platform/upstream/coreutils.git
15 years agobuild: "make check" now fails in a friendlier manner for missing Perl
Jim Meyering [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:50:40 +0000 (13:50 +0200)]
build: "make check" now fails in a friendlier manner for missing Perl

* doc/Makefile.am (sc-lower-case-var): Don't redirect stderr of
$(PERL) (which is sometimes build-aux/missing) to /dev/null,
so that a failing "make check" explains that Perl is not installed.
Reported by James Youngman.

15 years agobuild: doc: emit something for each "make check"-run rule
Jim Meyering [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:44:48 +0000 (13:44 +0200)]
build: doc: emit something for each "make check"-run rule

* doc/Makefile.am: Use $(AM_V_GEN) in place of each leading "@".
(check-texinfo): Align line-continuation backslashes.

15 years agobuild: update from gnulib, for the lib/*-state.c compilation fixes
Jim Meyering [Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:35:43 +0000 (07:35 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for the lib/*-state.c compilation fixes

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agomisc: correct NEWS entry about id -G portability
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:49:04 +0000 (15:49 +0100)]
misc: correct NEWS entry about id -G portability

* NEWS (Portability): getgrouplist has the portability issues,
not getgroups.

15 years agodf: adjust comment to match recent code change
Jim Meyering [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:45:43 +0000 (14:45 +0200)]
df: adjust comment to match recent code change

* src/df.c (main): Update comment to match.

15 years agomisc: mention the df vs. automount change
Jim Meyering [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:18:54 +0000 (14:18 +0200)]
misc: mention the df vs. automount change

* NEWS (Portability): Mention that df now accommodates the new
behavior of some automounters.

15 years agomisc: alphabetize NEWS entries
Jim Meyering [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:09:11 +0000 (14:09 +0200)]
misc: alphabetize NEWS entries

15 years agodf: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting
Tomas Smetana [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:21:49 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
df: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting

* src/df.c (main): When iterating over command-line arguments,
attempting to ensure each backing file system is mounted, use
open, not stat.  stat is no longer sufficient to trigger
automounting, in some cases.  Based on a suggestion from Ian Kent.
More details in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/497830

15 years agotests: ensure that cp's -a doesn't silence --preserve=context
Ondřej Vašík [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:29:53 +0000 (17:29 +0200)]
tests: ensure that cp's -a doesn't silence --preserve=context

* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Ensure that the -a option does not silence
error diagnostics from --preserve=context, when preserving context
is required.

15 years agotests: add test for xattr diagnostics on dest. FS lacking xattr support
Ondřej Vašík [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:20:23 +0000 (17:20 +0200)]
tests: add test for xattr diagnostics on dest. FS lacking xattr support

* tests/cp/cp-mv-enotsup-xattr: Ensure that xattr diagnostics are
displayed correctly when destination filesystem lacks xattr support.
* tests/Makefile.am (root_tests): Add new root-only test.

15 years agocopy.c: factor out test for errno value indicating "unsupported"
Jim Meyering [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:35:50 +0000 (11:35 +0200)]
copy.c: factor out test for errno value indicating "unsupported"

* src/copy.c (errno_unsupported): New function.
(copy_attr_error, copy_internal): Use it.

15 years agocp -a: diagnose failure when preserving xattr/context required
Ondřej Vašík [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:29:45 +0000 (14:29 +0200)]
cp -a: diagnose failure when preserving xattr/context required

* src/copy.c (copy_attr_by_fs): Always print diagnostics when preserving
xattrs is required.
(copy_attr_by_name): Likewise.
(copy_reg): Always print diagnostics when preserving SELinux
context is required.
(copy_internal): Likewise.  Also, do not ignore ENOTSUP and ENODATA
errors when preserving SELinux context is required.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

15 years agomv: ignore xattr-preservation failure when not supported by filesystem
Ondřej Vašík [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:00:35 +0000 (11:00 +0200)]
mv: ignore xattr-preservation failure when not supported by filesystem

*src/copy.c: Do not warn about xattr-preservation failure when xattrs
are not supported and preservation of xattrs is not explicitly required.
Reported by Eric Sandeen in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/496142

15 years agobuild: update from gnulib, for the vc-list-files fix
Jim Meyering [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:28:53 +0000 (10:28 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for the vc-list-files fix

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agobuild: adjust use of automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable
Jim Meyering [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:23:48 +0000 (09:23 +0200)]
build: adjust use of automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable

* src/Makefile.am (dircolors.h, wheel-size.h, wheel.h, fs.h):
(version.c, version.h): Use $(AM_V_GEN) only as a prefix of an existing
command.  Otherwise, it provokes warnings from some "make" programs.
Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.

