1 2008-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
3 We *do* need two different version files.
4 One for tarball-only, the other to be updated any time we
5 get a new value of $(VERSION).
6 * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Create .tarball-version in dist tarball.
7 * GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Make git-version-gen use it.
8 * .gitignore: Ignore it.
10 Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/.
11 * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation):
12 Spotted by Bert Wesarg.
14 * NEWS [6.9.90]: Mention the added feature that head, od, split and
15 tail now accept the standard size suffixes (kB, M, MB, G, GB, and
16 so on for T, P, Y, Z, and Y) on arguments to selected options.
18 2008-02-06 Steven Schubiger <schubiger@gmail.com>
20 mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr.
21 * src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function.
22 (announce_mkdir): Use it.
23 * src/split.c (usage): Update.
24 * src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr.
25 * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention
26 of --verbose output being printed to stderr.
27 * tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr.
28 * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise.
29 * NEWS: Mention this change.
30 * TODO: Remove this item.
32 2008-02-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
34 * Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment.
36 2008-02-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
39 * tests/sort/Test.pm: Replace a vague ChangeLog reference with a URL.
41 2008-01-31 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
43 Improve wording of date and time man page.
44 * man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING.
45 * man/touch.x: Likewise.
46 Suggested by A. Costa.
48 2008-01-31 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
50 Remove alignment constraint from the sha*_read_ctx functions.
51 * lib/sha256.c (set_uint32): New function.
52 (sha256_read_ctx, sha224_read_ctx): Use it.
53 * lib/sha512.c (set_uint64): New function.
54 (sha512_read_ctx, sha384_read_ctx): Use it.
55 * lib/sha256.h: Remove warning about alignment constraint.
56 * lib/sha512.h: Likewise.
57 Prompted by similar changes in gnulib's sha1 and md[45] modules.
59 Adapt to new version of vc-list-files.
60 * tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Adapt to new constraint
61 that vc-list-files be run only from $(top_srcdir).
63 Pull vc-list-files from gnulib.
64 * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vc-list-files.
65 * build-aux/vc-list-files: Remove file.
67 Improve the cp/parent-perm test.
68 * tests/cp/parent-perm: Also check that perms of existing dest
69 dirs are changed to match those of corresponding src dir
71 2008-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
73 Don't modify argv in dd due to ',' in arguments.
74 * src/dd.c: Include quotearg.h.
75 (operand_matches): New function.
76 (parse_symbols, operand_is): Use it.
77 (parse_symbols): 1st arg is now const pointer. Don't modify it.
78 msgid arg is now just the message, not a format.
79 (scanargs): Add some 'const's to check for problems like the above.
81 2008-01-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
83 * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets, again.
85 Now that system.h defines is_empty_dir, include "openat.h".
86 * src/system.h: Include "openat.h" here, ...
87 * src/chcon.c: ... not here.
88 * src/chmod.c: Likewise.
89 * src/chown-core.c: Likewise.
90 * src/remove.c: Likewise.
92 * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets.
94 Improve "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty"
95 * src/rmdir.c (remove_parents, main): With --ignore-fail-on-non-empty,
96 suppress a diagnostic also for other errno values, which can arise
97 with read-only media or when the parent directory has the immutable
98 attribute (set via chattr +i).
99 (errno_may_be_empty, ignorable_failure): New functions.
100 * src/remove.c (is_empty_dir): Move function to ...
101 * src/system.h (is_empty_dir): ...here, and make it inline.
102 Suggested by Josselin Mouette in <http://bugs.debian.org/363011>
104 * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
106 2008-01-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
108 Don't modify argv in dd.
109 * src/dd.c (operand_is): New function.
110 (scanargs): Use it so that we don't need to modify argv, as a nicety.
111 Problem reported by Adam Goode in
112 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00264.html>.
114 2008-01-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
116 * Makefile.am (BUILT_SOURCES): Ensure that .version exists.
