Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:23:45 +0000 (14:23 +0100)]
doc: update tail's documentation to allow for new -F semantics
* src/tail.c (usage): Reword tail -F description, so that it no
longer mentions details specific to the non-inotify implementation.
Also, join diagnostic strings (while staying under the 509-byte limit)
to ease formatting of translations. The latter was prompted by
a report from Stéphane Raimbault.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Update description here, too.
Eric Blake [Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:36:03 +0000 (07:36 -0700)]
touch: work around ntfs-3g bug
* gnulib: Update, for utimensat fix.
* NEWS: Improve wording about touch fixes.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Stuart Citrin.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:24:16 +0000 (11:24 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:16:23 +0000 (11:16 +0100)]
doc: mention two tail -F bug fixes in NEWS
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Two tail -F fixes.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:37:04 +0000 (16:37 +0100)]
tail: test for a bug in inotify-enabled tail -F
tail -F a b would stop tracking additions to b after "mv a b".
* tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Giuseppe Scrivano [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:20:24 +0000 (00:20 +0100)]
tail -F: don't stop following the target of a rename
This fixes a bug whereby tail -F would fail to track changes
to a file that was a target of a rename, and when the source of
the rename was another tailed file.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Ensure the wd is not already
present in the hash table before trying to add it. When a new watch
descriptor is added to the `wd_to_name' hash table, check that it is
not already present. If it is present then remove the previous element.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:01:51 +0000 (13:01 +0000)]
maint: improve the info about $PATH in README-prereq
* README-prereq: It wasn't obvious that the $PATH should
be set before building any of the prerequisite packages,
so move that information up.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:47:10 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
tail: add another test to exercise abort-inducing flaw in tail -F
* tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2: New test, based on a reproducer
by Rob Wortman.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:42:10 +0000 (15:42 +0100)]
tail: add a test to exercise abort-inducing flaw in tail -F
* tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse: New file, derived from
a report by Rob Wortman.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Improved by: Pádraig Brady.
Giuseppe Scrivano [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:59:24 +0000 (14:59 +0100)]
tail: remove `fdspec' from the hash table before changing its key
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Avoid modifying fdspec->wd while
it is in the wd_to_name hash table. Once it is removed, it can be
added using the new `wd' as key for the hash table. This fixes the
abort-inducing bug reported by Rob Wortman in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/19372
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:31:56 +0000 (14:31 +0100)]
maint: quiet "make" in doc/
* doc/Makefile.am (constants.texi): Add a use of AM_V_GEN.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:26:05 +0000 (14:26 +0100)]
tail: rename an internal variable
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): s/wd_table/wd_to_name/
Jim Meyering [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:24:01 +0000 (14:24 +0100)]
tail: avoid read-beyond-end-of-buffer error
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Do not use f[i] in a context
where i may be larger than the largest valid index. In the final
"if" clause in which we'd remove an inotify watch, we might have
used f[n_files]. Use fspec instead, since it is guaranteed to
be defined.
Eric Blake [Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:41:20 +0000 (10:41 -0700)]
maint: ignore more built files
Recent gnulib changes added new built files.
* .gitignore: Add arg-nonnull.h, link-warning.h,
unused-parameter.h.
Eric Blake [Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:37:44 +0000 (10:37 -0700)]
tac: supply link dependency
* src/Makefile.am (tac_LDADD): Add LIB_GETHRXTIME.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Robert Schwebel.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:32:12 +0000 (12:32 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:08:51 +0000 (12:08 +0100)]
tail: shrink internal struct by 8 bytes
* tail.c (struct File_spec): Rearrange struct members to decrease
size by 8 bytes to 76,96 on i686,x86_64 respectively.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:42:43 +0000 (12:42 +0100)]
maint: tail: avoid in-function #if directives
* src/tail.c (fremote): Add a comment.
Move definition "up" to precede first use, so we can
remove its prototype and the #if..#endif around each use.
(any_remote_file): Rename from any_remote_files.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:45:34 +0000 (22:45 +0000)]
tail: fix --follow to not use inotify on remote files
* src/tail.c (struct File_spec): Add a flag to record if file is remote.
(recheck): If we're using inotify then check if the file has gone remote
and if so, drop it with a warning.
(any_remote_files): A new function to check for any open remote files.
(tailable_stdin): A new function to refactor the check for whether
a tailable file was specified through stdin.
(fremote): A new function to check if a file descriptor
refers to a remote file.
(tail_forever_inotify): Add some comments.
