Pádraig Brady [Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:19:58 +0000 (19:19 +0100)]
md5sum, sha*sum, sum: line-buffer the printed checksums
* src/md5sum.c (main): Set stdout to line buffered mode
to ensure parallel running instances don't intersperse
their output. This adds 5% to the run time in the worst case
of many zero length files, or 2% with standard file sizes.
* src/sum.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-parallel: New test for atomic output.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference it.
* NEWS: Mention the fix
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:12:40 +0000 (11:12 +0100)]
maint: issue warnings for more missing optional libraries
* README-hacking: Suggest to use ./configure --quiet so that
any warnings are easily noticed.
* m4/gmp.m4 (cu_GMP): Warn if libgmp is not available.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Normalize the libcap warning.
* m4/xattr.m4 (gl_FUNC_XATTR): Warn if libattr is not available.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:55:42 +0000 (07:55 +0200)]
build: use gnulib's isblank module
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add isblank.
* src/system.h (isblank): Don't define.
* m4/check-decl.m4: Don't check for isblank declaration.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:26:15 +0000 (10:26 +0200)]
maint: factor out duplication in currently unused rules
* src/Makefile.am (fs_normalize_perl_subst): Define.
(fs-magic, fs-kernel-magic): Use it.
Eric Blake [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:55:05 +0000 (07:55 -0600)]
touch: add -h to change symlink timestamps, where supported
* src/touch.c (no_dereference): New flag variable.
(longopts): Add -h/--no-dereference.
(touch): Add symlink handling.
(usage): Document new option.
(main): Accept new option.
* NEWS: Document it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (touch invocation): Likewise. Also mention
birthtime.
* tests/touch/no-dereference: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run it.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:18:54 +0000 (12:18 +0200)]
tests: abmon-align: avoid test failure
* tests/ls/abmon-align: Don't remove (1d;) the first line of output.
That was making the test consider only 11 of 12 month names.
Rewrite not to use \(.*\), as that provoked a malfunction in GNU sed
on powerpc Mac OS X (though we don't know yet whether this is due to a
sed bug, or to miscompilation). Nelson Beebe reported the test failure.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:13:10 +0000 (22:13 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:54:02 +0000 (20:54 +0200)]
build: don't let environment settings perturb build
Setting the envvars, LIB_FDATASYNC, LIB_XATTR or LIB_CRYPT
could cause a configure-time and/or build-time malfunction.
Typically, a configure-time function-in-library test is performed
via code like this:
LIB_VAR=
AC_SUBST([LIB_VAR])
prefix_saved_LIBS=$LIBS
AC_SEARCH_LIBS([FUNC], [LIB_NAME],
[test "$ac_cv_search_FUNC" = "none required" ||
LIB_VAR=$ac_cv_search_FUNC])
LIBS=$prefix_saved_LIBS
However, in each of the files affected by this change, the LIB_VAR=
initialization was omitted. Thus, when set in the environment, its
value would propagate into generated Makefiles when FUNC is not found
in LIB_NAME.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Initialize AC_SUBST'd var
* m4/lib-check.m4 (cu_LIB_CHECK): Likewise.
* m4/xattr.m4 (gl_FUNC_XATTR): Likewise.
C de-Avillez [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:58:25 +0000 (02:58 -0500)]
tail: add add missing backslash at the end of a line in usage
* src/tail.c (usage): Add missing backslash at the end of a line.
Eric Blake [Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:00:12 +0000 (07:00 -0600)]
tail: tweak usage for more clarity
* src/tail.c (usage): Spell out -n +K.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Jan-Pawel Wrozstinski.
Eric Blake [Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:56:03 +0000 (06:56 -0600)]
touch: optimize use of utimens
* src/touch.c (main): Use UTIME_NOW rather than calling gettime.
(touch): Use UTIME_OMIT rather than stat.
Eric Blake [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:57:06 +0000 (15:57 -0600)]
copy: allow symlink timestamp preservation on more systems
* src/copy.c (utimens_symlink): Simplify by using lutimens.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Drop utimensat; gnulib does
this for us.
* tests/cp/preserve-slink-time: Recognize lutimes support.
