platform/upstream/coreutils.git
15 years agomaint: bootstrap: sync submodule usage from gnulib
Jim Meyering [Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:25:13 +0000 (11:25 +0200)]
maint: bootstrap: sync submodule usage from gnulib

* bootstrap: Config for git submodule use only if .gitmodules exists.

15 years agomaint: bootstrap: split a few long lines
Jim Meyering [Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:17:50 +0000 (11:17 +0200)]
maint: bootstrap: split a few long lines

* bootstrap (found_aux_dir): Avoid lines longer than 80 columns.

15 years agomaint: don't change COPYING
Jim Meyering [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:06:52 +0000 (17:06 +0200)]
maint: don't change COPYING

* COPYING: Don't modify Copyright date list in imported file.
This file is one of very few exceptions in that we version-control it,
even though its primary source is another package.
Spotted by Eric Blake.

15 years agomaint: add a rule to automate the annual copyright-year-update process
Jim Meyering [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:33:59 +0000 (13:33 +0200)]
maint: add a rule to automate the annual copyright-year-update process

* build-aux/update-copyright: New file.
* Makefile.am (changelog_etc): Add update-copyright.
(update-copyright): New rule.

15 years agostdbuf: fix to stop -i option causing an assertion
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:48:49 +0000 (01:48 +0100)]
stdbuf: fix to stop -i option causing an assertion

* src/stdbuf.c (main): Fix the array bounds check in the assert
* tests/misc/stdbuf: Add a test for all standard streams

15 years agodoc: clarify the tail inotify NEWS
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:41:05 +0000 (14:41 +0100)]
doc: clarify the tail inotify NEWS

* NEWS: Say why inotify was used

15 years agomaint: update all Copyright year lists to include 2009
Jim Meyering [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:33:15 +0000 (22:33 +0200)]
maint: update all Copyright year lists to include 2009

15 years agomaint: remove old TODO files
Jim Meyering [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:30:29 +0000 (22:30 +0200)]
maint: remove old TODO files

* lib/TODO: Remove file.
* tests/join/TODO: Likewise.

15 years agodoc: README-hacking tweak
Jim Meyering [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:54:38 +0000 (16:54 +0200)]
doc: README-hacking tweak

* README-hacking: Move the "While building..." sentence down
to where it belongs.

15 years agotests: tail-2/pid: include more info upon failure
Jim Meyering [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:53:43 +0000 (16:53 +0200)]
tests: tail-2/pid: include more info upon failure

* tests/tail-2/pid: Print unexpected $state upon failing.

15 years agodoc: typo fix in README-hacking
Jim Meyering [Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:48:59 +0000 (14:48 +0200)]
doc: typo fix in README-hacking

* README-hacking: Fix a typo.
Don't make building from a git-cloned tree sound so hard.

15 years agobuild: update from gnulib (hash module updates; maint.mk tweak)
Jim Meyering [Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:06:42 +0000 (00:06 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib (hash module updates; maint.mk tweak)

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agodoc: fix a typo
Jim Meyering [Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:17:19 +0000 (16:17 +0200)]
doc: fix a typo

* doc/coreutils.texi (stdbuf invocation): Insert missing "to".

15 years agostdbuf: A new program to run a command with modified stdio buffering
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:30:03 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
stdbuf: A new program to run a command with modified stdio buffering

