Jim Meyering [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:24 +0000 (09:36 +0100)]
* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Use .tarball-version, not .version.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:51:48 +0000 (09:51 +0100)]
Don't depend on gnulib's deprecated "free" module.
* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Remove free.
* gl/modules/mgetgroups (Depends-on): Remove free.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:18:43 +0000 (09:18 +0100)]
Merge bootstrap changes from gnulib.
* bootstrap (MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS): Define and use.
(version_controlled_file): Use "git rm", not "git-rm".
Jim Meyering [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:16:59 +0000 (09:16 +0100)]
Use "git tag", not "git-tag", in preparation for git-1.6.0.
* Makefile.maint (VC-tag): Remove '-': s/git-tag/git tag/
Jim Meyering [Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:29:40 +0000 (15:29 +0100)]
Make copyright comments consistent.
* src/mktemp.c: Update copyright to use newer form.
Make first copyright lines consistent. Some did not end in ", Inc.".
Due to that missing ", Inc" at end of line, emacs' copyright-updating
code missed some opportunities. This corrects most of those, and
adds some mistakenly omitted years.
* src/chown-core.c: Adjust.
* src/chown-core.h: Likewise.
* src/copy.c: Likewise.
* src/copy.h: Likewise.
* src/cp-hash.c: Likewise.
* src/cp.c: Likewise.
* src/group-list.h: Likewise.
* src/mktemp.c: Likewise.
* src/stat.c: Likewise.
* tests/chmod/equal-x: Likewise.
* tests/dd/skip-seek: Likewise.
* tests/envvar-check: Likewise.
* tests/mv/into-self-2: Likewise.
Bob Proulx [Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:38:23 +0000 (20:38 +0100)]
Fix test failure where rm would appear to succeed incorrectly.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Ignore files that were opportunistically chosen
to test permission failures but disappear before we can finish the test.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:12:15 +0000 (18:12 +0100)]
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Parenthesize correctly.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:56:19 +0000 (14:56 +0100)]
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:22:58 +0000 (23:22 +0100)]
Avoid test failures when root (/) is not readable.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_readable_root_): New function.
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Skip this test when / is unreadable.
* tests/du/slash: Likewise.
This is required at least for Mandrake/Mandriva in "secure" mode.
Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12800
Jim Meyering [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:01:36 +0000 (10:01 +0100)]
id: avoid race when a group is added between getgrouplist calls
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups) [N_GROUPS_INIT]: Rename enum.
Use a larger value.
Update *groups only upon success.
Iterate upon failed getgrouplist.
James Youngman [Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:01:15 +0000 (15:01 +0100)]
id: use getgrouplist when possible
* gl/m4/mgetgroups.m4: Check for getgrouplist.
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Use getgrouplist, if available.
* TODO: Remove the item about switching to getgrouplist.
* NEWS: mention this
Paul Eggert [Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:45:47 +0000 (15:45 -0800)]
du vs. hard links and argument order: improve documentation
* doc/coreutils.texi (du invocation): Document default behavior on
hard links, and why argument order matters.
James Youngman [Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:44:53 +0000 (21:44 +0100)]
join: avoid new leaks
* src/join.c (prevline): Make prevline module-level static, so that
the allocated items can be freed at exit.
(free_prevline): new atexit function; frees items in prevline[].
Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY, so include "argmatch.h" to get that.
(main): Arrange for free_prevline to be called during exit.
(get_line): Free prevline[which - 1] also, as that
will have been allocated by dup_line.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:08:53 +0000 (12:08 +0100)]
Remove xdelta support, clean up distcheck process.
* Makefile.maint (writable-files): Don't create $(release_archive_dir).
(my-distcheck): Don't depend on prev-tgz.
Remove xdelta-related variables and uses.
(alpha beta major): Skip steps if $(release_archive_dir) doesn't exist.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:16:38 +0000 (08:16 +0100)]
* bootstrap: Remove dangling symlinks before invoking aclocal.
Andreas Schwab [Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:36:56 +0000 (08:36 +0100)]
sort: add --sort=... option.