Eric Blake [Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:31:52 +0000 (13:31 -0600)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest, for utimens improvements
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:01:05 +0000 (15:01 +0200)]
tests: adjust tail-2/pid to work around FreeBSD 6.1 failure
* tests/tail-2/pid: Run tail -f --pid=... on an actual file, not on
/dev/null, to avoid this failure on FreeBSD 6.1: tail: /dev/null:
cannot change nonblocking mode: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Eric Blake [Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:21:59 +0000 (06:21 -0600)]
maint: touch up previous LDADD patch
* src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD): Delete; the ls_LDADD line covers this.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:02:26 +0000 (09:02 +0200)]
build: build uname(1) unconditionally
Before, on a system without the uname function, the build
system would detect that and not build/install a uname program.
Now that gnulib guarantees a uname function, ...
* configure.ac: Don't check for the uname function.
* src/Makefile.am (build_if_possible__progs): Move uname...
(EXTRA_PROGRAMS): ...to this list.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:58:43 +0000 (08:58 +0200)]
maint: list program names one per line
* src/Makefile.am (EXTRA_PROGRAMS): List them one per line.
(build_if_possible__progs): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:24:02 +0000 (08:24 +0200)]
build: ls: fix link failure due to missing -lacl
* src/Makefile.am (ls_LDADD): Re-add $(LIB_ACL).
Inadvertently-removed by commit
78c93601.
Eric Blake [Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:08:03 +0000 (20:08 -0600)]
maint: touch up previous LDADD patch
* src/Makefile.am (stdbuf_LDADD): Add missing primer.
(hostname_LDADD, uname_LDADD): Add GETHOSTNAME_LIB.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add uname.
Eric Blake [Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:57:56 +0000 (13:57 -0600)]
maint: improve additional library tracking
* src/Makefile.am (LDADD): Refactor, to make per-library additions
to individual programs easier to maintain.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:31:17 +0000 (15:31 +0200)]
chcon: don't disable just because SELinux is disabled
* src/chcon.c (main): Now that gnulib provides getfilecon wrappers,
we can revert most of the 2009-10-05 commit
3a97d664, "chcon: exit
immediately if SELinux is disabled", since chcon is still useful as
long as the file system provides handlers for the security.*
name space. gnulib's getfilecon wrappers ensure that an offending
context now evokes a return value of -1.
Prompted by comments from Stephen Smalley in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18378/focus=18394
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:29:12 +0000 (22:29 +0200)]
ls: remove explicit getfilecon work-around
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Remove l?getfilecon work-around,
now that the gnulib wrappers handle it for us.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:57:02 +0000 (13:57 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest, for getfilecon wrappers
Eric Blake [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:35:55 +0000 (08:35 -0600)]
maint: use X2NREALLOC in more places
* src/chroot.c (set_additional_groups): Use X2NREALLOC rather than
x2nrealloc.
* src/factor.c (emit_factor): Likewise.
* src/setuidgid.c (main): Likewise.
Eric Blake [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:35:51 +0000 (09:35 -0600)]
maint: remove unused macros and declarations
* src/system.h (EDQUOT, EISDIR, ENOSYS, EOVERFLOW, F_OK, X_OK)
(W_OK, R_OK): Delete; macros provided by gnulib.
(includes): Gnulib guarantees both <time.h> and <sys/time.h>, in
either order.
(free, malloc, memchr, realloc, getenv, lseek): Delete, gnulib
guarantees these declarations.
* m4/check-decl.m4 (gl_CHECK_DECLS): Delete checks now done by
gnulib.
Eric Blake [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:13:02 +0000 (08:13 -0600)]
maint: move timeout exit statuses
* src/timeout.c (EXIT_TIMEDOUT, EXIT_CANCELED): Remove as
macros...
* src/system.h (EXIT_TIMEDOUT, EXIT_CANCELED): ...and provide as
enum values instead.
* src/stdbuf.c (EXIT_CANCELED): Delete.
Eric Blake [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:53:56 +0000 (08:53 -0600)]
stat: test recent patch
* tests/misc/stat-slash: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run it.
Eric Blake [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:18:47 +0000 (17:18 -0600)]
stdbuf: improve path search
* src/stdbuf.c (set_program_path): Use gnulib methods for better
file name handling.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add xreadlink.
