coreutils.texi (wc invocation): When giving the order in whichJim Meyering
the various "counts" are listed, also mention "maximum line length". Prompted by a report from Vincent LeFevre.
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.
2006-09-26[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.
2006-09-19* coreutils.texi (Disk usage): Clarify intro. Problem reported by Van Ly.Paul Eggert
2006-09-19* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that -i and -f arePaul Eggert
independent. Clarify -i's behavior.
2006-09-08tail now ignores the -f option if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set,Paul Eggert
no file operand is given, and standard input is any FIFO.
2006-09-03(Treating / specially): --preserve-root isPaul Eggert
now the default for rm. (rm invocation): Likewise. Also, document that you can't remove `.' or `..'. Use the POSIX term "root directory" rather than the more-ambiguous "file system root".
2006-08-22* aclocal.m4, config.hin, configure:Paul Eggert
Remove from CVS, since ./bootstrap generates them automatically. * .cvsignore: Add INSTALL, Makefile.in, *.cache, *.lineno, *.log. Remove more-specific entries. This catches files like configure.lineno. * man/.cvsignore: Add Makefile.in. * src/.cvsignore: Add Makefile.in. Remove .version, dir.c, install, mvdir, stamp-v, vdir.c, version.c. For .cvsignore file under the tests directory: Add Makefile.in. Sort entries if necessary. Remove *.I, *.E, *.X, *.O, *-tests, build-script, mk-script if they're never created in this directory. * build-aux/.cvsignore: New file. * doc/.cvsignore: Add Makefile.in, coreutils.html, coreutils.pdf, coreutils.ps, coreutils.tps. Remove coreutils.cm (dunno what it is, but the makefile doesn't mention it). Remove coreutils.info as it is subsumed by coreutils.info*. * lib/.cvsignore: Add Makefile.in, getdate.tab.h. Remove stat.c, sysexit.h. * m4/.cvsignore: Remove Makefile, dev-ino.m4, glibc2.m4, intdiv0.m4, inttypes-h.m4, inttypes-pri.m4, jm-glibc-io.m4, lcmessage.m4, lock.m4, printf-posix.m4, same-inode.m4, size_max.m4, uintmax_t.m4, ulonglong.m4, visibility.m4, xsize.m4. Many of these are put in automatically by ../bootstrap, but that's a bootstrap bug that I plan to fix shortly. * po/.cvsignore: More ../bootstrap-related fixes, plus remove old cruft. Add *.po, LINGUAS, Makevars. Remove *.cat, *.msg, cat-id-dbl.c, messages.mo, stamp-cat-id.
2006-08-22* .cvsignore: Add files that are now generated by ../bootstrap.Jim Meyering
2006-08-21Add a bootstrap procedure, so that the CVS version contains fewerPaul Eggert
files and we bootstrap the rest from gnulib, gettext, etc. * README-cvs: New file. * bootstrap: New file. * bootstrap.conf: New file. * .x-sc_trailing_blank: Remove config-log, .gdb-history. Add .po. * configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Move here from m4/*.m4, for benefit of gnulib-tool. (gl_DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION, gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS, gl_PERL): (gl_IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES): Remove; now done by gnulib. (gl_EARLY): Add. (gl_MACROS): Call just after gl_EARLY, just for clarity. * src/c99-to-c98.diff: Remove patch to ls.c; no longer needed. * src/kill.c (strtoimax): Remove decl. * src/ls.c: Include "wcwidth.h" instead of rolling it ourselves. * src/wc.c: Likewise. * src/ls.c (sort_files): Rewrite to avoid need for C99-style declaration, so that we don't need to patch this file. * src/printf.c (strtoimax, strtoumax): Remove decls. * src/su.c: Include getpass.h. (getpass): remove. * src/system.h: Include mempcpy.h, stpcpy.h, strpbrk.h. Include inttypes.h unconditionally; remove decls it handles. * lib/Makefile.am: include gnulib.mk, so that we can remove most of this file. (AM_CPPFLAGS): Don't mention -I$(srcdir), since that's now done for us. (noinst_LIBRARIES, LDDADD, DEFS): Remove. (libcoreutils_a_SOURCES): Trim down greatly, just to the files that aren't in gnulib. Remove defns gnulib does for us. * m4/check-decl.m4 (gl_CHECK_DECLS): Don't include