* src/sort.c (SORT_OPTION): New enum.
(sort_args, sort_types): Define.
(usage, long_options, main): New option --sort.
* tests/sort/Test.pm: Test it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document --sort option.
* NEWS: Mention this.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:20:46 +0000 (18:20 +0100)]
2008-02-19 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
* TODO: Remove final seq-related item.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:52:26 +0000 (23:52 +0100)]
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust seq.c offsets. Accommodate a new C99-ism.
Steven Schubiger [Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:39:22 +0000 (22:39 +0100)]
seq: give better diagnostics for invalid formats.
* src/seq.c: (validate_format): New function.
(main): Use it.
* tests/misc/seq (fmt-d, fmt-e): Test for expected diagnostics with
invalid formats.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* TODO: Remove this item.
[jm: src/seq.c: make diagnostics more consistent
tests/misc/seq (fmt-eos1): adjust the expected diagnostic ]
James Youngman [Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:13:00 +0000 (14:13 +0100)]
join: new options: --check-order and --nocheck-order.
* src/join.c: Support --check-order and --nocheck-order.
New variables check_input_order, seen_unpairable and
issued_disorder_warning[]. For --check-order, verify that the
input files are in sorted order. For the default case, check the
order only if there are unpairable lines.
(join): Perform ordering checks after reaching EOF on either
input.
(usage): Mention --check-order and --nocheck-order.
(dupline): Save a copy of the previously-read input line so that
we can detect disorder on the input.
(get_line): Temporarily save a copy of the previous line (by
calling dupline) and check relative ordering (by calling
checkorder) before returning the newly-read line.
(getseq, join): Tell get_line which file we are reading from.
(advance_seq): New function, factoring out some of the code
commonly surrounding calls to getseq.
(checkorder): New function. Verifies that a pair of consecutive
input lines are in sorted order.
* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Document the new options
--check-order and --nocheck-order.
* tests/join/Test.pm (tv): Added tests for --check-order and
--nocheck-order.
* NEWS: Mention this new feature.
James Youngman [Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:39 +0000 (13:27 +0100)]
Fix non-srcdir "make distcheck" failure.
* Makefile.am (check-ls-dircolors): Look for sources under
$(srcdir), not under ".".
Jim Meyering [Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:38:52 +0000 (18:38 +0100)]
seq: give a proper diagnostic for an invalid --format=% option
* src/seq.c (long_double_format): Handle '%' at end of string.
* tests/misc/seq [fmt-eos1, fmt-eos2]: New tests for the bug.
* NEWS: Mention this.
Reported by Pádraig Brady.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:12:38 +0000 (11:12 +0100)]
.gitignore, src/.gitignore: ignore more
Jim Meyering [Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:26:03 +0000 (00:26 +0100)]
Clean up Makefile.maint.
* Makefile.maint: Remove obsolete comments.
(local-checks-available): Remove changelog-check.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:13:09 +0000 (18:13 +0100)]
Clean up ls.c.
* src/ls.c (put_indicator): Use fwrite, not a loop.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:33:02 +0000 (14:33 +0100)]
Ensure that dircolors.c and ls.c remain in sync.
* Makefile.am (check-ls-dircolors): New rule.
(distcheck-hook): Depend on it.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:57:15 +0000 (22:57 +0100)]
Expand "ls --color" tests to also use the dircolors defaults.
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Adjust this test so each is run twice. First, as usual,
and the second time with LS_COLORS set using the default settings
produced by running dircolors.
* tests/Coreutils.pm: See below.
This required some changes:
- save and restore $ENV{LS_COLORS} for each individual test
that requires a specific value.
- Since this is the first test to call the run_tests command more
than once, it has exposed that that function erroneously modifies
the \@Tests array. Fix that in tests/Coreutils.pm.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:06:12 +0000 (23:06 +0100)]
Adjust dircolors to match ls.c.
* src/dircolors.hin: comment out NORMAL and FILE, define RESET.
* src/dircolors.c (slack_codes) Add "RESET".
(ls_codes): Add "rs".