Eric Blake [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:04:09 +0000 (06:04 -0600)]
stat: work with recent gnulib changes
* src/stat.c (do_stat): Don't mask function-like stat macro.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:06:42 +0000 (10:06 +0200)]
stat: add support for many more file system types
* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add the following FS types,
from <linux/magic.h>: afs, anon-inode FS, btrfs, cgroupfs,
cramfs-wend, debugfs, futexfs, inotifyfs, minux3, securityfs,
selinux, xenfs.
Also add "nilfs".
* src/Makefile.am (fs-kernel-magic): New rule.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:05:08 +0000 (09:05 +0200)]
stat: recognize CIFS and HFS file system types
* src/stat.c (human_fstype) [CIFS, HFS]: Add new file system types.
Prompted by a report from Stuart Kemp.
Normalize the form of a few hexadecimal magic numbers.
Alphabetize on S_MAGIC_ case names.
* src/Makefile.am (fs-magic-compare, fs-def, fs-magic): New rules, to
automate comparison of our list with that in the Linux statfs man page.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Guenter Knauf [Sat, 3 Oct 2009 21:24:26 +0000 (23:24 +0200)]
md5sum, sha*sum: also accept openssl checksum syntax
* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Accept openssl checksum syntax, which
differs only by two spaces from that of the bsd checksum tools:
openssl: MD5(f)=
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
bsd: MD5 (f) =
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Jim Meyering [Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:49:36 +0000 (16:49 +0200)]
maint: make release-making instructions more generic
* README-release: Make instructions more generic.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:20:18 +0000 (13:20 +0200)]
post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:04:16 +0000 (13:04 +0200)]
version 8.0
* NEWS: Record release date.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:01:33 +0000 (11:01 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Ondřej Vašík [Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:20:48 +0000 (09:20 +0200)]
chcon: exit immediately if SELinux is disabled
This change happens to avoid an abort in chcon when SELinux is
disabled while operating on a file with an "unlabeled" context from
back in 2006. However, that same abort can still be triggered by the
same file when running chcon with SELinux enabled. This bug in chcon
will be fixed in a subsequent commit via a getfilecon wrapper. See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18378/focus=18384
for how to correct your disk attributes to avoid triggering this bug.
* src/chcon.c (main): Exit immediately if SELinux is disabled.
Reported in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/527142 by Yanko Kaneti.
* src/runcon.c (main): Do not hardcode program name in error message.
* THANKS: Update.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 3 Oct 2009 04:56:55 +0000 (06:56 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
James R. Van Zandt [Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:56:16 +0000 (10:56 -0600)]
dircolors: highlight .cgm and .emf as images
* src/dircolors.hin: Add .cgm, .emf.
* THANKS: Update.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:48:08 +0000 (15:48 +0200)]
maint: remove obsolete syntax-check exclusion
* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove strftime-check.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:36:25 +0000 (08:36 +0100)]
tail: avoid a race where we could miss new data with --pid
* src/tail.c (tail_forever, tail_forever_inotify): Close a race in
tail_forever_inotify where new data written after the file check by
a now dead process, but before the pid check, is not output. We use
the POSIX guarantee that read() and write() are serialized wrt each
other even in separate processes, to assume full file consistency
after exit() and so poll for new data _after_ the writer has exited.
This also allows us to not redundantly _wait_ for new data if the
process is dead.
* tests/tail-2/pid: Remove the now partially invalid sub second sleep
check as we now don't unconditionally wait, and replace it with a check
for the redundant sleep. Also clarify some of the existing comments.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:52:09 +0000 (10:52 +0200)]
maint: move gnu-web-doc-update script to gnulib
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gnu-web-doc-update.
Remove gendocs, since gnu-web-doc-update depends on it.
* gnu-web-doc-update: Remove file, now that we get it from gnulib.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:10:04 +0000 (12:10 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:28:13 +0000 (23:28 +0200)]
tests: tail-2/pid: use a 3-second timeout, not 1
* tests/tail-2/pid: When using the timeout program to ensuring that
tail -s.1 --pid=$PID_T_MAX does not wait forever, use a timeout longer
than 1 second. A 1-second timeout could be too short on a very busy
system, and result in a timeout, and hence false-positive failure.
