--- - branch: MAIN date: Wed May 9 08:41:19 UTC 2018 files: - new: '1.18' old: '1.17' path: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/Makefile.common pathrev: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/Makefile.common@1.18 type: modified - new: '1.35' old: '1.34' path: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/distinfo pathrev: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/distinfo@1.35 type: modified - new: '0' old: '1.3' path: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/patches/patch-lib-fflush.c pathrev: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/patches/patch-lib-fflush.c@0 type: deleted - new: '1.1' old: '0' path: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/patches/patch-lib_fflush.c pathrev: pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils/patches/patch-lib_fflush.c@1.1 type: added id: 20180509T084119Z.d792b04a5f4dce2ab09b16044d3b518b8c50ffa9 log: | Update to 8.29 Upstream changes: 2017-12-27 Pádraig Brady
version 8.29 * NEWS: Record release date. 2017-12-23 Pádraig Brady
tests: avoid false failure on AIX 7.2 * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Close stdout in a subshell to ensure the current shell isn't impacted. Subsequent piped commands like `echo foo | blah` were seen to fail due to the previous closing of stdout. Reported by Assaf Gordon. doc: describe recent build checks for 32 bit time_t * README: Document the new handling of 32 bit time_t, with examples of how to build in 64 bit mode on AIX. Also mention that GNU make is desired on AIX due to its mishandling of the "[" target. Suggested by Assaf Gordon. 2017-12-21 Pádraig Brady
tests: fix recent portability issues on solaris 10 * tests/misc/ptx.pl: Escape the '^' character which is otherwise considered as a line continuation character. * tests/misc/shred-remove.sh: sed doesn't support \n. maint: remove reference to excluded changelog item * build-aux/git-log-fix: Remove old entry. 2017-12-20 Pádraig Brady
maint: add doc/coverage to .gitignore
* .gitignore: Ignore the generated coverage report.
doc: remove older ChangeLog items
* Makefile.am: Update the oldest documented version
to 8.20 which is now about 5 years old.
2017-12-18 Bernhard Voelker
tests: fix recent regressions with dash
* tests/misc/timeout.sh: dash outputs the "Killed"
message to stderr rather than the terminal.
* tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh: dash doesn't yet
support the POSIX proposed $'...' shell quoting syntax.
build: avoid a signed overflow warning in ptx
* src/ptx.c (fix_output_parameters): GCC 6.3.1 with
./configure --enable-single-binary would give:
error: assuming signed overflow does not occur
when simplifying conditional to constant [-Werror=strict-overflow]
if (file_index > 0)
So change the type of file_index to signed (size_t).
2017-12-11 Bernhard Voelker
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
* gnulib: Update with various build/test fixes.
tests: fix false failure in new dd/nocache_eof test
* test/dd/nocache_eof.sh: Also handle fadvise64_64 which is
used on 32 bit x86. Note strace internally maps fadvise64_64
to {arm,xtensa}_fadvise64_64.
tail: fix tailing non seekable files on certain systems
* src/tail.c (tail_bytes): On systems were blksize_t is unsigned
and the same size or wider than off_t (android for example),
our initialized (off_t) -1 would be promoted to unsigned before
comparison, and thus fail to follow the appropriate path.
* tests/tail-2/tail-c.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
This issue was introduced in commit v8.23-47-g2662702
Reported at https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/233
build: avoid build failure without sys/mtio.h
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Check for the header.
* src/dd.c: Avoid the workaround where the header
is not available (on non glibc systems).
* src/shred.c: Likewise.
doc: reorganize ls -k and --time-style help
* src/ls.c (usage): Clarify -k only applies to -s usage
and directory 'total' lines. Move the description
of TIME_STYLE out of the option section as it was awkward
to read and write there within 80 columns.
2017-12-10 Pádraig Brady
doc: clarify numeric setuid handling in chmod man page
* man/chmod.x: Update the information to state one can
clear the setuid and setgid bits for directories numerically
using an additional leading '0' or a leading '='.
That has been supported since v8.15-64-g8931cdb.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29390
doc: shred: change 'truncate' to the more descriptive 'deallocate'
* doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation): s/truncate/deallocate/.
* src/shred.c (usage): Likewise.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29317
doc: clarify that cp --force may recreate files
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): The language used
to describe recreating the file was a little confusing
as it mentioned opening a removed file.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29315
2017-12-04 Kamil Dudka
tests: verify usage vs. getopt
Verify that all options mentioned in usage are actually recognized
by the program.
* tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh: Add test.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Reference it.
2017-11-29 Pádraig Brady
readlink: remove superfluous comma from usage output
* src/readlink.c (usage): Remove ',' after --quiet option.
2017-11-29 Bernhard Voelker
test: fix issues with tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh
* tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh: This was the only use of awk,
which may not be available on the system resulting
in an ineffective test. Also the permissions bits for
directories were not being checked at all.