(tail_file): Record if a file is remote when initially opened.
(main): Disable inotify if any remote files specified.
Also document the caveat about remounted files not
being noticed by inotify.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:36:12 +0000 (07:36 +0000)]
wc: line-buffer the printed counts
* src/wc.c (main): Set stdout to line buffered mode
to ensure parallel running instances don't intersperse
their output. This adds 6.5% to the run time in the worst case
of many zero length files, but has neglible impact for
standard sized files.
* tests/misc/wc-parallel: New test for atomic output.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference it.
* NEWS: Mention the fix
This is similar to commit
710fe413, 20-10-2009,
"md5sum, sha*sum, sum: line-buffer the printed checksums"
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:21:45 +0000 (12:21 +0000)]
stat: Recognize k-afs, gfs, ocfs2 file system types
* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add k-afs, gfs/gfs2 and ocfs2.
* NEWS: Update the stat -f entry.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:43:02 +0000 (18:43 +0000)]
stat: add support for more file system types
* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add the following FS types:
fuseblk, rpc_pipefs. Also fix a typo of minux3 to minix3,
and mention the fs-magic-compare make target to help update the list.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:50:29 +0000 (10:50 +0100)]
build: correct coreutils-specific distcheck rules
* dist-check.mk (built_programs): Use $(bin_PROGRAMS), not $(PROGRAMS).
Otherwise, my-instcheck would fail due to non-installation of e.g.,
the noinst_PROGRAMS, setuidgid and getlimits.
(taint-distcheck): Correct the grep command that checks for libtool
traces in configure.
Eric Blake [Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:29:40 +0000 (17:29 -0700)]
touch: fix ctime regression in 'touch -a'
Regression introduced in coreutils 8.1 due to a bug in the Linux
kernel implementation of utimensat with mtime of UTIME_OMIT.
* gnulib: Update to latest, to pick up utimensat fix.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by John Stanley.
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:25:29 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
maint: don't include the strverscmp gnulib module
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove the strverscmp module
which is not used since commit
e505736f, on 03-10-2008,
"ls and sort: use filevercmp instead of strverscmp"
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:48:54 +0000 (10:48 +0000)]
doc: enhance and reference info about version comparison
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Reference the additional
info about filevercmp rather than the unused strverscmp.
(Details about version sort): Add some examples that are not
handled well by fileversmp.
* src/ls.c: Change a comment referencing the now unused strverscmp.
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:26:04 +0000 (12:26 +0000)]
rm: fix --one-file-system regression due to fts conversion
* src/remove.c (rm_fts): Fix incorrect comparison of
device and inode numbers.
* tests/rm/one-file-system2: Add a separate test so
that it can be run as a normal user (It doesn't need to mount).
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference it.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by Jan Larres.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:33:03 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
maint: improve dist-check.mk rules
* dist-check.mk (null_AM_MAKEFLAGS): Remove LIBTOOL. Adding it was
erroneous, since it is required when building from a distribution
tarball of a libtool-using project. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues.
(my-distcheck): Reorganize to use a subshell and set -e, so that
failures propagate "out". Without this change, setting LIBTOOL=false
would cause a failure that would then be ignored, probably due to a
problem in $(install-transform-check).
Thiago Farina [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:27:59 +0000 (14:27 -0500)]
base64: use *_OPTION_DESCRIPTION macros instead of hard-coded strings
* src/base64 (usage): Use HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION and
VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION macros, not literal strings.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:55:13 +0000 (17:55 +0100)]
tests: unpack xz-compressed tarballs when possible, not always *.gz
* dist-check.mk: Unpack compressed tarball using xz when possible,
since that's faster.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:58:10 +0000 (16:58 +0100)]
maint: make dist-check.mk more easily shared
* dist-check.mk (built_programs): More generic, but still assumes src/.
Don't set GZIP in environment when untarring.
(my-distcheck): Use $(DIST_ARCHIVES), rather than assuming that
there is always a .tar.gz file.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:23:25 +0000 (12:23 +0100)]
nohup: if fd_repoen fails (redirecting stdin), report it
* src/nohup.c (main): Don't ignore fd_reopen failure.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:26:21 +0000 (10:26 +0100)]
tests: make the taint-distcheck rule easier to share with other projects
* dist-check.mk (taint-distcheck): Skip this test in a project
that uses libtool.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:00:41 +0000 (11:00 +0100)]
stat: recognize "sockfs" file system type, ...