2009-09-30 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:06:58 +0000 (17:06 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:11:38 +0000 (13:11 +0200)]
build: translate diagnostics from two new files
* po/POTFILES.in: Add two new files: lib/siglist.h, lib/strsignal.c
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:47:47 +0000 (16:47 +0200)]
build: now that we use the lock module, don't exclude lock.m4
* bootstrap.conf: Don't exclude lock.m4.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:43:01 +0000 (15:43 +0100)]
ls: always print "?" for allocated size of a dereferenced dangling symlink
Previously for `ls -Ls` (but not `ls -Lsl`), we referenced
the st_blocks returned from the previous failed stat() call.
This undefined value was seen to be 0 for dangling symlinks at least.
* src/ls.c (print_file_name_and_frills, length_of_file_name_and_frills):
Don't use st_blocks if the previous stat() failed
* tests/ls/dangle: Add a test case
* NEWS: Mention the fix, and roll up related items into a single entry.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:26:58 +0000 (09:26 +0200)]
build: use gnulib's freopen module
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add freopen, strsignal, fsync.
Exposed via make CFLAGS=-DGNULIB_POSIXCHECK 2>&1 \
|perl -lne '/.* use gnulib module (\S+).*/ and print $1' \
|sort |uniq -c|sort -nr
(avoided_gnulib_modules): Don't avoid the "lock" module.
Now it's required, as a dependency of the strsignal module.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:07:18 +0000 (23:07 +0200)]
stat: interpret "-" as standard input
* src/stat.c (do_stat): Interpret a command line argument of "-"
to mean "standard input", like many other tools do.
(do_statfs): Fail upon any attempt to use "-".
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
* tests/misc/stat-hyphen: New test, to exercise the above.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/stat-hyphen.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:28:01 +0000 (07:28 +0200)]
ls: don't use an undefined struct stat after failed stat/lstat
* src/ls.c (format_inode): Access f->stat only if f->stat_ok is set.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Improved-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Jim Meyering [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:24:41 +0000 (20:24 +0200)]
ls: print "?", not "0" as inode of dereferenced dangling symlink
ls prints inode numbers two ways: for long (-l) listings,
and for short ones, e.g., ls -li and ls -i. The code to print
long listings properly printed "?" when the inode was unknown,
but the code for handling short listings would print 0 instead.
Factor out the formatting code into a new function so ls prints
the right string ("?") from both places:
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* src/ls.c (format_inode): New function.
(print_long_format): Use it here.
(print_file_name_and_frills): Use it here, too.
* tests/ls/dangle: Exercise this fix.
Reported by Yang Ren in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/525400
Jim Meyering [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:29:02 +0000 (18:29 +0200)]
ls: with -LR, exit with status 2 upon detecting a cycle
* src/ls.c (print_dir): Diagnosing the cycle is not enough.
Also set exit status to 2. This is what Solaris' /bin/ls does, too.
* tests/ls/infloop: Rework test: match both expected stdout and stderr.
Require an exit status of 2 in this case.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Mention that a loop provokes
in an exit status of 2.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Yang Ren in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/525402.
* THANKS: Correct ordering of Yang Ren's names.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:13:16 +0000 (14:13 +0200)]
maint: factor coreutils-specific code out of bootstrap
* bootstrap (bootstrap_epilogue): Define a default, empty function.
Remove coreutils-specific code, and instead,
invoke this new function at the end of this script.
* bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_epilogue): Define, to override the default.
Eric Blake [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:11:26 +0000 (17:11 -0600)]
cp, mv: use linkat to guarantee semantics
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use linkat, not link.
Eric Blake [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:57:11 +0000 (11:57 -0600)]
ln: add -L/-P options
* src/ln.c (STAT_LIKE_LINK): Delete.
(logical): New flag.
(long_options): Add -L, -P.
(usage): Mention them.
(main): Choose between them.
(do_link): Perform correct action.
* tests/ln/misc: Move hard-to-sym portion of test...
* tests/ln/hard-to-sym: ...into new test, and add more.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run new test.
* NEWS: Document this.
* doc/coreutils.texi (link invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add linkat.