117 Reported by Bob Proulx.
119 2008-01-29 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
121 Improve the man pages of --date=STRING for 'date' and 'touch'.
122 * man/date.x: Add a compact description of the --date=STRING.
123 * man/touch.x: Likewise.
124 Reported by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/363011
126 2008-01-29 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
128 Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics.
129 * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats
130 upon normal termination and upon SIGINT.
132 2008-01-29 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
134 Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removed
135 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .version.
136 (.version): New rule.
137 (dist-hook): Don't create $(distdir)/.version here, now that it's
139 * man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Use ../.version, not ../VERSION.
140 (../VERSION): Remove rule.
141 * GNUmakefile (dummy): Create .version, not VERSION.
142 Add an extra "...:= $(shell..." statement to ensure that
143 .version exists even when the preceding code is not run.
144 * .gitignore: Remove both .version and VERSION.
146 ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinux
147 * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Work around a bug in libselinux1-2.0.15
148 whereby getfilecon returns 0 yet sets the context to NULL.
149 Reported by Jan Moringen via Michael Stone in
150 http://bugs.debian.org/463043
151 * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-selinux-segfault.
152 * tests/ls/proc-selinux-segfault: Test for the above fix.
153 * NEWS: Mention the fix.
155 2008-01-26 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
157 Work around Darwin9's set-GID-like group ownership inheritance.
158 This avoids another spurious Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) test failure.
159 * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Accept a group ID of 0, as well.
160 Reported by Elias Pipping.
162 Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page,
163 rather than just "info PROG". The latter would often fail
164 or simply display the man page.
165 * man/help2man: Change the template.
166 Prompted by http://bugs.debian.org/399684
168 chcon: correct description of --no-dereference (-h) option.
169 * src/chcon.c (usage): Remove invalid reference to lchown.
170 Reported by Göran Uddeborg.
172 Ensure that each version string change propagates to man pages.
173 * man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Don't depend on configure.ac for
174 version changes. Instead, depend on ../VERSION.
175 (../VERSION): New rule.
176 * Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): Define.
177 * GNUmakefile: Update ./VERSION.
178 * .gitignore: List VERSION.
179 Reported by Sven Joachim.
181 Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1)
182 * tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".".
183 Reported by Elias Pipping.
185 Improve a warning about non-portable "mv" usage.
186 * doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Adjust the warning: moving a
187 dir-symlink-specified-with-a-trailing-slash works in a surprising
188 manner only on some systems. Reported by Tomas Pospisek in
189 http://bugs.debian.org/343652.
191 2008-01-26 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
193 * src/dircolors.hin (TERM): Add jfbterm.
195 2008-01-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
197 Clean up build-related rules.
198 * Makefile.cfg (gnulib_dir): Update comment.
199 * Makefile.maint (announcement) [cl_date, utc_date]: Don't set
200 now-unused variables.
202 * TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist.
204 2008-01-23 Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>
206 Add a ";", so "make install" works with --enable-install-program=su.
207 * src/Makefile.am (install_su): Add a semicolon. (tiny change)
209 2008-01-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
211 Avoid misinterpreting mgetgroups failure in running root-only tests.
212 * src/setuidgid.c (main): Don't misinterpret as size_t an error
213 return from mgetgroups. Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos.
215 * README: Remove/convert a few stray mentions of CVS.
217 2008-01-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
219 Require automake-1.10.1, for its support of dist-lzma.
220 * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.10.1.
224 * NEWS: Record release date.
226 * README-hacking: Update to reflect existence of automake-1.10.1.
228 2008-01-18 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
231 * README: Remove a note about failing tests on SunOS 4.
232 On Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1), you'll need --disable-acl.
233 (Running tests as root): Recommend using "check-root", not "check".
235 2008-01-17 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
237 Do not define-away __attribute__ when __STRICT_ANSI__ is set.
238 * src/system.h (__attribute__): Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ disjunct.
239 It has been unnecessary since approximately gcc-2.6, and now, leaving
240 it would cause gcc -Werror -ansi to fail to compile csplit.c.