Ed Avis [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:22:35 +0000 (12:22 +0100)]
ls --color no longer outputs unnecessary escape sequences
In --color mode, plain files do not get any color, not even white.
When no highlighting is required, ls outputs no escape sequence at all.
* src/ls.c (print_with_color):
(used_color): New global.
(indicator_no) [C_RESET]: New enum value.
(indicator_name) ["rs"]: Corresponding new string.
(color_indicator): Make the 'normal' and 'file' markers be NULL.
Use "rs" (C_RESET) to reset to ordinary colors.
(process_signals): Restore default colors only if necessary.
(main): Don't call prep_non_filename_text here.
(print_name_with_quoting): Call it here, instead.
(prep_non_filename_text): Use C_RESET, not C_NORM.
(print_color_indicator): Return bool, not void.
Print nothing, when possible.
(put_indicator): Call prep_non_filename_text the first time.
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Test for above.
* tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: Adapt: no escapes around regular file name.
* TODO: Remove item.
* NEWS: Mention this.
Dan Jacobson [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:18:11 +0000 (09:18 +0100)]
ls: Improve description of --group-directories-first.
* src/ls.c (usage) [--group-directories-first]: Improve description.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Which files are listed): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:10:15 +0000 (23:10 +0100)]
Avoid tests/cp/acl test failure.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT) [CONFIG_HEADER]: Define
to an absolute name, so it can be used from any point in the
test hierarchy. Reported by James Youngman.
James Youngman [Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:29:52 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
Use the gettime module in ls.c.
Implement TODO list item to make ls.c use the gettime module.
* TODO (ls): Now that we use gettime, remove the TODO entry.
* src/ls.c: Use timespec.h and the gettime module.
(current_time): Change type from time_t to struct timespec.
(current_time_ns): Removed.
(get_current_time): Removed.
(print_long_format): Remove when and when_ns, since we have
when_timespec anyway. Change type of variable six_months_ago from
time_t to struct timespec.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:08:32 +0000 (00:08 +0100)]
groups: don't test printf and putchar calls for failure
They are unnecessary, since we use gnulib's closeout module.
* src/group-list.c (print_group): Remove explicit error tests.
* src/groups.c (main): Likewise.
(write_error): Remove function.
James Youngman [Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:05:52 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
Replace groups.sh with groups.c.
* src/groups.c (main): New file, replacing groups.sh.
* src/group-list.c, src/group-list.h: New files, factored out of id.c,
implementing the functionality that "id" and "groups" have in common.
* src/id.c (print_full_info): Avoid a segfault when trying to print
an error message if getgroups fails.
(print_group_list): Move to group-list.c.
(print_group): Likewise.
* man/Makefile.am: When building groups.1, obtain the help text
from src/groups.c, not src/groups.sh.
(noinst_HEADERS): Add group-list.h.
(group): Remove rule.
(dist_man_MANS): Remove groups.1.
* doc/coreutils.texi (groups: Print group names a user is in):
Explain why "groups" and "groups $(id -un)" give different results
in existing login sessions after you change the group database.
(id: Print user identity): Likewise for "id".
* po/POTFILES.in: Add src/group-list.c and src/groups.c.
* NEWS: mention this.
* AUTHORS: Update.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:45:54 +0000 (18:45 +0100)]
Move more test_skip_-using code to follow ". test-lib.sh".
* tests/mv/acl: Likewise.
* tests/cp/acl: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Peter Fales [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:15:29 +0000 (18:15 +0100)]
tests/touch/not-owner: Source test-lib.sh before using skip_test_.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:10:06 +0000 (00:10 +0100)]
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove strace.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:54:38 +0000 (20:54 +0100)]
tests: Migrate sourced strace file into a function, require_strace_.
* tests/strace: Remove file.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_strace_): New function.
* tests/mv/atomic: Use require_strace_, rather than ". strace".
* tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks: Likewise.
Peter Fales reported that stat-free-symlinks failed without strace.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:47:26 +0000 (20:47 +0100)]
* tests/rm/inaccessible: Source test-lib.sh *before* using skip_test_.