Eric Blake [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:37:53 +0000 (08:37 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:10:51 +0000 (10:10 +0100)]
maint: Use logical rather than bitwise operators on bools
This is because bitwise operators are:
- confusing and inconsistent in a boolean context
- non short circuiting
- brittle in C89 where bool can be an int (so > 1)
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:49:42 +0000 (12:49 +0100)]
maint: expr: avoid compiler warnings without GMP
* src/expr.c (mpz_clear, mpz_get_str, mpz_out_str)
[!HAVE_GMP]: Reference unused arguments.
Eric Blake [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:37:53 +0000 (08:37 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Eric Blake [Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:07:50 +0000 (15:07 -0600)]
maint: summarize gnulib changes
* NEWS: Provide a blurb about recent gnulib improvements. Fix typo
in readlink blurb.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:53:35 +0000 (20:53 +0200)]
doc: ls: further improve --help message re --color
* src/ls.c (usage): Correct grammar, change voice, shorten.
Inspired by a report from Bruno Schulenberg.
Eric Blake [Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:03:02 +0000 (15:03 -0600)]
readlink: pick up gnulib changes to readlink -f
* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Move rename...
(gnulib_modules): ...here. Add symlink.
* NEWS: Document the change in readlink.
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Likewise.
* tests/readlink/can-f: Update test to new semantics, and add test
of loop.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:43:23 +0000 (19:43 +0200)]
maint: df.c: adapt to newer gnulib
* src/df.c: Don't include "canonicalize.h". No longer needed,
since canonicalize_file_name is now guaranteed to be declared
in <stdlib.h>, thanks to gnulib.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:37:53 +0000 (08:37 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:35:25 +0000 (08:35 +0100)]
doc: stdbuf: mention it can have a non standard exit status
* doc/coreutils.texi (Exit status): Add stdbuf to the list
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:01:44 +0000 (08:01 +0100)]
maint: uptime: fix a theoretical compile warning
* src/uptime.c (print_uptime) [!HAVE_UTMPX_H && !HAVE_UTMP_H]:
Reference possibly unused arguments.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:06:49 +0000 (10:06 +0100)]
ls: fix a performance regression
* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): This reinstates commit
f3f1ccfd,
21-10-2008, "ls: make it possible to disable file capabilities checking"
which was inadvertently reverted with commit
3a169f4c, 14-09-2009,
"ls: handle disabling of colors consistently ...".
Eric Blake [Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:28:01 +0000 (10:28 -0600)]
build: avoid compiler warnings on cygwin 1.5
* src/copy.c (utimens_symlink): Avoid unused variables.
* src/su.c (getusershell): Rely on gnulib for prototype.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:28:54 +0000 (14:28 +0200)]
doc: ls: add an article, "the"
* src/ls.c (usage): Tweak wording.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:37:37 +0000 (13:37 +0100)]
ls: handle disabling of colors consistently for all tile types
* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): Use consistent syntax for
all file and directory subtypes, and fall back to the color
of the base type if there is no enabled color for the subtype.
This allows turning off specific colors for o+w dirs for example.
* tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: Add a case to test that turning off
coloring for o+w directories, falls back to standard dir color.
* NEWS: Mention the fix
Introduced by commit
ac467814, 2005-09-05,
"Colorize set-user-ID ... files and sticky ... directories."
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:00:31 +0000 (08:00 +0100)]
doc: ls: make help for --color more concise and accurate
* src/ls.c (usage): Shorten the --color ancillary info by
two lines, while replacing --color=none with --color=never.
Mention "always" is the default parameter of the --color option,
along with the primary help for that option.
Mention the ancillary --color info in the --color primary help.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:51:33 +0000 (07:51 +0100)]
doc: normalize and add missing entries to texinfo menu
* doc/coreutils.texi: Add the missing arch, base64, link, readlink,
and unlink entries. Also remove extraneous '.' from some entries
and try to align all entries on the same column.
* THANKS: Add Benno Schulenberg.
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:06:21 +0000 (23:06 +0100)]
doc: mention the texinfo documentation in --help
* src/system.h: Rename emit_bug_reporting_address() to
emit_ancillary_info() and update it to not print the translation
project address in en_* locales, and _do_ print it in the 'C'
(and other) locales so that it's included in the default man page.
Also mention how to invoke the texinfo documentation for each command.
Also move the "hard-locale.h" include to the 8 files that now use it.