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
* gnulib: Update with various build/test fixes.
2017-11-28 Pádraig Brady
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
* gnulib: Update including various build fixes.
2017-11-27 Bernhard Voelker
dd: support iflag=direct with arbitrary sized files
* src/dd.c (iread): Handle read error with a non-aligned
file offset in the O_DIRECT case. This is not an issue
on XFS at least, but on EXT4 the final read will return
EINVAL rather than the expected 0 to indicate EOF.
* tests/dd/direct.sh: Test the iflag=direct case also.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
2017-11-24 Pádraig Brady
timeout: add --verbose to diagnose timeouts
This is useful as handling in shell is complicated
with the varying exit status in the --kill-after case.
* src/timeout.c (main): Handle '-v' and store
COMMAND for the diagnostic.
(cleanup): Diagnose the signal name before sending.
(usage): Document -v, --verbose.
* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Likewise.
* tests/misc/timeout.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/21760
2017-11-19 Pádraig Brady
tail: seek to the end of block devices
* src/tail.c (tail_bytes): Try lseek(..., SEEK_END) when
we can't determine the file size.
* tests/tail-2/end-of-device.sh: Add a new root only test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Paul Eggert suggested using lseek() (rather than ioctl(BLKGETSIZE64)).
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29259
2017-11-14 Bernhard Voelker
maint: ensure https:// URLs are used in --help and man pages
* configure.ac(AC_INIT): Specify the URL explicitly, so we're
not dependent on unreleased autoconf.
2017-10-31 Assaf Gordon
df: fix hang with fifo argument
* src/df.c (main): stat() before open(), and avoid
the optional open when given a fifo argument.
* tests/df/unreadable.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29038
2017-10-28 Jim Meyering
tests: avoid false failure when O_DIRECT isn't supported
* tests/dd/nocache_eof.sh: Only run the O_DIRECT tests
when 512 byte alignment is supported. Otherwise with older
XFS on systems with > 1MiB pages, or on file systems not
supporting O_DIRECT, there would have been false failures.
* tests/dd/direct.sh: Clarify the skip message.
2017-10-25 Pádraig Brady
dd: fix nocache regions passed to posix_fadvise()
Previously with oflag=direct the call to invalidate_cache()
was not passed to the kernel, as it was less than a page size,
and a subsequent call was not made to invalidate the pending space.
Similarly with oflag=nocache the pending space at EOF was
not invalidated. Even though these amount to only a single page
in the page cache it can be significant. For example on
XFS before kernel patch v4.9-rc1-4-g0ee7a3f, O_DIRECT files
would have been read inefficiently if any pages were cached,
even if they were already synced to storage.
* src/dd.c (i_nocache_eof, o_nocache_eof): New bools used
to control when we want invalidate_cache(,0) to clear to EOF.
(cache_round): Use IO_BUFSIZE (currently 132KiB) to minimize
calls to the relatively expensive advise function, rather
than page_size. This also makes it clear that while the
kernel function operates on pages, this size is chosen for
performance reasons.
(invalidate_cache): Refactor to share more code between
input and output paths. Use i_nocache_eof and o_nocache_eof
rather than proxying off max_records. Ensure we
invalidate full pages when clearing to EOF as the kernel
will ignore any non complete pages. Fix the offset used
for the output path.
(dd_copy): Invalidate the cache of the input after the
offset is updated, for consistency and so we don't try to
invalidate before the start of the file. When we read
EOF on input, set flags so that we invalidate to EOF.
(main): Invalidate to EOF in more cases, by depending
on the i_nocache_eof and o_nocache_eof flags.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Clarify the alignment
and persisted caveats on the example applying "nocache"
to part of a file.
* tests/dd/nocache_eof.sh: A new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Issue reported by Eric Bergen.
2017-10-24 Michael Stone
maint: apply suggested cleanup to recent stty.c change
This should have been part of commit v8.28-17-gf926f7c
* src/stty.c (check_argument): Align line continuation chars,
and ensure the function macro is immune to usage with if/else.
Suggested by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
b2sum: fix crash with --check and truncated input
* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Ensure we don't walk off
the end of the string.
* tests/misc/b2sum.sh: Add test cases.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28860
2017-10-24 Pádraig Brady
stty: fix processing of options when -F is specified
This was a latent issue that became significant with
the addition of the -F option in FILEUTILS-3_16n-56-ge46a424
* src/stty.c (apply_settings): Refactor argument checking
to a function macro. Augment the argument check to ignore
NULLed out arguments (already processed -F).