15 years agotests: fix check-AUTHORS skip logic
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:52:31 +0000 (07:52 +0200)]
tests: fix check-AUTHORS skip logic

* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): When this test is skipped, be
sure to avoid all commands in the recipe, not just those passed
to the first shell.

15 years agocfg.mk: update to latest gnulib change
Eric Blake [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:16:27 +0000 (20:16 -0600)]
cfg.mk: update to latest gnulib change

* cfg.mk (bootstrap-tools): Override maint.mk default to include
bison.
* gnulib: Update to latest gnulib.

15 years agobuild: move coreutils-specific rules from maint.mk to new file
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:36:22 +0000 (21:36 +0200)]
build: move coreutils-specific rules from maint.mk to new file

* dist-check.mk: New file: coreutils-specific rules extracted
from maint.mk, now that maint.mk has migrated to gnulib.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add dist-check.mk.
* coreutils/cfg.mk: Include $(srcdir)/dist-check.mk.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agotests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:34:59 +0000 (21:34 +0200)]
tests: avoid unusual (~1-in-20) failure of a new test

* tests/misc/sort: Remove one of the generated tests.
363 remain in this file alone.

15 years agobuild: use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at) variables
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:16:46 +0000 (15:16 +0200)]
build: use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at) variables

* src/Makefile.am (dircolors.h, wheel-size.h, wheel.h, fs.h):
(version.c, version.h): Mark with $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at),
so that the latest automake prints "GEN $@" by default.

15 years agobuild: use maint.mk from gnulib
Simon Josefsson [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:07:43 +0000 (01:07 +0200)]
build: use maint.mk from gnulib

* maint.mk: Remove file.  Now it's generated.
* .gitignore: Ignore it.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add maintainer-makefile.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agobuild: make --enable-silent-rules the default
Jim Meyering [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:41:52 +0000 (13:41 +0200)]
build: make --enable-silent-rules the default

* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove silent-rules.  Instead,...
(AM_SILENT_RULES): Use this, with it's undocumented [yes] argument.
Those who want verbose build output may configure with
--disable-silent-rules or use "make V=1".

15 years ago* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:04:51 +0000 (21:04 +0200)]
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agosort -m: don't segfault when output file is also an input file
Jim Meyering [Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:45:27 +0000 (08:45 +0200)]
sort -m: don't segfault when output file is also an input file

* src/sort.c (avoid_trashing_input): Fix an off-by-one error and
guard the use of memmove.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/sort: Add tests to exercise the offending code.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Otavio Salvador in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.

15 years agotests: make the check-AUTHORS test more portable, now that it's...
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:45:51 +0000 (08:45 +0200)]
tests: make the check-AUTHORS test more portable, now that it's...

run as part of "make check".
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Don't depend on en_US.UTF-8.
Instead, use the French UTF8 locale, if configure found one.
If not found, just skip the test.

15 years agoavoid parallel "make distcheck" failure due to two run-in-src/ rules
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:21:38 +0000 (08:21 +0200)]
avoid parallel "make distcheck" failure due to two run-in-src/ rules

Move the check-AUTHORS rule from "syntax-check" to "check".
* maint.mk (local-checks-available): Remove check-AUTHORS.
(check-AUTHORS): Remove rule.
* src/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add $(no_install__progs),
since they too are built sometimes.
(check-AUTHORS): Split a longer-than-80 sed command.
(../AUTHORS): Remove obsolete rule.

15 years agocp: work around linux kernel bug: short-read != EOF on /proc
Jim Meyering [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:44:18 +0000 (18:44 +0200)]
cp: work around linux kernel bug: short-read != EOF on /proc

Remove the optimization that avoided up to 50% of cp's read syscalls.
Do not assume that a short read on a regular file indicates EOF.
When reading from a file in /proc on linux [at least 2.6.9 - 2.6.29]
into a 4k-byte buffer or larger, a short read does not
always indicate EOF.  For example, "cp /proc/slabinfo /tmp"
copies only 4068 of the total 7493 bytes.  This optimization
(25719a33154f0c62ea9881f0c79ae312dd4cec7a, Improve performance a bit
by optimizing away; 2005-11-24) appears to have been worth less than
a 2% speed-up (and usually much less), so the impact of removing it
is negligible.

* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't exit the loop early.
* tests/cp/proc-short-read: New test, lightly based on a suggestion
from Mike Frysinger, to exercise this fix.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp/proc-short-read.
* NEWS (Improve robustness): Mention this change.

15 years agotests: avoid new "make distcheck" failure due to newer File::Temp
Jim Meyering [Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:41:10 +0000 (21:41 +0200)]
tests: avoid new "make distcheck" failure due to newer File::Temp

With newer perl (e.g., Fedora 10's 4:5.10.0-68.fc10), tests/CuTmpdir.pm
stopped removing its temporary directories, with diagnostics like this:
  cannot remove path when cwd is /c/coreutils/tests/misc/seq.tmp-e2up \
  for /c/coreutils/tests/misc/seq.tmp-e2up: at \
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm line 902
Chdir out of the target directory before that code runs:
* tests/CuTmpdir.pm (END): chdir '..'.
(chmod_tree): Remove explicit "chdir $dir".

15 years agodoc: update README
Jim Meyering [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:17:04 +0000 (09:17 +0200)]
doc: update README

* README: (Reporting bugs): List the bug-reporting address here, too,
not just in the following more test-oriented paragraph.
Reported by Tim Mooney.
All changes are no longer listed in version-controlled ChangeLog
files, so note that contributions are attributed in the commit logs.
Mention bootstrap.conf, now that it's the authoritative source of
minimal prerequisite program/version# pairs.

15 years agotests: avoid failure of install-C test on FreeBSD UFS file system
Aurelien Jarno [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:10:04 +0000 (18:10 +0200)]
tests: avoid failure of install-C test on FreeBSD UFS file system

* tests/install/install-C: Use 2755 (set-gid), not 1755 (sticky),
to test install -C with non-permission mode bits set.  At least on
FreeBSD with a UFS file system, a non-root user may not set the
sticky bit on a non-directory.

15 years agocomment touch up: insert a space between "#" and text of comment
Jim Meyering [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:49:14 +0000 (21:49 +0200)]
comment touch up: insert a space between "#" and text of comment

* bootstrap: It's easier to read that way.

15 years agofix comment typos
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:37:29 +0000 (19:37 +0200)]
fix comment typos

* bootstrap: Fix comment typos.
* src/pr.c: Likewise.

15 years agomaint: bootstrap: sync a tiny change from gnulib
Jim Meyering [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:10:57 +0000 (09:10 +0200)]
maint: bootstrap: sync a tiny change from gnulib

* bootstrap: rename variable to sync with gnulib: s/\$depth/$shallow/

15 years ago* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:42:20 +0000 (07:42 +0200)]
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agobuild: use '.'-relative name, gnulib_dir
Jim Meyering [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:03:59 +0000 (07:03 +0200)]
build: use '.'-relative name, gnulib_dir

* cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): Use "gnulib", not "/gnulib", now that
the former is a git submodule, and guaranteed to exist.

15 years agomaint: clean up skipped syntax-check rules
Jim Meyering [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:18:24 +0000 (20:18 +0200)]
maint: clean up skipped syntax-check rules

* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove patch-check and changelog-check.
* maint.mk (patch-check): Remove rule.
(local-checks-available): Remove patch-check.
(changelog-check): Remove rule.

15 years agobuild: avoid parallel distcheck failure
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:48:49 +0000 (14:48 +0200)]
build: avoid parallel distcheck failure

* Makefile.am (ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): Initialize here, too,
to please automake.  Add install-root, check-root, distcheck-hook.
* cfg.mk (ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): Add sc_tight_scope.
* maint.mk (ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS): Add patch-check,
check-AUTHORS, maintainer-distcheck, vc-dist, taint-distcheck,
my-distcheck, alpha, beta, major.

15 years agodoc: fix a typo: s/is a is a/is a/
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:50:14 +0000 (12:50 +0200)]
doc: fix a typo: s/is a is a/is a/

* doc/coreutils.texi (Putting the tools together): Fix typo.