Reported by Peter Fales.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:18:03 +0000 (17:18 +0100)]
Ensure there are no removable (useless) if-before-free tests.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add useless-if-before-free.
* Makefile.maint (sc_avoid_if_before_free): New rule.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:52:47 +0000 (13:52 +0100)]
Use a better dirname emulation.
* build-aux/check.mk (_dirname): Define.
(am__check_pre): Use it.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:26:57 +0000 (11:26 +0100)]
Avoid test failure when run with risky PATH ("." before /usr/bin).
* build-aux/check.mk (approx_dirname_filter): Define.
(am__check_pre): Emulate dirname using sed.
Report and suggested fix from Bruno Haible in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12587/focus=12590
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:34:31 +0000 (10:34 +0100)]
* build-aux/.gitignore: Remove file from version control. It's generated.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:27:42 +0000 (10:27 +0100)]
Generate ChangeLog from git log.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gitlog-to-changelog.
Ensure that ChangeLog exists, for automake.
* Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): New rule.
(dist-hook): Depend on it.
(EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog-2006, ChangeLog-2007, ChangeLog-2008.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:23:46 +0000 (10:23 +0100)]
Remove ChangeLog, dividing its content into ChangeLog-200?
* ChangeLog: Remove file.
* ChangeLog-2005: Prepend the 2005 entries.
* ChangeLog-2006: New file.
* ChangeLog-2007: New file.
* ChangeLog-2008: New file.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:07:52 +0000 (10:07 +0100)]
* ChangeLog: Manually update copyright notice at *bottom*.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:06:29 +0000 (15:06 +0100)]
tests: rm/fail-eperm: require-non-root in perl, not sh
Since it creates no temporaries and since it requires non-root,
do the require-non-root bit in perl, rather than using test-lib.sh.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:29:25 +0000 (12:29 +0100)]
tests: Remove priv-check. Use new require_root_ function instead.
* tests/priv-check: Remove file.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove priv-check.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_root_): New function.
Use this function rather than sourcing the priv-check file.
* tests/sample-test: Use require_root_ rather than priv-check.
* tests/chown/basic: Likewise.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Likewise.
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Likewise.
* tests/cp/special-bits: Likewise.
* tests/ls/nameless-uid: Likewise.
* tests/misc/chcon: Likewise.
* tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly: Likewise.
* tests/mv/sticky-to-xpart: Likewise.
* tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Likewise.
* tests/rm/no-give-up: Likewise.
* tests/rm/one-file-system: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/append-only: Likewise.
* tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: Likewise.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Use skip_if_root_ rather than priv-check.
* Makefile.maint (sc_root_tests): Reflect this change:
search for the new function name.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:21:51 +0000 (14:21 +0100)]
tests: factor out the perl-requiring code in many test scripts
* tests/require-perl: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add require-perl.
* tests/dd/skip-seek: Use it, and remove manual tests.
* tests/du/files0-from: Likewise.
* tests/ls/nameless-uid: Likewise.
* tests/misc/base64: Likewise.
* tests/misc/basename: Likewise.
* tests/misc/cut: Likewise.
* tests/misc/date: Likewise.
* tests/misc/dircolors: Likewise.
* tests/misc/dirname: Likewise.
* tests/misc/expand: Likewise.
* tests/misc/expr: Likewise.
* tests/misc/factor: Likewise.
* tests/misc/fmt: Likewise.
* tests/misc/fold: Likewise.
* tests/misc/head-elide-tail: Likewise.
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-newline: Likewise.
* tests/misc/mktemp: Likewise.
* tests/misc/od: Likewise.
* tests/misc/paste-no-nl: Likewise.
* tests/misc/pr: Likewise.
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Likewise.
* tests/misc/seq: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha1sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha1sum-vec: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha224sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha256sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha384sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sha512sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sort-merge: Likewise.
* tests/misc/stat-printf: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sum: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sum-sysv: Likewise.
* tests/misc/test-diag: Likewise.
* tests/misc/tsort: Likewise.
* tests/misc/tty-eof: Likewise.
* tests/misc/unexpand: Likewise.