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* tests/misc/stty-invalid.sh: Add a test case.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28859
2017-10-24 Pádraig Brady
timeout: fix a small race that would ignore command exit
This fixes a regression from commit v8.26-39-g2f69dba
* src/timeout.c (block_cleanup_and_chld): Rename from block_cleanup
to indicate we also block SIGCHLD to avoid the race where SIGCHLD
fires between waitpid() polling and sigsuspend() waiting for a signal.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
2017-10-24 Thomas Jarosch
build: reinstate distribution of man pages
man pages change little between systems,
so falling back to distributed pages make sense
when cross compiling or lacking perl.
* man/local.mk: Add all man pages to EXTRA_DIST
so that they're distributed in the generated tarball.
Use the dummy-man page generator if cross compiling.
Set TZ to avoid a distcheck failure where man pages
used a diffent month than those rebuilt (with a .timestamp).
* man/dummy-man: Only fall back to generating a stub
if copying an existing man page fails.
* man/help2man: Sync portable TZ=UTC0 specification
from upstream help2man.
* NEWS: Mention the build-related change.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28574
2017-10-02 Pádraig Brady
maint: remove a duplicate entry from THANKS
* .mailmap: Prefer Colin Watson's last used email address.
2017-09-25 Paul Eggert
tests: fix test hang on case insenitive file systems
* tests/split/filter.sh: Due to an invalid 'FILE = zero.in'
construct trying to initialize a FILE variable, it would
instead try to run the FILE command which is present on
macOS 10.13 with APFS.
We also remove a redundant duplicate test clause introduced
during a rebase, and simplify the piped timeout command,
to avoid requiring a subshell and associated quoting.
* THANKS.in: Add the reporter Jack Howarth.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28506
2017-09-21 Pádraig Brady
tests: avoid a false failure in expr test with UTF8
* tests/misc/expr.pl: Skip the quote varying tests in
the multi-byte locales as these tests aren't that interesting
in those locales. Also ERR_SUBST is already defined for
some tests so awkward to redefine to munge UTF8 quotes to ASCII.
2017-09-20 Assaf Gordon
maint: fix new syntax-check failures from HTTPS adjustments
* cfg.mk [old_NEWS_hash]: update with `make update-NEWS-hash`.
[sc_long_lines]: Avoid flagging (long) URLs in NEWS.
* src/sort.c: Tweak to a shorter line.
* src/tail.c: Likewise.
Introduced in v8.28-4-gbe87d61
maint: fix new syntax check failures from copy restrictions
* doc/coreutils.texi: Remove doubled word.
* src/targetdir.c: Explicitly mark exported function.
* tests/local.mk: This is not a root only test.
* tests/mv/vulnerable-target.sh: Use returns_.
Introduced in v8.28-3-g44ccd1c
shred: reinstate --remove file name length obfuscation
This was unintentionally removed in v8.27-60-g2ae1460
* src/shred.c (wipename): Interate through all name lengths.
* tests/misc/shred-remove.sh: Add test cases.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28507
2017-09-19 Paul Eggert
maint: post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
version 8.28
* NEWS: Record release date.
2017-09-01 Pádraig Brady
tests: fix false failure in recent ls --hyperlink test
* tests/ls/hyperlink.sh: If the hostname or any part of
the absolute path would be changed due to URL encoding,
the test would fail. Therefore simplify to remove
these components of the URL from consideration.
maint: avoid a syntax-check failure
* .gitignore: Remove lines indicated by sc_gitignore_redundant
in a freshly checked out repo.
2017-08-31 Pádraig Brady
tests: exclude the expensive gnulib fts-tests
* gnulib: The only change in this gnulib update
is the tagging of the fts-tests module as longrunning,
which gnulib-tool currently implicitly excludes.
This test was seen to take about 20s and 285MB.
Reported by Assaf Gordon on space restricted VMs.
tty: don't distinguish input errors
* src/tty.c (main): Don't distinguish ENOTTY from other errors,
because isatty() doesn't portably distinguish errors.
Solaris returns ENOENT for all input errors for example.
Musl also returns ENOENT, and ENODEV may be returned as disscussed at:
http://openwall.com/lists/musl/2017/04/06/6
* tests/misc/tty.sh: Adjust accordingly.
tests: avoid printf '0*d' construct unsupported by ash
* tests/ln/sf-1.sh: Generate specific length with space padding
which is supported.
Reported by Assaf Gordon on Alpine Linux.
2017-08-31 Pádraig Brady
tests: skip tests upon failure to set SELinux context
On some setups the root:object_r:tmp_t context is invalid.
This does indicate a limitation in the test framework,
but for now we'll relax this to skipping the tests.
The tests still run on a Fedora 25 system for example.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh: Upon chcon error, skip rather than ERROR.
* tests/install/install-Z-selinux.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/chcon.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/runcon-no-reorder.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/selinux.sh: Likewise.
* tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh: Likewise.
