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2007-08-25Remove all .cvsignore files from version control.Jim Meyering
2007-08-21Clarify touch documentation of file arguments.Bob Proulx
* src/touch.c (usage): Improve wording of documentation regarding file argument handling and special handling of - argument. * doc/coreutils.texi (touch invocation): Likewise. Documentation problem reported by Vincent Lefevre.
2007-07-23Update all copyright notices to use the newer form.Jim Meyering
2007-07-15* coreutils.texi: Revise node structure per new fdl.texi.Jim Meyering
2007-07-10New program: archKarel Zak
* NEWS: Mention arch. * README: Add arch to the list of programs. * AUTHORS: Add arch. * src/uname.c: Include "uname.h". (PROGRAM_NAME): Handle arch, too. (ARCH_AUTHORS): Define. (uname_long_options, arch_long_options): Renamed and new globals. (usage): Handle arch-mode as well as uname-mode. (decode_switches): New function, extracted from main, to handle arch-mode as well as uname-mode. (main): Handle both modes. * src/uname-arch.c: New program, alias for "uname -m". * src/uname-uname.c: New file, default uname mode. * src/uname.h: New file, uname modes. * src/Makefile.am (EXTRA_PROGRAMS): Add arch. (uname_SOURCES, arch_SOURCES): Define. * man/arch.x: New file. * man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Add arch.1. (arch.1): New dependency. * tests/misc/arch: New test, compare "arch" with "uname -m" * configure.ac (OPTIONAL_BIN_PROGS): Add arch. (MAN): Add arch.1. * .x-sc_require_config_h: Exempt uname-arch.c and uname-uname.c from the always-include-<config.h> rule. Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-07-10Change "version 2" to "version 3" in all copyright notices.Jim Meyering
2007-07-04pr -F no longer suppresses the footer or the first two blank header linesPaul Eggert
Here's a patch along the lines of <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/10849/focus=10857>. It's a bit large since it changes the test cases to match the behavior, and the test cases' file names depend on the behavior! * NEWS: pr -F no longer suppresses the footer or the first two blank lines in the header. * doc/coreutils.texi (pr invocation): Likewise. Also, a too-short page length implies -t, not -T. * src/pr.c (lines_per_header, lines_per_footer): Now constants. (init_parameters): Don't try to change them. (print_header): Use the same header and footer format regardless of wither form feeds are being used. (usage): Adjust to above change when describing too-short page length. Too-short page length impliesy -t, not -T. * tests/pr/2-S_f-t_notab: Adjust to the fact that -F now affects only formfeed handling; it does not change the header. * tests/pr/2-Sf-t_notab: Likewise. ... * tests/pr/3-5l17f-t: Remove, since it's been renamed to another file whose name has a line count 7 larger, reflecting the new line count needed for this behavior. * tests/pr/3a3l8f-t: Likewise. ... * tests/pr/w72l24f-ll: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
2007-06-23seq no longer mishandles cases like "seq 0 0.000001 0.000003",Paul Eggert
where it would not print the desired last number. * doc/coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Remove advice about workaround for seq off-by-one problem, since the bug is fixed now. Replace it with more-generic advice about rounding errors. * src/seq.c (long_double_format, print_numbers): New arg NUMERIC_FORMAT. All uses changed.
2007-06-15Correct cp's handling of destination symlinks in some cases.Paul Eggert
* NEWS: "cp" no longer considers a destination symlink to be the same as the referenced file when copying links or making backups. * src/copy.c (copy_reg): When following a symlink, use the followed name in later chown etc. requests, so that the created file is affected, rather than the symlink. Use O_NOFOLLOW on source when not dereferencing symlinks; this avoids a race. Preserve errno correctly when doing multiple open attempts on the destination. (copy_internal): Follow destination symlinks only when copying a regular file and only when we don't intend to remove or rename the destination first, regardless of whether following source symlinks; this is because since POSIX and tradition (e.g., FreeBSD) say we should ordinarily follow destination symlinks if the system calls would ordinarily do so. * src/copy.h (struct cp_options): Add comment that 'dereference' is only for source files. * src/cp.c (usage): Note that --derereference etc. are only for source files. (make_dir_parents_private): Follow symlinks, regardless of whether --dereference is specified, because these are destination symlinks. * tests/cp/same-file: Adjust tests to match revised behavior. Filter out perror output since it might vary from host to host. Use sed alone instead of also using echo. * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document the behavior better when the destination is a symlink. Clarify source versus destination symlinks. Describe the new behavior for destination symlinks. 2007-06-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * src/copy.c: Include "canonicalize.h". (copy_reg): Use canonicalize_filename_mode to follow the symlink, so that we can always open with O_EXCL and avoid a race.