... now that its magic number appears in <linux/magic.h>.
* src/stat.c (human_fstype) [S_MAGIC_SOCKFS]: Add case.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:35:49 +0000 (10:35 +0100)]
maint: move definitions from maint.mk to dist-check.mk
* dist-check.mk (null_AM_MAKEFLAGS): Define here, not in maint.mk.
(built_programs): Likewise.
(my-distcheck): Move comments to...
(coreutils-path-check): ...the code they refer to.
Remove obsolete comments.
(null_AM_MAKEFLAGS): Add gperf, even though it's not used here.
* gnulib: Update to latest, for fixed maint.mk.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:44:46 +0000 (14:44 +0100)]
tests: tail-without-inotify: avoid spurious test failure
* tests/tail-2/wait: Account for the possibility that the kernel
lacks inotify support. Reported by Chris Clayton.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:10:07 +0000 (08:10 +0100)]
factor: add a missing va_end
* src/factor.c (debug): Add missing va_end.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:18:04 +0000 (19:18 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest; adapt a patch
* gl/lib/tempname.c.diff: Adjust patch to apply to gnulib, now that
most TABs in indentation have been converted to spaces by running
this command: f=tempname.c.diff; patch-xform $f > k && mv k $f
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:43:13 +0000 (14:43 +0100)]
post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:00:40 +0000 (14:00 +0100)]
version 8.2
* NEWS: Record release date.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:59:57 +0000 (13:59 +0100)]
tests: use a slightly better CU_TEST_NAME setting
* tests/check.mk (CU_TEST_NAME): Better test names.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:15:13 +0000 (12:15 +0100)]
tail: don't call fstat on an uninitialized FD
This bug showed up via valgrind as a "Conditional jump or move
depends on uninitialized value(s)" error.
* src/tail.c (ignore_fifo_and_pipe): New function.
(main): Use it only when tailing forever.
The code to compute n_viable and mark some F[i] as ignored would call
isapipe on an uninitialized file descriptor. But n_viable and those
.ignored marks are useful/used only when tailing forever. This bug
was introduced via commit
f0ff8c73 (7.6), "tail: make the new
piped-stdin test as portable as the old one".
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:51:28 +0000 (08:51 +0100)]
doc: NEWS: mention that gnulib's mgetgroups fix affects id
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the "id" bug fix inherited via this gnulib
change: "mgetgroups: do not write bytes beyond end of malloc'd buffer"
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=
51d5e813e9ee6cf23
Jim Meyering [Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:50:27 +0000 (16:50 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:17:02 +0000 (08:17 +0100)]
tests: avoid spurious failure when run via valgrind
* tests/misc/printenv: Ignore LD_PRELOAD differences.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:58:12 +0000 (13:58 +0100)]
doc: NEWS: the "make distcheck" vulnerability dates back to 5.0
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Correct the introduced-in version number.
This was introduced on 2003-04-02 by commit
722a49ea.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:04:46 +0000 (13:04 +0100)]
doc: NEWS: mention the "make distcheck" vulnerability
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention implications of the "make distcheck" change.
This was introduced on 2008-07-22 by commit
9bb0d576, "tests: ensure
"make check" w/tainted build dir no longer impacts $HOME".
Jim Meyering [Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:45:30 +0000 (08:45 +0100)]
tests: don't let "umask 077" cause root-only cp/preserve-gid failure
* tests/cp/preserve-gid: Use working_umask_or_skip_ to set umask to 022.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:34:00 +0000 (21:34 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:33:18 +0000 (15:33 +0000)]
maint: remove an erroneous comment
* tests/misc/timeout: Remove an erroneous comment
introduced through copy and paste.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:48:34 +0000 (08:48 +0000)]
sort: fix failure if sort's parent has ignored SIGCHLD
* src/sort.c (main): Reset the SIGCHLD handler to the default
as otherwise wait() could return an error.
* tests/misc/sort-compress: Set the CHLD handler in a subshell
to SIG_IGN to ensure the sort command resets it to SIG_DFL.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:00:04 +0000 (19:00 +0000)]
timeout: fix failure if timeout's parent has ignored SIGCHLD
* src/timeout.c (main): Reset the SIGCHLD handler to the default
as otherwise wait() could return -1 and set errno to ECHILD.
This condition was ignored until commit
0b1dcf33, on 31-08-2009,
"timeout: defensive handling of all wait() errors"
but subsequently timeout would run the command correctly
but then fail with an error message.