2017-08-30 Kamil Dudka
build: fix build of renameat2 on Alpine Linux
* gnulib: The only change included in this update
it the added check for the presence of
runcon: revert "disable use of the TIOCSTI ioctl"
This reverts commit v8.27-97-g8cb06d4 because
the setsid() fallback was not implemented correctly
and disabling the ioctl was not a complete solution
to the security issue of the child being passed
the tty of the parent.
Given runcon is not really a sandbox command,
the advice is to use `runcon ... setsid ...`
to avoid this particular issue.
2017-08-30 Pádraig Brady
stat: fix determination of max name length on BSD systems
We only use one of statfs or statvfs for `stat -f`
and on the BSDs we use statfs which doesn't have the
f_namelen member. However on OpenBSD and later FreeBSD
systems statfs does provide f_namemax, so use that.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement for OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
* m4/stat-prog.m4: Check for f_namemax in the statfs struct.
* src/stat.c: Return '?' rather than '*' when we can't
determine the max length of the file system.
* tests/ln/sf-1.sh: This test was failing on all BSDs
due to '*' being returned for the max length which
caused the test to attempt to create 1Mi+1 names.
The test now uses a short name when we can't determine
the max name length to use.
Reported by Assaf Gordon on various BSD based systems.
2017-08-29 Pádraig Brady
stat,tail: support "AAFS" AppArmor file system
* src/stat.c (human_fstype): This file system is used
to manage AppArmor policy in the Linux kernel.
all: update gnulib submodule to latest
* bootstrap: Sync timestamp update.
2017-08-29 Pádraig Brady
runcon: disable use of the TIOCSTI ioctl
Similar to the issue with SELinux sandbox (CVE-2016-7545),
children of runcon can inject arbitrary input to the terminal
that would be run at the originating terminal privileges.
The new libseccomp dependency is widely available and used
on modern SELinux systems, but is not available by default
on older systems like RHEL6 etc.
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Check for libseccomp and
warn if unavailable on selinux supporting systems.
* src/local.mk: Link runcon with -lseccomp.
* src/runcon.c (disable_tty_inject): A new function to
disable use of the TIOCSTI using libseccomp, or with setsid()
where libseccomp is unavailable.
* tests/misc/runcon-no-inject.sh: A new test that uses
python to make the TIOCSTI call, and ensure that doesn't succeed.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Addresses http://bugs.gnu.org/24541
2017-08-29 Pádraig Brady
ls: support --hyperlink to output file:// URIs
Terminals such as iTerm2 and VTE based terminals
(as of version 0.49.1), support hyperlinks when
passed terminals codes as described at:
https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Allocate an absolute file name to output.
(quote_name): Output the absolute name with the appropriate codes.
(file_escape): A new function to encode file names as per rfc8089.
(main): Handle the new option and call the file_escape_init() helper.
Disable --dired when --hyperlink is specified.
(print_dir): Get the absolute file name here too, so that the
directory name can be linkified.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* tests/ls/hyperlink.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Describe --hyperlink.
2017-08-29 Pádraig Brady
doc: remove older ChangeLog items
This saves about 0.5MB uncompressed from the tarball.
* Makefile.am: Following on from v8.26-34-g2c64bc8
update the oldest documented version to 8.18 which
is now about 5 years old. Also remove older ChangeLogs
that were previously thought to be for changes not
in the git history, but are adequately recorded upon review.
* build-aux/ChangeLog-2007: Remove file.
* lib/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* m4/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
2017-08-29 Colin Watson
tests: don't fail tests when failing to write files
* tests/sample-test: Use framework_error_ rather than fail=1
* tests/chown/deref.sh: Likewise.
* tests/chown/preserve-root.sh: Likewise.
* tests/cp/src-base-dot.sh: Likewise.
* tests/dd/unblock-sync.sh: Likewise.
* tests/du/2g.sh: Likewise.
* tests/du/inacc-dest.sh: Likewise.
* tests/du/one-file-system.sh: Likewise.
* tests/fmt/goal-option.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ln/hard-backup.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ls/color-dtype-dir.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ls/m-option.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ls/stat-dtype.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ls/time-style-diag.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ls/x-option.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/chcon.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/nohup.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/od-N.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sort-compress.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/tac-continue.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/time-style.sh: Likewise.
* tests/mv/backup-dir.sh: Likewise.
* tests/mv/dir2dir.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/dir-no-w.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/dir-nonrecur.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/inaccessible.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/interactive-always.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/interactive-once.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/rm3.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/v-slash.sh: Likewise.
* tests/touch/relative.sh: Likewise.
