platform/upstream/coreutils.git
15 years agochroot: make --groups= work without --userspec=; be more robust
Jim Meyering [Fri, 29 May 2009 06:44:56 +0000 (08:44 +0200)]
chroot: make --groups= work without --userspec=;  be more robust

* src/chroot.c (set_additional_groups): Add comments.
Given an empty or all-comma group list, diagnose it and return nonzero.
When more than one group is invalid, diagnose all of them,
not just the first.
(main): Honor --groups= also when --userspec= is not specified.
Now that set_additional_groups consistently diagnoses its failures,
don't diagnose it separately here.
* tests/chroot/credentials: Do not invoke with an empty group list.

15 years agochroot: don't set bogus user-ID or group-ID for --u=U: or --u=:G
Jim Meyering [Wed, 27 May 2009 21:06:15 +0000 (23:06 +0200)]
chroot: don't set bogus user-ID or group-ID for --u=U: or --u=:G

* src/chroot.c (main): Initialize both "uid" and "gid".  To -1.
This also allows one to set the user-ID or primary group-ID to 0,
in case it's not that already.
* tests/chroot/credentials: Test for the above.

15 years agochroot: set-*-ID failure must provoke nonzero exit before execvp
Jim Meyering [Wed, 27 May 2009 20:06:04 +0000 (22:06 +0200)]
chroot: set-*-ID failure must provoke nonzero exit before execvp

* src/chroot.c (main): Exit upon set-group-ID or set-user-ID failure.

15 years agotests: use "nobody" as the default group name in chroot test
Jim Meyering [Thu, 28 May 2009 20:36:05 +0000 (22:36 +0200)]
tests: use "nobody" as the default group name in chroot test

* tests/test-lib.sh (NON_ROOT_GROUP): Use "nobody", not "nogroup".

15 years agobuild: make distcheck rules use --enable-gcc-warnings
Jim Meyering [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:33:49 +0000 (16:33 +0200)]
build: make distcheck rules use --enable-gcc-warnings

* dist-check.mk (warn_cflags): Remove definition, now that it's
been subsumed by --enable-gcc-warnings.
(my-distcheck): Use configure with --enable-gcc-warnings and remove
use of $(warn_cflags).

15 years agohead, tail: make --help less ambiguous
Eric Blake [Wed, 20 May 2009 12:32:10 +0000 (06:32 -0600)]
head, tail: make --help less ambiguous

* src/head.c (usage): Use -n K, not -n N, to avoid confusion.
* src/tail.c (usage): Likewise.
* doc/coreutils.texi (head invocation, tail invocation):
Likewise.
Reported by Christophe Lyon.

15 years agosort: new --human-numeric-sort option to sort KiB MB etc.
Michael Speer [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:51:29 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
sort: new --human-numeric-sort option to sort KiB MB etc.

* NEWS: Document the new option
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ditto
* src/sort.c (main): handle the new --human-numeric-sort option (-h).
(human_numcompare): A new function to compare SI and IEC suffixes
before falling back to the standard --numeric comparison.
(find_unit_order): A new helper function to find the order
of magnitude of a number string as determined by its suffix.
(check_mixed_SI_IEC): A new helper function to exit with error
if both SI and IEC suffixes are presented.
* tests/misc/sort: Add 8 tests to test the new functionality.
* THANKS: Update

15 years agochroot: accept new options --userspec=U:G and --groups=G1,G2,G3
Giuseppe Scrivano [Fri, 1 May 2009 21:50:11 +0000 (23:50 +0200)]
chroot: accept new options --userspec=U:G and --groups=G1,G2,G3

* NEWS: Note chroot's new options.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document them.
* src/chroot.c (main): Add support for --userspec and --groups.
* tests/Makefile.am (root-tests): Add chroot/credentials.
* tests/chroot/credentials: New file.
* tests/test-lib.sh: Define NON_ROOT_GROUP to a default value.

15 years agodoc: clarify the operation of the comm -123 parameters
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 15 May 2009 16:28:51 +0000 (17:28 +0100)]
doc: clarify the operation of the comm -123 parameters

* src/comm.c (usage): give more information on the -123 parameters,
with examples to show that they can be combined.
Addresses <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24974>.
* doc/coreutils.texi (comm invocation): Mention that the
column separators are suppressed along with the column.
Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
* man/comm.x: Reference other commands that match adjacent lines.
* man/join.x: ditto.
* man/uniq.x: ditto.