* tests/misc/timeout: In a subshell set the CHLD handler to
SIG_IGN to ensure the timeout command resets it to SIG_DFL.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:00:37 +0000 (08:00 +0000)]
tests: fix stty-row-col failure on small fixed terminals
* tests/misc/stty-row-col: Linux virtual consoles at least,
issue an error if you try to increase their size, so skip the
test if we can't increase the dimensions of the tty by 1 cell.
Reported by Matthew Burgess.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:39:32 +0000 (07:39 +0000)]
tests: fix stty failure with serial control settings
* tests/misc/stty: Don't check the serial control settings as
these are ignored by various Linux kernels.
Reported by Matthew Burgess.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:56:07 +0000 (18:56 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:16:32 +0000 (22:16 +0100)]
build: distcheck: do not leave a $TMPDIR/coreutils directory behind
* dist-check.mk (tmpdir): Rename from TMPDIR. Use ./tests/torture
unconditionally, rather than $TMPDIR-with-default-to-/tmp.
Otherwise, running "make distcheck" could leave an empty /tmp/coreutils
directory behind.
(tp): Simplify, now that it's always in the build-dir.
(taint-distcheck): Set HOME earlier, in case $(MAKE) misbehaves.
(my-instcheck, coreutils-path-check): Add diagnostics, so it's easier
to diagnose when each runs.
(coreutils-path-check): Run configure with --quiet, to reduce output.
Inspired by Ralf Wildenhues' report of /tmp/coreutils being left behind.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:41:28 +0000 (17:41 +0100)]
tests: readdir-mountpoint-inode avoid false-positive w/virtualbox
* tests/ls/readdir-mountpoint-inode: With some systems, stat can
succeed on a mount point and report that the inode number is 0.
Since ls displays "?" for those, that would otherwise show up as a
difference. Skip such mount points. Reported by Sergei Steshenko
in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/19142
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:42:42 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
tests: don't run tail-2/inotify-race by default
* tests/tail-2/inotify-race: Note the caveats of the test.
I.E. the intermittent skips and the gdb hang reported
by Alan Curry. Add extra info to the log on why the test
is skipped as it may be due to multiple reasons. Mark
the test as very expensive so that it's not normally run.
Eric Blake [Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:06:55 +0000 (08:06 -0700)]
id: handle systems without getgroups support
If getgroups failed with ENOSYS, mgetgroups would unnecessarily
fail, and that provoked id into freeing an uninitialized pointer.
Meanwhile, we were not using xalloc_die properly. Both issues
are better solved in gnulib, by introducing xgetgroups; this
patch uses the new interface.
Regression introduced by commit
6a31fd8d7.
* gnulib: Update, for mgetgroups improvments.
* src/id.c (print_full_info): Adjust caller to die on allocation
failure, and no longer worry about ENOSYS.
* src/group-list.c (print_group_list): Likewise.
* src/setuidgid.c (main): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Scott Harrison.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:04:16 +0000 (17:04 +0100)]
tests: fix a bug in sanitize_path_ that inhibited verbose output
* tests/test-lib.sh (sanitize_path_): Use "set -- ...", not "set - ...",
since the latter turns off the -x setting we rely on for VERBOSE=yes
output.
Eric Blake [Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:18:28 +0000 (08:18 -0700)]
sort: fix link failure on Solaris
Commit
f9d0bb8481 made sort depend on xnanosleep.
* src/Makefile.am (sort_LDADD): Add LIB_NANOSLEEP.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:02:11 +0000 (12:02 +0100)]
rm: fix empty-name bug introduced with conversion to use fts
While "rm ''" would properly fail, "rm F1 '' F2" would fail
to remove F1 and F2, due to the empty string argument.
This bug was introduced on 2009-07-12, via commit
4f73ecaf,
"rm: rewrite to use fts".
* gnulib: Update to latest, for fixed fts.c.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Describe it.
* tests/rm/empty-name: Adjust for changed diagnostic.
(mk_file): Define, copied from misc/ls-misc.
(empty-name-2): New test, for today's fix.
* lib/xfts.c (xfts_open): Reflect the change in fts_open, now that
it no longer fails immediately when one argument is the empty string.
Assert that the bit flags were not the cause of failure.