2007-06-15Clarify what "cat" documentation means by "blank" lines.Paul Eggert
* doc/coreutils.texi (cat invocation): "Blank" lines actually mean empty lines. * src/cat.c (usage): Say that "nonblank" means nonempty. Clarify --squeeze-blank.
2007-06-06* coreutils.texi (rmdir invocation): Fix a tiny typo.Jim Meyering
2007-06-04doc: -h and --human-readable are equivalent to --block-size=human-readablePaul Eggert
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): Mention that -h and --human-readable are equivalent to --block-size=human-readable. Documentation problem reported by Steve Ward in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-06/msg00007.html>. (du invocation): Use optSi rather than duplicating the macro's contents (incorrectly, since we claimed a "B" was output).
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>
2007-05-22Check for an up-to-date copyright year in coreutils.texi.Jim Meyering
* Makefile.maint (copyright-check): Also check for an up-to-date copyright year in doc/$().texi, if that file exists. * doc/coreutils.texi: Add 2007 to list of Copyright years. Reported by Karl Berry.
2007-05-13Add -z option to uniq. Originally proposed by Egmont Koblinger.James Youngman
* NEWS: Mention uniq's new option: --zero-terminated (-z). * src/uniq.c: Add new option, --zero-terminated (-z), to make uniq use the NUL byte as separator/delimiter rather than newline. (check_file): Add a parameter: delimiter. Update caller. Use readlinebuffer_delim in place of readlinebuffer everywhere. (main): Handle the new option. (usage): Describe new option the same way sort does. * doc/coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): Describe the new option.
2007-05-03The following commands and options now support the standard sizePaul Eggert
suffixes kB, M, MB, G, GB, and so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y: head -c, head -n, od -j, od -N, od -S, split -b, split -C, tail -c, tail -n. * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation): Document support for new size suffixes. (head invocation, tail invocation): Document that -n uses the same suffixes as -c. (tail invocation): More-clearly document what leading "+" does. * src/head.c (usage, string_to_integer): Support new suffixes. * src/od.c (usage, main): Likewise. * src/split.c (usage, main): Likewise. * src/tail.c (usage, parse_options): Likewise. Prompted by a patch from Evan Hunt.
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>.
2007-02-28* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): --si outputs "M", not "MB".Paul Eggert
Problem reported by Philip Rowlands in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-02/msg00283.html>.
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.
2007-02-24* 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.
2007-02-22Honor dd's noatime flag if possible, even if not supported on build fsPaul Eggert
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn that noatime might not be reliable. * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Look at O_NOATIME, not HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME, to decide whether to support the noatime flag, so that dd attempts O_NOATIME even if the build file system does not support it. Problem reported by Jim Meyering today in bug-coreutils. * tests/dd/misc: Generate a warning, not a failure, if noatime exists but fails.
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.
2007-01-30* 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.
2007-01-24* 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* 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.
2007-01-19* 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.
2007-01-03[oops] Document 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>
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>
2006-12-22* 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* 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.
2006-10-22ignore po/*.po; sort .gitignore filesJim Meyering
2006-10-21* .gitignore: Remove some references to files in subdirectories.Jim Meyering
* build-aux/.gitignore, doc/.gitignore, lib/.gitignore: New files. * m4/.gitignore, po/.gitignore, src/.gitignore: Likewise.
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(cp invocation): Clarify cp -i a bit more.Paul Eggert
2006-09-19* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that -i and -f arePaul Eggert
independent. Clarify -i's behavior.