15 years agobuild: tight-scope test: don't build excluded programs
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:35:10 +0000 (11:35 +0200)]
build: tight-scope test: don't build excluded programs

* src/Makefile.am (sc_tight_scope): Depend on $(bin_PROGRAMS),
not $(all_programs)

15 years agognulib: update to latest: fix ls -v & sort -V
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:12:10 +0000 (10:12 +0200)]
gnulib: update to latest: fix ls -v & sort -V

* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

15 years agomaint: remove obsolete utime module
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:42:10 +0000 (08:42 +0200)]
maint: remove obsolete utime module

* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Remove utime.

15 years agomaint: put each module name on its own line; sort
Jim Meyering [Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:20:13 +0000 (08:20 +0200)]
maint: put each module name on its own line; sort

* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): List them one per line.

15 years agotests: misc/ls-misc: avoid shadowing local decl of $e
Jim Meyering [Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:29:59 +0000 (15:29 +0200)]
tests: misc/ls-misc: avoid shadowing local decl of $e

* tests/misc/ls-misc (make_j_d): Rename latter $e to $env

15 years agoid: fix infinite loop on some systems
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:43:15 +0000 (10:43 +0100)]
id: fix infinite loop on some systems

Steven Parkes reported that `id -G $USER` went into an infinite loop
on Darwin systems for users in more than 10 groups:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264007
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Work around buggy getgrouplist
implementations that don't update the required size correctly,
by doubling the result buffer and retrying. Also return the
parameter updated by getgrouplist rather than its return value,
as the documentation doesn't actually state the number of groups
stored is returned by getgrouplist.
* tests/misc/id-groups: Add test to exercise this logic
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* THANKS: Update

15 years agomaint: avoid "make syntax-check" failure
Jim Meyering [Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:16:00 +0000 (20:16 +0200)]
maint: avoid "make syntax-check" failure

* src/install.c (main): Tweak syntax of new diagnostic.

15 years agoinstall: deprecate the --preserve_context option
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:14:58 +0000 (14:14 +0100)]
install: deprecate the --preserve_context option

src/install.c: Print a warning when --preserve_context
rather than --preserve-context is used as per FIXME.

15 years agomaint: remove compiler warnings from randint and randread modules
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:23:26 +0000 (12:23 +0100)]
maint: remove compiler warnings from randint and randread modules

* gl/lib/randint.c: Remove unused MAX macro
* gl/lib/randread.c (randread_error): Add __attribute__((__noreturn__))

15 years agoshred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:42:15 +0000 (08:42 +0100)]
shred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default

Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797
to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred.
* gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal
pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom
* src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom
* src/shuf.c (usage); ditto
* src/sort.c (usage): ditto
* doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour
for aquiring random data.

15 years agomaint: Clarify ambiguous refs to Linux kernels or GNU/Linux systems
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:43:49 +0000 (07:43 +0100)]
maint: Clarify ambiguous refs to Linux kernels or GNU/Linux systems

* README-prereq: s_linux_GNU/Linux_ or s_linux_Linux kernel_
* README-valgrind: ditto
* src/chown-core.c: ditto
* src/dd.c: ditto
* src/df.c: ditto
* src/ls.c: ditto
* src/mv.c: ditto
* src/pwd.c: ditto
* src/remove.c: ditto
* src/shred.c: ditto
* src/stat.c: ditto
* src/su.c: ditto
* src/system.h: ditto
* src/timeout.c: ditto
* src/truncate.c: ditto

15 years agodoc: add missing documentation for some SELinux options
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 18:21:51 +0000 (19:21 +0100)]
doc: add missing documentation for some SELinux options

* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Describe the --context (-Z) option
(install invocation): Describe the --preserve-context and -Z options
(id invocation): Describe the --context (-Z) option
(mkdir invocation): ditto
(mknod invocation): ditto
(mkfifo invocation): ditto
* TODO: remove the todo item

15 years ago* doc/code-vs-command: Remove long-unused, never-distributed file.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:59:52 +0000 (07:59 +0200)]
* doc/code-vs-command: Remove long-unused, never-distributed file.

15 years agognulib: update to latest: includes Solaris 8 portability fixes
Jim Meyering [Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:52:22 +0000 (22:52 +0200)]
gnulib: update to latest: includes Solaris 8 portability fixes

15 years agomaint: clean up Makefile.am, rename remaining ChangeLog files
Jim Meyering [Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:39:44 +0000 (12:39 +0200)]
maint: clean up Makefile.am, rename remaining ChangeLog files

* 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.

