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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..034a6d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,5539 @@ +2007-03-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Version 6.9. + * NEWS: Record release date and new version number. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): New version number. + + * tests/mv/hard-3: Correct the preceding change: $3 -> $2. + +2007-03-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Improve a test script. + * tests/mv/hard-3: Check for 'ls' failure, too. + Generate more-useful debugging output when 'ls' fails. + +2007-03-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Fix a test script not to claim an ext2 file system is of type xfs. + * tests/du/slink: When using df --local and df --type=TYPE, + test only the exit code. Don't bother with stdout. + Prompted by a report by Thomas Schwinge of an inaccurate diagnostic. + + * gl/lib/savewd.c: Remove this file, since the savewd_save change + is now in gnulib. The other wasn't useful. + +2007-03-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * gl/lib/acl.c: Remove this file, now that gnulib's version subsumes it. + + Skip part of this test when "." is not a local file system. + * tests/install/basic-1: Otherwise, it would fail on some NFS + file systems. + * tests/mkdir/p-3: Likewise. + +2007-03-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD, ls_LDADD, vdir_LDADD): + Add $(LIB_ACL_TRIVIAL). + +2007-03-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Fix a generic NFS-related test failure. + * tests/mkdir/p-3: When setting up an unreadable "." in an + inaccessible parent, make the parent inaccessible *after* making "." + unreadable. Otherwise, running "chmod a-r ." in an already- + inaccessible parent would fail on NFS with "Stale NFS file handle". + + Fix a bug in how pr -m -s works. + * NEWS: Describe how the fix affects pr. + * src/pr.c (init_parameters): The --merge (-m) option does + not imply --expand-tabs (-e), so don't set "untabify_input". + Reported by Wis Macomson. + * tests/misc/pr: New file. Test for the above fix. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add pr. + * THANKS: Update. + +2007-03-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Detect use of AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR also when its argument is quoted. + * bootstrap: Put ""s around use of $build_aux, in case + someone uses a name containing shell meta-characters. + Reported by Alfred M. Szmidt. + * tests/misc/tty-eof: Add shuf to the list of tested commands. + + Avoid test failure on NFS-mounted Solaris ZFS file system. + * tests/du/basic: Skip a test if "." is on a non-local file system. + + Avoid an obscure build failure, prefer waitpid over wait. + * src/install.c (strip): Use waitpid, not wait. It's equivalent, + but feels less obsolescent. + + * bootstrap: Don't use \> in grep regexp. For HP-UX. + +2007-03-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Begin adding support for Solaris ZFS (4 entries per trivial ACL) + * gl/lib/acl.c (ACL_NOT_WELL_SUPPORTED): New macro. + (file_has_acl, copy_acl): Use it, rather than enumerating errno values. + (is_trivial_acl): New function. Incomplete, for now. + (file_has_acl, copy_acl): Use the new function, rather than + counting the number of entries in an ACL. + + * bootstrap: Update from gnulib. + + * .x-sc_prohibit_atoi_atof: Add TODO here, too. + +2007-03-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/copy.c: Include filemode.h. + (overwrite_prompt): Say "try to overwrite", not "overwrite", to + make it clearer that the attempt may fail. Problem reported by + Dan Jacobson in: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-03/msg00130.html + Output symbolic mode as well as numeric. + * tests/mv/i-2 (fail): Adjust to new prompt format. + +2007-03-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Enforce policy: don't use *scanf functions. + * Makefile.maint (sc_prohibit_atoi_atof): Add to regexp and diagnostic. + * .x-sc_prohibit_atoi_atof: Give stty a temporary pass. + * TODO: note that stty.c needs this small clean-up. + +2007-03-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Prepare to work on ACL-related failure when using Solaris ZFS. + * gl/lib/acl.c: New file, copied from gnulib. + + Work around a failing test due to an NFS-based race condition. + * tests/cp/sparse: Accept a report that the copy is *smaller*. + +2007-03-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Make bootstrap.conf a tiny bit more generic. + * bootstrap.conf (XGETTEXT_OPTIONS): Exclude gettext-related .m4 + files when e.g., AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external] appears in configure.ac. + +2007-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Try to fix today's NFS-related failure: Treat ESTALE like EACCES. + * gl/lib/savewd.c: Copy this file from gnulib, then change + "errno != EACCES" to (errno != EACCES && errno != ESTALE). + The symptom was this failure in tests/install/basic-1: + ginstall: cannot create directory `rel/a': Stale NFS file handle + + The preceding change solved part of the problem. Now ginstall fails. + * tests/install/basic-1: Temporarily, don't redirect ginstall's + stderr to /dev/null, so I can see why the NFS autobuilder's NFS test + is failing. + + * tests/install/basic-1: When setting up an unreadable "." in an + inaccessible parent, make the parent inaccessible *after* making "." + unreadable. Otherwise, running "chmod a-r ." in an already- + inaccessible parent would fail on NFS with "Stale NFS file handle". + Reported by Bob Proulx. + + * Makefile.maint (po-check): Exclude c99-to-c89.diff. + +2007-03-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Avoid test failures on Darwin 7.9.0 (MacOS X 10.3.9) + * tests/chgrp/basic: Don't let failure by chgrp to set the + group of a symlink make this test fail. Do give a diagnostic. + In the chgrp-no-change-ctime test, add darwin7.9.0 as another + known-failing system. + When failing on some other system, print $host_triplet, too. + Also avoid test failures on Darwin 8.8.x (MacOS X 10.4). + Reported by Peter Fales. + +2007-03-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Reflect the new c99'ism, update offsets. + +2007-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + rm without -f: give a better diagnostic when euidaccess fails. + * src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Return int, not bool, + so that we can indicate failure too (as a postive error number). + (prompt): If write_protected_non_symlink fails, report that error + number and fail rather than charging ahead and removing the dubious + entry. Redo the logic of printing a diagnostic so that we need to + invoke quote (full_filename (...)) only once. More details at: + <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/9952/focus=9996> + +2007-03-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Generalize a few more cvs-isms. + * bootstrap (checkout_only_file): Rename from CVS_only_file. + Change comments and diagnostics not to say "CVS". + + * bootstrap: Run libtool, if necessary. + + Make bootstrap a little more general. + * bootstrap (build_aux): Factor out/use this definition. + Formally require a "AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR($build_aux)" line in configure.ac. + (insert_sorted_if_absent): Move function definition "up", to + precede new first use. + If $build_aux/ doesn't exist initially, create it, and + mark it as ignored. + +2007-03-03 Andrew Church <achurch@achurch.org> (tiny change) + Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix a bug: cp -x would fail to set mount point permissions. + * NEWS: mention cp -x bug fix + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't return immediately after + copying a mount point that we do not intend to recurse under. + Based on a patch by Andrew Church. + +2007-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + pwd-unreadable-parent: Skip test on ia64/Linux, too. + * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Also skip when $REPLACE_GETCWD. + Reported by Bob Proulx. + +2007-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + pwd-unreadable-parent: Skip test on non-Linux/GNU systems. + * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Rather than trying to decide + whether this test has a chance of succeeding, run it only when + $(host_os) is linux-gnu. It was failing on powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Add host_os=$(host_os). + + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Also allow "+" in $PWD. + + Remove another coreutils-ism. Formatting cleanup. + * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Update an outdated comment. + (emit_upload_commands): Use $(PACKAGE) rather than "coreutils". + (my-distcheck): Skip the c99/c89 check if there's no such .diff file. + +2007-03-01 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (warn_cflags): Hoist, adding "-Dlint -O". + (my-distcheck): Use the new variable, instead of too-long literal. + + Make "make syntax-check" rules less coreutils-specific. + * Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Use CVS_LIST_EXCEPT. + (sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value): Likewise. + (sc_root_tests): Do nothing if there is no check-root target + in tests/Makefile.am. + + Run the writable-files check only for release-building targets. + * Makefile.maint (local-checks-available): Remove writable-files. + (alpha beta major): Put it here, instead. + + "make syntax-check" now runs only Makefile.cfg-selected tests + * Makefile.maint (syntax-check-rules): Hoist this definition so that + it precedes the indirect use in the definition of $(local-check). + (local-check): Use :=, not just "=". + (syntax-check): Depend on $(local-check), not $(syntax-check-rules). + +2007-02-28 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Replace xreadlink with + xreadlink-with-size. Add xreadlink. + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Update. + * src/ls.c (is_directory): Update. + * src/stat.c (print_stat): Update. + * src/readlink.c (main): Use the one-argument xreadlink function. + +2007-02-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): --si outputs "M", not "MB". + Problem reported by Philip Rowlands in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-02/msg00283.html>. + +2007-02-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .x-sc_file_system: Add the new test, tests/misc/df-P, to this + list of exceptions, for the "make distcheck" sc_file_system rule. + + * Makefile.maint (gnulib_snapshot_date): Remove now-unused definition. + +2007-02-27 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Make df -P immune to effects of e.g., the BLOCK_SIZE envvar. + * NEWS: With -P, the default block size and output format is not + affected by DF_BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, or BLOCKSIZE. + * src/df.c (main): Implement this. + +2007-02-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Add a test for the above. + * tests/misc/df-P: New file. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add df-P. + +2007-02-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (announcement): Adjust so that it works with + announce-gen's --gnulib-snapshot-time-stamp option. + Indent one of the command lines using TAB, not 8 spaces. + + Post-release version change. + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.8+. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set new version string. + +2007-02-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Version 6.8. + * NEWS: Record release date and new version number. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): New version number. + + Don't skip this test on new-enough Linux/GNU systems. + * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Test $REPLACE_GETCWD = 0, + rather than for __GETCWD_PREFIX in config.h (the latter is no + longer defined, ever, due to gnulib changes). + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Define REPLACE_GETCWD. + + Remove the "gnits" option; it prohibits my using "+" as a version + string suffix, and all it does (beyond the default "gnu" option) + is to _require_ the THANKS file. + * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove it. + + Remove all AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS settings in Makefile.am files. + * tests/chgrp/Makefile.am, tests/chmod/Makefile.am: + * tests/chown/Makefile.am, tests/cp/Makefile.am: + * tests/du/Makefile.am, tests/expr/Makefile.am: + * tests/factor/Makefile.am, tests/general/Makefile.am: + * tests/install/Makefile.am, tests/ln/Makefile.am: + * tests/ls/Makefile.am, tests/mkdir/Makefile.am: + * tests/mv/Makefile.am, tests/readlink/Makefile.am: + * tests/rm/Makefile.am, tests/rmdir/Makefile.am: + * tests/seq/Makefile.am, tests/stty/Makefile.am: + * tests/tee/Makefile.am, tests/touch/Makefile.am: + + * README: Document the OSF/1 4.0d build failure and work-around. + Reported by Bruno Haible. + + * NEWS: Use a simple "+" suffix to denote pre-release, not "-dirty". + Nicer connotations. + * configure.ac: Use 6.7+, not 6.7-dirty. + +2007-02-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: sort no longer compresses temporaries by default. + * bootstrap.conf: Remove findprog. + * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): The default is to not + compress. Don't treat "" specially. + * src/sort.c: Don't include findprog.h. + (create_temp): Compress only if the user specified --compress-program. + * tests/misc/sort-compress: Adjusts tests to match new behavior. + +2007-02-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Avoid a shell syntax error, when building with an inadequate Perl. + * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Add quotes around $(PERL) in case, since + it can expand to "/.../missing perl". + + * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Warn when unable to update a man page. + Suggestion from Bruno Haible. + +2007-02-23 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + Handle better the combination of old Perl and a pre-c99 compiler. + * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): If the autoconf test has determined that + perl is missing or not a sufficient version, do nothing. + + * tests/readlink/can-e: Put the closing double-quote at the end of a + backquoted word, not in the middle. Works around a bug in sh on + OSF/1 4.0d. + * tests/readlink/can-f: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-m: Likewise. + + * tests/du/slink: Skip the test if executing on an nfsv3 file system. + This avoids a test failure at least on OSF/1 4.0d. + +2007-02-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/date.c (usage): Split a diagnostic that had grown to be + longer than the C89 maximum of 509 bytes. + +2007-02-23 Ed Santiago <ed@edsantiago.com> + + * src/date.c (usage): Mention that --rfc-3339 uses space, not 'T', + for a separator. Include sample RFC 2822 and 3339 output. + +2007-02-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + With -Dlint, make shuf free all heap-allocated storage. + * src/shuf.c (main): Move declaration of input_lines to + function scope, and initialize to NULL, so we can free it. + [lint]: Free all malloc'd memory. + * tests/misc/shuf: Also test shuf's -e and -i options. + +2007-02-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Merge in a change from some other incarnation of this file (gzip?) + * bootstrap (gnulib_tool): Skip get_translations if there is no po/ dir. + + Adjust preceding change not to perform an unaligned access. + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Undo previous change. Instead, make + it clearer that we're using a single-byte sentinel, and + [lint]: Initialize sizeof (uintptr_t) - 1 bytes after the sentinel. + Reported by Andreas Schwab. + + Placate valgrind, wrt ./cp --sparse=always + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Place the sentinel by setting a + full word's worth of bits, not just a single byte's worth. + This avoids a harmless (but distracting) case of memory being + used-uninitialized. + +2007-02-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Honor dd's noatime flag if possible, even if not supported on build fs + * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn that noatime might not be + reliable. + * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Look at O_NOATIME, not + HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME, to decide whether to support the noatime + flag, so that dd attempts O_NOATIME even if the build file system + does not support it. Problem reported by Jim Meyering today in + bug-coreutils. + * tests/dd/misc: Generate a warning, not a failure, if noatime + exists but fails. + +2007-02-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/date: Remove vestigial use of Data::Dumper. + +2007-02-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/copy.c (cached_umask): Cast -1 to mode_t to avoid a warning + about out-of-range initializer with Sun C 5.8. + +2007-02-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap (CVS_only_file): Use README-hacking. + + Now that we use GIT, not cvs, rename README-cvs. + * README-hacking: Renamed from... + Update to reflect that we now use git. + + * README-cvs: ...this. + + * src/env.c (main): When invoked with no arguments (i.e. when printing + the environment), use a local variable to iterate through the global + "environ" array, rather than "environ" itself. This is solely to + avoid changing the environment for an LD_PRELOAD-substituted "puts" + or "exit" function. Tiny patch by Harvey Eneman. See + <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/9735>. + * THANKS: Update. + + * bootstrap: Move definitions of temporary directory names and the + new bt_regex "up" to precede all uses, so it's clearer what their + scope is. Also, use [.], rather than \\., since the former works + even if eval'd. + + * bootstrap: Remove occurrences of $bt (._bootmp) from lib/Makefile. + Based on the bison 2007-02-19 change by Joel E. Denny. + +2007-02-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: sort now uses a --compress-program option rather than + an environment variable. + * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document this. + * src/sort.c (usage): Likewise. + (COMPRESS_PROGRAM_OPTION): New const. + (long_options, create_temp, main): Support new option. + * tests/misc/sort-compress: Test it. + +2007-02-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap: Fix typo s/dowloading/downloading/ in --help output. + +2007-02-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/system.h: Don't include exit.h, now that it's subsumed + by the gnulib-generated stdlib.h. + + * tests/rm/fail-eacces: Skip this test when running as root. + Reported by Matthew Woehlke. + + * bootstrap: Use "._bootmp" as the temporary directory name, + not ".#bootmp". The latter's "#" caused trouble with the new, + gnulib-added "LINK_WARNING_H = $(top_srcdir)/.#bootmp/..." line. + +2007-02-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add c-strcase. Remove strcase. + * src/dircolors.c: Include c-strcase.h. + (dc_parse_stream): Use c_strcasecmp rather than + strcasecmp to avoid unreliable results in locales like Turkish + where strcasecmp is incompatible with the C locale. + +2007-02-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Also check for and print stderr output, in case a program fails. + * tests/misc/tty-eof: Occasionally (not reproducible), this + test would fail, with one or more programs exiting nonzero, e.g., + tty-eof: sha224sum exited with status 1 (expected 0) + Now, maybe we'll get a clue, the next time that happens. + +2007-02-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .x-sc_useless_cpp_parens: Ignore a false-positive in a shell script. + + * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Skip the test if we're + definitely using the replacement. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Define CONFIG_HEADER. + +2007-02-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Remove excess leading spaces that would make help2man misbehave. + * src/printf.c (usage): Remove excess spaces on 2nd line of %b desc. + * src/nl.c (usage): Remove excess spaces on 2nd line of pBRE desc. + * src/dd.c (usage): Remove excess spaces on 2nd line of sync desc. + * src/date.c (usage): Use two spaces after each optional flag, not one. + Reported by Thomas Huriaux in <http://bugs.debian.org/410407>. + + * Makefile.maint (longopt_re): Relax the regexp, making square + brackets optional, so it matches the newly reported violations, too. + + * src/csplit.c (usage): Use two spaces (not one) to separate + each option string from its description, so help2man formats + the derived man page properly. Reported by Thomas Huriaux in + <http://bugs.debian.org/410407>. + * src/df.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/du.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/install.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/ls.c (usage): Likewise. + +2007-02-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Test for today's gnulib/lib/getcwd.c fix affecting pwd and readlink + * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. + * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: New file. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Ad pwd-unreadable-parent. + +2007-02-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Document fix for cp --preserve=mode. + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Omit the group- or other-writeable + permissions when creating a directory, to avoid a race condition + if the special mode bits aren't right just after the directory is + created. + * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Likewise. + * tests/cp/parent-perm-race: Test for the "cp --preserve=mode" + race fix in copy.c. + + * NEWS: Document fix for cp --parents. + * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Report the error sooner with + "cp --parents DIR/FILE DEST" when DIR is a non-directory, thus not + creating the directory, DEST/DIR. + * tests/cp/cp-parents: Test for the non-race-condition bug fixed + by the above change. + +2007-02-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/nl.c (proc_text): Use "NULL", not "(struct re_registers *) 0". + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Make shred.c Index: and a/b prefixes + consistent, so this can be applied with patch -p0. + Reported by Matthew Woehlke. + + * Makefile.maint (patch-check): Use patch with its -p2 option, + since that makes this check slightly more strict. + +2007-01-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Plug a leak in ls. + * src/ls.c (print_dir): Don't leak a "DIR"+fd upon failure to + determine dev/inode or upon detecting a symlink loop. + + * src/ls.c: Rename three global variables. + (cwd_file): Rename from 'files'. + (cwd_n_alloc): Rename from 'nfiles'. + (cwd_n_used): Rename from 'files_index'. + + Shave 8 bytes off the size of "struct fileinfo". + * src/ls.c (fileinfo): Put all members of type "bool" together. + +2007-01-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Modify "ls" to sort its data faster, using the new gnulib mpsort + module rather than qsort. This is particularly a win in + environments where strcoll is slow, since mpsort typically calls + strcoll less often than qsort does. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add mpsort. + * src/ls.c: Include mpsort.h. + (sorted_file, sorted_file_alloc): New vars, for a new vector of + pointers to the file info, for speed. + (clear_files, extract_dirs_from_files, sort_files, print_current_files): + (print_many_per_line, print_horizontal, print_with_commas): + (calculate_columns): Set and use new vector. + (initialize_ordering_vector): New function. + +2007-01-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Adjust to today's change to gnulib, which added a module for + string.h to replace the little include files like strcase.h. + * src/dircolors.c: Don't include strcase.h. + * src/system.h: Don't include mempcpy.h, memrchr.h, stpcpy.h, strpbrk.h. + +2007-01-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/dd.c (advance_input_after_read_error): Change diagnostic to + say "invalid file offset" rather than "screwy file offset". + + * .x-sc_cast_of_argument_to_free: Remove this file. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Likewise. + +2007-01-25 Dan Hipschman <dsh@linux.ucla.edu> + + * src/sort.c (create_temp): Remove superfluous access-X_OK + check. find_in_path does this for us. + +2007-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Remove usually-skipped test. + * tests/cp/open-perm-race: Remove this file. It is subsumed + by parent-perm-race. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Remove open-perm-race. + * tests/sort/Makefile.am: Regenerate. + + Pass "make distcheck" again. + * src/sort.c (usage): Split a diagnostic that had grown to be + longer than the C89 maximum of 509 bytes. + * .x-sc_cast_of_argument_to_free: New file. Allow a cast in sort.c. + FIXME: this is just temporary, while we wait to remove the offending + access-calling code. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .x-sc_cast_of_argument_to_free. + * Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_argument_to_free): Use the + canonical, $$($(CVS_LIST_EXCEPT)). + * m4/.gitignore, m4/.cvsignore, lib/.gitignore, lib/.cvsignore: Update. + +2007-01-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: New option sort -C, proposed by XCU ERN 127, which looks + like it will be approved. Also add --check=quiet, --check=silent + as long aliases, and --check=diagnose-first as an alias for -c. + * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document this. + Also, mention that sort -c can take at most one file. + * src/sort.c: Implement this. + Include argmatch.h. + (usage): Document the change. + (CHECK_OPTION): New constant. + (long_options): --check now takes an optional argument, and is now + treated differently from 'c'. + (check_args, check_types): New constant arrays. + (check): New arg CHECKONLY, which suppresses diagnostic if -C. + (main): Parse the new options. + * tests/sort/Test.pm (02d, 02d, incompat5, incompat6): + New tests for -C. + +2007-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Fix a typo. + * tests/misc/sort-compress: Use $abs_top_builddir, not $top_builddir. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Likewise. + + Don't depend on "which". + * tests/misc/sort-compress (SORT): Use $abs_builddir, now which. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Export top_builddir. + +2007-01-24 Dan Hipschman <dsh@linux.ucla.edu> + + Test sort compression. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am: Add the test. + * tests/misc/sort-compress: New file containing the tests. + +2007-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: sort temp file compression: tweak wording. + * src/sort.c (struct sortfile) [name]: Declare member to be const. + +2007-01-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/sort.c (MAX_FORK_RETRIES_COMPRESS, MAX_FORK_RETRIES_DECOMPRESS): + In pipe_fork callers, use these named constants, not "2" and "8". + (proctab, nprocs): Declare to be "static". + (pipe_fork) [lint]: Initialize local, pid, + to avoid unwarranted may-be-used-uninitialized warning. + (create_temp): Use the active voice. Describe parameters, too. + +2007-01-21 James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> + + Centralize all the uses of sigprocmask(). Don't restore an invalid + saved mask. + * src/sort.c (enter_cs, leave_cs): New functions for protecting + code sequences against signal delivery. + * (exit_cleanup): Use enter_cs and leave_cs instead of + calling sigprocmask directly. + (create_temp_file, pipe_fork, zaptemp): Likewise + +2007-01-21 Dan Hipschman <dsh@linux.ucla.edu> + + Add compression of temp files to sort. + * NEWS: Mention this. + * bootstrap.conf: Import findprog. + * configure.ac: Add AC_FUNC_FORK. + * doc/coreutils.texi: Document GNUSORT_COMPRESSOR environment + variable. + * src/sort.c (compress_program): New global, holds the name of the + external compression program. + (struct sortfile): New type used by mergepfs and friends instead + of filenames to hold PIDs of compressor processes. + (proctab): New global, holds compressor PIDs on which to wait. + (enum procstate, struct procnode): New types used by proctab. + (proctab_hasher, proctab_comparator): New functions for proctab. + (nprocs): New global, number of forked but unreaped children. + (reap, reap_some): New function, wait for/cleanup forked processes. + (register_proc, update_proc, wait_proc): New functions for adding, + modifying and removing proctab entries. + (create_temp_file): Change parameter type to pointer to file + descriptor, and return type to pointer to struct tempnode. + (dup2_or_die): New function used in create_temp and open_temp. + (pipe_fork): New function, creates a pipe and child process. + (create_temp): Creates a temp file and possibly a compression + program to which we filter output. + (open_temp): Opens a compressed temp file and creates a + decompression process through which to filter the input. + (mergefps): Change FILES parameter type to struct sortfile array + and update access accordingly. Use open_temp and reap_some. + (avoid_trashing_input, merge): Change FILES parameter like + mergefps and call create_temp instead of create_temp_file. + (sort): Call create_temp instead of create_temp_file. + Use reap_some. + (avoid_trashing_input, merge, sort, main): Adapt to mergefps. + + The idea of compressing sorts temporary files was first + suggested/implemented by Jay Soffian in 1998, and again + by Charles Randall in 2001. + +2007-01-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Work properly even when run from the + wrong one of two or more bind-mounted sibling directories. + Suggestion from Mike Stone in <http://bugs.debian.org/380552>. + +2007-01-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Standardize on list of signals when an app catches signals. + * src/csplit.c (main): Also catch SIGALRM, SIGPIPE, SIGPOLL, + SIGPROF, SIGVTALRM, SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ. + * src/ls.c (main): Likewise (except SIGPIPE was already caught). + Note that ls.c is special, as it also catches SIGTSTP. + * src/sort.c (main): Likewise. Also catch SIGQUIT. More details in + <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/9510>. + +2007-01-19 Dan Hipschman <dsh@linux.ucla.edu> + and Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/sort.c (cleanup): Clear temphead at the end. + (exit_cleanup): New function. + (main): Don't invoke atexit until we're ready. + Invoke it with exit_cleanup, not with cleanup and close_stdout, + to avoid a race condition with cleanup and signal handling. More + details: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/9508 + +2007-01-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets. + +2007-01-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Make "rm --interactive=never ..." never prompt. + * NEWS: Mention this. + * src/remove.h (enum rm_interactive): New ternary type. + (struct rm_options) [interactive]: Use it, here -- rather than bool. + * src/remove.c (prompt): Reflect type change. + * src/mv.c (rm_option_init): Initialize to RMI_NEVER now. + * src/rm.c (main): Add a FIXME comment for '-d' option. + Adapt to type change of rm_options.interactive. + + * tests/rm/i-never: New file. Test for the above fix. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add i-never. + +2007-01-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap (gnulib_tool): When adding to .cvsignore and .gitignore, + emit foo.h, for each foo_.h. This yields one false-positive, fts.h, + but that's ok, since fts_.h will eventually be renamed. + + * src/remove.c (remove_dir): Don't use errno in diagnostic. + Root-only test failure reported by Alex van Hout and Jon Grosshart in + <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/9415/focus=9415>. + + * bootstrap.conf (avoided_gnulib_modules): Fix my typo: + s/--avoid=canonicalize-lgpl/--avoid=canonicalize-gpl/ + +2007-01-14 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + Enable use of gnulib's new fchdir module. + * bootstrap.conf (avoided_gnulib_modules): Avoid canonicalize-lgpl, + since we use canonicalize. + (gnulib_modules): Add fchdir. + * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Remove fchdir-stub. + +2007-01-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Transform all Makefile.am files so that when running "make check", + CU_TEST_NAME is set to the name of the test. This is so that when I + run valgrind-enabled (--log-file-qualifier=CU_TEST_NAME) "make check" + on the entire package it is more convenient to map a leak or error + found in a valgrind log file back to the offending test. + Use this command: + (echo tests/Makefile.am.in; find tests -name Makefile.am) \ + |xargs perl -pi -e '/^(\s*)PATH=...VG_PATH_PREFIX/ and ' \ + -e 'print $1,q|CU_TEST_NAME=`basename $(abs_srcdir)`,$$tst |,"\\\n"' + +2007-01-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Avoid a leak in expr's implementation of the ":" (match) operator. + * src/expr.c (docolon): Free the regexp buffer using regfree, rather + than doing it manually, being careful to set fastmap to NULL first. + Free any re_regs.start and .end members, if necessary. + + * tests/misc/test-diag: Work also when libc's error function + reports the entire program name ("../../src/test"), rather than + just the final component. + +2007-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Don't use fts_statp uninitialized for "chown -RLh --preserve-root ...". + * src/chown-core.c (FTSENT_IS_DIRECTORY): New macro. + (change_file_owner): Perform the ROOT_DEV_INO_CHECK only for a + directory. Non-directory entries lack fts_statp data when using + the FTS_NOSTAT option. + +2007-01-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/sample-test: Update copyright date to 2007. + * Makefile.maint (copyright-check): Also check the copyright date + in tests/sample-test. + +2007-01-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/fmt/basic (pfx-only, pfx-of-pfx): New tests, + based on examples from G.P. Halkes in + <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/9388>. + +2007-01-06 G.P. Halkes <buscom@ghalkes.nl> + + * src/fmt.c (copy_rest): Correct prefix handling. + Don't elide a line with the prefix followed by only white space. + (get_line): Move EOF-check to loop-termination condition. + * tests/fmt/basic (pfx-1): Adjust test to expect desired result. + (pfx-2): Remove test; its premise was contrary to the documentation. + +2007-01-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Avoid a used-uninitialized bug for invalid input, i.e., when the size + of the input, not counting newlines, is 1 % 4. + * gl/lib/base64.c (base64_decode): Don't hard-code inlen==4. + It may be smaller when flushing. + +2007-01-05 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> + + * src/dircolors.hin: Add a TERM directive for cons25. + +2007-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): Skip strftime-check, in + case you don't have convenient access to glibc info documentation. + + Use the release year, not the current year. + * src/groups.sh (version): Use a better name: @RELEASE_YEAR@. + * src/Makefile.am (RELEASE_YEAR): Define it. + (.sh): Use it. + Thanks to a prod from Eric Blake. + + Ensure that "group --version" always prints the current year. + * src/groups.sh (version): Use @CURRENT_YEAR@, rather than 2006. + * src/Makefile.am (.sh): Also substitute for @CURRENT_YEAR@. + Suggestion from Eric Blake. + + When decoding, always allow newlines in input, with almost no + performance impact. + * src/base64.c (do_decode): Initialize decode context. + Call base64_decode one more time, after all input is processed. + (usage): When decoding, newlines are always accepted. + + * tests/misc/base64: Add a bunch of tests, for the above. + * gl/lib/base64.c: Include <string.h>. + (base64_decode_ctx_init, get_4, decode_4): New functions. + (base64_decode): Efficiently handle interspersed newlines. + (base64_decode_alloc): Update signature. + * gl/lib/base64.h (struct base64_decode_context): Define. + (base64_decode_ctx_init): Add prototype. + (base64_decode, base64_decode_alloc): Update prototypes. + + * gl/lib/base64.c: Copied from gnulib. + * gl/lib/base64.h: Likewise. + +2007-01-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * THANKS: Add Evan Hunt. + +2007-01-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + Avoid spurious test failures on MacOS X 10.3.9, in a German locale. + * tests/chown/deref: Apply lang-default. + * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. + * tests/mv/reply-no: Likewise. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use mkfifo as a fallback if mknod fails. + Needed on MacOS X. + +2007-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Now, "ls -FRL" always follows symbolic links on Linux. + * NEWS: Mention this bug fix. + * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Fix bug reported by + Nobuyuki Tsuchimura in + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-12/msg00152.html + where "ls -FRL" didn't follow a symbolic link in some cases on Linux. + * tests/ls/follow-slink: Add a test for this case. + +2007-01-01 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Revert last change. The PATH=... setting + is not honored at least on HP-UX 11.23 systems. + Instead, simply transform the actual output diagnostic. + Test failure reported by Bob Proulx. + +2006-12-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap (gnulib_extra_files): Remove announce-gen. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add it here instead, now that + it's a module. + + * tests/misc/base64: Factor a long, repetitive string. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust remove.c offsets. + + Clean up after the change of 2006-12-28. + * src/remove.c (AD_pop_and_chdir): Change **DIRP parameter to *DIRP, + now that this function never modifies the pointer. Adjust comments + and code accordingly. + (remove_dir): Set "dirp" to NULL right after AD_pop_and_chdir call, + now that AD_pop_and_chdir no longer does that. + + * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Avoid spurious differences (the error function + from latest glibc no longer prints the full program_name): so don't + invoke rm via ../../src/rm. Instead, invoke it via "PATH=../../src rm". + + * tests/mv/acl (skip): Skip this test also if the destination + directory, which is on a different file system, lacks ACL support. + + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Rewrite a comment that was rendered + inaccurate by the 2006-10-18 change. + +2006-12-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + When moving "up" the hierarchy, be careful to remove a just-emptied + directory before opening ".", to avoid trouble with file system + implementations that cache readdir results at opendir-time. + * src/remove.c (AD_pop_and_chdir): Add a file descriptor parameter. + Don't update **DIRP. Don't call fdopendir here. + (remove_dir): Call fdopendir here instead. + Report and patch from Mikulas Patocka: + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-12/msg00170.html> + +2006-12-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/tail.c (usage): Mention +N for --bytes and --lines. + Suggestion from Evan Hunt. + +2006-12-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * configure.ac: Require autoconf-2.61 and automake-1.10. + Without the former (even with autoconf-2.60), "make distcheck" + would fail (without the 2006-09-26 autoconf AC_CHECK_DECL fix), + due to an inttypes.h generated with CFLAGS including -pedantic. + With the old decl check, @HAVE_DECL_STRTOUMAX@ would be 0. + + * Makefile.maint (VC-tag): Define, so as to gpg-sign each release + tag, using the release version number as the message. + (vc-dist): Use $(VC-tag), rather than "$(VC) tag". + +2006-12-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: dd bs= operands now silently override later ibs= and obs=, + as POSIX requires. + * src/dd.c (scanargs): Implement it. + * tests/dd/misc (outbytes): Test it. + * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Specify that bs=N + overrides later ibs and obs, undoing part of the + previous change. (The behavior was wrong.) + +2006-12-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + "rm -rf /etc/motd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic. + * src/remove.c (remove_entry): Handle EACCES for a non-directory, too. + Don't let a non-directory get by with errno == EPERM, either. + Check the file type directly (using cached stat value), rather + than trying to guess it from errno values. + Karl Berry reported that a cross-partition "mv /etc/issue ~" + failed with the um,... suboptimal diagnostic, + "mv: cannot remove `/etc/issue': Not a directory". + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add fail-eacces. + * tests/rm/fail-eacces: New file. + * NEWS: Mention that both mv and rm are affected. + + "cut -f 2- A B" no longer triggers a double-free bug + * src/cut.c (cut_fields): Set file-scoped global to NULL after + freeing it. This avoids a double-free (and core dump on some systems) + for this usage: "echo 1>a; echo 2>b; cut -f2- a b". Reported by + James Hunt in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/220312>. + * NEWS: List this bug fix. + * THANKS: Mention him. + * tests/misc/cut: New file. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cut. + +2006-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/cp/open-perm-race: Correct the gdb-existence check. + Don't run either subsequent gdb command in a sub-shell. + Reported by Thomas Schwinge. + * THANKS: bring up to date. + +2006-12-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Make sure cp -p isn't too generous with file permissions. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add file-perm-race. + * tests/cp/file-perm-race: New file. + + Ensure cp -pR --parents isn't too generous with parent permissions. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add parent-perm-race. + * tests/cp/parent-perm-race: New file. + +2006-12-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/chgrp/default-no-deref: Don't assume that files are created + with the primary group by default. That's not true in a directory + with the set-GID bit set. + + Don't hang when there's no input tty. + * tests/cp/open-perm-race: Skip this test if there is no + controlling input `terminal'. + + Test for a hard-to-detect race fix, using gdb. + * tests/cp/open-perm-race: New file, to test for the + cp --preserve=ownership fix of 2006-12-06. + + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Define abs_top_builddir. + (TESTS): Add open-perm-race. + + * src/chgrp.c (main): Don't prohibit -RLh, aka -RL with --no-dereference. + * src/chown.c (main): Likewise. + * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Add to a comment. + * tests/chown/preserve-root: Add tests. + + * NEWS: --preserve-root now works with chgrp, chmod, and chown. + * src/chmod.c (process_file): Do honor the --preserve-root option. + * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Likewise, but here, also + handle the case in which a traversal would go "through" a symlink + to root. Reported by Matthew M. Boedicker + * tests/chown/preserve-root: Test for the above. + * tests/chown/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add preserve-root. + + * NEWS: Mention the chmod fix induced by the 2006-12-11 change + to gnulib's m4/openat.m4. + +2006-12-13 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> + + Don't fail if mv/acl test succeeds. + * tests/mv/acl (skip): Check for acl support in the file system. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Remove. + (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Pass CONFIG_HEADER. + +2006-12-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Remove some arbitrary restrictions on size fields, so that + commands like "sort -k 18446744073709551616" no longer fail merely + because 18446744073709551616 doesn't fit in uintmax_t. The trick + is that these fields can all be treated as effectively infinity; + their exact values don't matter, since no internal buffer can be + that long. + * src/join.c (string_to_join_field): Verify that SIZE_MAX <= + ULONG_MAX if the code assumes this. Silently truncate too-large + values to SIZE_MAX, as the remaining code will do the right thing + in this case. + * src/sort.c (parse_field_count): Likewise. + * src/uniq.c (size_opt, main): Likewise. + * tests/join/Test.pm (bigfield): New test. + * tests/sort/Test.pm (bigfield): New test. + * tests/uniq/Test.pm (121): New test. + +2006-12-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/chgrp/default-no-deref: New test. + * tests/chgrp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add default-no-deref. + +2006-12-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/system.h (SETVBUF): Remove definition, now that the + autoconf macro, AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED, does nothing. + * src/tee.c (tee_files): s/SETVBUF/setvbuf/. + * src/od.c (open_next_file): Likewise. + +2006-12-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make help2man use $(PACKAGE_STRING) as the + "source". I.e. "GNU coreutils 6.7". + + * NEWS: With the change from "-pre" to "-dirty" suffix, also change + from NEXT_VER-pre to CUR_VER-dirty. So, this is 6.7-dirty. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): s/6.8-dirty/6.7-dirty/. + + * tests/uniq/Test.pm (test_vector): Skip the pipe-reading test + whenever uniq is expected to fail. This should catch the other case + [test #112] in which uniq emits "cat: write error: Broken pipe" on + some systems. + +2006-12-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Include bootstrap tool version info in the announcement form. + * Makefile.maint (gnulib_snapshot_date): Define. + (announcement): Use two new announce-gen options, + --bootstrap-tools and --gnulib-snapshot-date. + * Makefile.cfg (gnulib_dir): Set. + + Post-release version change. + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.8-dirty. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Set new version string. + +2006-12-07 Jim Meyering jim@meyering.net + + Version 6.7. + * NEWS: Record release date. Remove '-pre' suffix. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove version string suffix. + +2006-12-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Make the output of "make check" more reproducible. + * tests/touch/empty-file: Use envvar-check, so "make check" doesn't + evoke diagnostics like this when COLUMNS=0 in the environment: + ls: ignoring invalid width in environment variable COLUMNS: 0 + * tests/touch/no-rights: Likewise. + * tests/help-version: Likewise. + * tests/uniq/Test.pm: Don't perform the pipe-reading version of test + 118, since it emits "cat: write error: Broken pipe" on some systems. + +2006-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Document the cp -p fix for special bits. + * src/copy.c (set_owner): Now returns a three-way result, so + that the caller can clear the special bits. All callers changed. + (copy_reg): Don't set the special bits if chown failed. + (copy_internal): Likewise. + * tests/cp/special-bits: Test this fix. + +2006-12-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Document the cp --preserve=ownership fix. + * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for fchmod. + * src/copy.c (fchmod_or_lchmod): New function. + (copy_reg): New arg OMITTED_PERMISSIONS. All uses changed. + Omit confusing and unused ", dst_mode" arg to 'open' without O_CREAT. + When creating a file, use O_EXCL, so we're more likely to detect + funny business by other processes. At the end, if permissions + were omitted, chmod them back in. + (copy_internal): If the ownership might change, omit some permissions + at first, then restore them after chowning the file. + * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Likewise. + * src/copy.c (cached_umask): New function. + * src/copy.h (cached_umask): New decl. + +2006-12-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Make the output of "make check" more reproducible. + * tests/misc/date-sec: Don't emit any diagnostic about sleeping. + +2006-12-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/install.c (install_file_in_file): Preserve time stamps + before changing owner or file mode bits, for consistency with + other coreutils programs. + +2006-12-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/date-sec: Output a fixed string. + + * NEWS: du --one-file-system (-x) would skip subdirectories of any + directory listed as second or subsequent command line argument. + * tests/du/one-file-system: New file. Test for today's fts.c fix. + * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add one-file-system. + Reported by Mike Frysinger. + +2006-12-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/du/basic: Generate 4KB file simply using printf, rather than + seq+head. This avoids a spurious "Broken pipe" diagnostic from seq. + +2006-11-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/mv/no-target-dir: Detect a buggy rename syscall. If found, + skip this test. This happens at least on ia64 linux-2.4.19 w/ext3. + Reported by Matthew Woehlke. + + * tests/mv/dir2dir: Also accept EBUSY. + Reported by Matthew Woehlke. + +2006-11-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (patch-check): Rewrite to diagnose failure. + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust shred.c offsets. + +2006-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Improve the check for departures from C89, and fix the departures + I found. + * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Also check for C89 compatibility + as best we can with GCC. + * src/stat.c (PRINTF_OPTION): Omit comma before } in enum + declaration; C89 doesn't allow this. + * src/dcgen: Don't generate string literals longer than + what C89 requires support for. + * src/cut.c (usage): Don't use string literals longer than + what C89 requires support for. + * src/date.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/dd.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/du.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/ls.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/od.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/readlink.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/seq.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/shred.c (usage): Likewise. + +2006-11-26 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> + + Recognize new archive, audio and image formats. + Give audio files a separate color. + * src/dircolors.hin: Add comments for common .sh and .csh scripts. + Add .bz2, .tbz2, .tz, .rar, .ace, .zoo, .cpio, .7z, .rz as archive + suffixes. Add .mng, .pcx, .m2v, .mkv, .ogm, .mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .vob, + .qt, .nuv, .wmv, .asf, .rm, .rmvb, .flc, .yuv as image formats. + Add .aac, .au, .mid, .midi, .mka, .ra as audio suffixes. Change + audio color to 00;36 to differentiate from image/video color. + +2006-11-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (patch-check): Compile patched sources with + CFLAGS='-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Werror', to ensure that + no violations remain. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Remove 3 bogus hunks. + + * src/remove.c (fd_to_subdirp): Remove unused parameter, ds. + Update callers. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust for changes in rm.c and in remove.c. + + * src/rm.c (main): Remove unnecessary (assuming C99) braces. + +2006-11-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Port parts of the code to C89 to minimize the need for c99-to-c89.diff, + while trying to retain the readability of C99 as much as possible. + * src/remove.c (rm_1): Remove decl of local, fd_cwd. + Replace each of two uses with literal AT_FDCWD. + (cache_stat_init): Return its argument, for convenience. + Update the caller in remove_dir. + (AD_pop_and_chdir): Return prev_dir rather than storing through + a pointer argument. All uses changed. + (AD_ensure_initialized): New function. + (AD_mark_helper): Use it, to avoid the need for declaration + after statement. + (rm): Move cycle_check_init call into callee... + (rm_1): ...here. + Use an else clause in place of a "continue" statement. + (close_preserve_errno): Remove. + (fd_to_subdirp): Rewrite to avoid the need for decl after statement. + +2006-11-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove announce-gen from here, too. + +2006-11-24 Theodoros V. Kalamatianos <thkala@softlab.ece.ntua.gr> (tiny change) + + * tests/du/inacc-dest: Skip this test when running as root. + +2006-11-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * announce-gen: Remove file. It's moving to gnulib. + * bootstrap: Pull it from gnulib/build-aux instead. + * Makefile.maint (announcement): Reflect move to ./build-aux. + + * tests/du/deref-args: Use "printf %65536s x" to create a 64KB file, + rather than a pipeline that would sometimes evoke a diagnostic + like "seq: write error: Broken pipe". + + * tests/help-version: Suppress dd transfer rate output. + + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.7-pre, not 6.6-pre. + +2006-11-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * announce-gen (print_news_deltas): Fix silly, but harmless typo: + change "(:?..." to "(?:..." in regexps. + + Post-release version change. + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.7-pre. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.7 and add "-pre" suffix. + + Version 6.6. + * NEWS: Record release date. Remove "-pre" suffix. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-pre" suffix from version string. + + * announce-gen: Remove unused --release-archive-directory option. + (print_news_deltas): Accept new adjective, "Noteworthy", in addition + to the old "Major". + Match version numbers in NEWS using tighter regular expressions. + (main): Require the --gpg-key-id=ID option. + * Makefile.maint (announcement): Don't use now-removed + --release-archive-directory=... option. + + * NEWS: Mention the three noteworthy changes, all fixed via gnulib. + +2006-11-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/rm/one-file-system: Upon setup failure (e.g., mount failure), + skip the test rather than failing. Reported by Michael Deutschmann. + + * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Use the "(exit N); exit N" idiom, + rather than just "exit N". + + Arrange for "make check-root" to run the new root-only test. + * tests/Makefile.am (t7): New target, to run tests/ls/nameless-uid. + (all_t): Add t7. + +2006-11-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Add a root-only test for today's lib/idcache.c fix. + * tests/ls/nameless-uid: New file. + * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add nameless-uid. + (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Add PERL to the list. + +2006-11-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/tail-2/assert-2: Mark as a very-expensive test, because I + find the 7-second sleep annoyingly long. Besides, this test is + probably far too specific and timing sensitive ever to trigger again. + * tests/tail-2/assert: Likewise. + + Post-release version change. + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.6-pre. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.6 and add "-pre" suffix. + + Version 6.5. + * NEWS: Record release date. Remove "-cvs" suffix. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string. + +2006-11-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + "ln --backup f f" produces a misleading diagnostic: + ln: creating hard link `f' => `f': No such file or directory + * src/ln.c (do_link): Give a better diagnostic in this unusual case. + (do_link): Rename local: s/lstat_ok/dest_lstat_ok/. + * tests/ln/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add hard-backup. + * tests/ln/hard-backup: New test for the above. + * NEWS: Mention this fix. + +2006-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add sys_stat, since we use it + directly too. + * lib/.cvsignore, lib/.gitignore: Add root-dev-ino.c, root-dev-ino.h. + * m4/.cvsignore, m4/.gitignore: Add root-dev-ino.m4. + * src/ls.c (DIRED_FPUTS_LITERAL, PUSH_CURRENT_DIRED_POS): + Omit unnecessary parenthesization of args. + * src/od.c (EQUAL_BLOCKS): Likewise. + * src/system.h (STREQ, ASSIGN_STRDUPA): Likewise. + +2006-11-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/tail-2/append-only: If chattr +a fails, exit 77 (to tell + automake we're skipping this test), and give a diagnostic to tell + the user the same thing. Reported by Mike Grayson. + +2006-11-16 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> + + * man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Replace all optional manpages + with `$(MAN)', computed at configure time; also, list them ... + (optional_mans): ... in this new variable. + (max_aux, EXTRA_DIST): Ensure that we distribute all manpages. + +2006-11-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Help valgrind see that there is no leak in dd.c. + * src/dd.c (dd_copy): Declare real_buf and real_obuf to be static, + so we need not free them at all. This is easier than freeing + both buffers at each of the early "return"s. + + * src/csplit.c (load_buffer): Plug an inconsequential leak. + +2006-11-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .x-po-check: Exclude gl/ files. Otherwise, po-check would + complain that some of gl/lib/*.