2017-08-29 Josef Cejka
ls: consistently quote symlink targets
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Disable the optimization to avoid quoting
if the symlink target itself needs quoting. This was introduced
with the quoting alignment adjustments in v8.25-106-g01971c0
* tests/ls/symlink-quote.sh: Add a test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
2017-08-25 Pádraig Brady
tail: reinstate inotify use with FIFOs
commit v8.27-44-g18f6b22 was too aggressive in
only allowing inotify use with regular files. This will
support responsive processing of `tail -f fifo | ...`
* src/tail.c (any_non_regular): Adjust to allow FIFOs
since inotify supports these well.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-only-regular.sh: Adjust comment.
2017-08-19 Pádraig Brady
maint: avoid a syntax check failure
* src/sort.c: Don't include stdio--.h as fopen() is no longer used.
tests: fix issues on alpine linux
* tests/misc/seq-epipe.sh: Remove stale comment.
* tests/misc/sort-debug-warn.sh: musl doesn't indicate a set_locale()
failure with missing locales, so avoid a test portion in that case.
* tests/misc/wc-files0.sh: Avoid a bug on older ash implementations.
Addresses http://bugs.gnu.org/28054
2017-08-17 Paul Eggert
kill: fix signal number to name lookup on AIX
* src/operand2sig.c (operand2sig): AIX uses a different bit pattern
in the returned status from the wait() functions and from shells.
Therefore hardcode the selection of the lower bits of the number.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
build: use the appropriate single file include option with xlc
* configure.ac: Set USE_XLC_INCLUDE when __xlc__ is defined.
* src/local.mk: Use it to select the appropriate include option.
Reported by Michael Felt.
tests: avoid false failures on AIX
* tests/ln/sf-1.sh: Limit the symlink size to 1MiB
to avoid memory exhaustion seen on NFS on AIX, giving:
+ printf '%0*d' 4294967296 0
+ ./tests/ln/sf-1.sh: line 38: printf: warning: 0: Result too large
* tests/id/setgid.sh: Skip the test when the adjusted gid
would equal 4294967295, as that's reserved on AIX.
Reported by Michael Felt.
sort: handle musl locale differences in --debug reporting
* src/sort.c (main): Don't assume hard_LC_COLLATE implies
a successful setting of the locale as musl defaults to
UTF8 when failing to set the specified locale.
* tests/misc/sort-debug-warn.sh: Adjust for the now
separated locale debug info and map the musl specific
message back to the common case.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/28054
seq: produce consistent error messages upon write error
* src/seq.c (io_error): Use the same error message as would
be generated at exit time when closing the stdout stream.
The inconsistency was added with commit v8.25-26-gc92585b.
This was noticed due to an inconsistency in the expected
error message generated by seq on musl libc.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/28054
tests: fix false failure with large printf formats
* tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh: With musl libc the
large printf format does succeed, outputting data.
To avoid SIGPIPE being generated we ignore that signal
and then handle the subsequent EPIPE error.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/28054
2017-08-12 Jim Meyering
maint: avoid a syntax-check failure
* src/shred.c (wipename): As per the comment, the arguments
to error() are sufficiently quoted, so split the call over
multiple lines to avoid the syntax-check.
2017-08-02 Paul Eggert
maint: fix recent syntax-check failures
* .gitignore: Add /lib/utime.h from the recent gnulib update.
* src/nproc.c (usage): Adjust spacing to placate help2man.
shred: remove redundant zeroing of freed memory
* src/shred.c (dopass): shred used to read the input file,
and so needed to ensure internal memory was cleared.
This is no longer the case since SH-UTILS-1_16f-260-gf381610
so avoid this redundant clearing.
(do_wipefd): Likewise.
* NEWS: Remove the recent mention of this issue.
maint: resync with blake2 upstream
* src/blake2/blake2-impl.h: Don't use the equivalent explicit_bzero().
tests: avoid a false failure on AIX
* tests/misc/sync.sh: Normalize the error messages
when syncing a non read/write directory, as AIX
gives the "Is a directory" error.
Also ensure that sync(1) returns an error for this
case on all systems.
2017-07-20 Paul Eggert
maint: use C99 for loop initial declarations where possible
This results in a net reduction of about 120 lines.
tail: only use inotify with regular files
* src/tail.c (any_non_regular): A new function to check passed files.
(main): Use the above to skip inotify if any non regular files passed
like /dev/tty or /dev/ttyUSB0 etc.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-only-regular.sh: A new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/21265 and http://bugs.gnu.org/27368
tail: with -f don't warn if doing a blocking read of a tty
* src/tail.c: (main): Only issue the warning about -f being
ineffective when we're not going into simple blocking mode.
* tests/tail-2/follow-stdin.sh: Ensure the warning is output correctly.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/27368
2017-06-11 Pádraig Brady
tail: exit promptly when output no longer writable
This will support use cases like:
tail -f file.log | grep -q trigger &&
process_immediately
* src/tail.c (check_output_alive): A new function that
uses select on fifos or pipes to detect if they're broken.
(tail_forever): Call check_output_alive() periodically.