* AUTHORS: Register as the author.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* README: Add stdbuf command to list.
* configure.ac: Only enable on ELF systems with GCC.
* cfg.mk (sc_system_h_headers): Use VC_LIST_EXCEPT rather than
VC_LIST, so we can add an exception, if needed.
* .x-sc_system_h_headers: New file.  Exempt libstdbuf.c.
* Makefile.am (syntax_check_exceptions): Add .x-sc_system_h_headers.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stdbuf invocation): Add stdbuf info.
* man/.gitignore: Ignore generated manpage.
* src/.gitignore: Ignore stdbuf and libstdbuf.so binaries.
* man/Makefile.am (stdbuf.1): Add dependency.
* man/stdbuf.x: New file with example usage.
* po/POTFILES.in: Reference new command and shared library sources.
* src/Makefile.am (build_if_possible__progs): Add stdbuf and libstdbuf,
(pkglib_PROGRAMS): Reference optional shared lib,
(libstdbuf_so_LDADD): Ensure we don't link with non PIC libcoreutils.a.
(libstdbuf_so_LDFLAGS): Add -shared GCC option,
(libstdbuf_so_CFLAGS): Add -fPIC GCC option.
(check-README): Exclude libstbuf.
(check-AUTHORS): ditto.
(sc_tight_scope): Exclude functions starting with __.
* src/libstdbuf.c: The LD_PRELOAD shared library to control buffering.
* src/stdbuf.c: New file to setup env variables before execing command.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test file.
* tests/misc/help-version: Set expected exit codes.
* tests/misc/invalid-opt: ditto.
* tests/misc/stdbuf: Add 9 tests.

15 years agodoc: cp: describe an oddity of combining -H/-L and --preserve=links
Jim Meyering [Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:10:50 +0000 (09:10 +0200)]
doc: cp: describe an oddity of combining -H/-L and --preserve=links

* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation) [-L]: Elaborate.
[--preserve=links]: Remove comments saying that we need documentation
for just this situation.  Provide more explanation and examples.
Reported by Brian M. Carlson in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.

15 years agomaint: revert last change: we're not ready for "local" in scripts, yet
Jim Meyering [Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:37:42 +0000 (19:37 +0200)]
maint: revert last change: we're not ready for "local" in scripts, yet

Revert "use a local var: more readable"
This reverts commit c0d82452883a10911c9cbc69c84144d99b7e6b08.

15 years agouse a local var: more readable
Jim Meyering [Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:43:16 +0000 (14:43 +0200)]
use a local var: more readable

15 years agotail: use inotify if it is available
Giuseppe Scrivano [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 06:28:23 +0000 (08:28 +0200)]
tail: use inotify if it is available

* NEWS: Document the new feature.
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Check if inotify is present.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): New function.
(main): Use the inotify-based function, if possible.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new tests for tail.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_proc_pid_status_, get_process_status_):
New functions.
* tests/tail-2/pid: New file.
* tests/tail-2/wait: New file.
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Refactor code into the test-lib.sh
require_proc_pid_status_ function.

15 years agodiag: say "failed to...", rather than "cannot..." in a few diagnostics
Jim Meyering [Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:36:48 +0000 (16:36 +0200)]
diag: say "failed to...", rather than "cannot..." in a few diagnostics

* src/chroot.c (main): ...it's more precise.
* src/nohup.c (main): Likewise.
* src/setuidgid.c (main): Likewise.
* src/timeout.c (main): Likewise.

15 years agosort: Ignore fields where end position is before the start position
Cliff Miller [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:30:32 +0000 (18:30 +0100)]
sort: Ignore fields where end position is before the start position

* NEWS: Mention the fix
* THANKS: Add Cliff Miller
* src/sort.c (keycompare): Ensure lima >= texta
* tests/misc/sort: Add 3 corresponding tests

Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
15 years agotests: ls --color, permissions override hardlink coloring
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:34:21 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
tests: ls --color, permissions override hardlink coloring

* tests/ls/multihardlink: Add a test case to demonstrate
and test this non obvious behavior.

15 years agols --color: do not colorize files with multiple hard links by default
Kamil Dudka [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:44:43 +0000 (19:44 +0200)]
ls --color: do not colorize files with multiple hard links by default

* src/ls.c: Rename hl->mh, do not colorize files with multiple
hard links by default.
* src/dircolors.c: Rename HARDLINK -> MULTIHARDLINK, hl -> mh.
* src/dircolors.hin: Do not colorize files with multiple hard links by
default.
* tests/Makefile.am: Rename the test case accordingly.
* tests/ls/multihardlink: Additionally test ls' default behavior
and factor out some duplication.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

15 years agomaint: Add a syntax-check to ensure all .x-sc_ files are distributed
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 8 Jun 2009 07:42:00 +0000 (08:42 +0100)]
maint: Add a syntax-check to ensure all .x-sc_ files are distributed

* Makefile.am: Add a couple of missing entries to
syntax_check_exceptions for distribution.
* cfg.mk: Add a rule to ensure the syntax_check_exceptions list
stays in sync with the .x-sc_* files in the repository.