* po/POTFILES.in: Remove xfts.c.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Ladislav Hagara.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:01:44 +0000 (14:01 +0100)]
bootstrap: fix handling of various perl --version formats
* bootstrap (get_version): Don't use perl's $] special
variable, as that requires updating all bootstrap.conf files to
use perl's x.yyyzzz version format. Instead make the regular
expression more general to support version formats from older
perl-5.005_002 (5.5.2) and perl-5.11 which has other numbers
in the version line.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:04:09 +0000 (14:04 +0100)]
bootstrap: update from gnulib, for perl-5.11.x support
* bootstrap (get_version): Handle perl separately,
since perl-5.11's --version output is different.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:56:57 +0000 (10:56 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:48:03 +0000 (06:48 +0100)]
maint: chown.c: remove a comment
* src/chown.c: Remove old spec-like comment.
Eric Blake [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:23:39 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
tests: fix link failure on cygwin
Counterpart to commit
8fe40b84bd8, since test-link.c uses rename,
and we override gnulib with a rename() replacement that can xalloc_die.
* gl/modules/link-tests.diff: New file.
Eric Blake [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:59:18 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
build: fix link failure on cygwin
Cygwin 1.5 has a broken sleep, and the gnulib tests dragged in
rpl_sleep which then caused a link failure because it wasn't in
libcoreutils.a. We could solve it by using the gnulib sleep module.
However, sleep and usleep may interact poorly with SIGALRM, and they
have less granularity; so it is better to adopt a policy that if we
must sleep, prefer xnanosleep.
* src/sort.c (pipe_fork): Use xnanosleep, to avoid the need for
rpl_sleep on cygwin, and to reduce granularity.
(MAX_FORK_TRIES_COMPRESS, MAX_FORK_TRIES_DECOMPRESS): Increase,
to account for reduction in granularity.
* src/tail.c (tail_file): Use xnanosleep in debug code.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_sleep): New rule.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:35:20 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
tests: avoid test failures when PATH contains an unsearchable directory
* tests/test-lib.sh (sanitize_path_): New function.
Always call it.
Dmitry V. Levin [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:37:34 +0000 (18:37 +0300)]
tests: do not fail on read-only root file system
* tests/touch/not-owner: Handle the case when the root file system is
mounted read-only.
Reported by Solar Designer.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:39:19 +0000 (16:39 +0100)]
maint: cfg.mk: remove factored-out ftp host/dir definitions
* cfg.mk (gnu_ftp_host-alpha, gnu_ftp_host-beta gnu_ftp_host-stable):
(gnu_rel_host, url_dir_list): Remove definitions. The defaults,
now provided by maint.mk, are the same.
* gnulib: Update for latest, including those maint.mk additions.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:58:51 +0000 (12:58 +0100)]
maint: correct comments in test scripts
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Fix spelling of cygwin1.dll in comment.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise.
Reported by Eric Blake.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:17:24 +0000 (08:17 +0100)]
maint: don't list "warnings" module explicitly
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove "warnings", now that
it's pulled in automatically via "manywarnings".
Jim Meyering [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:37:16 +0000 (07:37 +0100)]
maint: move xfreopen module to gnulib
* gl/lib/xfreopen.c: Remove file.
* gl/lib/xfreopen.h: Likewise.
* gl/modules/xfreopen: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:37:47 +0000 (07:37 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:13:22 +0000 (10:13 +0100)]
tests: avoid spurious failures due to insecure directory in PATH
These tests perform no PATH search, and used to simply delete PATH from
the environment. However, that is not portable, as seen on Cygwin,
where cygwin.dll must be resolvable via PATH when starting a sub-shell.
With commit
0cc04241, we took the alternate approach of untainting the
incoming $ENV{PATH}, but that fails when it contains an other-writable
directory. Instead, now we hard code it to '/bin:/usr/bin'.
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Hard code $ENV{PATH} to a safe value.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise.
Reported by Gilles Espinasse, Andreas Schwab, and Bauke Jan Douma.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:04:52 +0000 (21:04 +0100)]
build: "make stable" emitted an invalid gnupload command
* cfg.mk (gnu_ftp_host-stable): Rename from gnu_ftp_host-major.
* README-release: Change another s/major/stable/.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:56:25 +0000 (19:56 +0100)]
post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:38:50 +0000 (19:38 +0100)]
version 8.1
* NEWS: Record release date.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:58:20 +0000 (15:58 +0100)]
build: update gnulib for Solaris utimens workaround
Jim Meyering [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:33:02 +0000 (07:33 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:33:00 +0000 (15:33 +0100)]
maint: remove local gnulib-related patches
* gl/lib/printf-args.c.diff: Remove file. No longer needed.