15 years agotests: tweak po_check syntax check
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:51:11 +0000 (16:51 +0200)]
tests: tweak po_check syntax check

* maint.mk (sc_po_check): Don't let dangling lib/*.[ch] links cause
spurious "grep: lib/file.h: No such file or directory" warnings.

15 years agotests: improve ChangeLog syntax check
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:44:44 +0000 (16:44 +0200)]
tests: improve ChangeLog syntax check

* maint.mk (sc_changelog): Use $(VC_LIST_EXCEPT), not find.
Don't hang when there are no ChangeLog files.
(sc_require_config_h): For the file-name-filter, use grep -l
to be slightly more efficient.
(sc_require_config_h_first, _header_without_use, sc_program_name):
Likewise.

15 years agotests: make syntax-checks more robust
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:25:18 +0000 (10:25 +0200)]
tests: make syntax-checks more robust

* maint.mk (_prohibit_regexp): Add ';' at end of ':'-introduced
comment so that the comment doesn't gobble up the following test
for a missing regexp definition.
(_header_without_use): Escape all '.'s in a header file name,
not just the first one.

15 years ago* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate once more.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:05:10 +0000 (22:05 +0200)]
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate once more.

15 years agodoc: adjust 7.2 "cat,cp,install,mv,split speed-up" NEWS item
Jim Meyering [Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:52:16 +0000 (21:52 +0200)]
doc: adjust 7.2 "cat,cp,install,mv,split speed-up" NEWS item

* NEWS: Reword an entry from 7.2 and change "linux" to "GNU/Linux".
The latter was requested by Richard Stallman.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate.

15 years agols: fix alignment when month names have varying widths
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:29:21 +0000 (14:29 +0000)]
ls: fix alignment when month names have varying widths

Reported by Samuel Thibault and Stéphane Raimbault, as the glibc fr_FR
locale has recently changed to use the official but variable width
abbreviated month names. Other glibc locales also have variable widths.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-locales/2008-q1/msg00035.html
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9859
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* gl/lib/mbsalign.c: A new module to align and truncate a
string in a specified number of screen cells, while handling
multi-byte characters appropriately.
* gl/lib/mbsalign.h: Ditto
* gl/modules/mbsalign: Ditto
* bootstrap.conf: Reference the new module
* src/ls.c (abmon_init): New function, precompute the abbreviated
months aligned left in a minimum width column <= 5 screen cells.
(align_nstrftime): New function, replace the first %b in the
format specification to strftime with the precomputed month string.
Note using the cached month strings speeds up `ls -lU` by around 17%
on glibc-2.7-2 on linux at least.  Also if we implement this function
using heap storage rather than automatic storage, and use snprintf
instead of strcpy, ls will slow down by 2% and 1% respectively
(i.e. a net gain of 14% rather than 17%).
* tests/ls/abmon-align: A new test to test ls alignment for
various formats and locales
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test

15 years agodoc: Clarify the help for version sorting in ls and sort
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:59:54 +0000 (18:59 +0100)]
doc: Clarify the help for version sorting in ls and sort

* src/ls.c: Update the -v help description
* src/sort.c: Update the -V help description

15 years agodoc: adjust README-prereq instructions
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:44:09 +0000 (13:44 +0200)]
doc: adjust README-prereq instructions

* README-prereq: Reverse order of -b/--track options.
 Pádraig Brady mentioned that is required with at least git-1.5.3.6.
Invoke automake's own bootstrap script.

15 years agobuild: require automake-1.10b or newer
C de-Avillez [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:35:28 +0000 (09:35 -0500)]
build: require automake-1.10b or newer

* bootstrap.conf: Require at least automake-1.10b.
* README-prereq: Mention 1.10b, not 1.10a.

15 years agotests: skip mv/i-3 if /dev/stdin is unreadable
Jim Meyering [Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:59:54 +0000 (16:59 +0200)]
tests: skip mv/i-3 if /dev/stdin is unreadable

* tests/mv/i-3: Skip if /dev/stdin is unreadable.
Reported by Sergei Steshenko.

15 years agobuild: set automake's silent-rules option via configure.ac
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:43:35 +0000 (20:43 +0200)]
build: set automake's silent-rules option via configure.ac

* bootstrap: Revert commit 9f39fa855, 2009-03-28,
"build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible".
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Instead, set it here.
Require the just-released version of automake: 1.10b.