15 years agobuild: require automake-1.11
Jim Meyering [Mon, 18 May 2009 05:06:34 +0000 (07:06 +0200)]
build: require automake-1.11

* bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Require automake-1.11, not 1.10b,
for our use of AM_SILENT_RULES.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Likewise.

15 years agomaint: HACKING: mention a few more useful git commands
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 15:49:24 +0000 (17:49 +0200)]
maint: HACKING: mention a few more useful git commands

* HACKING (Miscellaneous useful git commands): Add a few.

15 years agobuild: avoid new "make distcheck" failure with gcc 4.5.0 20090517
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 13:22:11 +0000 (15:22 +0200)]
build: avoid new "make distcheck" failure with gcc 4.5.0 20090517

* dist-check.mk (warn_cflags): Add -Wno-enum-compare.

15 years agobuild: avoid new warnings from gcc 4.5.0 20090517
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 11:47:39 +0000 (13:47 +0200)]
build: avoid new warnings from gcc 4.5.0 20090517

* configure.ac: Add an explicit -Wno-logical-op,
now that not listing -Wlogical-op is insufficient.

15 years agomaint: use ARRAY_CARDINALITY more
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 11:02:25 +0000 (13:02 +0200)]
maint: use ARRAY_CARDINALITY more

* src/sort.c (main): Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY, rather than open-coding it.
* src/factor.c (WHEEL_END): Likewise.
* src/csplit.c (main): Likewise.
* src/od.c: Likewise,
* src/ls.c (main): Likewise.
(N_ENTRIES): Remove definition.  Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY instead.
* src/dircolors.c: Likewise.
(array_len): Remove definition.

15 years agobuild: tr: avoid a warning due to newer gcc's -Wenum-compare
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 10:47:24 +0000 (12:47 +0200)]
build: tr: avoid a warning due to newer gcc's -Wenum-compare

* src/tr.c (N_CHAR_CLASSES): Remove anonymous enum definition.
(look_up_char_class): Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY, rather than N_CHAR_CLASSES.

15 years agomaint: define ARRAY_CARDINALITY in system.h
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 11:01:37 +0000 (13:01 +0200)]
maint: define ARRAY_CARDINALITY in system.h

* src/system.h (ARRAY_CARDINALITY): Define if not already defined.

15 years agobuild: turn off -Wlong-long
Jim Meyering [Sun, 17 May 2009 09:43:21 +0000 (11:43 +0200)]
build: turn off -Wlong-long

* configure.ac: With --enable-gcc-warnings, -Wlong-long would
cause compilation failure due to inclusion of lib/gethrxtime.h.
Initialize "nw".

15 years agomaint: cfg.mk: remove now-unnecessary gnulib_dir definition
Jim Meyering [Fri, 15 May 2009 13:04:52 +0000 (15:04 +0200)]
maint: cfg.mk: remove now-unnecessary gnulib_dir definition

* cfg.mk (gnulib_dir): Remove definition, now that gnulib's
maint.mk provides the default we want.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agotests: fix date-next-dow failure on older systems
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 15 May 2009 06:50:35 +0000 (07:50 +0100)]
tests: fix date-next-dow failure on older systems

* tests/misc/date-next-dow: In the strftime call use %Y-%m-%d
rather than the newer %F equivalent which is not available
on Solaris 8 for example.

15 years agobuild: update from gnulib, for rename.m4 fix, improved tests, etc.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 14 May 2009 07:55:44 +0000 (09:55 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for rename.m4 fix, improved tests, etc.

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agomaint: README-release: minor improvements
Jim Meyering [Thu, 14 May 2009 07:54:22 +0000 (09:54 +0200)]
maint: README-release: minor improvements

* README-release: Mention gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,...} settings in cfg.mk.
Now that XZ_OPT is set via maint.mk, don't mention it here.

15 years agotruncate: fix bug in use of isspace
Eric Blake [Thu, 7 May 2009 20:27:37 +0000 (14:27 -0600)]
truncate: fix bug in use of isspace

* src/truncate.c (main): Pass unsigned characters to isspace.
* NEWS: Mention this.

15 years agopost-release administrivia
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 May 2009 13:52:50 +0000 (15:52 +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 7.4 v7.4
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 May 2009 13:35:19 +0000 (15:35 +0200)]
version 7.4

* NEWS (Build-related): Mention make check fixes.