* man/help2man: Strip the newly added texinfo reference from the
--help output as a more verbose version is already added by help2man.
Suggestion from C de-Avillez
Jim Meyering [Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:56:17 +0000 (08:56 +0200)]
maint: automate the web-doc updating procedure
* gnu-web-doc-update: New script, destined for gnulib.
* README-release: Refer to the new script.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:26:36 +0000 (12:26 +0200)]
dircolors: arrange to highlight names with the .lz suffix
* src/dircolors.hin: Add .lz, for GNU lzip.
Suggested by Matias A. Fonzo.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:05:59 +0000 (23:05 +0200)]
mktemp: adapt to new, 3-argument gen_tempname_len
* src/mktemp.c (mkstemp_len, mkdtemp_len): Update callers of
gen_tempname_len.
* gl/lib/tempname.c, gl/lib/tempname.h: Rebase against recently
API-modified copy of tempname module in gnulib.
Reported by Lluís Batlle.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:30:01 +0000 (14:30 +0200)]
build: merge bootstrap changes from gnulib
* bootstrap: Update from gnulib.
Eric Blake [Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:27:07 +0000 (08:27 -0600)]
rm, rmdir: improve cross-compilation support
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Drop rmdir-errno.
* src/rmdir.c (errno_rmdir_non_empty): Check both cases allowed by
POSIX, rather than relying on configure-time check that might
fail during cross-compilation. Reverts commit
9b6eb98d41.
Ondřej Vašík [Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:41:23 +0000 (10:41 +0100)]
cp: fix a probably redundant chmod when setting xattrs
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Fix initial value of access_changed variable.
This was introduced by Pádraig Brady in commit
cca83faf, 2009-09-14,
"cp,mv: preserve extended attributes even for read-only files"
Jim Meyering [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:57:13 +0000 (15:57 +0200)]
doc: NEWS: mention origin of touch -t ....60 bug
* NEWS: It is an old bug.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:37:26 +0000 (15:37 +0200)]
doc: touch, document that it accepts .60
* doc/coreutils.texi (touch invocation): Document that SS may be 60.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:00:32 +0000 (14:00 +0200)]
touch: don't reject "60" as number of seconds in a legacy time stamp
A valid command like "touch -t
197101010000.60 F" would fail due
to the suffix of ".60". This bug is fixed via the latest change
to gnulib's posixtm module.
* tests/touch/60-seconds: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:54:23 +0000 (14:54 +0200)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest, for fixed posixtm module
Jim Meyering [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:53:24 +0000 (14:53 +0200)]
maint: use #!/bin/sh consistently in shell-based test scripts
* tests/misc/sort-continue: Change first line to standard #!/bin/sh,
not #!/bin/bash (though it doesn't matter, since each is invoked
via $(SHELL) dir/test-name.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:38:03 +0000 (01:38 +0100)]
tests: fix dd/skip-seek-past-file to work on ecryptfs
* tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file: Require sparse support
to ensure that when we're checking if we can create an
$OFF_T_MAX length file, that we don't actually allocate
any space. This was an issue on ecryptfs and was reported
by Bert Wesarg.
Ondřej Vašík [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:12:01 +0000 (14:12 +0100)]
cp,mv: preserve extended attributes even for read-only files
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Temporarily set u+rw on the destination file
to allow GNU/Linux to set xattrs.
* tests/misc/xattr: Test that change.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Ernest N. Mamikonyan.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:18:30 +0000 (09:18 +0200)]
doc: improve timeout's --help message
* src/timeout.c (usage): Improve --help description.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:05:37 +0000 (22:05 +0200)]
maint: use consistent cpp indentation in all .c files
* src/stty.c: Make cpp indentation reflect nesting.
* src/factor.c: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:11:57 +0000 (12:11 +0200)]
doc: NEWS: say quadratic and linear, rather than O(N^2) and O(N)
* NEWS: Use a slightly less technical description.
Suggested by Andreas Schwab.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:48:03 +0000 (11:48 +0200)]
doc: improve NEWS
* NEWS (rm -r, without -f): Mention that the N in "O(N)" represents
hierarchy depth. Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues.