15 years agotests: enable automake's color-tests and parallel-tests via configure.ac
Jim Meyering [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:47:07 +0000 (09:47 +0200)]
tests: enable automake's color-tests and parallel-tests via configure.ac

* gnulib-tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Don't define here.
* tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Likewise.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Instead, add color-tests and
parallel-tests here.

15 years agobuild: use Automake's new parallel-tests feature
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:40 +0000 (12:15 +0100)]
build: use Automake's new parallel-tests feature

* build-aux/check.mk: Remove, not needed any more.
* tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add parallel-tests and
color-tests.
* tests/check.mk: Do not include build-aux/check.mk any more.
(SUFFIXES, TEST_LOGS): Remove.
(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Use $$f rather than $$tst in $PERL invocation.
* gnulib-tests/Makefile.am: Do not include build-aux/check.mk.
(AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): New macro, add parallel-test and color-tests.
(TEST_LOGS): Remove.

15 years ago* README-release (savannah news): Also mention the Subject: to use.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:28:41 +0000 (20:28 +0200)]
* README-release (savannah news): Also mention the Subject: to use.

15 years agopost-release administrivia
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:48:50 +0000 (14:48 +0200)]
post-release administrivia

* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

15 years agoversion 7.2 v7.2
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:11:57 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
version 7.2

* NEWS: Record release date.

15 years agotests: don't use lang-default from individual tests
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:54:14 +0000 (19:54 +0200)]
tests: don't use lang-default from individual tests

* tests/sample-test: Don't recommend using lang-default here.
It is now run for each test automatically, via TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
* tests/dd/reblock: Don't source lang-default here.
* tests/misc/truncate-fail-diag: Likewise.

15 years agotests: other-fs-tmpdir: remove just-added duplicate /usr/tmp
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:42:34 +0000 (19:42 +0200)]
tests: other-fs-tmpdir: remove just-added duplicate /usr/tmp

* tests/other-fs-tmpdir (CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS): Remove 2nd /usr/tmp.

15 years agotests: other-fs-tmpdir: avoid bogus "skipped **********..." diagnostic
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:59:23 +0000 (09:59 +0200)]
tests: other-fs-tmpdir: avoid bogus "skipped **********..." diagnostic

* tests/other-fs-tmpdir (CANDIDATE_TMP_DIRS): Add /dev/shm to the list.
Don't use a line of asterisks as the first line of the "why skipped"
diagnostic, now that that line is printed on 'make check's stderr.

15 years agobuild: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible
Jim Meyering [Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:48:24 +0000 (12:48 +0100)]
build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible

* bootstrap: Use automake's --silent-rules option.

15 years agotests: test-argv-iter.c: avoid declaration-after-stmt
Jim Meyering [Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:33:26 +0000 (17:33 +0100)]
tests: test-argv-iter.c: avoid declaration-after-stmt

* gl/tests/test-argv-iter.c: Move declaration "up", so as not
to ruffle feathers of crufty compilers.  We accommodate such
compilers here solely because this module may migrate to gnulib.
Tiny patch by Matthew Woehlke.

15 years agotests: fix 'make sc_tight_scope' on cygwin
Eric Blake [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:39:14 +0000 (06:39 -0600)]
tests: fix 'make sc_tight_scope' on cygwin

* src/Makefile.am (sc_tight_scope): Ignore leading underscores in symbols.

15 years agotests: avoid spurious test failure in set-GID build dir
Jim Meyering [Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:26:03 +0000 (09:26 +0100)]
tests: avoid spurious test failure in set-GID build dir

* tests/install/install-C-root: Skip this test if in set-gid directory.
Reported by Sven Joachim and C de-Avillez.

15 years agotests: migrate setgid-check into test-lib.sh
Jim Meyering [Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:23:35 +0000 (09:23 +0100)]
tests: migrate setgid-check into test-lib.sh

* tests/test-lib.sh (skip_if_setgid_): New function.
* tests/setgid-check: Remove file.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove setgid-check.
* tests/chmod/c-option: Use the new function rather than sourcing
the separate file.
* tests/cp/cp-parents: Likewise.
* tests/install/install-C: Likewise.
* tests/mkdir/parents: Likewise.
* tests/mkdir/perm: Likewise.

15 years agotests: mark the rm/ext3-perf test as "very" expensive
Jim Meyering [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:33:37 +0000 (10:33 +0100)]
tests: mark the rm/ext3-perf test as "very" expensive

* tests/rm/ext3-perf: Relegate this test to the very_expensive
category, since it is failing too often for me, when run in
parallel (-j4) with other disk-hammering tests.  This test fails
when it takes too long, so the fact that it fails under pressure
is an inconvenience more than a real problem.