15 years agoadmin: update NEWS
Jim Meyering [Thu, 7 May 2009 13:17:53 +0000 (15:17 +0200)]
admin: update NEWS

* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the date-related fixes.
(Portability): Mention the ACL-related fixes on *BSD.

15 years agodoc: note the use of LC_COLLATE in comm, join and uniq
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 5 May 2009 11:00:15 +0000 (12:00 +0100)]
doc: note the use of LC_COLLATE in comm, join and uniq

* doc/coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): Simplify the
text to remove the inconsequential mentioning of order,
while implying that LC_COLLATE can alter equality comparisons.
* src/comm.c (usage): Mention LC_COLLATE is significant.
* src/join.c (usage): Ditto.
* src/uniq.c (usage): Ditto. Also improve the summary.
Suggestion from Andries Brouwer

15 years agotests: rm/one-file-system: umount more reliably
Jim Meyering [Tue, 5 May 2009 05:54:47 +0000 (07:54 +0200)]
tests: rm/one-file-system: umount more reliably

* tests/rm/one-file-system: Run umount via trap, so it runs
also upon irregular termination.

15 years agotests: fix typo in check-AUTHORS rule
Andreas Schwab [Tue, 5 May 2009 05:13:46 +0000 (07:13 +0200)]
tests: fix typo in check-AUTHORS rule

* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Set locale.

15 years agobuild: use a gnulib SHA1 that is not private
Jim Meyering [Mon, 4 May 2009 05:47:56 +0000 (07:47 +0200)]
build: use a gnulib SHA1 that is not private

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest *public*.

15 years agobuild: update from gnulib, for ACL-related fixes
Jim Meyering [Mon, 4 May 2009 05:10:12 +0000 (07:10 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for ACL-related fixes

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agomv, rm: adapt to new and improved gnulib interfaces
David Bartley [Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:48:15 +0000 (03:48 -0400)]
mv, rm: adapt to new and improved gnulib interfaces

Use gnulib's new priv-set module and updated write-any-file.
With them, the remove-called can_write_any_file function no
longer tries to drop the unlink-directory privilege, so now
each caller of remove must do that separately, calling
priv_set_remove_linkdir.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add priv-set.
* src/rm.c: Include "priv-set.h".
(main): Call priv_set_remove_linkdir.
* src/mv.c (main): Likewise.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agotests: correct the "make check"-run check-AUTHORS test
Jim Meyering [Sat, 2 May 2009 19:56:25 +0000 (21:56 +0200)]
tests: correct the "make check"-run check-AUTHORS test

* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Revert back to using
en_US.UTF-8, to ease parsing (English-only) text around the
list of names, even when .po files are not installed.
Reported by Andreas Schwab.
Along the way, use $(AM_V_GEN), not "@".
(sc_tight_scope): Use $(AM_V_GEN) here, too.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest, for the proper_name_utf8 fix
that makes --version output print the UTF-8 rendering of author names
in more cases.

15 years agotests: add tests of e.g., date -d 'next monday'
Jim Meyering [Sun, 3 May 2009 04:21:48 +0000 (06:21 +0200)]
tests: add tests of e.g., date -d 'next monday'

* tests/misc/date-next-dow: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/date-next-dow.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest, for getdate.y that
handles "next Monday" properly when run on a Monday.

15 years agopost-release administrivia
Jim Meyering [Fri, 1 May 2009 16:19:19 +0000 (18:19 +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 7.3 v7.3
Jim Meyering [Fri, 1 May 2009 16:03:50 +0000 (18:03 +0200)]
version 7.3

* NEWS: Record release date.

15 years agomaint: tweak release-building notes
Jim Meyering [Fri, 1 May 2009 15:55:11 +0000 (17:55 +0200)]
maint: tweak release-building notes

* README-release: Specify -j1 on the command to run all tests.
Otherwise, running some in parallel would cause failures, e.g.,
for rm/ext3-perf and tail-2/assert-2.

15 years agostdopen: remove unused code
Eric Blake [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:18:49 +0000 (13:18 -0600)]
stdopen: remove unused code

* m4/stdopen.m4: Delete now-unused file.
* lib/stdopen.h: Likewise.
* lib/stdopen.c: Likewise.

15 years agobuild: update from gnulib, for fixed lib/signbitl.c
Jim Meyering [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:23:49 +0000 (17:23 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib, for fixed lib/signbitl.c

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

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.