stdio.h, string.h, stdlib.h, unistd.h, sys/time.h, time.h. Use AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE for free, getenv, geteuid, getlogin, getuid, lseek, malloc, memchr, realloc. Don't check for getutent, memrchr, nanosleep, stpcpy, strndup, strnlen, strstr, strtoul, strtoull. (_gl_DECL_HEADERS): Remove; all uses removed. * m4/jm-macros.m4 (gl_MACROS): Move AC_PREREQ into configure.ac for the benefit of gnulib-tool. Call gl_INIT. Do not call or require macros that gnulib will handle for us. Don't check for fchmod, hasmntopt, isascii, lchown, listmntent, mempcpy, realpath, wcrtomb, tzset. (gl_CHECK_ALL_HEADERS): Don't check for sys/statvfs.h, sys/vfs.h, sys/mount.h. (gl_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Require AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT. Don't check for struct stat.st_blksize. Don't require AC_STRUCT_ST_DM_MODE, gt_TYPE_SSIZE_T, gl_AC_TYPE_UINT32_T, gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T, gl_AC_TYPE_UINTPTR_T, gl_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG. * m4/prereq.m4 (gl_PREREQ): Require gl_FUNC_XFTS, gl_ROOT_DEV_INO. Don't require macros that gnulib does for us. * m4/stat-prog.m4 (cu_PREREQ_STAT_PROG): Don't check for sys/sysmacros.h. Don't check for statvfs. Use AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE for netinet/in.h, nfs/nfs_clnt.h, nfs/vfs.h. Don't require gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG, gt_HEADER_INTTYPES_H.
2006-08-17* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Reflect doclicense.texi->fdl.texi renaming.Jim Meyering
2006-08-17Add/fix copyright notices and adjust to latest GNU FDL.Paul Eggert
2006-08-16*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2006-08-15* NEWS: Mention that df exits with nonzero status if it generatesPaul Eggert
no output. This change was in 6.0 but inadvertently unmentioned. * doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): df exits nonzero if it outpus nothing. * src/df.c (file_systems_processed): Renamed from n_valid_args, and now a boolean. (show_dev): Don't set it until we actually output something. Print the header if this is the first output. (main): Don't print a header, as that is now show_dev's job. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add df. * tests/misc/df: New file.
2006-08-09Warn about oflag=append without conv=notrunc.Paul Eggert
2006-08-08Add shuf, better random number generation, and fix sort -R inPaul Eggert
funny locales.
2006-07-28chmod 0755 DIR and chmod 755 DIR are now equivalent.Paul Eggert
2006-07-26* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): Test for S_IFREG first, ratherJim Meyering
than having the code test for all of the other types first. Hoist the set-uid/gid-testing code "up" into this new block. Classify any other type of file (e.g., S_TYPEISSHM, etc.) as C_ORPHAN, not as C_FILE. * doc/coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Mention that missing pieces of information are marked with "?". From Paul Eggert.
2006-07-25(Directory Setuid and Setgid): Explain that this is aPaul Eggert
GNU extension, and that other systems behave differently here.
2006-07-23(Mode Structure, Symbolic Modes, Numeric Modes): Be more carefulPaul Eggert
about distinguishing file mode bits from permissions bits, and about execute versus search permission. The FreeBSD command is chflags, not chrflags.
2006-07-22(Mode Structure): The restricted deletion flagPaul Eggert
restricts only unprivileged users.
2006-07-17chmod, install, and mkdir now leave setgid and setuid bitsPaul Eggert
of directories alone unless you specify them explicitly. install and mkdir now implement X correctly. install now creates parent directories with mode 755, without changing their owner or group.
2006-07-08* coreutils.texi (Squeezing): Separate doubled "the", so typo-checkersJim Meyering
don't complain.
2006-07-08* Makefile.am (check-texinfo): Enforce the zeros vs. zeroes consistency.Jim Meyering
2006-07-08* coreutils.texi: Fix some typos. Use `zeros' consistently (bothJim Meyering
`zeros' and `zeroes' are correct).