* tests/misc/wc-files0-from: Likewise.
* tests/misc/xstrtol: Likewise.
* tests/mv/i-1: Likewise.
* tests/rm/empty-name: Likewise.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise.
* tests/rm/unreadable: Likewise.
(EXTRA_DIST): *do* require require-perl as a stand-alone, 'source'able script.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:21:22 +0000 (09:21 +0100)]
tests: call skip_test_ in place of echo+exit 77
* tests/mv/no-target-dir: Likewise.
* tests/other-fs-tmpdir: Likewise.
* tests/rm/empty-name: Likewise.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise.
* tests/rm/inaccessible: Likewise.
* tests/rm/isatty: Likewise.
* tests/rm/unreadable: Likewise.
* tests/setgid-check: Likewise.
* tests/sparse-file: Likewise.
* tests/strace: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/append-only: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/big-4gb: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Likewise.
* tests/touch/dangling-symlink: Likewise.
* tests/touch/fifo: Likewise.
* tests/touch/not-owner: Likewise.
* tests/mv/i-3: Likewise.
* tests/umask-check: Likewise.
* tests/mv/acl: Likewise.
* tests/cp/acl: Likewise.
* tests/chgrp/deref: Likewise.
* tests/chmod/setgid: Likewise.
* tests/cp/existing-perm-race: Likewise.
* tests/cp/file-perm-race: Likewise.
* tests/cp/parent-perm-race: Likewise.
* tests/du/2g: Likewise.
* tests/du/8gb: Likewise.
* tests/du/long-from-unreadable: Likewise.
* tests/du/long-sloop: Likewise.
* tests/du/slink: Likewise.
* tests/ls/nameless-uid: Likewise.
* tests/ls/stat-dtype: Likewise.
* tests/misc/cat-proc: Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-newline: Likewise.
* tests/misc/nice: Likewise.
* tests/misc/od-x8: Likewise.
* tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Likewise.
* tests/misc/selinux: Likewise.
* tests/misc/stty-row-col: Likewise.
* tests/misc/tac-continue: Likewise.
* tests/misc/arch: Likewise, and source $srcdir/../test-lib.sh *before*
the use of skip_test_.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:22:21 +0000 (23:22 +0100)]
tests: move the very-expensive file into test-lib.sh
* tests/very-expensive: Remove file.
* tests/test-lib.sh (very_expensive_): New function.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove very-expensive.
* tests/cp/perm: Call the new function, rather than sourcing the file.
* tests/tail-2/assert: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/assert-2: Likewise.
* tests/du/2g: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:55:47 +0000 (08:55 +0100)]
tests: start migrating sourced-file function-like tests into test-lib.sh.
* tests/acl: Remove file.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_acl_): New function.
* tests/cp/acl: Use require_acl_ instead.
* tests/mv/acl: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove acl.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:05:17 +0000 (09:05 +0100)]
tests: mv/acl: Don't mention "yes" as a partition name in diagnostic.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:30:07 +0000 (23:30 +0100)]
We *do* need two different version files.
One for tarball-only, the other to be updated any time we
get a new value of $(VERSION).
* Makefile.am (dist-hook): Create .tarball-version in dist tarball.
* GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Make git-version-gen use it.
* .gitignore: Ignore it.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:05:00 +0000 (23:05 +0100)]
Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/.
* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation):
Spotted by Bert Wesarg.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:57:50 +0000 (22:57 +0100)]
NEWS [6.9.90]: head, od, split and tail accept the standard size suffixes
Steven Schubiger [Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:25:24 +0000 (08:25 +0100)]
mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr.
* src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function.
(announce_mkdir): Use it.
* src/split.c (usage): Update.
* src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr.
* doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention
of --verbose output being printed to stderr.
* tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr.
* tests/misc/split-a: Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* TODO: Remove this item.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:23:56 +0000 (13:23 +0100)]
Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 2 Feb 2008 08:04:24 +0000 (09:04 +0100)]
Clarify a comment.
* tests/sort/Test.pm: Replace a vague ChangeLog reference with a URL.