(tail_forever_inotify): Merge the select() call from
check_output_alive() into the select() originally present
for the --pid case, and adjust accordingly.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Add test cases.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
2017-06-11 Jim Meyering
tail: with --pid, ensure all inotify events are processed
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): With --pid, avoid waiting
for new events if there are still events to process.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh: Adjust to trigger.
tests: fix issues with recently added tail test
* tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh: Skip when
inotify is not usable. Also remove a bash specific &> construct.
2017-06-03 Pádraig Brady
copy: don't fail when unable to chown symlinks
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Honor the x->require_preserve flag
for symlinks as we do for ordinary files, so we don't exit with
failure upon failure to chown a symbolic link.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
2017-05-29 Sebastian Kisela
mv: distinguish copy and rename operations with --verbose
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): In x->move_mode distinguish
whether we're copying, creating directory, or renaming.
* tests/mv/backup-dir.sh: Adjust to new output.
* tests/mv/mv-n.sh: Likewise.
* tests/mv/mv-special-1.sh: Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26971
2017-05-11 Prateek saxena
maint: fix various typos in recent commits
* NEWS: Grammar fixes.
* HACKING: Likewise.
2017-05-04 Jaak Ristioja
doc: update the instructions for generating a coverage report
* HACKING: Change from explicit instructions to using gnulib
provided coverage testing targets. Also include instructions
for adding root only tests to the report.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26709
2017-04-27 Paul Eggert
date,touch: test and document large TZ security issue
Add a test for CVE-2017-7476 which was fixed in gnulib at:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=94e01571
* tests/misc/date-tz.sh: Add a new test which overwrites enough
of the heap to trigger a segfault, even without ASAN enabled.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
2017-04-27 Pádraig Brady
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
* .gitignore: Add new entry as indicated by `make syntax-check`.
2017-04-24 Paul Eggert
maint: fix syntax-check issues in previous tty commit
* src/tty.c: Avoid EXIT_FAILURE to be more descriptive
and to placate sc_some_programs_must_avoid_exit_failure.
2017-04-05 Paul Eggert
doc: refactor and update expand and unexpand --help
* src/expand-common.c (emit_tab_list_info): A new function to
output the extended info on --tab=LIST, including the new
'+' and '/' prefixes.
* src/expand-common.h: Declare the above.
* src/expand.c (usage:): Call emit_tab_list_info and
match alignment with that used in unexpand --help.
* src/unexpand.c (usage): Likewise.
2017-04-03 Jacob Keller
maint: avoid syntax check failure with wrapped returns_
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_env_returns): Allow wrapped calls to
return_ of the form: `wrapper_ returns_ ...` which is needed
with the following commit.
2017-03-28 Michael Heimpold
md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: don't erroneously trigger BSD reversed mode
* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Verify hex digits internally before
triggering the global bsd_reversed mode flag.
(bsd_split_3): Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-bsd.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26263
2017-03-27 Philipp Thomas
maint: avoid a static analysis warning in expand-common
* src/expand-common.c (next_file): We're dependent on calling
this function with NULL to initialize things appropriately.
So enforce this with assert(), which avoids a warning from
clang-anaylzer.
split: process more efficiently when filters exit early
* src/split.c (bytes_split): Don't write to an existing filter
if it has exited. When filters exit early, skip input data if
possible. Refactor out 2 redundant variables.
* tests/split/filter.sh: Improve test coverage given the
new more efficient processing. Also use a 10TB file to
expand the file systems tested on.
2017-03-26 Pádraig Brady
split: ensure input is processed when filters exit early
commit v8.25-4-g62e7af0 introduced the issue as it
broke out of the processing loop irrespective of
the value of new_file_flag which was used to indicate
a finite number of filters or not.
For example, this ran forever (as it should):
$ yes | split --filter="head -c1 >/dev/null" -b 1000
However this exited immediately due to EPIPE being propagated
back through cwrite and the loop not considering new filters:
$ yes | split --filter="head -c1 >/dev/null" -b 100000
Similarly processing would exit early for a bounded number of
output files, resulting in empty data sent to all but the first:
$ truncate -s10T big.in
$ split --filter='head -c1 >$FILE' -n 2 big.in
$ echo $(stat -c%s x??)
1 0
I was alerted to this code by clang-analyzer,
which indicated dead assigments, which is often
an indication of code that hasn't considered all cases.
* src/split.c (bytes_split): Change the last condition in
the processing loop to also consider the number of files
before breaking out of the processing loop.
* tests/split/filter.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
2017-03-11 Pádraig Brady
tests: avoid a false failure on OS X 10.5.8
* tests/misc/sort-debug-keys.sh: Disparate LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES
are not supported, with the result LC_MESSAGES=C is used throughout.