241 * gl/lib/randread.c (__attribute__): Likewise.
243 2008-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
245 * NEWS: Mention the configure.ac fix.
247 * TODO: Add an introduction.
248 Remove a few entries. Update a few others.
250 2008-01-13 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
252 Remove each output redirection target before writing to it.
253 * tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Remove t1 and t2 _first_,
254 in case they exist beforehand and are not writable.
255 * build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Likewise, remove $@-t.
257 2008-01-13 Elias Pipping <pipping@gentoo.org>
259 * configure.ac: Correct a non-portable use of sed.
261 2008-01-12 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
263 * src/dircolors.hin (image formats): Add the .svg suffix.
265 2008-01-12 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
267 Use new version of announce-gen.
268 * Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove use of the
269 --gnulib-snapshot-time-stamp option.
270 Use new --gnulib-version option instead.
271 (gnulib-version): New variable.
273 2008-01-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
277 * tests/tr/Test.pm: Prefer en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.iso88591.
278 Suggestions from James Youngman and Pádraig Brady in
279 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218/focus=12227
281 2008-01-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
283 * README-hacking: Add Git to the list of required tools.
285 2008-01-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
287 Fix a minor race condition when using cp -p --parents.
288 * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): If stat fails on the parent
289 directory, do not add it to the list of directories whose modes
290 might need fixing later. Also, do not bother invoking 'stat'
291 unless the stat results might be needed later.
293 2008-01-08 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
295 parent-perm: avoid a bizarre test failure.
296 * tests/cp/parent-perm: Accommodate the situation in which
297 chmod ("dir", 02755) returns 0 yet fails to set the S_ISGID bit.
299 Remove uses of now-undefined Makefile variable.
300 * src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD, ls_LDADD, vdir_LDADD): Remove uses
301 of no-longer-defined variable, $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL).
303 2008-01-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
305 cp (but not copy.c): plug a small leak.
306 * src/cp.c (do_copy) [--parents]: Free the attribute list.
308 Make a racy test failure less likely to happen.
309 * tests/misc/tty-eof: Uncomment a debug "warn".
310 This change happens to make this test far less likely to fail.
311 With that statement commented out, this test would fail about
312 20% of the time on my desktop. Now, it's gone 100 iterations
313 in a row with no failure.
315 * NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix.
317 2008-01-07 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
319 cp --parents: don't use uninitialized memory when restoring permissions
320 * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Always stat each source
321 directory, in case its permissions are required in re_protect,
322 when setting permissions of a just-created destination directory.
324 2008-01-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
326 cp: add a test for today's bug fix.
327 * tests/cp/parent-perm: New script. Test today's change.
328 Based on reproducer from Jan Blunck.
329 * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add parent-perm.
331 2008-01-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
333 touch: add a test for today's change.
334 * tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: New script. Test today's change.
335 * tests/touch/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add now-owned-by-other.
336 * tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add td, a new root-only test.
338 * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
340 2008-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
342 touch: ignore "-d now" option, when appropriate
343 * src/touch.c (main): Treat "-d now" as if it were absent, if
344 neither -a nor -m is specified. Problem reported by Dan Jacobson in:
345 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00010.html
347 2008-01-05 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
349 Avoid tr case-conversion failure in some locales.
350 * src/tr.c (skip_construct): New function.
351 (main): When processing a pair of case-converting classes, don't
352 iterate through the elements of each [:upper:] or [:lower:] class.
353 Reported by Gerald Pfeifer in
354 <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12218>.
355 * tests/tr/Test.pm [tolower-F]: New test for the above fix.
356 [upcase-xtra, dncase-xtra]: New tests, for a related code path.
357 * NEWS: Mention the tr bug fix.
359 2008-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
361 * .gitignore: Ignore lzma-compressed files, too.
363 Update copyright date.
364 * tests/sample-test: Likewise.
365 * doc/coreutils.texi: Likewise.
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