15 years agobuild: update from gnulib
Jim Meyering [Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:54:18 +0000 (12:54 +0200)]
build: update from gnulib

* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.

15 years agosort: die immediately upon heap allocation failure
Jim Meyering [Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:55:43 +0000 (13:55 +0200)]
sort: die immediately upon heap allocation failure

* src/sort.c (register_proc): Handle hash_insert failure.

15 years agodircolors: add screen-256color-bce to TERM list
Mike Frysinger [Thu, 7 May 2009 19:29:23 +0000 (15:29 -0400)]
dircolors: add screen-256color-bce to TERM list

* src/dircolors.hin: Add screen-256color-bce.

15 years agodoc: HACKING: minor adjustments, additions
Jim Meyering [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:28:34 +0000 (18:28 +0200)]
doc: HACKING: minor adjustments, additions

* HACKING (Amending...): Remove spurious "-e" used with commit --amend.
(log message policy): Mention the 72-column limit.
"build:" and "maint:" are common prefixes, these days.

15 years agodoc: adjust wording in README-prereq
Jim Meyering [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:31:16 +0000 (22:31 +0200)]
doc: adjust wording in README-prereq

15 years agodircolors: recognize .xz, .txz, .tbz and .tlz suffixes
Jim Meyering [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:48:38 +0000 (21:48 +0200)]
dircolors: recognize .xz, .txz, .tbz and .tlz suffixes

* src/dircolors.hin: Add .xz, .txz, .tbz and .tlz.

15 years agodoc: use newer URL for XZ utils
Jim Meyering [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:44:11 +0000 (21:44 +0200)]
doc: use newer URL for XZ utils

* README-hacking: Use <http://tukaani.org/xz/>
* README-prereq: Mention xz, not lzma.

15 years agodoc: adjust README-prereq instructions
Matěj Cepl [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 00:02:01 +0000 (01:02 +0100)]
doc: adjust README-prereq instructions

* README-prereq: Mention new requirement on automake-1.11,
with its new location and updated dependency on autoconf-2.62.
Remove the reference to coreutils-7.0 so that this file
implicitly refers to the latest or release version of coreutils.
Fix and clarify the instructions for updating the $PATH.

Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
15 years agodoc: HACKING: mention the GNU Coding Standards
Jim Meyering [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:52:02 +0000 (07:52 +0200)]
doc: HACKING: mention the GNU Coding Standards

* HACKING (Add documentation): Add a link to the GCS.

15 years agobuild: no longer list gnulib's "memchr" module as obsolete
Jim Meyering [Sun, 31 May 2009 13:18:16 +0000 (15:18 +0200)]
build: no longer list gnulib's "memchr" module as obsolete

* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Remove memchr from
the list, now that it fixes a problem in some modern C libraries.
(gnulib_modules): Add it here.

15 years agobuild: make generated man/*.1 files read-only
Jim Meyering [Sun, 31 May 2009 07:52:51 +0000 (09:52 +0200)]
build: make generated man/*.1 files read-only

This should help people notice that they are generated.
Note: each file already has a comment to that effect from help2man.
* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make generated files read-only.
Also, don't redirect directly to the target, $@.

15 years agobuild (man/): use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:23:50 +0000 (22:23 +0200)]
build (man/): use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable

* man/Makefile.am (.x.1, check-x-vs-1, check-programs-vs-x):
Mark with $(AM_V_GEN), so that automake-1.11 prints
"GEN $@" by default (stick with "GEN" in spite of the latter two
rules not officially generating anything -- they're just tests).

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.