Therefore just set LC_ALL in the test, and normalize the message
variants with sed.
Reported and tested by J Rogowsky.
build: fix missing renameat() on OS X 10.5.8
* bootstrap.conf: Depend on renameat.
Reported and tested by J Rogowsky.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26044
2017-03-10 Paul Eggert
build: for factor use C in more cases for arm64 and ppc64
* src/longlong.h: Sync from gmp repo incorporating:
Use asm-free umul_ppmm() on arm64 and ppc64.
doc: rearrange a recent bug entry to an improvement in NEWS
* NEWS: The stat,tail change was an improvement, not a bug fix.
* cfg.mk [old_NEWS_hash]: update with `make update-NEWS-hash`.
maint: post-release administrivia
* NEWS: Add header line for next release.
* .prev-version: Record previous version.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.
version 8.27
* NEWS: Record release date.
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Removes extraneous parse-datetime.c generated during build
stat,tail: support "RDT" Linux kernel control file system
* src/stat.c (human_fstype): This file system is the user interface
for resource allocation in Intel's Resource Director Technology.
doc: spelling fix for recent doc addition
* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): s/preceeding/preceding/.
2017-03-08 Bernhard Voelker
maint: bump makeinfo --version requirement to 6.1
* bootstrap.conf: s/4.13/6.1/ as versions previous to that
generated invalid html with interspersed tags that
were visible to the user. Version 6.1 is available for a
year now, and is available in most distros.
2017-03-04 Bernhard Voelker
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Fixes a test-lock failure on MacOS
timeout: handle multiple children on solaris
* src/timeout.c (install_sigchld): A new function to
install the SIGCHLD handler using sigaction() rather
than signal(), because with the latter on solaris
the signal handler is reset to default and thus
sigsuspend() only returns for the first finished child.
Reported by Assaf Gordon.
tests: avoid a spurious failure on older debian
* tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh: Bump up the ulimit,
to avoid a false failure due hitting the previously
detected ulimit.
Reported by Assaf Gordon.
build: fix libstdbuf build on AIX 7
* src/libstdbuf.c: undef malloc so as libstdbuf is
not linked with gnulib, and anyway the replacement is
never needed since we never malloc(0).
Reported by Assaf Gordon.
2017-03-02 Assaf Gordon
doc: give a stronger security warning in md5/sha1 man pages
* man/md5sum.x: Give a more direct warning againt the use
of this hash algorithm for security purposes.
* man/sha1sum.x: Likewise.
Suggested by Jim Meyering.
expand: avoid an extraneous warning on 32 bit
* src/expand-common (parse-tab-stops): Exit earlier upon overflow
so another warning isn't issued (on 32 bit) in add_tab_stop().
Flagged in https://hydra.nixos.org/build/49499970
doc: indicate sha1 has the same limitations as md5
* doc/coreutils.texi (sha1sum invocation): Given that a SHA-1
preimage attack has occurred as documented at http://shattered.io/,
document sha1sum as having the same limitations as md5sum.
(md5sum): Parameterize the warning for use in both cases.
* man/md5sum.x: Mention b2sum(1) as a more secure alternative.
* man/sha1sum.x: Give the same warning as done for md5sum(1).
maint: avoid a -Werror=null-dereference with GCC-6.3.1
* src/stty.c (sane_mode): Assert to inform the compiler
we know the pointer will be valid.
expand,unexpand: support specifying a trailing tab size
* doc/coreutils.texi (expand invocation): Document the feature.
(unexpand invocation): Likewise.
* src/expand-common.c (extend_size): A new global to use
when the last tab stop is prefixed by '/'.
(set_extend_size): A new function to validate and set
the new extend_size global.
(parse_tab_stops): Call set_extend_size() for '/' prefixes.
(finalize_tab_stops): Ensure a single specified '/' is
treated like a standard tabsize, but also ensure that
when '/' is specified with a single other entry that
we process as a list rather than a tab size.
(get_next_tab_stop): Use the tab size if set,
for items after the user specified tab position list.
* tests/misc/expand.pl: Add test cases
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/25540
2017-02-26 Pádraig Brady
nproc: support OMP_THREAD_LIMIT to set a max value
This comes from the latest gnulib.
Also handling of OMP_NUM_THREADS has been adjusted
to support comma separated values indicating a nesting level,
in which case the first value is taken. Also OMP_NUM_THREADS=0
is now ignored instead of being treated as 1, to match
the behavior of libgomp.
* NEWS: Mention the OMP_THREAD_LIMIT improvement,
and OMP_NUM_THREADS now handling nested values.
* doc/coreutils.texi (nproc invocation): Describe OMP_THREAD_LIMIT
as a way to set the max value, with OMP_THREAD_LIMIT setting the min.