15 years ago* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:20:43 +0000 (10:20 +0100)]
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agodf: port the known-value fix to AIX as well
Paul Eggert [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:50:17 +0000 (20:50 -0700)]
df: port the known-value fix to AIX as well

* src/df.c (known_value): New function, which also works on AIX
/proc file systems.
(df_readable, show_dev): Use it instead of hardcoding comparison to
UINTMAX_MAX.  Suggested by Jim Meyering and Matthew Woehlke.

15 years agodf: fix a bug when totaling unknown values
Paul Eggert [Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:16:46 +0000 (14:16 -0700)]
df: fix a bug when totaling unknown values

* src/df.c (show_dev): Don't add UINTMAX_MAX to grand totals, as that
value indicates that the true value is unknown; adding it effectively
subtracts 1 from the total, whereas we want to leave the total alone.

15 years agotests: don't fail "make syntax-check" on cygwin
Jim Meyering [Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:49:09 +0000 (22:49 +0100)]
tests: don't fail "make syntax-check" on cygwin

* maint.mk (NEWS_hash): Remove trailing " -" or " *-".
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate, removing " -".
Reported by Eric Blake.

15 years agopwd: support -L and -P
Eric Blake [Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:48:19 +0000 (14:48 -0600)]
pwd: support -L and -P

* src/pwd.c (longopts): New variable.
(logical_getcwd): New function.
(main): Use it.
(usage): Document new options.
* doc/coreutils.texi (pwd invocation): Likewise.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* TODO (pwd): Mark it done.
* tests/misc/pwd-option: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add test.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Paul D. Smith, in savannah bug 24949.

15 years agodoc: update suffix regex in version sort
Ondřej Vašík [Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:04:11 +0000 (12:04 +0100)]
doc: update suffix regex in version sort

* doc/coreutils.texi: Reflect current filevercmp regex.

15 years agotests: CuTmpdir.pm: avoid use of undefined variable in warning
Ralf Wildenhues [Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:15:46 +0000 (10:15 +0100)]
tests: CuTmpdir.pm: avoid use of undefined variable in warning

* tests/CuTmpdir.pm (chmod_tree): Do not warn if $dir is undefined.

15 years agotests: ls -v: exercise yet another change in gnulib's new filevercmp
Jim Meyering [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:33:47 +0000 (22:33 +0100)]
tests: ls -v: exercise yet another change in gnulib's new filevercmp

* tests/misc/ls-misc: Add names with ~ and ~.1~ suffixes.

15 years ago* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:49:03 +0000 (21:49 +0100)]
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agols: make it possible to disable coloring of hard links
Kamil Dudka [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:16:20 +0000 (12:16 +0100)]
ls: make it possible to disable coloring of hard links

* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): Don't color hard links if disabled
(when there is an empty hl= in the LS_COLORS environment variable).
* tests/ls/hardlink: Add test case for disabled hard link highlighting.
* NEWS: Mention the change.

15 years agotests: search only files that are under version control
Jim Meyering [Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:43:56 +0000 (09:43 +0100)]
tests: search only files that are under version control

* maint.mk (sc_error_exit_success): Search only files
that are under version control.
(sc_makefile_path_separator_check): Likewise.
Check *.mk files, too, not just Makefile.am files.

15 years agotests: follow own advice: use $(PATH_SEPARATOR), not ":"
Jim Meyering [Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:52:41 +0000 (09:52 +0100)]
tests: follow own advice: use $(PATH_SEPARATOR), not ":"

* maint.mk (coreutils-path-check): Use the variable, not the literal.

15 years agotests: modernize: use $(var) makefile notation, not @var@
Jim Meyering [Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:56:00 +0000 (09:56 +0100)]
tests: modernize: use $(var) makefile notation, not @var@

* maint.mk (sc_makefile_path_separator_check): Recommend
the use of $(PATH_SEPARATOR), not @PATH_SEPARATOR@.
Remove an obsolete comment.

15 years agotests: teach sc_dd_O_FLAGS about new syntax in dd.c
Jim Meyering [Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:20:09 +0000 (15:20 +0100)]
tests: teach sc_dd_O_FLAGS about new syntax in dd.c

* cfg.mk (sc_dd_O_FLAGS): Adapt to new syntax.