Bob Proulx [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:31:37 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
Improve wording of date and time man page.
* man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING.
* man/touch.x: Likewise.
Suggested by A. Costa.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:51:10 +0000 (13:51 +0100)]
Remove alignment constraint from the sha*_read_ctx functions.
* lib/sha256.c (set_uint32): New function.
(sha256_read_ctx, sha224_read_ctx): Use it.
* lib/sha512.c (set_uint64): New function.
(sha512_read_ctx, sha384_read_ctx): Use it.
* lib/sha256.h: Remove warning about alignment constraint.
* lib/sha512.h: Likewise.
Prompted by similar changes in gnulib's sha1 and md[45] modules.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:25:13 +0000 (13:25 +0100)]
Adapt to new version of vc-list-files.
* tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Adapt to new constraint
that vc-list-files be run only from $(top_srcdir).
Jim Meyering [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:27:15 +0000 (11:27 +0100)]
Pull vc-list-files from gnulib.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add vc-list-files.
* build-aux/vc-list-files: Remove file.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:10:02 +0000 (15:10 +0100)]
Improve the cp/parent-perm test.
* tests/cp/parent-perm: Also check that perms of existing dest
dirs are changed to match those of corresponding src dir
Paul Eggert [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:22:49 +0000 (09:22 +0100)]
Don't modify argv in dd due to ',' in arguments.
* src/dd.c: Include quotearg.h.
(operand_matches): New function.
(parse_symbols, operand_is): Use it.
(parse_symbols): 1st arg is now const pointer. Don't modify it.
msgid arg is now just the message, not a format.
(scanargs): Add some 'const's to check for problems like the above.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:37:07 +0000 (19:37 +0100)]
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets, again.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:29:01 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
Now that system.h defines is_empty_dir, include "openat.h".
* src/system.h: Include "openat.h" here, ...
* src/chcon.c: ... not here.
* src/chmod.c: Likewise.
* src/chown-core.c: Likewise.
* src/remove.c: Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:15:18 +0000 (16:15 +0100)]
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:43:15 +0000 (13:43 +0100)]
Improve "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty"
* 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.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:33:01 +0000 (07:33 +0100)]
Don't modify argv in dd.
* src/dd.c (operand_is): New function.
(scanargs): Use it so that we don't need to modify argv, as a nicety.
Problem reported by Adam Goode in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-01/msg00264.html>.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:19:29 +0000 (17:19 +0100)]
* Makefile.am (BUILT_SOURCES): Ensure that .version exists.
Reported by Bob Proulx.
Bob Proulx [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:19:21 +0000 (22:19 -0700)]
Improve the man pages of --date=STRING for 'date' and 'touch'.
* man/date.x: Add a compact description of the --date=STRING.
* man/touch.x: Likewise.
Reported by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/363011
Michael Stone [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:12:22 +0000 (14:12 +0100)]
Improve the description of when dd outputs its final statistics.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Say that dd prints stats
upon normal termination and upon SIGINT.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:16:17 +0000 (15:16 +0100)]
Avoid "make distcheck" failure: newly-created man/*.1 files not removed
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .version.
(.version): New rule.
(dist-hook): Don't create $(distdir)/.version here, now that it's
being distributed.
* man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Use ../.version, not ../VERSION.
(../VERSION): Remove rule.
* GNUmakefile (dummy): Create .version, not VERSION.
Add an extra "...:= $(shell..." statement to ensure that
.version exists even when the preceding code is not run.
* .gitignore: Remove both .version and VERSION.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:56:48 +0000 (08:56 +0100)]
ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinux
* 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.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:28:43 +0000 (18:28 +0100)]
Work around Darwin9's set-GID-like group ownership inheritance.
This avoids another spurious Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1) test failure.
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Accept a group ID of 0, as well.
Reported by Elias Pipping.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:37:23 +0000 (19:37 +0100)]
Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page,
rather than just "info PROG". The latter would often fail
or simply display the man page.
* man/help2man: Change the template.
Prompted by http://bugs.debian.org/399684
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:40:28 +0000 (17:40 +0100)]
chcon: correct description of --no-dereference (-h) option.