(rm -r, standards conformance): Make wording more accurate.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:30:27 +0000 (16:30 +0200)]
id: don't print context=... when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
* src/id.c (print_full_info) [POSIXLY_CORRECT]: Don't print context.
Reported by Ulrich Drepper.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (id invocation): Document that id also prints the
security context, when possible, and when POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set.
* tests/id/no-context: New file. Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Eric Blake [Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:45:36 +0000 (22:45 -0600)]
rm: avoid compiler warning
* src/remove.c (rm_fts): Don't allow fall-through when assertions
are disabled.
Eric Blake [Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:07:39 +0000 (22:07 -0600)]
euidaccess-stat: remove unnecessary macros
* lib/euidaccess-stat.c (F_OK, R_OK, W_OK, X_OK): Delete; now
guaranteed by gnulib.
Eric Blake [Fri, 4 Sep 2009 03:59:54 +0000 (21:59 -0600)]
rm: use gnulib faccessat
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add faccessat. Replace strdup
with strdup-posix.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Revert previous change, now
that gnulib does it for us.
* src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Use faccessat in
more situations.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:15:09 +0000 (15:15 +0200)]
rm: improve efficiency of rm -r (without -f) from O(N^2) to O(N)
where N is the depth of the deepest hierarchy rm is processing.
* src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Use faccessat to
avoid O(N)-per-entry cost of calling euidaccess.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for faccessat.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:22:01 +0000 (17:22 +0200)]
build: placate gcc's new -Wskip-jump-init
* remove.c (rm_fts): Put braces around each of the two offending blocks.
* configure.ac: Don't turn off -Wjump-misses-init.
With the rewrite of remove.c, it is no longer needed.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:15:23 +0000 (18:15 +0200)]
rm: rewrite to use fts
* remove.c: Don't include "unlinkdir.h"; no longer used.
Do not include <setjmp.h> or "cycle-check.h". Likewise.
Include "xfts.h".
(dir_name, dir_len): Remove definitions.
(CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Likewise.
(INODE_SORT_DIR_ENTRIES_THRESHOLD, NEED_REWIND, D_TYPE): Likewise.
(struct dirstack_state, Dirstack_state): Likewise.
(g_buf, g_n_allocated): Remove declarations.
(hash_freer, hash_compare_strings, rm_malloc): Remove functions.
(rm_free, push_dir, top_dir, pop_dir, right_justify): Likewise.
(full_filename0, xfull_filename, full_filename_): Likewise.
(AD_stack_height, AD_stack_top, AD_stack_pop, AD_stack_clear): Likewise.
(obstack_init_minimal, ds_init, ds_clear, ds_free): Likewise.
(AD_pop_and_chdir, AD_ensure_initialized, AD_mark_helper): Likewise.
(AD_mark_as_unremovable, AD_mark_current_as_unremovable): Likewise.
(AD_push_initial, AD_push, AD_push, AD_is_removable): Likewise.
(write_protected_non_symlink): Change 3rd parameter from
dirstack_state "ds" to full_name.
(prompt): Adjust parameters. Now, state comes from FTS/FTSENT pair.
Those replace fd_cwd and "ds". Remove "filename". Remove pdirent_type
in favor of new "is_dir" parameter. Rename is_empty to is_empty_p.
(DO_RMDIR, DO_UNLINK): Remove definitions.
(remove_entry, fd_to_subdirp, compare_ino): Remove functions.
(dirent_count, dirent_inode_sort_may_be_useful): Likewise.
(preprocess_dir): Likewise.
(fts_skip_tree, mark_ancestor_dirs, excise, rm_fts): New functions.
(remove_cwd_entries, remove_dir, rm_1): Remove functions.
(rm): Rewrite as a simple loop calling fts_read and dispatching
each entry via rm_fts.
* src/rm.c (main): Adapt to new signature of rm().
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove unlinkdir, no longer used.
* src/Makefile.am (sc_tight_scope): Also recognize an extern "enum"
declaration.
* tests/rm/empty-name: Adjust expected output to match new diagnostic.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:13:45 +0000 (13:13 +0200)]
maint: doc: adjust README-release
* README-release: Remove mention of bootstrap's old
--gnulib-srcdir=/gnulib option. No longer needed, and its
use can lead to subtle problems.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:16:18 +0000 (08:16 +0200)]
post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.