15 years agodd: use a more portable definition of O_FULLBLOCK
Eric Blake [Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:14:26 +0000 (20:14 +0100)]
dd: use a more portable definition of O_FULLBLOCK

* src/dd.c (O_FULLBLOCK): Compute its value without using a 180KB
macro.  This avoids triggering a compilation failure with HP-UX's cc.
Reported by Matthew Woehlke.

15 years agotests: avoid spurious mkdir/selinux test failure on HP-UX 11.23
Jim Meyering [Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:04:19 +0000 (19:04 +0100)]
tests: avoid spurious mkdir/selinux test failure on HP-UX 11.23

* tests/mkdir/selinux: Accept yet another diagnostic.
Reported by Matthew Woehlke.

15 years agotests: df/total-verify: avoid test failure with older Perl
Jim Meyering [Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:48:46 +0000 (18:48 +0100)]
tests: df/total-verify: avoid test failure with older Perl

* tests/df/total-verify: Don't use perl's -f option.
Reported by Matthew Woehlke.

15 years ago* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:55:03 +0000 (07:55 +0100)]
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agotests: adjust sort-continue not to fail under valgrind
Jim Meyering [Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:23:51 +0000 (21:23 +0100)]
tests: adjust sort-continue not to fail under valgrind

* tests/misc/sort-continue: Don't run cat inside fd-limited shell.
If sort fails to run in an fd-limited shell, skip the test.

15 years agotests: add another sort/nmerge test
Paul Eggert [Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:56:13 +0000 (14:56 -0700)]
tests: add another sort/nmerge test

* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add sort-merge-fdlimit.
* tests/misc/sort-merge-fdlimit: New file.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that we now silently
lower nmerge if necessary.
Patch by Paul Eggert, Nima Nikzad, Max Chang, Alexander Nguyen,
Sahil Amoli, and Nick Graham.

15 years agosort: handle fd exhaustion better when merging
Paul Eggert [Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:48:30 +0000 (15:48 -0700)]
sort: handle fd exhaustion better when merging

This is an alternative to my 9 March patch labeled "Silently lower
nmerge; don't (sometimes incorrectly) range-check"
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00070.html>.
It differs by not using 'dup' to probe for extra file descriptors;
instead, it simply calls 'open' (and 'pipe') to open files and pipes,
until one of these calls fails due to file descriptor exhaustion; it
then backs off by 1, does a merge with the files that it has opened,
and then retries with the (now-smaller) number of files.

This patch requires quite a few more changes to the source code than
the earlier patch, but it is in some sense "better" because it doesn't
need to call "dup" ahead of time in order to decide whether "open" or
"pipe" will fail.  Also, it's more robust in the case where "open" or
"pipe" fails with errno==EMFILE because some system-wide limit is
exhausted.

* src/sort.c (create_temp_file): New arg SURVIVE_FD_EXHAUSTION.
(stream_open): New function, containing guts of xfopen.
(xfopen): Use it.
(pipe_fork): Set errno on failure.
(maybe_create_temp): New function, containing guts of create_temp.
(create_temp): Use it.
(open_temp): Distinguish failures due to file descriptor exhaustion
from other failures, and on fd exhaustion return a notice to caller
rather than dying.  Don't test execlp's return value; when it returns,
it *always* returns -1.
(open_input_files): New function.
(mergefps): New arg FPS. It's now the caller's responsibility to open
the input and output files.  All callers changed.
(mergefiles): New function.
(avoid_trashing_input, merge): Handle the case where a single merge
can't merge as much as we wanted due to file descriptor exhaustion, by
merging as much as we can and then retrying.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/sort-continue.
* tests/misc/sort-continue: New file.
* THANKS: Add Glen Lenker and Matt Pham who coauthored this patch.

15 years agomaint: normalize leading-TAB indentation in Makefiles
Jim Meyering [Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:20:32 +0000 (12:20 +0100)]
maint: normalize leading-TAB indentation in Makefiles

* maint.mk (sc_makefile_TAB_only_indentation): New rule.
Replace each TAB+8-space sequence with two TABs.
* man/Makefile.am: Likewise.
* build-aux/check.mk: Likewise.
I used this command (run it more than once, if needed):
t=$'\t'; git grep -l -E "$t {8}"|grep -E 'Makefile|\.mk$' \
| xargs perl -pi -e 's/\t {8}/\t\t/'