* src/chcon.c (usage): Remove invalid reference to lchown.
Reported by Göran Uddeborg.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:48:53 +0000 (15:48 +0100)]
Ensure that each version string change propagates to man pages.
* man/Makefile.am (common_dep): Don't depend on configure.ac for
version changes. Instead, depend on ../VERSION.
(../VERSION): New rule.
* Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): Define.
* GNUmakefile: Update ./VERSION.
* .gitignore: List VERSION.
Reported by Sven Joachim.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:38:39 +0000 (15:38 +0100)]
Avoid cp/preserve-gid test failure on Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1)
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Set group as well as owner on ".".
Reported by Elias Pipping.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:29:41 +0000 (12:29 +0100)]
Improve a warning about non-portable "mv" usage.
* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Adjust the warning: moving a
dir-symlink-specified-with-a-trailing-slash works in a surprising
manner only on some systems. Reported by Tomas Pospisek in
http://bugs.debian.org/343652.
Mike Frysinger [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:09:59 +0000 (10:09 +0100)]
src/dircolors.hin (TERM): Add jfbterm.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:26:08 +0000 (19:26 +0100)]
Clean up build-related rules.
* Makefile.cfg (gnulib_dir): Update comment.
* Makefile.maint (announcement) [cl_date, utc_date]: Don't set
now-unused variables.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:47:44 +0000 (22:47 +0100)]
TODO: Update the note on getgrouplist.
Zvi Har'El [Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:26:47 +0000 (14:26 +0100)]
Add a ";", so "make install" works with --enable-install-program=su.
* src/Makefile.am (install_su): Add a semicolon.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:12:04 +0000 (14:12 +0100)]
Avoid misinterpreting mgetgroups failure in running root-only tests.
* src/setuidgid.c (main): Don't misinterpret as size_t an error
return from mgetgroups. Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:18:24 +0000 (00:18 +0100)]
* README: Remove/convert a few stray mentions of CVS.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:03:48 +0000 (23:03 +0100)]
Require automake-1.10.1, for its support of dist-lzma.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Require 1.10.1.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:12:02 +0000 (08:12 +0100)]
.prev-version: Record version: 6.10.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:31:02 +0000 (00:31 +0100)]
Version 6.10
Jim Meyering [Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:30:14 +0000 (00:30 +0100)]
* NEWS: Record release date.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:28:23 +0000 (00:28 +0100)]
* README-hacking: Update to reflect existence of automake-1.10.1.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:26:49 +0000 (09:26 +0100)]
Update README.
* README: Remove a note about failing tests on SunOS 4.
On Mac OS 10.5.1 (Darwin 9.1), you'll need --disable-acl.
(Running tests as root): Recommend using "check-root", not "check".
Jim Meyering [Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:20:24 +0000 (10:20 +0100)]
Do not define-away __attribute__ when __STRICT_ANSI__ is set.
* src/system.h (__attribute__): Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ disjunct.
It has been unnecessary since approximately gcc-2.6, and now, leaving
it would cause gcc -Werror -ansi to fail to compile csplit.c.
* gl/lib/randread.c (__attribute__): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:20:20 +0000 (21:20 +0100)]
NEWS: Mention the configure.ac fix.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:18:47 +0000 (20:18 +0100)]
* TODO: Add an introduction.
Remove a few entries. Update a few others.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:44:53 +0000 (12:44 +0100)]
Remove each output redirection target before writing to it.
* tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Remove t1 and t2 _first_,
in case they exist beforehand and are not writable.
* build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Likewise, remove $@-t.
Elias Pipping [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:16:09 +0000 (09:16 +0100)]
* configure.ac: Correct a non-portable use of sed.
Mike Frysinger [Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:21:04 +0000 (16:21 +0100)]
* src/dircolors.hin (image formats): Add the .svg suffix.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:55:29 +0000 (09:55 +0100)]
Use new version of announce-gen.
* Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove use of the
--gnulib-snapshot-time-stamp option.
Use new --gnulib-version option instead.
(gnulib-version): New variable.