* tests/misc/nproc-override.sh: A new test to exercise the
updated gnulib code with all combinations of these OMP variables.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
2017-02-26 Pádraig Brady
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
2017-02-23 Pádraig Brady
doc: add NEWS for an improvement to dd in the last release
* NEWS: Mention the avoidance of the gotcha with specifying
a hex constant like count=0x1000 etc. as that previously
was silently interpreted as 0.
2017-02-23 Pádraig Brady
cp: set SELinux context for --parents directories
* src/copy.c (set_process_security_ctx, set_file_security_ctx):
Export for use in cp.c.
* src/copy.h: Likewise.
* src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Call the exported functions
to set the security context for new and updated directories.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh: Add a test case.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/25378
2017-02-18 Pádraig Brady
maint: tweaks so syntax tests pass for previous commit
* .gitignore: placate sc_gitignore_redundant.
* po/POTFILES.in: placate sc_po_check.
2017-02-16 Bernhard Voelker
maint: tweaks so syntax tests pass for previous commit
* src/force-link.h: Don't include headers already included by system.h
* src/force-link.c: Likewise. Also include system.h and
explicitly mark extern functions as such.
2017-02-12 Paul Eggert
doc: note the relationship between realpath and readlink
* doc/coreutils.texi (realpath invocation): Mention that realpath
is the preferred command for canonicalization.
(readlink invocation): Likewise.
* man/readlink.x: Likewise.
2017-02-08 Janne Snabb
tests: fix tail test race causing false failure
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: The replacement of the "missing" directory
is not atomic, and therefore tail(1) can take a different path,
especially if there is a delay between the rmdir(2) and creat(2).
This is noticeable for example with `make coverage` because in
that case the coverage files written by rmdir(1) on exit,
induce a significant delay thus triggering the issue.
tail: fix erroneous status about 'giving up' on file
* src/tail.c (recheck): Set f->ignore before we
use it to show the appropriate error.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Ensure the "giving up" message
is not presented.
2017-02-08 Pádraig Brady
doc: only distribute 5 years of ChangeLogs
Remove old log files that have corresponding entries
in the source code repository.
This saves about 2.5MB uncompressed, 0.5M compressed.
* Makefile.am (gen-ChangeLog): Adjust to taking all
logs since a particular version (8.15 in this case).
Also mention in the truncated log where to get older entries.
(changelog_etc): Remove the no longer distributed files.
* build-aux/git-log-fix: Remove now unused entries.
* ChangeLog-200[5-8]: Delete.
* doc/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* po/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
* old/*: Likewise.
2017-02-07 Maxime de Roucy
build: fix issue with HAVE_FALLOCATE on centos5
* src/copy.c (punch_hole): Work around an empty definition
of HAVE_FALLOCATE which leads to a build error of:
"error: #if with no expression"
That was triggered by the inclusion of
maint: mention the recent date time zone bug fix
* NEWS: Add the bug fix from commit v8.26-27-gb14be50
2017-01-21 Assaf Gordon
stty: ensure no side effects from invalid options
* src/stty.c (apply_settings): A new function refactored
from main() that is used to both check and apply options.
(main): Call apply_settings before we open the device,
so all validation is done before interacting with a device.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* tests/misc/stty.sh: Add a test case.
2017-01-06 Assaf Gordon
maint: update all copyright year number ranges
Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
* tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
* bootstrap: Likewise.
* tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.
2016-12-28 Zooko
tests: avoid false fails on NFS due to EPERM
* tests/chgrp/basic.sh: On some NFS setups a user is
not allowed to set a group on a file even if a member
of that group. Therefore skip this test on remote file systems.
* tests/chgrp/default-no-deref.sh: Likewise.
* tests/chgrp/no-x.sh: Likewise.
* tests/chgrp/posix-H.sh: Likewise.
* tests/chgrp/recurse.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate-resources.sh: Change to skipping
on remote file systems in the standard way.
2016-12-27 Paul Eggert
wc: with only --bytes, determine size more efficiently
* src/wc.c (wc): Avoid reading the end of the file
when the size is not a multiple of PAGE_SIZE,
as the special case handling for files in /proc and /sys
is only required when st_size is 0 or a multiple of PAGE_SIZE.
* tests/misc/wc-proc.sh: Add a test case.
2016-12-20 Pádraig Brady
maint: correct the version for the previous bug fix
While st_size would have been incorrect for subsequent
files since v7.1, it was only used since v8.24.
* tests/misc/wc-files0.sh: s/7.1/8.24/
* NEWS: Likewise.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker
2016-12-19 William R. Fraser
tests: fix typos in previous commit
* init.cfg (skip_if_mcstransd_is_running_): Fix typos
_introduced my me_ in the previous commit.
2016-12-18 Nicolas Iooss
doc: fix --help for: od -t f[SIZE]
* src/od.c (usage): SIZE is that of float, not integer.
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