[ch] are not listed in POTFILES.in. + +2006-11-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * gl/m4/root-dev-ino.m4: Now that this is part of a real "module", + remove the now-unnecessary use of AC_LIBSOURCES. + + Adapt to new version of gnulib-tool. + * gl/modules/root-dev-ino: New file. + * lib/root-dev-ino.c, lib/root-dev-ino.h: Move these files ... + * gl/lib/root-dev-ino.c, gl/lib/root-dev-ino.h: ... to here. + * m4/root-dev-ino.m4: Move this file ... + * gl/m4/root-dev-ino.m4: ... to here. + + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add root-dev-ino. + +2006-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/sort.c (insertkey): Use xmemdup, rather than xmalloc+assignment. + From Paul Eggert. + + Plug another technically-unimportant leak in sort. + * src/sort.c (main): Don't allocate memory for each new key here. + (insertkey): Allocate memory for each key here, instead. + (key_init): Rename from new_key. Don't allocate. + + * src/sort.c (main): Plug a tiny memory leak. + Move declaration of local "minus" down to be nearer point of use. + +2006-11-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + du would exit early, when encountering an inaccessible directory + Reported by Mike Frysinger, in + http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/8831 + * tests/du/inacc-dest: New test, based on an example from Mike Frysinger. + * tests/chgrp/no-x: Remove the "fts_read failed: ..." + diagnostic from the expected output when using native fdopendir. + * tests/chmod/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/du/no-x: Likewise. + * NEWS: Mention this bug fix. + * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add inacc-dest. + + * Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Add an exclusion + for xalloc.h itself. + + Avoid false-positive when testing via valgrind. + * tests/mv/atomic: Grep strace output for a more specific pattern + than just "unlink", since that got a false positive when testing + under valgrind: unlink("/tmp/valgrind_proc_9657_cmdline_A51E9991") = 0 + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Define EGREP. + +2006-10-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (patch-check): Make it easier to regenerate + the src/c99-to-c89.diff file. E.g., I do this: + make patch-check REGEN_PATCH=1; ediff src/c99-to-c89.diff new-diff + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Update to reflect new offsets in rm.c. + +2006-10-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/system.h (ftello): Add a compile-time check for the highly + unlikely condition of off_t narrower than long int, rather than + handling it at run time. Based on a patch from Paul Eggert. + +2006-10-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/chmod/c-option: When double-quoting part of a word, prefer + to double-quote the whole word. This is a bit easier to read (at + least for me), and in some cases it avoids a shell bug with Tru64 + 4.0 sh reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe. For example, instead of + "$abs_srcdir"/../setgid-check we now write + "$abs_srcdir/../setgid-check". + * tests/cp/cp-parents: Likewise. + * tests/du/inaccessible-cwd: Likewise. + * tests/du/long-from-unreadable: Likewise. + * tests/install/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/install/trap: Likewise. + * tests/misc/close-stdout: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/concurrent-1: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-1: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-3: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/parents: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/perm: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-e: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-f: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-m: Likewise. + * tests/rm/inaccessible: Likewise. + * tests/rm/unread3: Likewise. + * tests/touch/no-create-missing: Likewise. + + * lib/.cvsignore: Add uinttostr.c. + +2006-10-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Portability to Tru64 V4.0. + * src/system.h (ftello) [!HAVE_FSEEKO && !defined ftello]: + Define inline replacement function. + This (along with a yesterday's fix for autoconf's + _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE macro) makes it so coreutils + now builds once more on Tru64 V4.0. Reported by Nelson Beebe. + +2006-10-25 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * src/cat.c (infile): Add "const" to declaration. + * src/csplit.c (prefix): Likewise. + * src/printf.c (cfcc_msg): Likewise. + * src/tail.c (valid_file_spec): Likewise. + * src/cut.c (cut_file): Likewise, for a parameter. + * src/expr.c (str_value): Likewise. + * src/fold.c (fold_file): Likewise. + * src/pr.c (init_header): Likewise. + * src/dircolors.c (dc_parse_stream): Likewise, for a local. + * src/tr.c (make_printable_str): Likewise. + * src/nl.c (body_type, header_type, footer_type, current_type): + (separator_str, build_type_arg, nl_file): Likewise, for many. + * src/paste.c (main): Don't assign a read-only string to 'optarg'. + * src/tac.c (separator, tac_seekable, copy_to_temp): Likewise. + +2006-10-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/sample-test: Update copyright year list to include only + the current year, since this is what I'll want in any new test. + +2006-10-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Update to reflect new offsets. + + * NEWS: new feature: rm accepts new option: --one-file-system + Suggested by Steve McIntyre in <http://bugs.debian.org/392925>. + * src/remove.h (struct rm_options) [one_file_system]: New member. + * src/rm.c (rm_option_init): Initialize it. + (usage): Document the option. + * src/mv.c (rm_option_init): Likewise. + * src/remove.c (remove_dir): With --one-file-system and --recursive, + for each directory command line argument, do not affect a file system + different from that of the starting directory. And give a diagnostic. + * src/rm.c (ONE_FILE_SYSTEM): New enum. + (main): Handle new option. + * tests/rm/one-file-system: Test the above. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add one-file-system. + * tests/Makefile.am (check-root): Add the rm/one-file-system + test to the list. + (EXTRA_DIST): Add other-fs-tmpdir. + + * tests/mv/setup: Removed. Renamed to... + * tests/other-fs-tmpdir: ...this new file. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove setup. + * tests/mv/acl: Reflect renaming: use ../other-fs-tmpdir. + * tests/mv/backup-is-src: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-link-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/leak-fd: Likewise. + * tests/mv/mv-special-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-fail: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-hardlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-rename: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/partition-perm: Likewise. + * tests/mv/to-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/into-self-2: Likewise. + + Don't let a failure in one test stop "make -k" from running the others. + * tests/Makefile.am (t1 t2 t3 t4 t5): New targets. + (check-root): Depend on them, rather than executing the five + commands in a single rule. Reported by Greg Schafer. + +2006-10-23 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> (tiny change) + + * Makefile.maint (alpha beta major): Use a better log message for + the automatic commit of .prev-version. + +2006-10-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Undo last change, since it made Perl invoke + pwd via a shell. Instead, ensure that the absolute name of the + pwd binary consists solely of reasonable characters. + Whoops. Don't exec the perl script. Otherwise, the sh-trap-based + clean-up code isn't run. + + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.5-cvs. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.5 and add "-cvs" suffix. + +2006-10-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Version 6.4. + + * NEWS: Record the 6.4 release date. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string. + + * Makefile.maint: Complete the adaptation to function with a working + directory that is using git (rather than cvs) for version control. + +2006-10-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> + + * tests/chmod/c-option: Double-quote instances of `$abs_srcdir'. + * tests/cp/cp-parents: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/parents: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/perm: Likewise. + + * tests/sample-test: Quote variables containing absolute build + tree paths. In the cleanup trap, make sure `cd' succeeds before + `chmod'ing and `rm'ing the temporary files. + * tests/chgrp/basic: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/deref: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/posix-H: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/recurse: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/c-option: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/equal-x: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/equals: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/inaccessible: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/octal: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/setgid: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/umask-x: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/usage: Likewise. + * tests/chown/basic: Likewise. + * tests/chown/deref: Likewise. + * tests/chown/separator: Likewise. + * tests/cp/acl: Likewise. + * tests/cp/backup-1: Likewise. + * tests/cp/backup-dir: Likewise. + * tests/cp/backup-is-src: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-HL: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-deref: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-i: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-mv-backup: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-parents: Likewise. + * tests/cp/deref-slink: Likewise. + * tests/cp/dir-rm-dest: Likewise. + * tests/cp/dir-slash: Likewise. + * tests/cp/dir-vs-file: Likewise. + * tests/cp/fail-perm: Likewise. + * tests/cp/into-self: Likewise. + * tests/cp/link: Likewise. + * tests/cp/link-no-deref: Likewise. + * tests/cp/link-preserve: Likewise. + * tests/cp/no-deref-link1: Likewise. + * tests/cp/no-deref-link2: Likewise. + * tests/cp/no-deref-link3: Likewise. + * tests/cp/perm: Likewise. + * tests/cp/preserve-2: Likewise. + * tests/cp/r-vs-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/cp/same-file: Likewise. + * tests/cp/slink-2-slink: Likewise. + * tests/cp/sparse: Likewise. + * tests/cp/special-bits: Likewise. + * tests/cp/src-base-dot: Likewise. + * tests/cp/symlink-slash: Likewise. + * tests/dd/not-rewound: Likewise. + * tests/dd/skip-seek2: Likewise. + * tests/dd/unblock-sync: Likewise. + * tests/du/2g: Likewise. + * tests/du/8gb: Likewise. + * tests/du/basic: Likewise. + * tests/du/deref: Likewise. + * tests/du/deref-args: Likewise. + * tests/du/exclude: Likewise. + * tests/du/fd-leak: Likewise. + * tests/du/hard-link: Likewise. + * tests/du/inaccessible-cwd: Likewise. + * tests/du/long-from-unreadable: Likewise. + * tests/du/long-sloop: Likewise. + * tests/du/no-deref: Likewise. + * tests/du/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/du/restore-wd: Likewise. + * tests/du/slash: Likewise. + * tests/du/slink: Likewise. + * tests/du/trailing-slash: Likewise. + * tests/du/two-args: Likewise. + * tests/fmt/long-line: Likewise. + * tests/install/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/install/create-leading: Likewise. + * tests/install/d-slashdot: Likewise. + * tests/install/trap: Likewise. + * tests/ln/misc: Likewise. + * tests/ln/target-1: Likewise. + * tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: Likewise. + * tests/ls/dangle: Likewise. + * tests/ls/dired: Likewise. + * tests/ls/file-type: Likewise. + * tests/ls/follow-slink: Likewise. + * tests/ls/infloop: Likewise. + * tests/ls/inode: Likewise. + * tests/ls/m-option: Likewise. + * tests/ls/no-arg: Likewise. + * tests/ls/recursive: Likewise. + * tests/ls/rt-1: Likewise. + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Likewise. + * tests/ls/stat-failed: Likewise. + * tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: Likewise. + * tests/misc/cat-proc: Likewise. + * tests/misc/close-stdout: Likewise. + * tests/misc/csplit: Likewise. + * tests/misc/date-sec: Likewise. + * tests/misc/false-status: Likewise. + * tests/misc/head-c: Likewise. + * tests/misc/head-pos: Likewise. + * tests/misc/mknod: Likewise. + * tests/misc/nl: Likewise. + * tests/misc/nohup: Likewise. + * tests/misc/pathchk1: Likewise. + * tests/misc/printf: Likewise. + * tests/misc/printf-hex: Likewise. + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Likewise. + * tests/misc/shuf: Likewise. + * tests/misc/sort-rand: Likewise. + * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. + * tests/misc/split-fail: Likewise. + * tests/misc/split-l: Likewise. + * tests/misc/stat-fmt: Likewise. + * tests/misc/tac-continue: Likewise. + * tests/misc/wc-files0: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/concurrent-1: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-1: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-2: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-3: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-slashdot: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-thru-slink: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-v: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/parents: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/perm: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/t-slash: Likewise. + * tests/mv/acl: Likewise. + * tests/mv/atomic: Likewise. + * tests/mv/backup-dir: Likewise. + * tests/mv/childproof: Likewise. + * tests/mv/diag: Likewise. + * tests/mv/dir-file: Likewise. + * tests/mv/dir2dir: Likewise. + * tests/mv/dup-source: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-2: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-3: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-4: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-link-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-verbose: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-2: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-3: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-4: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-5: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-link-no: Likewise. + * tests/mv/into-self-4: Likewise. + * tests/mv/leak-fd: Likewise. + * tests/mv/mv-special-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/no-target-dir: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-fail: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-hardlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-rename: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/partition-perm: Likewise. + * tests/mv/perm-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/reply-no: Likewise. + * tests/mv/trailing-slash: Likewise. + * tests/mv/update: Likewise. + * tests/od/od-N: Likewise. + * tests/od/x8: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-e: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-f: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-m: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/rl-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/cycle: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dangling-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/rm/deep-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dir-no-w: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dir-nonrecur: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dot-rel: Likewise. + * tests/rm/empty-inacc: Likewise. + * tests/rm/f-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Likewise. + * tests/rm/hash: Likewise. + * tests/rm/i-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/i-no-r: Likewise. + * tests/rm/ignorable: Likewise. + * tests/rm/inaccessible: Likewise. + * tests/rm/interactive-always: Likewise. + * tests/rm/interactive-once: Likewise. + * tests/rm/ir-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/isatty: Likewise. + * tests/rm/no-give-up: Likewise. + * tests/rm/r-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/r-2: Likewise. + * tests/rm/r-3: Likewise. + * tests/rm/r-4: Likewise. + * tests/rm/readdir-bug: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm2: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm3: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm4: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm5: Likewise. + * tests/rm/sunos-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/unread2: Likewise. + * tests/rm/unread3: Likewise. + * tests/rmdir/fail-perm: Likewise. + * tests/rmdir/t-slash: Likewise. + * tests/shred/exact: Likewise. + * tests/shred/remove: Likewise. + * tests/sum/sysv: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/append-only: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/assert: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/assert-2: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/big-4gb: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/fflush: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/infloop-1: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/proc-ksyms: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/start-middle: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Likewise. + * tests/tee/basic: Likewise. + * tests/tee/dash: Likewise. + * tests/touch/fail-diag: Likewise. + * tests/touch/no-create-missing: Likewise. + * tests/touch/not-owner: Likewise. + * tests/touch/obsolescent: Likewise. + * tests/touch/read-only: Likewise. + * tests/touch/relative: Likewise. + +2006-10-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: (cp --backup fix): Fix a typo. + + * .gitignore: Remove some references to files in subdirectories. + * build-aux/.gitignore, doc/.gitignore, lib/.gitignore: New files. + * m4/.gitignore, po/.gitignore, src/.gitignore: Likewise. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Add a comment saying why we prefer + mknod over mkfifo. + + Enable an fts optimization (call lstat only for directories, + on some file system types) also with the --preserve-root option + of chown or chgrp. + * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Compare fts_statp-based + dev/ino against root dev/ino only for directories. + (chown_files): Don't let the root_dev_ino setting influence whether + we use FTS_NOSTAT: fts always sets *fts_statp for a directory. + +2006-10-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/od.c (usage): Change description of default to use "-w16", + not the now-invalid "-w 16" syntax. From Dan Jacobson. + +2006-10-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap: Add names to each .gitignore file (if it exists) + as well as to .cvsignore. + + * Makefile.maint (po-check): This rule didn't detect the new use + of "gettext" (as opposed to the use of "_" everywhere else) in + lib/xstrtol.h. Adjust the grep regexp so that now it does. + +2006-10-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Rewrite slightly to avoid duplicate code + when opening dst_name. + (copy_reg, copy_internal): Use (SYSCALL != 0) rather than plain + (SYSCALL) to test for failure in a system call. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use mknod rather than mkfifo to copy + a fifo. This preserves the special mode bits on Solaris 10, which + is compatible with what Solaris 10 cp -R does. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Remove redundant and confusing local + variable src_type. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't pass mkdir a mode greater than + 7777. This matches historical 'cp' behavior and avoids some + (though not all) implementation-defined behavior of mkdir. + * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Likewise. + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't pass 'open' a mode greater + than 777. This is required by POSIX. It doesn't make any difference + in actual behavior on any host that I know of. + +2006-10-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/dd.c (usage): Use two spaces (not one) to separate the + "fdatasync" option string from its description, so help2man formats + the derived man page properly. Reported by Samuel Thibault + in <http://bugs.debian.org/393649>. + +2006-10-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .x-sc_trailing_blank: Remove names of files that are no longer + version-controlled. + +2006-10-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/groups.sh (version): Reword message to match the other programs. + Problem reported by Eric Blake. + +2006-10-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (headers_with_interesting_macro_defs): Define. + (.re-defmac, sc_always_defined_macros): New rules. + + * src/system.h (EXIT_FAILURE, EXIT_SUCCESS): Remove definitions. + Instead, include "exit.h". This hereby retires the work-around for + "Sony NEWS-OS Release 4.0C"'s bug due to "#define EXIT_FAILURE 0". + + * src/cksum.c (uint_fast32_t): Don't define. + Instead, include <stdint.h>. + + * src/pinky.c (S_IWGRP): Don't define. + It's already defined by "stat-macros.h" (included via system.h). + + * Makefile.cfg: Remove cruft that's now handled via bootstrap. + * Makefile.maint: Likewise, remove these targets/rules/variables: + (local_updates, update, cvs-update, wget_files, get-targets): Remove. + (cvs_files, wget-update, automake_repo): Likewise. + Move the comment about cvsu to build-aux/vc-list-files, + where cvsu is actually used. + + * Makefile.maint (cvs-update): Use $(CVS), not "cvs". + + Work also when the working directory (with e.g. coreutils sources) + is version controlled with git, rather than CVS. + * bootstrap (CVS_only_file): Test for the existence of README-cvs, + rather than CVS. + In messages and comments, say e.g., "checked-out sources", + rather than "CVS sources". + (version_controlled_file): New function. Work for git as well as + for CVS. Don't use grep's -q option. + (slurp): Call it here, in place of CVS-specific code. + + * NEWS: cp -r --backup dir1 dir2, would rename an existing dir1/dir2 + to dir1/dir2~. + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Although we do create a backup of each + destination directory when in move mode, don't do that when copying. + Reported by Peter Breitenlohner, in + <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/8616>. + * tests/cp/backup-dir: New file. Test for the above. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add backup-dir. + +2006-10-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + More chown/chgrp dereferencing-related fixes. + * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Don't use fts_statp if + we're dereferencing symlinks. + Reverse conjuncts, so that we use dereference file_stats + (aka ent->fts_statp) only *after* we've confirmed that + chopt->affect_symlink_referent is true. Otherwise, we might + use ent->fts_statp uninitialized. + Don't turn on FTS_NOSTAT when dereferencing symlinks. + * tests/chown/deref: Update the expected diagnostic, now that + this test case (trying to use "chown --dereference ..." on a + dangling symlink) takes a different code path. + +2006-10-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Sync from Bison, as follows: + + 2006-10-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix problems with translating English-language diagnostics. + * bootstrap: Fix bug introduced in recent bootstrap changes, with + respect to bison-runtime pot generation. The YY_ stuff + wasn't being captured. + +2006-10-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Use fstatat, not stat, + now that we're using fts_open with FTS_CWDFD. + * tests/chgrp/posix-H: Add --preserve-root to an invocation of + chgrp, to exercise the above fix. + * NEWS: Mention the above. + + * src/du-tests: Clean up a little, though it's still not portable. + + * .vg-suppressions: Add 3 more for debian unstable. + + * tests/ls/Test.pm: Remove long-unused file. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add bootstrap.conf. + Suggestions from Bruno Haible. + +2006-10-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> + + * Makefile.am (THANKS-to-translators): Add missing $(srcdir). + (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Add .kludge-stamp. + * man/Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Typo $(dist_man_MANS) + instead of $(man_MANS). + +2006-10-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> + + * configure.ac: Avoid compiler warnings about default return + type in function definitions and unused variables in tests. + * src/who.c (print_user) [HAVE_UT_HOST]: hostlen is only needed + if this is #defined. + +2006-10-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * configure.ac: Reflect s/gl_MACROS/coreutils_MACROS/ renaming. + Call gl_INIT directly, rather than through the above. + +2006-10-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * bootstrap (symlink_to_gnulib): Fix bug: the dot_dots shell + variable was sometimes used without being initialized. This + messed up the installation of the INSTALL file in some cases. + +2006-10-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c (usage): Correct description of -s, --size. + It works even without -l. Suggestion from Karl Berry. + +2006-10-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/ls.c (quote_name): Use initializer rather than memset to + initialize an object to zero. This is easier to read and is less + likely to introduce a runtime error due to a mixup. It causes + gcc -W to issue a warning, but you can work around this by + appending -Wno-missing-field-initializers. + * src/pathchk.c (portable_chars_only): Likewise. + * src/shred.c (main): Likewise. + * src/stty.c (main): Likewise. + * src/tr.c (card_of_complement): Likewise. + * src/wc.c (wc): Likewise. + +2006-10-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/sort.c (usage): Mention again that sort fields are origin 1. + + * NEWS: Fix typo: iso-8602 -> iso-8601. Problem reported by + Bob Proulx. + + * bootstrap (usage, main program, symlink_to_gnulib): Add option + --copy. Inspired by a suggestion from Bruno Haible. + +2006-10-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Avoid a compiler warning. + * src/pathchk.c (portable_chars_only): Initialize variable of type + mbstate_t via memset, rather than via '{0}'. Patch from Bruno Haible. + +2006-10-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix bug reported today by Mike Frysinger: mkdir -pv is logging the + wrong file name in some cases. Lars Wendler reported a bug in + my original fix. + * src/install.c (make_ancestor): New arg COMPONENT. + * src/mkdir.c (make_ancestor): Likewise. + * tests/install/basic-1: Check for install -Dv bug. + * tests/mkdir/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add p-v. + * tests/mkdir/p-v: New file, to test this bug. + +2006-10-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/chgrp.c: Don't include lchown.h; no longer needed. + * src/chown.c: Likewise. + + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Use a dynamic test to decide whether the + current file system has useful d_type info. + + * src/dd.c (flags): noatime and nofollow now depend on + HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME and HAVE_WORKING_O_NOFOLLOW, too. + (usage): Output info about noatime and nofollow only if + they are known to work. + * src/remove.c (AD_push): Inspect HAVE_WORKING_O_NOFOLLOW rather + than O_NOFOLLOW, when testing whether it's possible to avoid a + race condition reliably. + +2006-10-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Update to reflect new offsets. + + * tests/install/basic-1: Skip the latter part of this test if the + just-built dd binary is not readable. Otherwise, this test would fail + when binaries were created as root. Reported by Bauke Jan Douma in + <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/8433>. + +2006-10-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/system.h (ST_BLKSIZE): Ceiling at SIZE_MAX / 8 + 1, not at 4 + MiB, since XFS hosts can legitimately have large values of + st_blksize. Problem reported by Tony Ernst in + <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17903>. + +2006-10-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/remove.c (nonexistent_file_errno): Remove ENAMETOOLONG. + Paul Eggert pointed out that the specified file may exist, + in spite of such an errno value. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Remove ignore-name-too-long. + * tests/rm/ignore-name-too-long: Remove file. + * NEWS: Update here, too. + +2006-10-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Report failure also if rm is terminated by + a signal. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Convert two c99'isms -- one in remove.c + and one in shred.c -- that were added before coreutils-6.3. + Reported by Michael Deutschmann. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Update to reflect new offsets. + + * src/remove.c (remove_entry): With -f, exit successfully in spite + of a missing file under some very unusual conditions (with errno + being any of ENOENT, ENOTDIR, ENAMETOOLONG). + + With --force (-f), rm no longer fails for ENOTDIR. + * src/remove.c (ignorable_missing): New function. + Use it everywhere, rather than open-coding the test. + Andreas Schwab reported the ENOTDIR problem. + (ignorable_missing): Similarly, don't fail for ENAMETOOLONG. + + * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. + * tests/rm/ignorable: New file. Test for the ENOTDIR case. + * tests/rm/ignore-name-too-long: New file. Test for ENAMETOOLONG. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the new file names. + + * bootstrap: Undo last change to this file, since now gnulib-tool + sticks with the automake default in generating dependencies. + + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.4-cvs. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.4 and add "-cvs" suffix. + +2006-09-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Version 6.3. + * NEWS: Record the 6.3 release date. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string. + + * NEWS: Mention Paul's Solaris 8 vs. 10 work-around. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Update offsets. + +2006-09-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/rm/readdir-bug: Don't use $(...) in a shell script, + as it doesn't work with Solaris /bin/sh. + +2006-09-29 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention Paul's fix (to gnulib's canon-host.c) for + the pinky segfault. + + * tests/seq/basic [neg-2, eq-wid-2]: Comment out tests that + use .1 as the increment. Actual output varies too much. + [eq-wid-3]: New, commented out test. + + * src/shuf.c (read_input): Fix an off-by-one error that + would cause an infloop for piped input of 8KB or more. + * NEWS: Mention the fix. + * tests/misc/shuf: Test for the above fix. + + Since any system may be affected by the Darwin readdir bug, + perform the extra rewinddir unconditionally. The performance + impact of rewinding a directory is negligible. + * src/remove.c (NEED_REWIND): Define to use + CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD unconditionally. + + * tests/seq/basic: Use .11 as the upper bound, in case the ".1" + increment translates to a slightly larger value. + This corrects a test failure on FreeBSD 6.1 reported by Nelson Beebe. + The final expected value wasn't being printed. + + Work around a readdir bug in Darwin 7.9.0 (MacOS X 10.3.9) on HFS+ + and NFS, whereby rm would not remove all files in a directory. + * src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Reduce to 10. + (NEED_REWIND): New macro, so that we incur the cost of the work-around + rewinddir only on afflicted systems. + * NEWS: Clarify and correct. + * tests/rm/readdir-bug: New file. Test for the above fix. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it. + Prompted by testing and analysis from Bruno Haible: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00326.html + +2006-09-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Unset BASH_ENV, CDPATH, and ENV, too; + suggested for Debian stable, which uses Perl 5.8.4. + +2006-09-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Automatically generated dependencies are important even + when all of the sources in a directory come from gnulib. + * bootstrap (gnulib_tool): Remove the "no-dependencies" automake + option that gnulib-tool adds to what becomes our lib/gnulib.mk. + + * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Enable Perl's (-T) taint checking. + Ensure that IFS is set properly and unset PATH. + Sanitize inputs. + Work properly even when the name of the selected file starts with "-". + Invoke rm via "../../src/rm", and adjust expected output. + Prompted by a patch from Tim Waugh. + + * README-cvs: Add Bison to the list of required packages. + +2006-09-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Update offsets. + + * NEWS: rm works around a bug in Darwin 8.6.1 w/NFS that kept + it from removing a directory containing 188 or more entries. + * src/remove.c (CONSECUTIVE_READDIR_UNLINK_THRESHOLD): Decrease by + 20, go work around the buggy readdir on Darwin 8.6.1 with NFS. + Reported by Matthew Woehlke. + +2006-09-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: "groups user" no longer outputs "user :"; you need at least + two users. "groups" now processes options like --help more compatibly. + * src/groups.sh: Implement the option-processing change. + Handle user and group names with special characters more robustly. + Report write errors instead of exiting silently with status 1. + +2006-09-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * README: Warn not to run autoreconf manually. Use bootstrap instead. + + * src/groups.sh: When invoked with 0 or 1 argument, just exec "id". + Rewrite to avoid using temporary, $status. + + * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. + * src/groups.sh: Don't hide a write failure. + Reported by Iain Calder <ic56@rogers.com>. + +2006-09-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/chown.c (usage): Clarify --dereference description. + * src/chgrp.c (usage): Likewise. Suggestion from Jamie McClelland. + +2006-09-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention these fixes. + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): With --verbose (-v), print + "removed `file_name'" just after unlinking a file. + (copy_internal): Likewise, in three more places. + Marc Lehman reported that "touch x; ln x y; mv -v x y" was silent. + * tests/mv/hard-verbose: New file. Test for the above fix. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add hard-verbose. + + * tests/help-version (sync_args): Don't call sync, since it spins up + disks that I've deliberately caused to spin down (but not unmounted). + + * NEWS: Mention the improvement to sort. + + * tests/tail-2/proc-ksyms: Require that /proc/ksyms be readable + as well as existing. + + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Don't use tmpfs on linux-2.4 or older, + since that predated addition of d_type support. + +2006-09-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * gl/modules/getloadavg.diff: New file. Work around the way the latest + version of the getloadavg module interacts with our bootstrap script. + * bootstrap (gnulib_tool_options): Add "--local-dir gl". + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Sort file names. + Add bootstrap and gl/modules/getloadavg.diff + +2006-09-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * bootstrap: Add support for --force. + (usage): New function. Describe usage less tersely. + (CVS_only_file): New var. + + * NEWS: Document fix for cp -i and mv -i. + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): With -i, prompt even if the source + is a directory and the destination is not. This is required by + POSIX and gives the user a chance to bail out before failing. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp-i. + * tests/cp/cp-i: New file. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add i-5. + * tests/mv/i-5: New file. + +2006-09-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention the chmod bug fix. + + * tests/chmod/inaccessible: New test, specifically for this bug. + Based on a test case from Paul Eggert. + * tests/chmod/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add inaccessible. + + Fix the 2006-09-18 bug differently. + * src/chmod.c: (process_file): Upon FTS_NS for a top-level file, + tell fts_read to stat the file again, in case it has become + accessible since the initial fts_open call. + * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Likewise. + + * src/chmod.c: Revert last change. There is a better way. + * src/chown-core.c: Likewise. + +2006-09-19 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/ln.c (target_directory_operand): Rewrite to avoid porting + problem on Tandem reported by Matthew Woehlke in + <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17172>. + +2006-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix bug where chmod, chown, and chgrp did not process operands + left-to-right in some cases. + * src/chmod.c (wd_errno): New var. + (chmod_file): New function, with most of the contents of the + old prcess_file function. + (process_files): Use it. This gives file names to fts one + at a time, so that they are processed left-to-right as POSIX + requires. + * src/chown-core.c (wd_errno, chown_files): Likewise. + (chown_file): New function. + * tests/install/basic-1: Redo test so as to not workaround + the chmod bug, thereby testing for it. + + * src/shuf.c (main): Quote the entire range when reporting an + invalid one, rather than just the part that contained the error. + + * tests/stty/row-col-1: Rewrite to avoid temporary file that is + sometimes left behind if the test is skipped or interrupted. + + * bootstrap (symlink_to_gnulib): New function. + (cp_mark_as_generated): Use it, to prefer symlinks-to-gnulib + to copies-of-gnulib. + (cp_mark_as_generated, slurp, gnulib_files): + Avoid making a copy if it's the same as the old version. + (gnulib_files): Add support for this variable (used by Bison). + + * tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: Fix quoting problem in diagnostic + indicating flaw in kernel. Reword to say that the flaw isn't + serious for coreutils, since the flaw does affect ls -i. + + * tests/chgrp/basic: Fix bug in test case exposed by building on + Solaris 8 in a setgid directory. The test case incorrectly + assumed that 'symlink' would be in group $g1. + +2006-09-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.3-cvs. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.3 and add "-cvs" suffix. + + Version 6.2. + * NEWS: Record the 6.2 release date. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string. + +2006-09-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/chgrp/basic: On an OpenBSD system, rather than failing + due to a known problem, merely warn about it. + Rewrite to avoid testing output of chgrp --verbose and chgrp -c. + Instead, use stat to test file system for desired results, directly. + * tests/chgrp/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Set host_triplet. + + * tests/envvar-check: Add more variable names to the list of those + that can affect these programs and tests: _POSIX2_VERSION, COLUMNS, + QUOTING_STYLE, TABSIZE, TERM, TMPDIR. + +2006-09-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Document that mkdir -p and install -d now fork on occasion. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add savewd. + * src/install.c: Include savewd.h. + (process_dir): New function. + (main, install_file_in_file_parents): Use it, along with the new + savewd module, to avoid some race conditions. + * src/mkdir.c: Include savewd.h. + (struct mkdir_options): New members make_ancestor_function, mode, + mode_bits. + (make_ancestor): Return 1 if the resulting directory is not readable. + (process_dir): New function. + (main): Use it, along with new savewd module, to avoid some + race conditions. Fill in new slots of struct mkdir_options, so + that callees get the values. + * tests/install/basic-1: Test for coreutils 5.97 bug that was + fixed in coreutils 6.0, and which should still be fixed with + this change. + * tests/mkdir/p-3: Likewise. + +2006-09-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add rename-dest-slash. + The 2006-09-08 changes made it so "mv dir new-name/" would + fail on NetBSD 1.6. This makes it work once again. + +2006-09-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/mv.c (main): Remove unnecessary (always-true) test for 2 <= n. + Instead, since it's a little fragile, assert the condition. + (target_directory_operand): Update comment to reflect latest change. + +2006-09-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/who.c (print_user): Rewrite to avoid warning from + GCC 4.1.1 with -Wall. + +2006-09-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/mv/atomic: Check for specific strace output, rather than + simply nonempty. RHEL AS 4 would fail this test due to strace + generating "[ Process PID=14434 runs in 32 bit mode. ]". + Reported by Nelson Beebe. + +2006-09-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/remove.c (remove_dir): Move new cache_stat_init call onto + it's own line. + (rm_1): Move declaration of "st" and new cache_stat_init call + "down" to nearer where they're used. + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Add another set of curly braces. + +2006-09-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/expr.c (eval6): Fix buffer overrun, or bad performance, if + substr's last operand is very large. Performance problem reported + by Sebastian Kreft. + +2006-09-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (sc_prohibit_jm_in_m4): Don't hang when there + are no .m4 files. + (sc_require_config_h): Skip this test if there are no version- + controlled .c files. + (sc_prohibit_assert_without_use): Likewise. + +2006-09-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap: Export CVS_RSH separate from its assignment, to work + even with Solaris 10's /bin/sh. Suggestion from Mark D. Baushke. + +2006-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: tail now ignores the -f option if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, + no file operand is given, and standard input is any FIFO. + This is in response to Open Group XCU ERN 114. + * src/tail.c (main): Likewise. + +2006-09-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + mv and "cp -r" no longer fail when invoked with two arguments + where the first one names a directory and the second name ends in + a slash and doesn't exist. E.g., "mv dir B/", for nonexistent B, + now succeeds, once more. This reverts part of the 2004-06-27 + change for 5.3.0. + * NEWS: Say the above. + * src/mv.c (target_directory_operand): Don't require (here) + that the target operand "look like" a directory. This change + pushes the test down to the rename syscall level, where a + "mv dir existing-non-dir/" will mistakenly succeed on older systems + that ignore trailing slashes in the rename destination argument. + * src/cp.c (target_directory_operand): Likewise, but for cp. + * tests/mv/trailing-slash: Exercise the above fixes. + * tests/cp/trailing-slash: New file. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add trailing-slash. + + * bootstrap: Use the previously unused variable, $src, + to avoid repeating "$GNULIB_SRCDIR/$file". + + * bootstrap (cp_mark_as_generated): Don't use "local", to + accommodate ancient "/bin/sh". Suggested by Ralf Wildenhues. + Rename now-global "$src" and "$dst" to have cp_ prefix. + Safer, and avoids confusion. + + * bootstrap (cp_mark_as_generated): New function. + (slurp): Use it to prepend editor hints and a warning that + the file we're copying is generated. + Suggestion from Bruce Korb. + (cp_mark_as_generated): Don't add C-style comments for .l or .y files. + Fix last-minute typo. + +2006-09-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * bootstrap: Revert last change. There are less disruptive ways + to mark these generated files as read-only. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Update to have proper offsets. + +2006-09-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Ensure that some gnulib-tool-generated files are read-only. + * bootstrap (slurp): Put the body of this function in a sub-shell, + with "umask a-w" so that all new files are read-only. Remove each + file before we write to it, in case it's read-only. + Make po/Makevars and runtime-po/Makevars read-only, too. + +2006-09-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/cp/acl: Skip this test when cp lacks ACL support. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Set $(CONFIG_HEADER). + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff (remove.c): Adapt one hunk to match the new + context from change of 2006-09-02. + +2006-09-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * README-cvs: Fix typo in update command. + +2006-09-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Tweak the wording in the new change description so that + no one can think this change causes e.g., `rm -fr foo../' to fail. + + * tests/rm/inaccessible: Adjust for movement of config.h to lib/. + Use $CONFIG_HEADER, rather than hard-coding it. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Set $CONFIG_HEADER. + +2006-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: rm now rejects attempts to remove /, ./, and ../. + * src/basename.c: Don't include dirname.h, since system.h does it now. + * src/chmod.c: Likewise. + * src/copy.c: Likewise. + * src/cp.c: Likewise. + * src/df.c: Likewise. + * src/dircolors.c: Likewise. + * src/dirname.c: Likewise. + * src/du.c: Likewise. + * src/install.c: Likewise. + * src/ln.c: Likewise. + * src/ls.c: Likewise. + * src/mkdir.c: Likewise. + * src/mv.c: Likewise. + * src/remove.c: Likewise. + * src/rm.c: Likewise. + * src/rmdir.c: Likewise. + * src/shred.c: Likewise. + * src/split.c: Likewise. + * src/su.c: Likewise. + * src/system.h: Include "dirname.h", since dot_or_dotdot needs it + now. + (dot_or_dotdot): Succeed even if "." or ".." is followed by a + slash. + * src/rm.c (usage, main): --preserve-root is now the default. + * src/remove.h: Fix comment. + * src/remove.c (cache_fstatat, cache_stat_init): New functions. + (cache_statted, cache_stat_ok): New functions. + (write_protected_non_symlink): Remove struct stat ** buf_p arg, + which is no longer needed with the new functions. All callers + changed. + (prompt, is_dir_lstat, remove_entry, remove_dir): + New struct stat * arg. All callers changed. + (write_protected_non_symlink, prompt, is_dir_lstat, remove_entry): + (remove_cwd_entries, remove_dir, rm_1): + Use and maintain the file status cache. + (prompt, remove_entry): Omit the first "directory" in the diagnostic + "Cannot remove directory `foo': is a directory". This causes "rm" + to pass a test case that it would otherwise fail now that it + "knows" more about its argument. I think the diagnostic is better + without the first "directory" anyway. + (prompt): Remove the no-longer-needed IS_DIR arg; all callers changed. + (rm_1): Reject attempts to remove /, ./, or ../. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add r-4. + * tests/rm/r-4: New file. + +2006-09-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/stat.c: Include <stddef.h> + (alignof): New macro. + (HAVE_STRUCT_STATXFS_F_FSID___VAL, HAVE_STRUCT_STATXFS_F_FSID_VAL): + Remove. + (STRUCT_STATXFS_F_FSID_IS_INTEGER): New macro. + (FSID_VAL): Remove. + (print_statfs): If f_fsid isn't an integer, grab its words one + at a time in little-endian order. This is a bit easier to configure + and should avoid a compilation failure on MacOS reported by Bruno + Haible. + +2006-08-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/stat.c (HAVE_STRUCT_STATXFS_F_FSID_VAL, FSID_VAL): New macros, to + work around a Mac OS X porting problem reported by Bruno Haible in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00308.html>. + (print_statfs): Use them. + + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add isapipe. + * src/tail.c: Include isapipe.h. + (IS_PIPE_LIKE_FILE_TYPE): Remove. + (IS_TAILABLE_FILE_TYPE): Just list both FIFOs and sockets as + tailable, since this seems to be portable. + (main): Use isapipe, to fix a bug on MacOS X reported by Bruno Haible in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00304.html>. + + * src/system.h (LOCALEDIR): Remove, since configmake.h now defines + it for us. + +2006-08-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't test whether macros like + S_ISLNK are defined, since they're always defined now. + * src/cp.c (main): Likewise. + * src/ln.c (main): Likewise. + * src/ls.c (get_link_name, make_link_name): Likewise. + * src/mknod.c (main): Likewise. + * src/mkfifo.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/who.c (S_IWGRP): Likewise. + + Adjust to recent gnulib changes for the gnulib module. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add fcntl. + * src/system.h (SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END): Remove. Other code + is already assuming these macros are defined. + (O_DIRECT, O_DIRECTORY, O_DSYNC, O_NDELAY, O_NOATIME, O_NONBLOCK): + (O_NOCTTY, O_NOFOLLOW, O_NOLINKS, O_RSYNC, O_SYNC, O_BINARY, O_TEXT): + Remove; the fcntl module now handles these. + + Adjust to recent gnulib changes for the inttypes module. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove stdint; add inttypes. + (excluded_files): Don't exclude m4/inttypes-h.m4 or m4/inttypes-pri.m4. + + * src/system.h: Don't bother to include <stdint.h>, since we can + now assume inttypes.h does the equivalent of including stdint.h. + +2006-08-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't make a backup if the last + component of the source name is "." or "..". + Reported by Andreas Schwab in http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17540. + * NEWS: Mention this. + * tests/cp/src-base-dot: New file. Test for the above fix. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add src-base-dot. + + * src/system.h (DOT_OR_DOTDOT): Remove macro. Rewrite as a... + (dot_or_dotdot): ...new static inline function. + * src/remove.c (rm_1): Reflect this renaming. + * src/ls.c (basename_is_dot_or_dotdot): Likewise. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Add comments. + +2006-08-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/Makefile.am (AM_CPPFLAGS): Remove -I$(srcdir) and -I../lib, + since Automake supplies them for us. It always did -I$(srcdir), + and with the recent change to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in configure.ac it + is now also doing -I../lib. + + * bootstrap (get_translations): Skip this if WGET_COMMAND is empty. + Fail if the first "echo" fails. Suppress diagnostics from "ls po/*.po" + since there might not be any .po files. + (WGET_COMMAND): Set to empty if wget doesn't + seem to be available. + +2006-08-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + This test was failing in some environments. + * tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: Don't rely on eval "`dircolors -b`" + to set LS_COLORS in the environment. + * tests/envvar-check: Instead, ensure that LS_COLORS is not set. + Reported by Bob Proulx. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Remove hunk for copy.c; no longer needed. + + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove these files here, too: + .x-sc_no_if_have_config_h, .x-sc_prohibit_assert_without_use, + .x-sc_two_space_separator_in_usage. + + Fix "mv --verbose --backup" so its output includes the + " (backup: foo.~1~)" suffix also when backing up a directory. + * NEWS: Report this bug fix. + * src/copy.c (emit_verbose): New function, factored out of... + (copy_internal): ...here. Use the new function. + * tests/mv/backup-dir: Test for the above fix. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add backup-dir. + +2006-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * .x-sc_no_if_have_config_h: Remove; no longer needed. + * .x-sc_prohibit_assert_without_use: Remove; it was empty. + * .x-sc_two_space_separator_in_usage: Likewise. + * Makefile.maint (sc_no_have_config_h): Renamed from + sc_no_if_have_config_h, since it now checks that HAVE_CONFIG_H + is absent everywhere. + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add config-h. + * src/shred.c: Include <config.h> unconditionally, since + we now assume config.h exists. + * src/dircolors.c: Likewise. + +2006-08-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + "ls --color" would highlight other-writable and sticky directories + no differently than regular directories on a file system with + dirent.d_type support. + * NEWS: Say the above. + * src/ls.c (gobble_file): With --color, also stat the file when + we know it is a directory. + Derived from an anonymous one-line fix and bug report: + <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15043>. + * tests/ls/color-dtype-dir: New file. Test for the above fix. + * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add color-dtype-dir. + +2006-08-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * .cvsignore: Remove stamp-h1. Add coreutils-*, to ignore + tarballs. + * bootstrap.conf: Add configmake, verify. + * src/.cvsignore: Remove localedir.h. + * src/Makefile.am (localedir, DISTCLEANFILES, localedir.h): Remove; + subsumed by configmake. + * src/system.h: Include configmake.h rather than localedir.h + (LOCALEDIR): New macro. + + Rewrite to avoid some unnecessary casts, macros, literals. + * src/shred.c (DEFAULT_PASSES, VERBOSE_UPDATE): Now constants, + not macros. + (SECTOR_SIZE, SECTOR_MASK): New constants. + (fillpattern, dopass, do_wipefd, main): Remove unnecessary casts, + and use the SECTOR_* constants when applicable. Check for size < + 0 rather than size == -1, since negative-size files are a sign of + trouble anyway. + +2006-08-25 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * src/shred.c (dopass): Assume a continuable error if EIO even + if the current position is not a multiple of 512. + +2006-08-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/stat.c (print_statfs): Fix typo: remove extra "sizeof". + +2006-08-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/stat.c (HAVE_STRUCT_STATXFS_F_FSID___VAL): Define. This + macro was being used without being defined. + (SB_F_NAMEMAX): Remove cast. + (f_fsid) [BeOS]: Likewise. + (OUT_NAMEMAX): Renamed from NAMEMAX_FORMAT, with a new meaning. + All uses changed. + (out_string, out_int, out_uint, out_uint_o, out_uint_x): New + functions. + (xstrcat): Remove. All uses changed to use the above functions. + (print_statfs, print_stat): 2nd arg is now the prefix len, not the + buffer len. All uses changed. Output '?', not '*', for unknown + data or errors. Do not assume signed values can be interchanged + with unsigned when printing. + (print_statfs): For %i, print the fsid as a single int, not as a + pair. + (print_it): Quote invalid format better. + + * NEWS: printf supports the I flag. + * src/printf.c (print_formatted) [glibc 2.2 or later]: Likewise. + +2006-08-23 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * src/stat.c (STRUCT_STATVFS, statfs, f_fsid, f_blocks, f_bfree) [BeOS]: + (f_bavail, f_bsize, STATFS_FRSIZE, f_files, f_ffree) [BeOS]: + (STATXFS_FILE_SYSTEM_TYPE_MEMBER_NAME) [BeOS]: Define. + + * src/ls.c (SA_RESTART): Fallback define. + +2006-08-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/system.h (EDQUOT): Define if not already defined. + Problem reported by Bruno Haible for BeOS. + + * .cvsignore: Remove config.h, config.hin, as they are now + in lib. + * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_HEADERS): Move config.h and config.hin + to lib. + * src/Makefile.am (AM_CPPFLAGS): Remove '-I..'; no longer needed. + + * bootstrap (slurp): Define gl_LOCK_EARLY instead of gl_LOCK, + to accommodate today's gnulib change. + +2006-08-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention the sweeping infrastructure changes. + +2006-08-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gnupload. + * Makefile.maint (emit_upload_commands): gnupload is now + in build-aux. + * gnupload: Remove from CVS, since it's now a gnulib module. + + * bootstrap (bootstrap_conf_cleanup): Remove. + (excluded_files): New var. + * bootstrap.conf: Likewise. + * bootstrap (slurp): Exclude files early if they're in the + excluded_files list. That way, their names don't get put into + .cvsignore. + + * aclocal.m4, config.hin, configure: + Remove from CVS, since ./bootstrap generates them automatically. + * .cvsignore: Add INSTALL, Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, config.hin, + configure, *.cache, *.lineno, *.log. + Remove more-specific entries. This catches files like configure.lineno. + * man/.cvsignore: Add Makefile.in. + * src/.cvsignore: Add Makefile.in. + Remove .version, dir.c, install, mvdir, stamp-v, vdir.c, version.c. + + * tests/.cvsignore: + * tests/chgrp/.cvsignore: + * tests/chmod/.cvsignore: + * tests/chown/.cvsignore: + * tests/cp/.cvsignore: + * tests/cut/.cvsignore: + * tests/dd/.cvsignore: + * tests/dircolors/.cvsignore: + * tests/du/.cvsignore: + * tests/expr/.cvsignore: + * tests/factor/.cvsignore: + * tests/fmt/.cvsignore: + * tests/head/.cvsignore: + * tests/install/.cvsignore: + * tests/join/.cvsignore: + * tests/ln/.cvsignore: + * tests/ls/.cvsignore: + * tests/ls-2/.cvsignore: + * tests/md5sum/.cvsignore: + * tests/misc/.cvsignore: + * tests/mkdir/.cvsignore: + * tests/mv/.cvsignore: + * tests/od/.cvsignore: + * tests/pr/.cvsignore: + * tests/readlink/.cvsignore: + * tests/rm/.cvsignore: + * tests/rmdir/.cvsignore: + * tests/seq/.cvsignore: + * tests/sha1sum/.cvsignore: + * tests/shred/.cvsignore: + * tests/sort/.cvsignore: + * tests/stty/.cvsignore: + * tests/sum/.cvsignore: + * tests/tac/.cvsignore: + * tests/tail/.cvsignore: + * tests/tail-2/.cvsignore: + * tests/tee/.cvsignore: + * tests/test/.cvsignore: + * tests/touch/.cvsignore: + * tests/tr/.cvsignore: + * tests/tsort/.cvsignore: + * tests/unexpand/.cvsignore: + * tests/uniq/.cvsignore: + * tests/wc/.cvsignore: + Add Makefile.in. Sort entries if necessary. Remove *.I, *.E, + *.X, *.O, *-tests, build-script, mk-script if they're never + created in this directory. + +2006-08-22 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + BeOS portability. + * src/uptime.c: Include OS.h if it exists. + (print_uptime): On BeOS, use the get_system_info function (actually a + macro). Loop through utmp entries only if utmp.h or utmpx.h exists. + (uptime): Call read_utmp only if utmp.h or utmpx.h exists. + +2006-08-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .cvsignore: Add ABOUT-NLS. + + Move the check-AUTHORS rule to be run as part of "make distcheck", + rather than "make check". + * src/Makefile.am (check): Don't depend on check-AUTHORS; it would + cause "make check" to fail on systems unable to build all binaries. + * Makefile.maint (check-AUTHORS): New rule. + (local-checks-available): Add it here. + Reported by Bruno Haible. Needed for BeOS. + +2006-08-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/df.c (print_header, show_dev): Use a column width that + depends on the block size of -P is specified and not autoscaling. + Problem reported by Gustavo G. Rondina in: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00164.html + +2006-08-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/dircolors/simple (a): Don't fail with an unexpected diagnostic + when the shell variable, SHELL, is not set. + Trigger the failure with "(unset SHELL; make check TESTS=simple)". + Reported by Sven Joachim in <http://bugs.debian.org/355368>. + + * src/od.c: Now that HAVE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG is no longer defined + in config.h, change the uses to HAVE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT. + Otherwise, on a system with 4-byte longs, "od -t u8" fails with this: + od: invalid type string `u8'; + this system doesn't provide a 8-byte integral type + FIXME: add a test for this, but skip it when sizeof uintmax < 8. + +2006-08-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Add a bootstrap procedure, so that the CVS version contains fewer + files and we bootstrap the rest from gnulib, gettext, etc. + * README-cvs: New file. + * bootstrap: New file. + * bootstrap.conf: New file. + * .x-sc_trailing_blank: Remove config-log, .gdb-history. Add .po. + * configure.ac (AC_PREREQ): Move here from m4/*.m4, for benefit + of gnulib-tool. + (gl_DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION, gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS, gl_PERL): + (gl_IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES): Remove; now done by gnulib. + (gl_EARLY): Add. + (gl_MACROS): Call just after gl_EARLY, just for clarity. + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Remove patch to ls.c; no longer needed. + * src/kill.c (strtoimax): Remove decl. + * src/ls.c: Include "wcwidth.h" instead of rolling it ourselves. + * src/wc.c: Likewise. + * src/ls.c (sort_files): Rewrite to avoid need for C99-style + declaration, so that we don't need to patch this file. + * src/printf.c (strtoimax, strtoumax): Remove decls. + * src/su.c: Include getpass.h. + (getpass): remove. + * src/system.h: Include mempcpy.h, stpcpy.h, strpbrk.h. + Include inttypes.h unconditionally. + (LONGEST_MODIFIER, PRIdMAX, PRIoMAX, PRIuMAX, PRIxMAX): Remove. + (stpcpy, strndup, strstr, strtoul, mempcpy, CHAR_MIN, CHAR_MAX): + (SCHAR_MIN, SCHAR_MAX, UCHAR_MAX, SHRT_MIN, SHRT_MAX, INT_MAX): + (INT_MIN, INTMAX_MAX, INTMAX_MIN, UINT_MAX, LONG_MAX, ULONG_MAX): + (SIZE_MAX, SSIZE_MAX, UINTMAX_MAX): Remove. + + * ABOUT-NLS, INSTALL, Makefile.in, man/Makefile.in: + * src/Makefile.in, tests/Makefile.in, tests/chgrp/Makefile.in: + * tests/chmod/Makefile.in, tests/chown/Makefile.in: + * tests/cp/Makefile.in, tests/cut/Makefile.in: + * tests/dd/Makefile.in, tests/dircolors/Makefile.in: + * tests/du/Makefile.in, tests/expr/Makefile.in: + * tests/factor/Makefile.in, tests/fmt/Makefile.in: + * tests/general/Makefile.in, tests/head/Makefile.in: + * tests/install/Makefile.in, tests/join/Makefile.in: + * tests/ln/Makefile.in, tests/ls/Makefile.in: + * tests/ls-2/Makefile.in, tests/md5sum/Makefile.in: + * tests/misc/Makefile.in, tests/mkdir/Makefile.in: + * tests/mv/Makefile.in, tests/od/Makefile.in: + * tests/pr/Makefile.in, tests/readlink/Makefile.in: + * tests/rm/Makefile.in, tests/rmdir/Makefile.in: + * tests/seq/Makefile.in, tests/sha1sum/Makefile.in: + * tests/shred/Makefile.in, tests/sort/Makefile.in: + * tests/stty/Makefile.in, tests/sum/Makefile.in: + * tests/tac/Makefile.in, tests/tail/Makefile.in: + * tests/tail-2/Makefile.in, tests/tee/Makefile.in: + * tests/test/Makefile.in, tests/touch/Makefile.in: + * tests/tr/Makefile.in, tests/tsort/Makefile.in: + * tests/unexpand/Makefile.in, tests/uniq/Makefile.in: + * tests/wc/Makefile.in: + Remove from CVS, since ./bootstrap generates them automatically. + +2006-08-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * src/stat.c (USE_STATVFS): Reinstate the patch from 2006-08-15; + the patch from 2006-08-18 broke on cygwin. + +2006-08-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.2-cvs. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.2 and add "-cvs" suffix. + +2006-08-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Version 6.1. + * NEWS: Record the 6.1 release date. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string. + + * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add sparse-file. + + Avoid test failure when `make check' is run through debuild. + * tests/help-version: Ensure that $SHELL is set to some value + and exported. Patch from Sven Joachim. For details, see + <http://bugs.debian.org/355368>. + + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Test for the 2006-08-17 `ls -CF' fix. + + * README: Describe potential "pre-C99 build failure", and work-around. + + Some of my 2006-07-03 changes to tests/*/Makefile.am were being + backed out due to updates provoked by the copyright changes. + * tests/Makefile.am.in (PATH): Prepend $(VG_PATH_PREFIX), so that + it propagates to the derived Makefile.am files. + ($(srcdir)/Makefile.am): Mark generated .am files as read-only, + so we don't mistakenly edit them again. + * tests/cut/Makefile.am: Regenerate. + * tests/head/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/join/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/pr/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/sort/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/tac/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/tail/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/test/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/tr/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/uniq/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/wc/Makefile.am: Likewise. + + * NEWS: Fix cp --sparse so that it preserves tail-end sparseness, even + when the file's apparent size is not a multiple of its block size. + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't write a NUL before calling ftruncate. + For some file sizes, writing that single byte would unnecessarily + waste a few file blocks. That write may have been necessary in the + early days of Linux, but now, removing it should be safe. + Based on a patch by Alan Curry: <http://bugs.debian.org/370792> + * tests/cp/sparse: New test for the above. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add sparse. + + * tests/sparse-file: New file, essence factored out of... + * tests/du/8gb: ... here. Use the new script. + +2006-08-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/system.h (select_plural): Reduce by 1000000, not 1000, since + the CVS gettext manual now suggests 1000000. + +2006-08-18 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + Add support for NetBSD 3.0. + * src/stat.c (USE_STATVFS): Set to 1 if 'struct statvfs' has a field + f_fstypename. + (STATXFS_FILE_SYSTEM_TYPE_MEMBER_NAME): Define also if 'struct statvfs' + has a field f_fstypename. + This undoes the 2006-08-15 to src/stat.c. + +2006-08-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Copyright notice fixes. + + * COPYING: Upgrade to latest version from FSF. + + * src/uname.c: Use (C) in copyright notice. + + * .vg-suppressions: Add copyright notice. + * ChangeLog: Likewise. + * ChangeLog-2005: Likewise. + * Makefile.am: Likewise. + * NEWS: Likewise. + * README: Likewise. + * README-valgrind: Likewise. + * TODO: Likewise. + * announce-gen: Likewise. + * man/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * man/chmod.x: Likewise. + * man/chown.x: Likewise. + * man/df.x: Likewise. + * man/du.x: Likewise. + * man/rm.x: Likewise. + * src/dircolors.hin: Likewise. + * src/du-tests: Likewise. + * src/extract-magic: Likewise. + * src/tac-pipe.c: Likewise. + * src/wheel-gen.pl: Likewise. + * tests/Coreutils.pm: Likewise. + * tests/Makefile.am.in: Likewise. + * tests/acl: Likewise. + * tests/envvar-check: Likewise. + * tests/expensive: Likewise. + * tests/group-names: Likewise. + * tests/help-version: Likewise. + * tests/mk-script: Likewise. + * tests/priv-check: Likewise. + * tests/rwx-to-mode: Likewise. + * tests/sample-test: Likewise. + * tests/setgid-check: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/basic: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/deref: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/posix-H: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/recurse: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/c-option: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/equal-x: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/equals: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/octal: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/setgid: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/umask-x: Likewise. + * tests/chmod/usage: Likewise. + * tests/chown/basic: Likewise. + * tests/chown/deref: Likewise. + * tests/chown/separator: Likewise. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/cp/acl: Likewise. + * tests/cp/backup-1: Likewise. + * tests/cp/backup-is-src: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-HL: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-deref: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-mv-backup: Likewise. + * tests/cp/cp-parents: Likewise. + * tests/cp/deref-slink: Likewise. + * tests/cp/dir-rm-dest: Likewise. + * tests/cp/dir-slash: Likewise. + * tests/cp/dir-vs-file: Likewise. + * tests/cp/fail-perm: Likewise. + * tests/cp/into-self: Likewise. + * tests/cp/link: Likewise. + * tests/cp/link-no-deref: Likewise. + * tests/cp/link-preserve: Likewise. + * tests/cp/no-deref-link1: Likewise. + * tests/cp/no-deref-link2: Likewise. + * tests/cp/no-deref-link3: Likewise. + * tests/cp/perm: Likewise. + * tests/cp/preserve-2: Likewise. + * tests/cp/r-vs-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/cp/same-file: Likewise. + * tests/cp/slink-2-slink: Likewise. + * tests/cp/special-bits: Likewise. + * tests/cp/symlink-slash: Likewise. + * tests/cut/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/cut/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/dd/misc: Likewise. + * tests/dd/not-rewound: Likewise. + * tests/dd/skip-seek: Likewise. + * tests/dd/skip-seek2: Likewise. + * tests/dd/unblock-sync: Likewise. + * tests/dircolors/simple: Likewise. + * tests/du/2g: Likewise. + * tests/du/8gb: Likewise. + * tests/du/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/du/basic: Likewise. + * tests/du/deref: Likewise. + * tests/du/deref-args: Likewise. + * tests/du/exclude: Likewise. + * tests/du/fd-leak: Likewise. + * tests/du/files0-from: Likewise. + * tests/du/hard-link: Likewise. + * tests/du/inaccessible-cwd: Likewise. + * tests/du/long-from-unreadable: Likewise. + * tests/du/long-sloop: Likewise. + * tests/du/no-deref: Likewise. + * tests/du/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/du/restore-wd: Likewise. + * tests/du/slash: Likewise. + * tests/du/slink: Likewise. + * tests/du/trailing-slash: Likewise. + * tests/du/two-args: Likewise. + * tests/expr/basic: Likewise. + * tests/factor/basic: Likewise. + * tests/fmt/basic: Likewise. + * tests/fmt/long-line: Likewise. + * tests/general/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/general/atgeneral.m4: Likewise. + * tests/general/dd.at: Likewise. + * tests/head/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/head/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/install/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/install/create-leading: Likewise. + * tests/install/d-slashdot: Likewise. + * tests/install/trap: Likewise. + * tests/join/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/join/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/ln/backup-1: Likewise. + * tests/ln/misc: Likewise. + * tests/ln/sf-1: Likewise. + * tests/ln/target-1: Likewise. + * tests/ls/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/ls/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/ls/dangle: Likewise. + * tests/ls/dired: Likewise. + * tests/ls/file-type: Likewise. + * tests/ls/follow-slink: Likewise. + * tests/ls/infloop: Likewise. + * tests/ls/inode: Likewise. + * tests/ls/m-option: Likewise. + * tests/ls/no-arg: Likewise. + * tests/ls/recursive: Likewise. + * tests/ls/rt-1: Likewise. + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Likewise. + * tests/ls/stat-failed: Likewise. + * tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: Likewise. + * tests/ls/symlink-slash: Likewise. + * tests/ls/time-1: Likewise. + * tests/ls-2/tests: Likewise. + * tests/md5sum/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/md5sum/newline-1: Likewise. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/misc/base64: Likewise. + * tests/misc/basename: Likewise. + * tests/misc/cat-proc: Likewise. + * tests/misc/close-stdout: Likewise. + * tests/misc/csplit: Likewise. + * tests/misc/date: Likewise. + * tests/misc/date-sec: Likewise. + * tests/misc/df: Likewise. + * tests/misc/dirname: Likewise. + * tests/misc/expand: Likewise. + * tests/misc/false-status: Likewise. + * tests/misc/fold: Likewise. + * tests/misc/head-c: Likewise. + * tests/misc/head-elide-tail: Likewise. + * tests/misc/head-pos: Likewise. + * tests/misc/mknod: Likewise. + * tests/misc/nice: Likewise. + * tests/misc/nl: Likewise. + * tests/misc/nohup: Likewise. + * tests/misc/paste-no-nl: Likewise. + * tests/misc/pathchk1: Likewise. + * tests/misc/printf: Likewise. + * tests/misc/printf-hex: Likewise. + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Likewise. + * tests/misc/sha224sum: Likewise. + * tests/misc/sha256sum: Likewise. + * tests/misc/sha384sum: Likewise. + * tests/misc/sha512sum: Likewise. + * tests/misc/shuf: Likewise. + * tests/misc/sort-merge: Likewise. + * tests/misc/sort-rand: Likewise. + * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. + * tests/misc/split-fail: Likewise. + * tests/misc/split-l: Likewise. + * tests/misc/stat-fmt: Likewise. + * tests/misc/stat-printf: Likewise. + * tests/misc/tac-continue: Likewise. + * tests/misc/test-diag: Likewise. + * tests/misc/tty-eof: Likewise. + * tests/misc/wc-files0: Likewise. + * tests/misc/wc-files0-from: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/concurrent-1: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-1: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-2: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-3: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-slashdot: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/p-thru-slink: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/parents: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/perm: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/special-1: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/t-slash: Likewise. + * tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly: Likewise. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/mv/acl: Likewise. + * tests/mv/atomic: Likewise. + * tests/mv/backup-is-src: Likewise. + * tests/mv/childproof: Likewise. + * tests/mv/diag: Likewise. + * tests/mv/dir-file: Likewise. + * tests/mv/dir2dir: Likewise. + * tests/mv/dup-source: Likewise. + * tests/mv/force: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-2: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-3: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-4: Likewise. + * tests/mv/hard-link-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-2: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-3: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-4: Likewise. + * tests/mv/i-link-no: Likewise. + * tests/mv/into-self: Likewise. + * tests/mv/into-self-2: Likewise. + * tests/mv/into-self-3: Likewise. + * tests/mv/into-self-4: Likewise. + * tests/mv/leak-fd: Likewise. + * tests/mv/mv-special-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/no-target-dir: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-fail: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-hardlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-rename: Likewise. + * tests/mv/part-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/partition-perm: Likewise. + * tests/mv/perm-1: Likewise. + * tests/mv/reply-no: Likewise. + * tests/mv/setup: Likewise. + * tests/mv/to-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/mv/trailing-slash: Likewise. + * tests/mv/update: Likewise. + * tests/mv/vfat: Likewise. + * tests/od/od-N: Likewise. + * tests/od/x8: Likewise. + * tests/pr/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/pr/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-e: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-f: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/can-m: Likewise. + * tests/readlink/rl-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/rm/cycle: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dangling-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/rm/deep-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dir-no-w: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dir-nonrecur: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dot-rel: Likewise. + * tests/rm/empty-inacc: Likewise. + * tests/rm/empty-name: Likewise. + * tests/rm/f-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/fail-2eperm: Likewise. + * tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise. + * tests/rm/hash: Likewise. + * tests/rm/i-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/i-no-r: Likewise. + * tests/rm/inaccessible: Likewise. + * tests/rm/interactive-always: Likewise. + * tests/rm/interactive-once: Likewise. + * tests/rm/ir-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/isatty: Likewise. + * tests/rm/no-give-up: Likewise. + * tests/rm/r-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/r-2: Likewise. + * tests/rm/r-3: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm2: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm3: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm4: Likewise. + * tests/rm/rm5: Likewise. + * tests/rm/sunos-1: Likewise. + * tests/rm/unread2: Likewise. + * tests/rm/unread3: Likewise. + * tests/rm/unreadable: Likewise. + * tests/rmdir/fail-perm: Likewise. + * tests/rmdir/ignore: Likewise. + * tests/rmdir/t-slash: Likewise. + * tests/seq/basic: Likewise. + * tests/sha1sum/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/sha1sum/sample-vec: Likewise. + * tests/shred/exact: Likewise. + * tests/shred/remove: Likewise. + * tests/sort/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/sort/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/sort-time/Makefile: Likewise. + * tests/sort-time/README: Likewise. + * tests/sort-time/rand-gen: Likewise. + * tests/stty/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/stty/row-col-1: Likewise. + * tests/sum/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/sum/sysv: Likewise. + * tests/tac/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/tac/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/tail/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/tail/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/append-only: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/assert: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/assert-2: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/big-4gb: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/fflush: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/infloop-1: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/proc-ksyms: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/start-middle: Likewise. + * tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Likewise. + * tests/tee/basic: Likewise. + * tests/tee/dash: Likewise. + * tests/test/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/test/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/touch/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/touch/dangling-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/touch/empty-file: Likewise. + * tests/touch/fail-diag: Likewise. + * tests/touch/fifo: Likewise. + * tests/touch/no-create-missing: Likewise. + * tests/touch/no-rights: Likewise. + * tests/touch/not-owner: Likewise. + * tests/touch/obsolescent: Likewise. + * tests/touch/read-only: Likewise. + * tests/touch/relative: Likewise. + * tests/tr/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/tr/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/tr/failures: Likewise. + * tests/tsort/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/unexpand/basic-1: Likewise. + * tests/uniq/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/uniq/Test.pm: Likewise. + * tests/wc/Makefile.am: Likewise. + * tests/wc/Test.pm: Likewise. + +2006-08-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + ls -CF would misalign columns in some cases. + * src/ls.c (get_type_indicator): New function. extracted from... + (print_type_indicator): ...here. Use it. + (length_of_file_name_and_frills): Use it here, too, rather than + assuming stat.st_mode is valid. + Reported by Andreas Schwab, here: + <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/7774> + See the test for this above. FYI, I did ls -CF /proc and visually + inspected the result. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal, same_file_ok): Adjust comments not + to mention the now-removed cp_options.xstat member. + + * Makefile.maint (patch-check): Adapt to work now that the patch + modifies more than one file in src/. + + With this patch, permit building with Solaris cc on Solaris 7. + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Add diffs to convert more c99-isms. + This integrates patches from Bruno Haible. + +2006-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix some problems reported by Bruno Haible. + * tests/chmod/setgid (abs_srcdir): Remove; not used or needed. + Skip this test if "chmod g+s d" silently does nothing. + * tests/ls-2/tests: Skip this test suite if we can't set up files + properly for the setuid-etc test. This simplifies some of the + hacks we were using to work around porting problems. + +2006-08-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/cp/Makefile.am: Don't mark "acl" as XFAIL. + * tests/cp/acl: Instead, skip the test if either setfacl + or getfacl fails. + Reported by Michael Stone. + +2006-08-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/lang-default (LC_ALL): Set to "C", so we get + English-language diagnostics. Unset the other variables; it + should be portable to use 'unset' for this stuff nowadays. + Problem reported by Bruno Haible. Using "C" reverses the + 2000-10-22 change to fileutils in this area. + + Fix bugs when printing plurals of numbers that are not + unsigned long int values. + * src/system.h (select_plural): New function. + * src/md5sum.c (digest_check): Use select_plural to avoid bug. + * src/uptime.c (print_uptime): Likewise. + * src/dd.c (print_stats): Likewise. Also, don't use ngettext to + print a floating point number, as reducing to 0 or 1 doesn't work + for some languages. Instead, just use "s" for seconds since it + doesn't need a plural form. + +2006-08-16 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + Old versions of gzip would write --help output to stderr, and it + would be annoying to see that in the output of every "make" command. + * Makefile.maint (gzip_rsyncable): Throw away stderr output of + "gzip --help". + +2006-08-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> + + * tests/cp/acl: Don't use non-portable == operator for test. + +2006-08-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Use stat to test file system type, rather + than df -T, in case /etc/mtab lies. Reported by Michael Stone. + +2006-08-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Mention that df exits with nonzero status if it generates + no output. This change was in 6.0 but inadvertently unmentioned. + * src/df.c (file_systems_processed): Renamed from n_valid_args, and now + a boolean. + (show_dev): Don't set it until we actually output something. + Print the header if this is the first output. + (main): Don't print a header, as that is now show_dev's job. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add df. + * tests/misc/df: New file. + +2006-08-15 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * src/stat.c (USE_STATVFS): Define to 0 if f_type is needed, but + statvfs.f_type not present. See + <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16325>. + +2006-08-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/dd.c (print_stats): Don't substitute "1" for number, as this + causes confusion for the Hungarian translators. Problem reported + by Egmont Koblinger here: + http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/7726 + +2006-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .x-sc_require_config_h: Add lib/at-func.c. + + * NEWS: Add a line for 6.1-cvs. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump to 6.1 and add "-cvs" suffix. + +2006-08-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Version 6.0. + * NEWS: Record the 6.0 release date. + * configure.ac (AC_INIT): Remove "-cvs" suffix from version string. + + * TODO: Add an item (convert to use gnulib-tool), add to the plan + for id-vs-getgrouplist, and remove a few completed items. + + * Makefile.maint (alpha beta major): Fix syntax error. + +2006-08-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/shred.c (usage): Don't indent the second line of an item. + Otherwise, help2man would misformat the output. + Reported by Adam Buchbinder in <https://launchpad.net/bugs/48917>. + +2006-08-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * configure.ac (AM_GNU_GETTEXT): Upgrade to need-formatstring-macros. + Suggested by Eric Blake to avoid problems like + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-07/msg00087.html>. + +2006-08-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: Too many (losing) systems trigger the + failure that this test checks for (stat/dirent inode mismatch at + a mount point), so continue to give a diagnostic about the failure, + but don't actually count it as a failure. + +2006-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * ABOUT-NLS: Update from gettext 0.15. + * configure.ac (AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION): Update from 0.13.1 to 0.15. + + * src/csplit.c (struct control): Remove fastmap member. + (extract_regexp): Allocate fastmap separately, since otherwise + it might move due to a realloc. This fixes a bug that led + to a core dump on 64-bit sparc Solaris 10 (Sun Studio 10). + +2006-08-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: If "." is tmpfs, skip this test unless uname -s + reports "Linux". This avoids a failure on Solaris 10's tmpfs. + Redirect both stdout and stderr of df invocations. + + * src/dircolors.hin: Add a TERM directive for each of the following: + ansi, color-xterm, gnome, konsole, kterm, rxvt-cygwin, + rxvt-cygwin-native, screen.linux, xterm-256color. + Sort the TERM directives. + From Mike Frysinger. + +2006-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/dd.c (usage): Warn about oflag=append without conv=notrunc. + See Debian bug 373736. + + * src/dircolors.hin: Add mlterm, rxvt-unicode; this fixes Debian + bug 317503. + + * src/.cvsignore: Add shuf. + + * Makefile.maint: Remove the po-update procedure; it doesn't + work with the new repository on http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/. + For now I guess we'll have to fix things by hand. + (do-po-update, po-update): Remove. All references removed. + + * src/shuf.c (next_line): New function. + (read_input): Use it, to avoid relying on GCC-specific behavior + with void * arithmetic. Problem reported by Bob Proulx. + * Makefile.maint (my-distcheck): Compile with -Wpointer-arith + to detect this sort of problem automatically in the future. + +2006-08-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c: Add a compile-time check to ensure that filetype + and filetype_letter have the same number of elements. + + * tests/misc/sort-rand: Remove use of --seed=S. + +2006-08-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Add a command 'shuf', and modify shred and sort to use the new + random number generator library of 'shuf'. + + * AUTHORS: Add shuf. + * README: Likewise. + * NEWS: Likewise. Mention new --random-source option for shred + and sort. Move "sort +1 -2" notice to the appropriate section, + and clarify its role with respect to POSIXLY_CORRECT. + * man/.cvsignore: Add shuf.1. + * man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Add shuf.1. + (shuf.1): New dependency. + * man/shuf.x: New file. + * src/Makefile.am (bin_PROGRAMS): Add shuf. + (EXTRA_DIST): Remove rand-isaac.c. + (shuf_LDADD): New macro. + * src/rand-isaac.c: Remove, moving most of its contents to + lib/rand-isaac.c. + * src/shuf.c: New file. + * src/shred.c: Use new random-number interface rather than rand-isaac.c. + Don't include rand-isaac.c; include randint.h and randread.h instead. + (RANDOM_SOURCE_OPTION): New enum. + (long_opts, usage, main): New option --random-source. + * src/sort.c: Likewise. + * src/shred.c (struct irand_state, irand_init, irand32, irand_mod): Remove. + All callers changed to use randint interface. + (fillrand): Remove. All callers changed to use randread interface. + (dopass): Remove dependency on ISAAC buffer size. + (genpattern): Don't wipe the random state here. + (randint_source): New static var. + (clear_random_data): New function. + (main): Allocate random source, and arrange to wipe it on exit. + * src/sort.c: Include md5.h, randread.h, xmemxfrm.h. + (longopts, usage, main): Remove undocumented --seed option; + it's now replaced by --random-source. + (rand_state, get_hash): Remove. + (randread_source): New static var. + (random_state, cmp_hashes, compare_random): New functions; they guarantee + no collisions in the random hash function. + (keycompare): Use compare_random for -R; don't fall back on comparing + via memcoll, since compare_random does the right thing. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add shuf. + * tests/misc/shuf: New file. + +2006-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/copy.c (set_author): Preserve the st_author field via the + file descriptor dest_desc. + +2006-07-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: chmod now preserves setuid and setgid bits on directories + if you use a numeric mode with them clear, e.g., "chmod 755 DIR". + + Fix test case problems if working directory is setgid, + reported by Bob Proulx. + * tests/cp/fail-perm: Use symbolic mode so that we clear + setgid bit more reliably on directories. + * tests/mkdir/special-1 (set_mode_string): Likewise. + +2006-07-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/chgrp.c (usage): Use correct grammar in description of the + --reference option + * src/chown.c (usage): Likewise. + +2006-07-26 Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> (tiny change) + + * src/copy.c (set_author) [HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR]: + Correctly access SRC_SB's element ST_AUTHOR. + +2006-07-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/ls/stat-failed: Adapt to match new expected output. + From Paul Eggert. + + * src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): Test for S_IFREG first, rather + than having the code test for all of the other types first. + Hoist the set-uid/gid-testing code "up" into this new block. + Classify any other type of file (e.g., S_TYPEISSHM, etc.) as + C_ORPHAN, not as C_FILE. + +2006-07-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Checking in a change from Paul. + + 2006-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/ls.c (DT_INIT): Remove. All uses removed. + (enum filetype): Use an ordinary enum rather than trying to keep + the values in sync with DT_FIFO etc. That way, we don't have + to make special assumptions about them. All uses changed. + (whiteout): New constant member of enum filetype. + (filetype_letter): New constant, for use with enum filetype. + (FILETYPE_INDICATORS): New initializer list. + (print_dir): Add case for DT_WHT. + (gobble_file): If stat fails, don't discard information from + readdir; instead, preserve it so it can be printed. + (print_long_format): Fall back on readdir result if stat info + is not available. Use "?" to denote each unknown mode char, + instead of an overall "?", since we now know some of the mode + typically. + (print_type_indicator): Now that MODE isn't necessarily + useful, guard all uses. + Now that two blocks in the type-checking tree can set "type = C_FILE", + move the suffix-handling code out and down. + +2006-07-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Prepare for the above change. + * src/ls.c [struct fileinfo] (stat_ok): Rename from stat_failed, + and adjust uses. From a patch by Paul Eggert. + +2006-07-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c: Correct indentation/formatting in a few places. + +2006-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/cp/fail-perm: Use "chmod 0500" rather than "chmod 500". + Problem report and fix from Bob Proulx. + * NEWS: Clarify the "chmod 0500" news, and correct the vague + statements about compatibility with BSD. + +2006-07-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c (gobble_file): When handling a stat-failed entry, + print the entry name not the absolute_name -- to be consistent + with the usual case. + * tests/ls/stat-failed: Update accordingly. + + * src/ls.c: Add parens around the new uses of ?: ternary operator. + + * src/dircolors.hin: Mention that ORPHAN refers not just to dangling + symlinks. + + Get --dired offsets right when handling stat-failed entries. + * src/ls.c (print_long_format): Be careful to increment P by the + appropriate amount, even when inode_number_width and nlink_width + are zero. + * tests/ls/stat-failed: Test for the above. + + * src/ls.c (gobble_file) [USE_ACL]: Don't use-uninitialized the + have_acl member. That would happen for a directory with both a + non-stat'able entry and one with an ACL. + + * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Make it so failure to stat a + non-command-line file provokes an exit status of 1, not 0. + Say "cannot access" rather than "cannot stat". + * tests/ls/stat-failed: New file/test, for the above. + * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add stat-failed. + * tests/ls-2/tests (no-a-isdir-b): Update to reflect addition + of "cannot access " to diagnostic. + + * src/ls.c: Declare stat_failed to be "bool", not "int" everywhere. + + * src/ls.c [enum filetype] (command_line): Remove member. Not needed. + Replace all occurrences of "type == command_line" with the + equivalent, "command_line_arg". + + * src/ls.c: Apply the stat-failed parts of Red Hat's + coreutils-selinux.patch. From Ulrich Drepper. + This makes it so files not mentioned on the command line (e.g., + names read from a directory that *is* mentioned on the command + line) for which stat fails are still listed. With --color, + such files are colored just like ORPHANs (aka dangling symlinks). + + * src/df.c (n_valid_args): Declare global to be static. + +2006-07-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: Skip this test on reiserfs, since that file + system lacks d_type support. + +2006-07-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * man/chmod.x: Update to reflect recent changes to coreutils.texi. + +2006-07-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/su.c (usage): Correct typo in --help output: s/commmand/command/ + Reported by Tim Waugh. + Also remove the comment duplicating much of --help output. + + * src/ls.c (FILE_TYPE_INDICATOR_OPTION): Reposition this new + name so the list remains alphabetized. + + Fix another bug: ls --indicator-style=file-type would call + stat for a symlink, even though it wasn't always needed. + In some cases, that unnecessary stat would cause ls to fail. + * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Don't treat symlinks specially (in + requiring a stat syscall). Remove the offending exclusion. + + * NEWS: Mention the fix. + + * tests/ls/stat-dtype: New file/test, for the above fix. + Also exercises the new df feature, below. + + * src/df.c (main): Fail and don't print the headers if no + file system is processed. This makes it easy to test whether + a specified directory is on a file system of a given type or types. + Otherwise, applications would have had to parse df's output. + E.g., is "." either ext3 or reiserfs: df -t ext3 -t reiserfs . + + Fix a bug: ls --file-type worked like --indicator-style=slash, + rather than like --indicator-style=file-type. + * src/ls.c (FILE_TYPE_INDICATOR_OPTION): New enum member. + (long_options): Map "file-type" to FILE_TYPE_INDICATOR_OPTION, + not to 'p'. + (decode_switches): Handle new case: FILE_TYPE_INDICATOR_OPTION. + * NEWS: Mention the fix. + * tests/ls-2/tests (file-type): New test, for the above fix. + +2006-07-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c (print_dir): Give a better diagnostic for failed opendir. + + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add build-aux/vc-list-files. + +2006-07-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: chmod, install, and mkdir now leave setgid and setuid bits + of directories alone unless you specify them explicitly. + install and mkdir now implement X correctly. + install now creates parent directories with mode 755, without + changing their owner or group. + * src/chmod.c (process_file): Adjust to mode_adjust API change. + * src/install.c: Include mkancesdirs.h. + (announce_mkdir, make_ancestor): New functions. + (DEFAULT_MODE): New macro, specifying initial value of 'mode'. + (mode): Use it. + (dir_mode, dir_mode_bits): New vars. + (main): Set dir modes separately from nondir, so that the X + op of -m works correctly. + (main): Remove cwd_errno cruft, since make_dir_parents no longer + affects cwd. Adjust to new make_dir_parents API. + (install_file_in_file_parents): 2nd arg is now char *, not char + const *. Use mkancesdirs instead of rolling our own code. + (change_attributes): Don't worry about AFS, since that kludge + should not be needed any more. + * src/mkdir.c (struct mkdir_options): New struct. + (announce_mkdir, make_ancestor): New functions. + (main): Use them. Adjust to mode_adjust API change. Stick with + umask 0. Use make_dir_parents for all the work. + * src/mkfifo.c (main): Adjust to new mode_adjust API. + * src/mknod.c (main): Likewise. + * tests/chmod/setgid: Do the setgid test instead of bailing. + * tests/mkdir/p-3: Remove re_protect case that no longer applies. + GNU chmod now behaves like other versions of chmod. + * tests/mkdir/perm: Add a test for the X bug. + +2006-07-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/base64.c (do_decode): Output to parameter OUT, not to stdout. + This doesn't fix any bugs, since OUT always equals stdout, but it + makes the code easier to understand. + +2006-07-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (CVS_LIST): Use new file, build-aux/vc-list-files, + rather than open-coding it. Now supports mercurial, too. + * .hgignore: New file. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .hgignore, which ignores nearly + all generated files, including ones like configure and po/*.po + that are currently version-controlled in cvs. + + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add a few more .??* files. + They've been in CVS, just haven't been distributed before this. + Distribute ChangeLog-2005, too. + (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Add THANKS-to-translators. + +2006-07-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/system.h: Assume <dirent.h> exists, since gnulib assumes + this now as well. + +2006-07-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/mv/dir2dir: Adjust so failing with ENOTEMPTY is ok, too. + That happens with Linux/tmpfs. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add dir2dir. + +2006-07-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Adjust to recent updates from gnulib. + * src/dd.c (apply_translations): Use toupper rather than + islower followed by toupper; it's simpler and typically + faster now that we assume at least C89 semantics. Similarly + for tolower. + * src/sort.c (inittables): Likewise. + * src/expand.c (expand): Don't assume that isprint etc. return + booleans (needed for pre-C99 hosts). + * src/fmt.c (check_punctuation): Likewise. + * src/ptx.c (initialize_regex, fix_output_parameters): Likewise. + * src/tr.c (is_char_class_member): Likewise. + * src/unexpand.c (unexpand): Likewise. + * src/join.c (is_blank): Remove; no longer needed. All uses + replaced by isblank (to_uchar (...)). + * src/pinky.c (create_fullname): Don't assume char is unsigned. + * src/printf.c (print_esc): Likewise. + * src/ptx.c (SKIP_NON_WHITE, SKIP_WHITE, SKIP_WHITE_BACKWARDS): + (copy_unescaped_string): Likewise. + * src/stat.c (print_it): Likewise. + * src/system.h (_D_EXACT_NAMELEN): Renamed from NLENGTH, for + convenience on GNU systems. All uses changed. Don't bother + looking for any dirent.h substitute other than ndir.h. + (D_INO): Remove unnecessary parentheses. + (IN_CTYPE_DOMAIN, ISGRAPH, ISPRINT, ISALNUM, ISALPHA): + (ISCNTRL, ISLOWER, ISPUNCT, ISSPACE, ISUPPER, ISXDIGIT): + (ISDIGIT_LOCALE, TOLOWER, TOUPPER): Remove. All uses changed + to ctype.h equivalents. + (isblank): Renamed from ISBLANK. Check for HAVE_DECL_ISBLANK too. + All uses changed. + +2006-07-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/mv/dir2dir: New file, test for 2006-07-05 fix in copy.c. + + * Makefile.maint (sc_the_the): New rule. + + * src/dd.c (skip): Remove one of two adjacent "the"s in a comment. + * tests/Coreutils.pm (run_tests): Remove one of two adjacent "then"s + in a comment. + +2006-07-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention that mv can now remove an empty destination directory, + and give an example. Prompted by a report from Florent Bayle. + +2006-07-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c (usage): Correct the description of -G: it is useful + only in a long listing. Reported by Martin Pool in + <https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/51653>. + + * man/chmod.x: Correct the description of the sticky bit. Reported + by Chris Moore via Ian Jackson in <http://bugs.debian.org/376745>. + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't work around old NFS clients like + SunOS-4.1.4 and Irix 5.3 that set errno to values like EIO and + ENOTEMPTY upon failed rename. Otherwise, we risk misinterpreting + a banal failure as a recursive move-into-self failure. + Reported by Florent Bayle in <http://bugs.debian.org/376749>. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Regenerate, to remove fuzz. + +2006-07-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Plug another unusual leak. + (AD_mark_helper): Free malloc'd filename if hash_insert says + that string is already in the hash table. + + The dev/inode of the topmost directory in each hierarchy were not + being recorded. + * src/remove.c (remove_cwd_entries): Don't call cycle_check here. + (AD_push): Call it from here instead. + + Fix two small leaks. + * src/remove.c (AD_stack_clear): New function. + (rm_1): Use it. + (AD_pop_and_chdir): Free *prev_dir just before longjmp. + + * tests/Makefile.am, tests/*/Makefile.am: (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): + Add $VG_PATH_PREFIX as a prefix to $PATH + + * tests/envvar-check (vars): Add CDPATH and POSIXLY_CORRECT. + * tests/Makefile.am (evar-check): Remove rule. + (EXTRA_DIST): Remove .env-warn. + * tests/.env-warn: Remove file. No longer used. + Suggestion from Eric Blake. + +2006-07-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/system.h: Include <stdint.h> unconditionally, since we + now assume the stdint module. + +2006-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: With no operand, 'tail -f' now silently ignores the '-f' + only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. + * src/tail.c (main): Implement this. + * tests/tail/Test.pm (f-pipe-1): Renamed from f-1. + (test_vector): Set POSIXLY_CORRECT for the f-pipe-* tests. + +2006-07-01 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ln.c (do_link): Use new, shorter URL, for ag-review link. + + * .x-sc_require_config_h: Add ^lib/xstrtold\.c$, so make distcheck + passes once again. + +2006-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: seq now uses long double internally rather than double. + It now defaults to a minimal fixed point format if possible. + It lets you use %a, %A, %E, %F, %G. + * src/Makefile.am (seq_LDADD): Remove $(SEQ_LIBM); add $(POW_LIB). + * src/seq.c: Don't include <math.h> or <xstrtol.h>; no longer needed. + (isfinite) [!defined isfinite]: New macro. + (separator, terminator): Now points to const. + (first, step, last): Remove. + (usage): Update to match new behavior. + (struct operand, operand): New type. + (scan_arg): Renamed from scan_double_arg, since we no longer use double. + All uses changed. + Compute and return a value of type operand, not double. + (long_double_format): Renamed from valid_format, and now returns a + new format with an "L" added if needed, if the original format was + valid. Allow %a, %A, %E, %F, and %G formats. + (print_numbers): Take numeric values as args rather than from globals. + Print long double, not double. + (get_width_format): Remove. + (get_default_format): New function. + (main): Implement new way of calculating default format. + Don't worry about locale's representation of the decimal point, since + the arguments are always processed in the C locale. + * tests/seq/basic (neg-2): Adjust to new default format. + (eq-wid-1, eq-wid-2): Resurrect these tests, since the new + implementation should do the right thing. + +2006-06-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/stty/basic-1: Work around an intermittent test failure + on HP-UX 11.11. Report and analysis from Bob Proulx. + http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/7475 + +2006-06-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Support obsolete usages like "sort +1 -2" even when + conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, since this is a pure extension to + POSIX. Problem reported by Christian in: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00220.html + * src/sort.c (main): Implement this. + + * src/system.h (CLOSEDIR): Remove. All uses changed to closedir. + Autoconf 2.60 says this stuff was obsolete. + +2006-06-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Regenerate, to remove fuzz. + +2006-06-28 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> (tiny change) + + * tests/mv/i-link-no: Work around HP-UX /bin/sh tracing problem + (set -x when VERBOSE=yes) when stderr is redirected before stdout + causing shell tracing of the stdout redirection to be written to + the stderr file. Avoid problem and test failure on HP-UX by + redirecting stderr last. + * tests/dd/unblock-sync: Order shell file redirections for + stderr and stdout in the common style. + tests/acl: Likewise. + +2006-06-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/cat-proc: Try to avoid any spurious numeric + differences in frequently-changing /proc/cpuinfo. + Reported by Nelson Beebe. + +2006-06-26 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Attempt rmdir (actually, unlinkat-with-AT_REMOVEDIR) upon any + fd_to_subdirp failure, not just when errno == EACCES. + * src/remove.c (remove_dir): Use unlinkat-with-AT_REMOVEDIR, not + rmdir, here, even though rmdir may happen to be adequate. + + * NEWS: rm no longer fails to remove an empty, unreadable directory + * src/remove.c (remove_cwd_entries): If we can't open a directory, + and the failure is not being ignored, try to remove the directory + with rmdir (aka unlinkat-with-AT_REMOVEDIR), in case it's empty. + Problem report and test case from Paul Eggert in + <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/7425>. + + * tests/rm/empty-inacc: New test, for the above. + + Avoid a segfault for wc --files0=- < /dev/null. + * src/wc.c (compute_number_width): Return right away if nfiles == 0. + +2006-06-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: wc accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE + contains a list of NUL-separated file names. + + * src/wc.c: Include "readtokens.h". + (usage): Describe the new option, and adjust the `Usage': + with this option, no FILE may be specified on the command line. + (main): Handle the new option. + * tests/misc/wc-files0: New tests, for the above. + * tests/misc/wc-files0-from: Likewise. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add wc-files0. + +2006-06-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/md5sum.c (DIGEST_BUFFER): Remove now-unused definitions. + +2006-06-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/tee.c (tee_files): Rename from tee, to avoid conflict with + the function in glibc's <fcntl.h>. Reported by Andreas Schwab. + +2006-06-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.cfg (local-checks-to-skip): Add changelog-check, + so this check is not run as part of "make distcheck". + +2006-06-18 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> (tiny change) + + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Fix typo (s/neq/ne/) in previous change. + +2006-06-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Make error output a little clearer. + +2006-06-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/rm/inaccessible: Skip this test on systems without openat + support. Reported by Bob Proulx. + +2006-06-15 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> (tiny change) + + * tests/misc/mknod: Improve permission checks to handle + running mkdir test in set-gid directories. + +2006-06-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/du/basic: Revamp not to hard-code file system block sizes. + +2006-06-12 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> + + * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Pass $(PERL), for + files0-from test. + +2006-06-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * .gitignore: New file. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .gitignore. + + Setting TIME_STYLE=long-iso in the environment would make the + cp/same-file test fail. + * tests/envvar-check (vars): Add TIME_STYLE to the list. + * tests/cp/same-file: Revert last change. + Source the envvar-check script, to ensure that TIME_STYLE + settings don't affect these tests. + +2006-06-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/cp/same-file: Execute 'ls' in the C locale, so that it + uses POSIX time stamp formats. Problem reported by John Nixon in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00062.html>. + +2006-06-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention the AIX-strndup-bug vs. dircolors workaround. + + Require a "Version N.M" line at the top of the ChangeLog + file only when making the actual release, not when running + "make distcheck". + * Makefile.maint (maintainer-distcheck): Don't depend on + changelog-check. + (alpha beta major): Depend on it here, instead. + +2006-06-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Ensure that cat works with any of the options, -A -v -e -E -T, + when applied to files in /proc and /sys, even when the FIONREAD + ioctl produces nonsensical results. Before this change, cat would + produce no output (or truncated output), for some linux kernels. + + * src/cat.c (write_pending): New function, factored out of cat. + (cat): Also interpret a negative ioctl/FIONREAD count as indicating + that there are bytes to read. Some versions of linux-2.6.16 do that. + Write any pending output before returning. + Reported by Dan Jacobson in <http://bugs.debian.org/370583>. + * NEWS: Mention this bug fix. + * tests/misc/cat-proc: New file. Test for the above. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cat-proc. + +2006-06-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/expr.c (eval4): Detect overflow properly when multiplying + INTMAX_MIN * -1. + +2006-06-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: The 'expr' command now detects and reports integer overflow. + (It would be better to use extended precision instead, but that + would be more work.) + * src/expr.c (integer_overflow): New function. + (eval4, eval3): Check for integer overflow. + +2006-06-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix problems when building with Solaris/SVR4/etc. make, which uses a + different and somewhat bogus implementation of VPATH. In the + directory tests/misc, rename tests whose names might appear in the + Automake-generated rules. For example, we can't use a test named + 'test', since Automake generates a rule that contains the text + "if test -f ./$$tst; ...", and this might expand to something like + "if ../../../coreutils-6.0/tests/misc/test -f ./$$test; ...", + which executes the 'test' script rather than the 'test' command. + * tests/misc/false-status: Renamed from tests/misc/false. + * tests/misc/pwd-long: Renamed from tests/misc/pwd. + * tests/misc/sort-merge: Renamed from tests/misc/sort. + ($prog): Set to 'sort' rather than to $PROG. + * tests/misc/test-diag: Renamed from tests/misc/test. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (PROG): Take the basename of $$tst, + in case Solaris make has prepended the directory. + (TESTS): Adjust to above renamings. + * tests/misc/expand: Don't assign to PROG; no longer needed + now that Makefile.am sets PROG to the basename. + * tests/misc/fold: Likewise. + +2006-06-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Make `cp --link --no-dereference' work also on systems where the + link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link. + * src/copy.c (copy_internal) [LINK_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS]: Don't use + the link syscall on a symlink when it would do the wrong thing. + Based on the patch by Aurelien Jarno: <http://bugs.debian.org/329451> + * tests/cp/link-no-deref: New file/test for the above. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add link-no-deref. + * NEWS: Mention the change (doesn't affect Linux). + +2006-06-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Fix some porting problems in the test cases reported by + Ralf Wildenhues for HP-UX 11.23 in: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00238.html + * tests/help-version: Don't assume that \< \> works in sed. + * tests/misc/close-stdout: Don't assume that >&- works. + Add a /dev/full test. + * tests/touch/no-create-missing: Don't assume that >&- works. + +2006-05-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c (usage): Add `v' to the list of sorting-related options. + From Justin Pryzby. + +2006-05-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> + + * tests/cp/fail-perm: source lang-default. + * tests/rm/inaccessible: Likewise. + +2006-05-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/rm/inaccessible: AIX 4.3.3 gives a different diagnostic. + Recognize it, too. Reported by Ralf Wildenhues, in + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00192.html + +2006-05-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/chgrp.c: Support new options: --preserve-root and + --no-preserve-root. Somehow this program was skipped when those + options were added to chown, chmod, and rm. Reported by + vaqflabuopac@spammotel.com in <http://bugs.debian.org/365656>. + * NEWS: Mention this. + +2006-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Remove mention of --seed. We'll replace it with something + better, and don't want to indicate that it is supported. + * src/sort.c (usage): Likewise. + +2006-05-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/chmod.c (main): Use FTS_PHYSICAL here, too. + + * src/du.c (main): Rename local, s/symlink_deref_bit/symlink_deref_bits/ + and arrange for -D to set fts' FTS_PHYSICAL bit as well as + FTS_COMFOLLOW. Spotted by Justin Pryzby. + + * gnupload: Merge changes from automake, retaining the ""--to... + kludge to placate overzealous `make distcheck' check. + +2006-05-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/du.c (main): Don't let -D, -L, or -P turn off the internal + FTS_TIGHT_CYCLE_CHECK directory traversal option. + Reported by Justin Pryzby in http://bugs.debian.org/367691 + +2006-05-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/cp.c (usage): Correct description of -a: s/-dpR/-dpPR/. + From Tomas Pospisek. + +2006-05-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/mv/no-target-dir: Test two more cases. + +2006-05-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + mv -T DIR EMPTY_DIR no longer fails unconditionally + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't manually prohibit a move where + the destination is an existing directory. Sometimes doing that is + valid. Let the rename system call enforce the rules. That is + allowed only when the source is a directory and the destination + directory (to be replaced) is empty. Reported by Eric Blake. + * tests/mv/no-target-dir: New file/test for this. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add no-target-dir. + * NEWS: Mention this. + + * tests/mv/atomic: New file/test for yesterday's fix. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add atomic. + + * tests/du/long-sloop: Avoid harmless `ambiguous redirect' diagnostic. + +2006-05-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't explicitly unlink the destination + when moving a symlink into the place of an existing non-directory. + Reported by Joshua Hudson. + * NEWS: mention this. + +2006-05-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (patch-check): Fail if patch generates any output, + even merely for changed offsets. + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust to reflect new offsets. + + * NEWS: Mention changes affecting df, pwd, shred. + +2006-05-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: New test, to detect the bogus file + system condition where dirent.d_ino != stat.st_ino. + * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add stat-vs-dirent. + +2006-05-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * tests/ls/inode: Expand to test inode from readdir case. + * tests/ls/follow-slink: Expand to test broken links encountered + implicitly, favoring Solaris 9 and OpenBSD 3.4 behavior. + +2006-05-06 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * tests/mv/leak-fd: Work even on case-insensitive file system. + +2006-05-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention the 2006-03-19 pwd-related change that makes + lib/getcwd.c work around inconsistent file system dirent.d_ino data. + +2006-05-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c (DEFINE_SORT_FUNCTIONS, LIST_SORTFUNCTION_VARIANTS): + Use better macro parameter names: s/basename/key_name/, + s/basefunc/key_cmp_func. Fix typo in comment. + +2006-04-29 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * src/ls.c (main): On systems with d_type, directories_first only + implies format_needs_type, not format_needs_stat. + +2006-05-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ls.c (xstrcoll_df_version, rev_xstrcoll_df_version): Add space + after comma in arg list, from Eric Blake. + +2006-04-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/misc/date (relative-3): New test, derived from a bug + report by John Thomas McDole. + +2006-04-23 Francesco Montorsi <fr_m@hotmail.com> + + New option for ls: --group-directories-first. + It makes ls list directories before files. + * NEWS [New features]: Mention it. + * src/ls.c (sort_type): Rearrange to use as an array index when + choosing sort function; added new sort_numtypes member for + compile-time check. + (time_type): Add new time_numtypes member for compile-time check. + (directories_first): New global variable. + (GROUP_DIRECTORIES_FIRST_OPTION): New enum. + (long_options): Add --directories-first. + (main): Support new option. + (is_directory): New function. + (extract_dirs_from_files): Use it. + (DIRFIRST_CHECK, DEFINE_SORT_FUNCTIONS) + (LIST_SORTFUNCTION_VARIANTS): New macros. + (sort_functions): New global variable. + (sort_files): Use it. + (usage): Document new option. + +2006-04-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/shred.c (fillrand): The assertion was way too weak, due to + what must be a typo. Strengthen it to its intended value. + (dopass): Don't use alloca; it's not worth the aggravation here, + since it's used only to get a page-aligned buffer, and page + alignment doesn't buy us much here. I'm suspicious that alloca + causes problems on some hosts, due to a recent bug report by Adam + Waltman: http://bugs.gentoo.org/130246. + +2006-04-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/tty-eof: Add new programs, base64, sha224sum, sha256sum, + sha384sum, sha512sum. + +2006-04-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/chmod.c (describe_change): Adjust to filemode changes. + * src/ls.c (HAVE_ST_DM_MODE): Remove; moved to ../lib/filemode.c. + (print_long_format): Use (new) filemodestring rather than + (old) mode_string, so that we get more file types right, at least + in theory. Adjust to filemode changes. + * src/stat.c (human_access): Likewise. + +2006-04-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/ptx.c (main) [DEFAULT_IGNORE_FILE]: Remove code to use a default + ignore file. This has never been enabled. Reported by Eric Blake. + +2006-04-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/ln.c (linkfunc): Remove. This method ran into a compiler/linker + bug in Interix. Just call symlink or link directly. All uses changed. + * src/setuidgid.c (main) [! HAVE_SETGROUPS]: Don't call setgroups. + * src/stat.c (USE_STATVFS): New macro. + Include <sys/statvfs.h> and use statvfs only if USE_STATVFS. + (NAMEMAX_FORMAT): define a bit more clearly, now that the + statvfs-using code is a bit more regular. + * src/system.h (sync) [!HAVE_SYNC]: New macro. + +2006-04-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: csplit, nl, expr now conform to POSIX better, and are + more-compatible with traditional Unix, with respect to regular + expressions. + * src/csplit.c (extract_regexp): Set re_syntax_options to a + value that is compatible with what POSIX requires. + * src/nl.c (build_type_arg): Likewise. + * src/expr.c (docolon): Likewise. Also, don't let anchors match + newline; this fixes an incompatibility with tradition and with POSIX. + Don't warn about leading ^. POSIX says it is unspecified whether + ^ is a special character, which means that implementations can + either treat it as special or not, but either way a warning is not + allowed (unless the regexp is otherwise invalid). Instead, anchor + the expression but treat ^ as an anchor; this is the traditional + behavior (e.g., Solaris 10). + (eval4, eval3, eval2): Treat non-numeric args, division by zero, + and the like as invalid expressions (exit status 2), not as + failure of 'expr' (exit status 3). This is more consistent with + how Solaris behaves. + * tests/expr/basic (fail-a): Adjust exit status to match new expr + behavior, for status 2 versus 3. + (anchor): New test. + (bre1, bre2, bre3, bre4, bre5, bre6, bre7, bre8, bre9, bre10): + (bre11, bre12, bre13, bre14, bre15, bre16, bre17, bre18, bre19, bre20): + (bre21, bre22, bre23, bre24, bre25, bre26, bre27, bre28, bre29, bre30): + (bre31, bre32, bre33, bre34, bre35, bre36, bre37, bre38, bre39, bre40): + (bre41, bre42, bre43, bre44, bre45, bre46, bre47, bre48, bre49, bre50): + (bre51, bre52, bre53, bre54, bre55, bre56, bre57, bre58, bre59, bre60): + (bre61, bre62): New tests. + * tests/misc/csplit: Use \{...\} in test RE, to test that we're + conforming to POSIX. + + Port to Solaris 8. + * tests/du/long-from-unreachable: Solaris 8 sh doesn't understand + "if !". Do not assume that 'sed' can handle long, newline-free input. + * tests/du/long-sloop: Likewise. Evaluate expr once, not $n times. + +2006-04-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Adjust to new regex.h API (with new fastmap type), and clean + up the regex storage allocation a bit. + + * src/csplit.c (struct control): Put re_compiled member at the + end, since it's large. Change regexpr member from char * to bool; + all uses changed. Add new member fastmap. + (extract_regexp): regexp arg is now char const *, not char *. + Don't bother duplicating the regular expression; it's not needed. + Set fastmap from new fastmap member. Don't bother allocating + a buffer, as the regexp code does a better job than we do. + * src/expr.c (docolon): Allocate and use a fastmap. + Don't bother allocating a buffer. + * src/nl.c (body_fastmap, header_fastmap, footer_fastmap): + New vars. + (build_type_arg): New fastmap arg. All uses changed. + Don't bother allocating a buffer, but set a fastmap. + * src/ptx.c (context_regex_string, word_regex_string): Remove. + (context_regex, word_regex): New vars, replacing the above. + All uses changed. + (struct regex_data): New type. + (compile_regex): Renamed from alloc_and_compile_regex, since + we no longer allocate storage. Arg is now a struct regex_data *, + not a const char *. All uses changed. Don't allocate the fastmap; + instead, take it from the caller. Don't convert size_t to int, + to avoid arithmetic overflow problems. Don't bother freeing + storage afterwards; it's not worth the aggravation. + * src/tac.c (compiled_separator_fastmap): New ver. + (main): Use it. Don't bother allocating a buffer. + +2006-03-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/dd.c (iwrite): Remove assignment without effect. + Reported by Felix Rauch Valenti. + +2006-03-22 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * src/ptx.c (usage): Remove mention of --copyright/-C. + (main): Alias --copyright to --version plus a deprecation warning. + * NEWS: Mention this. + +2006-03-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/Makefile.am (uptime_LDADD): Add $(POW_LIB), for uptime's + use of strtod. Tiny patch from Nickolai Zeldovich. + +2006-03-11 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * tests/misc/dirname: New file. + * tests/basename/Makefile.am: Delete. + * tests/basename/basic: Move to... + * tests/misc/basename: ... this new file. Add some tests, + including fixed behavior for //. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Sort. Add basename, dirname. + * tests/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Remove basename. + * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove tests/basename. + + Improvements to dirname/basename handling on platforms like + cygwin with distinct // and with drive letters. + * NEWS: Document new behavior. + * src/basename.c (main): Don't strip suffix from file system + roots. + * src/cp.c (target_directory_operand): Use new last_component. + (ASSIGN_BASENAME_STRDUPA): Likewise. Reduce time spent + traversing the string. + * src/dircolors.c (guess_shell_syntax): Use new last_component. + * src/install.c (target_directory_operand, install_file_in_dir): + Likewise. + * src/ln.c (target_directory_operand, main): Likewise. + * src/ls.c (basename_is_dot_or_dotdot): Likewise. + * src/mv.c (target_directory_operand, movefile): Likewise. + * src/remove.c (rm_1): Likewise. + * src/shred.c (wipename): Likewise. + * src/split.c (next_file_name): Likewise. + * src/su.c (log_su, run_shell): Likewise. + +2006-03-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: nohup diagnostics are now more precise, and nohup now + redirects stderr to nohup.out if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty. + * src/nohup.c (main): Implement this. + * tests/misc/nohup: Test the new behavior. + +2006-03-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/copy.c (set_author): Rename function, from preserve_author. + + * src/remove.c (AD_pop_and_chdir): Use new macro, + CYCLE_CHECK_REFLECT_CHDIR_UP, rather than open-coding it. + + * src/system.h (SAME_INODE): Remove definition. + Include "same-inode.h", instead. + +2006-03-11 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * src/pwd.c (robust_getcwd): Prepend only one slash, not two. + +2006-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Fix a bug whereby a user with write access to a directory being removed + could cause the removal of that directory to fail with an erroneous + diagnostic about a directory cycle. Reported by Vineet Chadha. + + * NEWS: Mention this. + * src/remove.c (AD_pop_and_chdir): If the directory we're about to + leave (and try to rmdir) is the one whose dev_ino is being used to + detect a cycle, reset cycle_check_state.dev_ino to that of the parent. + +2006-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Document dd's new 'directory' and 'nolinks' flags. + * src/dd.c (set_fd_flags): Handle file-creation flags on file + descriptors, rather than ignoring them. + * tests/dd/misc: Add test cases for append, nofollow, directory, + and nolinks flags. Simplify redirection to /dev/null in some cases. + + * tests/dd/misc: iflags->iflag. This fixes a typo that meant the + noatime test never tested anything. + +2006-03-05 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/dd.c (flags, usage): New flags directory, nolinks. + * src/system.h (O_NOLINKS): Define to 0 if not already defined. + + * src/ls.c (usage): Mention that -f disables --color. + Problem reported by Niels Möller. + +2006-03-03 Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com> + + * man/*.x: Add references to syscalls from utilities of the same name. + +2006-03-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/help-version: Set SHELL, if not already set, in order to + avoid failure when `make check' is run through debuild; dircolors + would fail due to lack of $SHELL. Reported by Sven Joachim. + + Make `base64 --wrap=N' work for N=0, and for N larger than SIZE_MAX. + * src/base64.c (wrap_write, do_encode, main): Change type of + parameters and locals, wrap_column, form size_t to uintmax_t. + (main): Adjust to use xstrtoumax, accordingly. + +2006-03-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Don't fail when run from an environment with SHELL not a Bourne + shell, e.g. `env SHELL=/bin/csh make check' would fail this test. + * tests/dircolors/simple: Invoke each non-failing test with -b. + Reported by Michael Stone. + +2006-02-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/misc/base64: Derive --decode-using tests from the + encode-based ones. + + * tests/misc/base64: Factor out a long constant string. + Split lines to stay within 80 columns. + + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add base64. + * tests/misc/base64: Test base64. From Simon Josefsson. + + * src/base64.c (do_decode): Use correct type for parameter, + ignore_garbage: s/size_t/bool/. + + * src/base64.c: Don't include .h files already included by system.h: + <string.h>, <stdlib.h>, <stdbool.h>, <limits.h>, <errno.h>. + Include "system.h" before the other lib/*.h header files. + Include <sys/types.h> before "system.h". + (wrap_write): Remove declaration of unused local, initial_column. + (wrap_write): Correct declaration syntax: s/size_t * V/size_t *V/. + + * README: Add base64 to the list. + +2006-02-17 Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> + + New program: base64. + * AUTHORS: Mention base64. + * NEWS: Likewise. + * man/Makefile.am: Build base64.1. + * man/base64.x: New file. + * src/Makefile.am (bin_PROGRAMS): Add base64. + * src/base64.c: New file. + +2006-02-25 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + In ls, avoid calling stat for --inode (-i), when possible. + * src/pwd.c (NOT_AN_INODE_NUMBER, D_INO): Move to ... + * src/system.h: ... here, for use in ... + * src/ls.c (main): ... here. Prefer dirent.d_ino to stat when + possible. + (gobble_file): Add inode argument. + (print_dir): Pass inode if available. + (usage): Remove inaccuracy. + +2006-02-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * TODO: Update/correct some obsolete entries. + +2006-02-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Mention `sort -k 1b,1'. + * src/join.c (usage): Likewise. + Documentation problem reported by Philip Kensche. + +2006-02-20 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * man/rm.x: Update documentation to match previous patch. + +2006-02-18 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + New option for rm: --interactive=once (-I). + * NEWS: Document it, along with change to rm --interactive. + * TODO: Remove entry for implementing rm -I + * src/rm.c (INTERACTIVE_OPTION): New enum value. + (interactive_type): New enum. + (long_opts): Let interactive take an optional argument. + (interactive_args, interactive_types): New option arguments. + (usage): Document -I, --interactive=WHEN. Use program_name + instead of a basename. + (main): New -I option, new behavior to --interactive. + * tests/rm/interactive-once: New tests. + * tests/rm/interactive-always: Ditto. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run them. + +2006-02-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (sc_two_space_separator_in_usage): Make the regular + expression match more of the target lines, e.g., those that start with + `-S,' (short option followed by a comma) or that include `=[...]'. + Patch by Nicolas François. + Fix the four offenders thus exposed: + * src/join.c (usage): Use two spaces (not one) to separate the + --first-only option string from its description, so help2man formats + the derived man page properly. + * src/pr.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/uniq.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/install.c (usage): Likewise. + +2006-02-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (alpha beta major): For `make major', ensure that the + version string is of the form N.N[.N]*, where N is one or more digits. + +2006-02-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * INSTALL: Update from gnulib. + +2006-02-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * GNUmakefile (all): Emit diagnostics to stderr, not stdout. + +2006-02-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (patch-check): New target. + (local-checks-available): Add to the list. + +2006-02-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/c99-to-c89.diff: New file. + * src/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add c99-to-c89.diff. + + * .x-po-check: New file, with exclusions so that `make distcheck' + passes once again. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .x-po-check. + + rm -r must remove an empty directory, even if it is inaccessible. + * src/remove.c (close_preserve_errno): New function. + (fd_to_subdirp): Don't print a diagnostic in this function. + Do it from the callers instead, unless rmdir succeeds. + (remove_cwd_entries, remove_dir): Adjust callers. + * tests/rm/empty-inacc: New test for the above. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add empty-inacc. + * NEWS: Mention this bug fix. + * tests/rm/rm2: Adjust two expected diagnostics, now that they're + a tiny bit less precise: cannot remove `a/1': ... instead of + cannot open directory `a/1': ... + + * Makefile.maint (syntax-check-rules): Automatically derive this + list of sc_-prefixed rule names. + +2006-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * Makefile.maint (CVS_LIST): Don't assume cvsu is available. + (CVS_LIST_EXCEPT): New macro, to simplify exception-processing. + Most uses of CVS_LIST changed to use CVS_LIST_EXCEPT. + (syntax-check-rules): Bring back sc_changelong. (Hmm, why did it + go away? was that an accident?) + (sc_cast_of_argument_to_free, sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): + (sc_cast_of_alloca_return_value, sc_space_tab, sc_prohibit_atoi_atof): + (sc_error_exit_success, sc_file_system, sc_no_if_have_config_h): + (sc_system_h_headers, sc_sun_os_names, sc_trailing_blank): + (sc_two_space_separator_in_usage, sc_unmarked_diagnostics): + (sc_obsolete_symbols, sc_changelog, sc_prohibit_jm_in_m4): + (sc_useless_cpp_parens, makefile-check, m4-check, po-check): + (author_mark_check, makefile_path_separator_check): + Output line numbers, to simplify navigation of Emacs *compilation* + buffers. + (sc_prohibit_atoi_atof, sc_file_system): + Rework slightly so that Makefile.maint doesn't get reported as a + violation of its own syntax rules. + (sc_dd_max_sym_length): Use ifneq to do nothing, instead of doing + it at run-time (which didn't work with Bison). Fix a makefile typo, + caught by Makefile.maint itself: spaces where a tab should be. + (po-check): Check lib/*.[ch] even if not in CVS; used by Bison, + which copies from ../gnulib/lib/*.[ch] to lib/*.[ch]. + Ignore djgpp and man subdirectories, to avoid false matches with + Bison and coreutils, respectively. Use sort -u to remove the + resulting duplicates. + * gnupload: Rework slightly to avoid bogus warning from + sc_two_space_separator_in_usage. + +2006-02-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Use gzip's --rsyncable option only if it's available. + * Makefile.maint (gzip_rsyncable): New variable. + (GZIP_ENV): Use it. + +2006-02-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (local-checks-available): Define in terms of + the expansion, $(syntax-check-rules), rather than the single, + top-level target `syntax-check', so that it's easier to exclude + individual rules (via $(local-checks-to-skip)). + (tgz-md5, tgz-sha1, ...): Remove now-unused definitions. + +2006-02-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/system.h (!defined O_DIRECT): If O_DIRECTIO is defined (as it + is on Tru64), define O_DIRECT to that. Patch From James Lemley. + + * tests/help-version (expected_failure_status_vdir): + Redirect an expected disk-full diagnostic to /dev/null. + +2006-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/unexpand.c (usage): Use two spaces (not one) to separate the + --first-only option string from its description, so help2man formats + the derived man page properly. + * src/rm.c (usage): Likewise for --no-preserve-root. + * src/chown.c (usage): Likewise. + * src/chgrp.c (usage): Likewise. + + Add a rule to ensure that the above doesn't happen again. + * Makefile.maint (sc_two_space_separator_in_usage): New rule. + (syntax-check-rules): Add it. + * .x-sc_two_space_separator_in_usage: New empty file. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .x-sc_two_space_separator_in_usage. + +2006-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/cp.c (usage): Use two spaces (not one) to separate each + option string from its description, so help2man formats the + derived man page properly. + * src/mv.c (usage): Likewise. + Patch from Nicolas François in http://bugs.debian.org/351601. + +2006-02-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): cp -RL would fail when encountering + the same directory more than once in the hierarchy beneath a single + command-line argument. That is legitimate, e.g. when there are + two or more symbolic links, each pointing to some directory that + would not otherwise be copied. Reported by Christophe LYON. + * tests/cp/cp-deref: New file. Test for today's fix. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp-deref. + * NEWS: Document this. + +2006-02-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * configure.ac: Require automake-1.9.6, not 1.8.3. + +2006-02-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/od.c (usage): Mention that -t a ignores high order bit. + Documentation problem reported by Ed Avis. + +2006-02-01 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/pwd.c (find_dir_entry): Remove unused local, `ent_sb_valid'. + +2006-01-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/head.c (main): Use a better diagnostic when someone uses a + trailing numeric option in an invalid way. Problem reported by + Karl Berry. + * src/tail.c (parse_options): Likewise. + +2006-01-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * man/wc.x: Include `count' keyword in man page synopsis, + per suggestion from http://bugs.debian.org/181585. + +2006-01-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/df.c (show_dev): If the file system claims to have + more available than total blocks, report the number of used + blocks as being total - available (a negative number) rather + than as garbage. Problem reported by Toralf Foerster. + +2006-01-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/tail.c (tail_forever): Don't exit-nonzero when an attempt + to put a regular file in O_NONBLOCK mode fails with EPERM. + That happens on Linux (up to 2.6.15) when using tail -f on a file with + the append-only attribute. Reported by Dean Gaudet. For details, + see http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=15473. + * NEWS: Mention this fix. + * tests/tail-2/append-only: New file. Test for the above. + * tests/tail-2/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add append-only. + * tests/Makefile.am (check-root): Add tail-2/append-only + +2006-01-21 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention fts-related improvements and bug fixes. + +2006-01-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/fmt/basic (pfx-1, pfx-2): New tests, to demonstrate the bug + reported as http://bugs.debian.org/147577. Forwarded by Thomas Hood. + +2006-01-18 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add long-from-unreadable. + +2006-01-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Now that fts no longer changes the current working directory, adjust + its clients accordingly -- note that du.c uses fts but doesn't need + any adjustment, since it doesn't operate on the actual files, + but rather just uses the stat buffers provided by fts. + + * src/chown-core.c: Include "openat.h". + Don't include "lchown.h". + (restricted_chown): Accept a new parameter, CWD_FD, and use it in + calling openat, lchownat, chownat, rather than open, lchown, chown. + Update caller. + * src/chmod.c: Include "openat.h". + (process_file): Use chmodat (fts->fts_cwd_fd,... in place of chmod (... + + * tests/du/long-from-unreadable: New test, to exercise one small + corner of fts.c. + +2006-01-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add comments discouraging the + addition of new directories under tests/. + + * tests/acl: Redirect stdin to /dev/null. Otherwise, FreeBSD 5.0's + getfacl would hang. + +2006-01-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/du/long-sloop: Adjust not to hard-code the expected + diagnostic corresponding to ELOOP. Solaris' diagnostic differs + from that of GNU libc. Reported by Paul Eggert. + + * tests/du/long-sloop: Create file at end of symlink chain. + + * tests/misc/test: New file, with a test for one of the + bugs fixed by yesterday's test.c changes. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add test. + +2006-01-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/du/long-sloop: New file. Test for today's fts.c bug fix. + That bug could make du -L, chgrp -L, or chown -L fail to diagnose + a very long sequence of symbolic links (not necessarily a loop). + * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add long-sloop. + +2006-01-11 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/test.c (test_syntax_error): Append a newline. All callers + changed, except for the ones that didn't already append a newline. + Bug reported by Eric Blake. + +2006-01-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/system.h (X2NREALLOC): Now that verify_true is no longer + void, cast its result to void, to avoid gcc's warning that + ``left-hand operand of comma expression has no effect''. + (DECIMAL_DIGIT_ACCUMULATE, X2REALLOC): Likewise. + +2006-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/chmod/no-x: Add a test for today's fts.c fix. + +2006-01-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> (tiny change) + + * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Use DTTOIF only if it's defined. + This is necessary for Dragonfly. Patch by Joerg Sonnenberger. + +2006-01-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/system.h (X2NREALLOC, X2REALLOC, DECIMAL_DIGIT_ACCUMULATE): + Use verify_true instead of verify_expr, to sync with gnulib. + +2006-01-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/date.c (usage): Adjust the formatting of the entries for + %::z and %:::z (separate with two spaces, not one) so that help2man + formats them properly. Reported by Philip Rowlands. + +2006-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * configure.ac (gl_IGNORE_UNUSED_LIBRARIES): Add. + +2006-01-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (copyright-check): Use date +%Y in place of + hard-coded 2005. + + * src/remove.c (rm_1): Remove `static' attribute on local `status'. + First off, the attribute should have been `volatile' (not static) + to avoid longjmp-related risk of clobber. Secondly, now there is + no longer any risk of a local variable being clobbered, so there's + no need for any attribute at all. + +2006-01-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/remove.c: Give a few functions the inline attribute. + (AD_pop_and_chdir): Use gotos to avoid some duplication. + (AD_push): Rewrite an assertion so that the entire computation + goes away when assertions are turned off. + + * src/tail.c (ENOSYS) [!defined ENOSYS]: Don't define here. + It's already defined in "system.h". + * Makefile.maint: Add a FIXME comment. + +2006-01-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * ChangeLog: Remove entries from 2005-10-22 and earlier. + * ChangeLog-2005: New file, for entries up to version 5.92. + +2006-01-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/du/no-x: Also allow a slightly different diagnostic -- the + one you get when using openat-enabled fts.c and du (coming soon). + * tests/chmod/no-x: Likewise. + * tests/chgrp/no-x: Likewise. + + * src/system.h (O_DIRECTORY) [!defined O_DIRECTORY]: Define. + +2006-01-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/chown-core.c (RC_do_ordinary_chown): New enum value. + (restricted_chown): Return it, if the file cannot be accessed due + to EPERM, or if no uid or gid are required, or if the file is + neither a directory nor a regular file. Rewrite to avoid gotos. + (change_file_owner): Handle RC_do_ordinary_chown case. + Rewrite to avoid gotos. + * tests/chgrp/basic: Make sure we can change the group of + inaccessible files. + + * src/date.c (usage): Explain %g, %G, and %V a bit better. + +2006-01-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/copy.c (set_owner): Correct a comment. + + * src/tail.c (parse_options): Change warning to say that --retry + is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name. + Reported here: http://bugs.debian.org/273781 + +2006-01-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits. + * src/copy.c: Include lchmod.h. + (copy_internal): Use lchmod rather than chmod. + * src/cp.c: Include lchmod.h. + (re_protect, make_dir_parents_private): Use lchmod rather than chmod. + * src/mkdir.c: Include lchmod.h. + (usage): Clarify -m's operation. + (main): Use lchmod rather than chmod. Don't use lchmod unless the + new mode contains bits outside the 777 range. + * src/mkfifo.c (usage): Clarify -m's operation. + (main): If -m is given, don't invoke chmod; use umask 0 instead. + Report an error if -m asks for bits outside the 777 range. + * src/mknod.c (usage, main): Likewise. + + * src/mkdir.c, src/mkfifo.c, src/mknod.c: Undo 2005-12-19 changes. + +2005-12-27 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint (sc_obsolete_symbols): Prohibit use of O_NDELAY. + (sc_prohibit_assert_without_use): New rule. + (syntax-check-rules): Add it to the list. + * .x-sc_prohibit_assert_without_use: New empty file. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it. + + * Makefile.maint (CVS_LIST): Define in terms of $(srcdir). + + * cp.c, df.c, link.c, mknod.c, nice.c, sleep.c, unlink.c: + Don't include <assert.h>; it wasn't used. + +2005-12-26 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/chown-core.c (restricted_chown): + Don't try O_WRONLY unless O_RDONLY failed wth EACCES. + * src/remove.c (fd_to_subdirp): Open with O_DIRECTORY | O_NOCTTY + | O_NOFOLLOW too, for consistency with other dir-openers. + Use POSIX-preferred O_NONBLOCK rather than O_NDELAY. + (is_empty_dir): Likewise. + * src/shred.c (wipename): Likewise. Don't bother trying to open + dir for writing, since POSIX prohibits it. + +2005-12-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/help-version: Redirect stderr to /dev/full, to suppress + write error diagnostic. + +2005-12-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/mkdir.c, src/mknod.c, src/mkfifo.c (main) + Avoid a minor race condition when `-m MODE' is specified, by using + open, fchown, and close rather than just chown. To do that reliably -- + even with an overly restrictive umask -- ensure that each mkdir, + mknod and mkfifo call uses a mode including at least owner-read access. + * src/mknod.c (main): When `-m MODE' is specified, exit nonzero if + the subsequent chown (or equivalent open,fchown,close) fails. + * tests/misc/mknod: New tests. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add mknod. + +2005-12-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/remove.c (is_empty_dir): Open with O_NDELAY, so we don't hang, + e.g., on a named pipe. + (OPEN_NO_FOLLOW_SYMLINK): Remove definition. Use O_NOFOLLOW in + place of all uses, since it is guaranteed (system.h) to be defined. + +2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> + + Add POSIX ACL support + * src/ls.c: Switch back from HAVE_ACL to USE_ACL: The acl() syscall + is no requirement for ACL support; particularly, it does not exist + on systems that have POSIX ACLs. + * src/copy.h (cp_option_init) [umask_kill]: Remove member. + * src/cp.c (umask_kill): With default acls, the umask is not to be + applied. Remove umask_kill, don't change the process umask, and let + the kernel apply the umask where appropriate. + * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Fix logic for POSIX ACLs. + * src/copy.c (get_dest_mode): Remove; it is obsolete after removing + umask_kill. + (copy_reg, copy_internal): Use copy_acl and set_acl + instead of fchown/chown. Fix the logic for POSIX ACLs. + (chown_succeded): Remove; we now always copy acls and + preserve S_ISUID, S_ISGID, and S_ISVTX when needed, no matter if we + did a chown before or not. + * src/mv.c, src/install.c (cp_option_init): Don't set umask_kill member. + * src/Makefile.am (dir_LDADD, ls_LDADD, vdir_LDADD, cp_LDADD, + mv_LDADD, ginstall_LDADD): On systems with an ACL library, arrange + to link with it via $(LIB_ACL), for the utilities that need it. + +2005-12-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/remove.c (OPENAT_CWD_RESTORE__REQUIRE): Remove. + (OPENAT_CWD_RESTORE__ALLOW_FAILURE): Likewise. + (fd_to_subdirp): Remove openat_cwd_restore_allow_failure arg; its + value is now signified by whether cwd_errno is null. + (fd_to_subdirp, remove_dir, rm_1); Change cwd failure indicator from + pointer-to-bool to pointer-to-errno-value. All callers changed. + (rm_1): Don't bother setting a local cwd failure flag and then + ORing it into the caller's. Just set the caller's. + (rm): Use cwd failure errno value to print a slightly-better + diagnostic. + +2005-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/stat.c (print_it): Properly handle a backslash at the + end of a --printf format string. Reported by Paul Eggert. + * tests/misc/stat-printf (end-bs): Add a test for the above. + +2005-12-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/acl: Port to pre-POSIX shells like Solaris 8 /bin/sh. + Don't assume /etc/passwd contains user names; use 'id' instead. + +2005-12-15 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + stat: revert behavior of --format=FMT (-c) + stat: add new option: --printf=FMT + * NEWS: Mention this. + * src/stat.c (isodigit, octtobin, hextobin): Define. + (PRINTF_OPTION): Define. + (interpret_backslash_escapes, trailing_delim): New globals. + (usage): Document them. Alphabetize on long option names. + (print_esc_char): New function. + (print_it): Rewrite, in order to handle backslash escapes. + (main): Handle new option. Set globals for --format, too. + + * tests/misc/stat-printf: Test --printf and --format. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add stat-printf. + +2005-12-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: sort now reports incompatible options. + * src/sort.c (incompatible_options, check_ordering_compatibility): + New functions. + (main): Use them. Don't bother with a usage message for + "sort -c a b", for consistency with other error diagnostics. + * tests/sort/Test.pm (incompat1, incompat2, incompat3, incompat4): + New tests. + + * src/cat.c (main): Undo previous change. close_stdout already + does the check, so the previous change wasn't necessary. + +2005-12-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/cat.c (main): Check for close (STDOUT_FILENO) failure. + +2005-12-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + Install a more-conservative approach for sort -R. It's the + same basic idea as the existing code, except it uses the full ISAAC + approach (called the "more kosher" approach in the existing comments). + This makes "sort -R" quite a bit slower (about a factor of 2 on my + little tests involving 10000 lines on a 2.4 GHz P4), but I think it's + better to be conservative here at first, and review any performance + improvements carefully. + * .x-sc_require_config_h: Add src/rand-isaac.c. + * src/rand-isaac.h: Remove. All uses now simply include rand-isaac.c. + * src/Makefile.am (noinst_HEADERS): Remove rand-isaac.h. + (shred_SOURCES, sort_SOURCES): Remove. + (EXTRA_DIST): Add rand-isaac.c. + * src/rand-isaac.c: Revert to what used to be in shred.c, without + changing it to allow for varying numbers of words in the state. + Alter so that we include rand-isaac.c directly rather than + compiling it and linking to it. Don't include config.h or + system.h; that's the includer's responsibility. + Omit functions that are specific to shred. + (ISAAC_LOG, ISAAC_WORDS, ISAAC_BYTES, struct isaac_state, ind): + (isaac_step, struct irand_state): + Resurrect these, with the same defns that used to be in shred.c. + (ISAAC_SIZE, isaac_new, isaac_copy): Remove. + (isaac_refill, isaac_seed_start, isaac_seed_data, irand_init, irand32): + static again. + (struct isaac_state, isaac_refill, isaac_mix, isaac_init): + (isaac_seed_start, isaac_seed_data, isaac_seed_finish, isaac_seed): + (irand_init, irand32, irand_mod): + Number of words is constant again. + (struct irand_state, irand_init, irand32, irand_mod): Move to shred.c. + * src/shred.c: Include rand-isaac.c rather than rand-isaac.h. + * src/sort.c: Likewise. + * src/shred.c (fillrand, dopass, main): Undo previous change. + (struct irand_state, irand_init, irand32, irand_mod): Moved back here, + from rand-isaac.c. + * src/sort.c: Don't include md5.h; it wasn't needed. + (struct keyfield): Rename random_hash to random, for consistency + with the other member names. All uses changed. + (usage): Tweak wording to mention STRING for --seed option. + (short_options): Rorder for consistency with other programs. + (rand_state): Now a struct, not a pointer to one. All uses changed. + (HASH_WORDS, HASH_SIZE): Remove. + (get_hash): Remove comments around resbuf size, since we can assume C89. + Use a "more-kosher" (but slower) approach of invoking isaac_refill. + (keycompare): Adjust to the new get_hash. + Add a FIXME. + (badfieldspec): Omit recently-introduced comment; it isn't needed. + (main): Don't set need_random simply because gkey has it set; that + doesn't necessarily mean we'll need random numbers. + Redo seeding to match new get_hash approach. + +2005-12-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/Makefile.am (noinst_HEADERS): Add rand-isaac.h. + + Avoid shred segfault on 64-bit systems. + * src/rand-isaac.c (isaac_refill): Don't try to negate a + local of type uint32_t. Make the local an `int' instead. + + * NEWS: Mention sort's new options. + + * src/rand-isaac.c (isaac_mix): Declare to be static. + Mark all other functions as `extern' so the tight-scope + part of `make distcheck' passes once again. + * src/rand-isaac.h (isaac_mix): Remove declaration. + + * src/sort.c (get_hash): Change position of `*' in parameter + type to conform with convention. + (main): Split a long line so it fits in 80 columns. + (keycompare): Remove stray SPACE before TAB that was + causing `make distcheck' to fail. + + * src/shred.c: Don't include gethrxtime.h. No longer needed. + + * tests/misc/sort-rand: New file: basic tests for the new options. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add sort-rand. + +2005-12-10 Frederik Eaton <frederik@ofb.net> + + * src/Makefile.am (sort_LDADD): Add $(LIB_GETHRXTIME). + (shred_SOURCES, sort_SOURCES): New macros, so we compile rand-isaac.c. + * src/rand-isaac.c: New file, containing ISAAC code that was in shred.c. + Make state size runtime-configurable. + (isaac_new, isaac_copy): New functions. + * src/rand-isaac.h: New file. + * src/shred.c: Include rand-isaac.h. Move ISAAC code to rand-isaac.c. + (fillrand, main): Adjust to the fact that the state size is now + runtime-configurable. + * src/sort.c (short_options, long_options, WORDS, keycompare, main): + (usage): Add options --random-sort and --seed to implement a random + shuffle. + Include md5.h and rand-isaac.h. + (get_hash): New function. + (rand_state): New var. + (HASH_WORDS, HASH_SIZE): New macros. + +2005-12-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/dd/misc: Add test for dd iflags=noatime. + +2005-12-09 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/sort.c (usage): Mention white space vs -b and -t options. + From The Wanderer. + +2005-12-09 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * src/test.c (main): Fix misleading comment. + +2005-12-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Mention dd's new noatime flag. + * src/system.h (O_NOATIME): Define to 0 if not already defined. + * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Add support for noatime flag. + +2005-12-07 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Distribute the cvsu script, used only by `make syntax-check'. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add build-aux/cvsu. + * Makefile.maint (CVS_LIST): Use build-aux/cvsu, now that we + distribute a copy of this script. + * .x-sc_unmarked_diagnostics: Add build-aux/cvsu. + + * tests/mv/acl: exit-77 before the trap, not after, if we fail + to create a temporary directory on another partition. + From Andreas Gruenbacher. + +2005-12-06 Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch> (tiny change) + + * man/basename.x: Cross-reference to dirname and readlink. + * man/dirname.x: Cross-reference to basename and readlink. + +2005-12-05 Andreas Gruenbacher + + * src/copy.c [!HAVE_FCHOWN]: Define fchown(...) to -1. + (set_owner, preserve_author): New functions, factored out of copy_reg. + (copy_reg): Use them. + (copy_internal): Use them here, too. + +2005-12-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/sleep.c (usage): Say what happens with two or more arguments. + Suggested by Justin Pryzby. + + * src/uptime.c (print_uptime): Move decl of `upsecs' into scope + where it's used. + +2005-12-03 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/rm.c (long_opts): Change the name of each undocumented, for- + testing-only option to start with `-', so that it cannot render + ambiguous any prefix it happens to share with some other option name. + Problem reported by Eric Blake. + * src/head.c (long_options): Likewise. + * src/tail.c (long_options): Likewise. + + * tests/misc/head-elide-tail: Update uses of undocumented, for- + testing-only --presume* options to start with `---'. + * tests/rm/dangling-symlink: Likewise. + * tests/rm/dir-no-w: Likewise. + * tests/rm/isatty: Likewise. + +2005-11-30 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * Makefile.maint: Add a comment about cvsu. + +2005-11-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: df updates for "none", "proc", inaccessible file systems. + * src/df.c (show_point): Ignore inaccessible file systems. + (usage): -a includes dummy file systems, not size-0 file systems. + + * src/od.c (unsigned_long_long_int): Renamed from ulonglong_t, + to avoid collision with POSIX name space. All uses changed. + +2005-11-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add acl to the list. + * tests/acl: Add `$0: ' prefix to diagnostics. + + * .x-sc_require_config_h: Add lib/buffer-lcm.c to the list. + +2005-11-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/copy.c: Improve performance a bit by optimizing away + unnecessary system calls and going to a block size of at least + 8192 (on normal hosts, anyway). This improved performance 5% on my + Debian stable host (2.4.27 kernel, x86, copying from root + ext3 file system to itself). + Include "buffer-lcm.h". + (copy_reg): Omit last argument. All callers changed. + Use xmalloc to allocate rather than trusting alloca + (which is unwise with large block sizes). + Declare locals more locally, if possible. + Use uintptr_t words instead of int words, for a bit more speed + when looking for null blocks on 64-bit hosts. + Optimize away reads of zero bytes on regular files. + In the typical case, insist on 8 KiB buffers, at least. + Avoid unnecessary extra call to fstat when checking for sparse files. + Avoid now-unnecessary cast to off_t, and "0L". + Avoid unnecessary test of *new_dst when checking for same owner + and group. + +2005-11-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/remove.c (rm): Don't assume C99 for-loop syntax. + +2005-11-22 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/remove.c (AD_push): Remove debugging cruft. + + * tests/rm/unread2 (rm): Change expected diagnostic, + `cannot open directory' to `cannot remove', to align with + new version of rm. + * tests/rm/rm2: Ensure that rm now continues removing entries + even after certain types of failure. + + * src/remove.c: Rewrite. Now, this module is reentrant on systems + that provide openat (Solaris), and on systems like Linux+procfs + where our openat emulation code is reentrant. This also fixes a + few low-probability leaks and eliminates some code that could, + in very unusual circumstances, cause rm() (via a callee) to exit. + * NEWS: Mention this. + + * configure.ac: Put copyright dates all on one line so the + emacs function that updates them works properly. + +2005-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * configure.ac (AM_PROG_CC_C_O): Add. Needed for CVS Automake. + Problem reported by Eric Blake. + (AC_PROG_CC_STDC): Use this instead of AC_PROG_CC, so that + we get a standard-conforming compiler. This relies on the new + m4/c.m4 file. Note that it's a bit tricky, since c.m4 doesn't + define AC_PROG_CC_STDC; we are relying on Autoconf 2.59 internals. + m4/c.m4 can go away with Autoconf 2.60 comes out. + +2005-11-17 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/remove.c (AD_mark_helper): Make a `char *' parameter `const'. + (AD_mark_current_as_unremovable): Likewise, but for a local. + (rm_1): Likewise. + + * tests/mv/acl: Let traps handle removing temporary directories. + + Expect acl-related tests to fail, until the corresponding + patches are committed. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Add acl. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (XFAIL_TESTS): Likewise. + + ACL tests, from Andreas Gruenbacher. + * tests/acl, tests/mv/acl, tests/cp/acl: New files. + * tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add acl. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add acl. + + * src/ls.c (basename_is_dot_or_dotdot): Correct wording in comment. + +2005-11-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Improve quality of ln's diagnostics. + * src/ln.c (do_link, usage): Likewise. + (do_link): Don't use alloca on a buffer of unbounded size. + +2005-11-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/cp/fail-perm: Accommodate HPUX. It appears to fail + with EACCES rather than EPERM. Reported by Peter O'Gorman here: + http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/5766 + This also affects AIX 4.3.3, according to Ralf Wildenhues, in + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00192.html + +2005-11-14 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS (sort): Mention consequences of today's mkstemp-safer.c fix. + +2005-11-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * announce-gen: Accept new option, --gpg-key-id=ID and + emit a blurb telling how to use the .sig files. + * Makefile.cfg (gpg_key_ID): Define. + * Makefile.maint (announcement): Use new option and key. + + Require that most .c files include <config.h>. + * Makefile.maint (sc_require_config_h): New rule. + (syntax-check-rules): Add it. + * .x-sc_require_config_h: New file listing exceptions to the + above rule. Some are legit, others are simply grandfathered in. + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add .x-sc_require_config_h here, too. + +2005-11-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/checksum.h, src/md5.c, src/sha1sum.c: Remove now-unused files. + +2005-11-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Mention `readlink -f' bug fix in 5.3.0 news. + Mention new readlink options in 5.3.0's `New features' section. + Spotted by Thomas Hood. + +2005-11-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * NEWS: Merge in changes from b5_9x branch. + +2005-11-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: ls now defaults to --time-style='locale', which in turn acts + like --time-style='posix-long-iso' if the locale settings are messed up. + * src/ls.c (decode_switches): Implement this. + +2005-11-08 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/du/2g: s/expensive/very expensive/ in a comment. + From Paul Townsend. + +2005-10-17 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * src/ls.c (usage): Fix descriptions of --sort, --time. + Reported by Vitaly A. Ostanin. + +2005-11-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/ln.c: Include filenamecat.c. + (FILE_BASENAME_CONCAT): Remove. + (do_link): Remove last arg DEST_IS_DIR. All callers changed. + (main): Use file_name_concat, base_name, and strip_trailing_slashes + instead of FILE_BASENAME_CONCAT. This simplifies the code, and avoids + the use of alloca. + +2005-11-04 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/du.c (process_file): Don't overflow for files of size >= 2^31 + on systems with stat.st_blocks of a signed 32-bit type. + This bug causes trouble on some AIX 5.1 systems. + Report and trivial patch from Paul Townsend: + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00033.html> + * NEWS: Mention this. + + * tests/du/2g: New (very-expensive) test for the above-fixed bug. + * tests/du/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it here. + * tests/very-expensive: New file. + * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it here. + * tests/cp/perm: Mark this test as `very-expensive', too. + +2005-11-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: Mention that rm -d and maybe ln -d are scheduled for + removal in 2006. + * src/remove.h (struct rm_options): Remove unlink_dirs. All uses + removed. + * src/rm.c (usage): Don't mention rm -d. + +2005-11-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/dd/skip-seek: Fix typo in comment: s/fileutils/coreutils. + From Andreas Schwab. + + * tests/dd/unblock-sync: Redirect stderr to /dev/null so the + `M+N records in/out' lines don't pollute `make check' output. + + * tests/dd/skip-seek (sk-seek4): New test, to exercise the bug + fixed on 2005-10-31. This test uses the new, IN_PIPE specifier. + * tests/Coreutils.pm: Accept a new type of input specifier: IN_PIPE, + to indicate that the input file should be piped into the command + under test (via `cat FILE | $prog ...'). + + * src/remove.c (remove_entry): Emit a better diagnostic when rm + (without -r) fails to remove a directory on a non-Linux system. + This change affects only newer Solaris systems (with priv_* + functions like priv_allocset). Reported by Keith Thompson. + + * tests/rm/dir-nonrecur: New file/test for the above fix. + * tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add dir-nonrecur. + +2005-11-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * NEWS: "tail -c 2 FILE" and "touch 0101000000" now operate as + POSIX 1002.1-2001 requires. + * src/tail.c (parse_obsolete_option): Implement this. + Problem reported by Vincent Lefevre. + * src/touch.c (main): Pass PDS_PRE_2000 to posixtime. + * tests/tail/Test.pm (c-2, c-2-minus, c2, c2-minus): New tests. + (test_vector): Add special cases for _POSIX2_VERSION, and + regularize the old ones a bit. + * tests/touch/obsolescent: Add y2000 test. + +2005-10-31 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/dd.c (skip): Fix off-by-one error reported by + Theodoros V. Kalamatianos. + +2005-10-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * tests/mkdir/p-3: Require that the test be run as non-root. + Problem and trivial fix reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos. + +2005-10-28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * src/ln.c (FILE_BASENAME_CONCAT): Omit unnecessary slashes in the + boundary between DEST and SOURCE in the result. + +2005-10-26 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> + + * src/md5sum.c (main) [!O_BINARY]: Changed default read mode + back to text, to sync with documentation and for backwards + compatibility. + +2005-10-25 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/dircolors/simple (other-wr): Add an explicit test for + the dircolors bug (NULL-dereference) fixed yesterday. + +2005-10-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/tac.c (tac_file): When determining whether a file is seekable, + also test whether it is a tty. Using only the lseek-based test would + give a false positive on Solaris. Reported by Peter Fales. + +2005-10-24 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> + + * tests/install/d-slashdot: New test, for "install -d" failure. + * tests/install/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add d-slashdot. + * tests/mkdir/p-slashdot: New test, for "mkdir -p" failure. + * tests/mkdir/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add p-slashdot. + +2005-10-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/dircolors.c (ls_codes): Add missing comma. + Anonymous report and patch from + http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=14849 + + * src/dircolors.c: Add compile-time assertion that the slack_codes + and ls_codes arrays have the same number of elements. This would + have prevented the above-fixed bug. + + * src/expand.c (parse_tab_stops): Add a comment to make this function + identical to the one in unexpand.c. + * src/unexpand.c (parse_tab_stops): Adjust syntax to make this function + identical to the one in expand.c. + + * src/expand.c (next_file): Don't assume fopen cannot return stdin. + +2005-10-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * src/md5sum.c (digest_check, main): Use ptr_align rather than + a dangerous pointer-value-to-`unsigned' cast. + * NEWS: mention the new sha* programs. + * AUTHORS: Add new sha* programs. + +2005-08-28 David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr> + + Add new programs: sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum. + * README: Add their names to the list. + * src/md5sum.c: Provide framework for computing sha-2 hashes. + * src/Makefile.am (sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum, sha512sum): + Rules for compiling sha-2 utilities + (noinst_HEADERS): Remove checksum.h. + * man/sha512sum.x, man/sha384sum.x, man/sha256sum.x, man/sha224sum.x: + New files. + * man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Add the corresponding .1 names. + (sha224sum.1, sha256sum.1, sha384sum.1, sha512sum.1): New dependencies. + * tests/misc/sha224sum, tests/misc/sha256sum: New files. + * tests/misc/sha384sum, tests/misc/sha512sum: New files. + * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add new sha224sum, sha256sum, + sha384sum, sha512sum test scripts here rather that each in its + own directory. + +2005-08-28 David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr> + + * tests/sha1sum/basic-1 (million-a): Add the "million a's" test (one + of the FIPS test vectors). + +2005-10-23 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * configure.ac: Use 6.0-cvs as the version string. + * NEWS: Adjust accordingly. + + + ----- + + Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Copying and distribution of this file, with or without + modification, are permitted provided the copyright notice + and this notice are preserved. |