* gl/lib/vasnprintf.c.diff: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:42:27 +0000 (14:42 +0100)]
build: update gnulib for Solaris 10 unsetenv work-around
Jim Meyering [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:56:12 +0000 (08:56 +0100)]
doc: mention the du/fts vs. NFSv4 mount-point work-around
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:56:50 +0000 (07:56 +0100)]
build: update from gnulib for (un)setenv fixes
Jim Meyering [Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:19:23 +0000 (09:19 +0100)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Jim Meyering [Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:23:01 +0000 (22:23 +0100)]
true, false: perform initialization only when argc == 2
* src/true.c (main): There is no reason to examine argv[0],
call atexit, etc., in the usual case in which we're about to exit.
This has the side effect of making it so that these programs
no longer segfault when subjected to execve abuse.
Before this change, these commands would make "true" segfault:
printf '%s\n' '#include <unistd.h>' 'int main(int c, char**v)' \
'{ execve (v[1], 0, 0); }' > k.c && gcc k.c && ./a.out $PWD/true
Now it succeeds. Reported by Tetsuo Handa and Bart Van Assche
via Ondřej Vašík in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/537684.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:25:29 +0000 (09:25 +0100)]
tail -F can fail to track a file after it's been rotated
Tailing forever and by-name (--follow=name, -F), tail would
sometimes fail to follow a file that had been removed via rename.
If you can't apply this patch and have tail 7.6 or newer, you can
work around the bug via the undocumented --disable-inotify option.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): When tailing by name (-F),
do not un-watch a file upon receipt of the IN_MOVE_SELF event.
Reported by Arjan Opmeer in http://bugs.debian.org/548439.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Also see http://marc.info/?l=coreutils-bug&m=
125829031916515
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add tail-2/inotify-rotate.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate: New test.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:01:02 +0000 (21:01 +0100)]
tests: help-version: exit nonzero when $built_programs is empty
* tests/misc/help-version: Use "Exit 1", rather than "Exit $fail"
with fail defined to 0 when $built_programs is empty.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:35:58 +0000 (20:35 +0100)]
build: do use AM_GNU_GETTEXT's "need-formatstring-macros" option
* configure.ac: Revert commit
49741b61 and add a comment.
Reported by Eric Blake.
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:52:14 +0000 (22:52 +0000)]
tests: avoid a spurious failure on a loaded system
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: This test could fail due to
the 1-second timeout expiring before a command of "no_such"
could be exec'd and fail. Increase to 10 seconds.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:53:06 +0000 (17:53 +0100)]
build: require gettext-0.17
* configure.ac: Require gettext-0.17; it was released two years ago.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:51:21 +0000 (17:51 +0100)]
build: correct gettext configure-time support
* configure.ac: Use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext]),
rather than AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros]).
Reported by Martin Jacobs in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs/3181
* THANKS: Add his name.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:39:03 +0000 (16:39 +0100)]
build: update gnulib to latest, for fixed test-getgroups.c
Jim Meyering [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:38:20 +0000 (16:38 +0100)]
tests: avoid a spurious timeout on a heavily-loaded system
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: This test would fail due to
the 1-second timeout expiring before a command of "." could
be exec'd and fail. Increase to 10 seconds.
Eric Blake [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:59:09 +0000 (11:59 -0700)]
build: update gnulib, for getgroups improvements
A replacement getgroups is now guaranteed to exist, but it may
fail with ENOSYS. mgetgroups is moved to gnulib, and now takes
gid_t instead of GETGROUPS_T (but setgroups still needs GETGROUPS_T).
* gnulib: Update to latest.
* gl/modules/mgetgroups: Delete, moved to gnulib.
* gl/m4/mgetgroups.m4: Likewise.
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.h: Likewise.
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c: Likewise.
* src/group-list.c (print_group_list): Adjust callers.
* src/id.c (print_full_info): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:51:54 +0000 (09:51 +0100)]
build: bootstrap: add a comment; generalize autoheader check
* bootstrap: Sync from gnulib and diff.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:59:26 +0000 (14:59 +0100)]
build: update gnulib to latest; more *BSD and Solaris work-arounds
Jim Meyering [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:07:00 +0000 (19:07 +0100)]
bootstrap: use git_modules_config in one more place
* bootstrap: Make bootstrap's --gnulib-srcdir more useful (for testing).
Eric Blake [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:49:44 +0000 (15:49 -0700)]
doc: fix typo
* doc/coreutils.texi (mktemp invocation): Quote shell variable.