This regression was introduced in commit 224a69b5, 2009-02-24,
"sort: Fix two bugs with determining the end of field".
The specific regression being that we include 1 field too many when
an end field is specified using obsolescent key syntax (+POS -POS).
* src/sort.c (struct keyfield): Clarify the description of the eword
member, as suggested by Alan Curry.
(main): When processing obsolescent format key specifications,
normalize eword to a zero based count when no specific end char is given
for an end field. This matches what's done when keys are specified with -k.
* tests/misc/sort: Add a few more tests for the obsolescent key formats,
with test 07i being the particular failure addressed by this change.
* THANKS: Add Alan Curry who precisely identified the issue.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by Santiago Rodríguez
* src/timeout.c (main): Don't use parse_long_options()
which is a helper for commands that don't have any
long options specific to them.
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Remove a case that now
passes due to us accepting multiple instances of the
--help and --version options.
* THANKS: Add the author.
Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Enabled when coreutils is configured with --with-tty-group.
Based on a patch written by Piotr Gackiewicz. Details at
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/454261
* src/who.c (is_tty_writable): A new function returning true if a TTY
device is writable by the group. Additionally it checks the group to be
the same as TTY_GROUP_NAME when compiled with --with-tty-group.
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Introduce a new configure option --with-tty-group.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
Before this change, with too long a file name, the name would
abut the date field on the left and possibly also the "Page N"
field on the right, rather than leaving a one-space separator
in each case. Fixes a regression introduced on Mar 6 2009,
by commit a4053c5291
* src/pr.c (print_header): Ensure that there is at least one
space before and after the file name part of the header line.
* NEWS: Mention it.
* tests/pr/W20l24f-ll: s/xPage/ x Page/.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Denis McKeon, in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28492.
* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): When using 'LINK target' in
dircolors, treat broken symlink as C_ORPHAN.
* tests/misc/ls-misc (sl-dangle2, sl-dangle3, sl-dangle4)
(sl-dangle5): Test for it, and add more coverage.
* NEWS: Document it.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Chris Jones.
* src/tail.c (usage): Reword tail -F description, so that it no
longer mentions details specific to the non-inotify implementation.
Also, join diagnostic strings (while staying under the 509-byte limit)
to ease formatting of translations. The latter was prompted by
a report from Stéphane Raimbault.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Update description here, too.
Regression introduced in coreutils 8.1 due to a bug in the Linux
kernel implementation of utimensat with mtime of UTIME_OMIT.
* gnulib: Update to latest, to pick up utimensat fix.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by John Stanley.
If getgroups failed with ENOSYS, mgetgroups would unnecessarily
fail, and that provoked id into freeing an uninitialized pointer.
Meanwhile, we were not using xalloc_die properly. Both issues
are better solved in gnulib, by introducing xgetgroups; this
patch uses the new interface.
Regression introduced by commit 6a31fd8d7.
* gnulib: Update, for mgetgroups improvments.
* src/id.c (print_full_info): Adjust caller to die on allocation
failure, and no longer worry about ENOSYS.
* src/group-list.c (print_group_list): Likewise.
* src/setuidgid.c (main): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Scott Harrison.
While "rm ''" would properly fail, "rm F1 '' F2" would fail
to remove F1 and F2, due to the empty string argument.
This bug was introduced on 2009-07-12, via commit 4f73ecaf,
"rm: rewrite to use fts".
* gnulib: Update to latest, for fixed fts.c.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Describe it.
* tests/rm/empty-name: Adjust for changed diagnostic.
(mk_file): Define, copied from misc/ls-misc.
(empty-name-2): New test, for today's fix.
* lib/xfts.c (xfts_open): Reflect the change in fts_open, now that
it no longer fails immediately when one argument is the empty string.
Assert that the bit flags were not the cause of failure.
* po/POTFILES.in: Remove xfts.c.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Ladislav Hagara.
Tailing forever and by-name (--follow=name, -F), tail would
sometimes fail to follow a file that had been removed via rename.
If you can't apply this patch and have tail 7.6 or newer, you can
work around the bug via the undocumented --disable-inotify option.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): When tailing by name (-F),
do not un-watch a file upon receipt of the IN_MOVE_SELF event.
Reported by Arjan Opmeer in http://bugs.debian.org/548439.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Also see http://marc.info/?l=coreutils-bug&m=125829031916515
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add tail-2/inotify-rotate.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate: New test.
* configure.ac: Use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext]),
rather than AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros]).
Reported by Martin Jacobs in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs/3181
* THANKS: Add his name.
Capability checking was incorrectly done on just the base name
rather than on the whole path. Consequently there could be both
false positives and negatives when coloring files with capabilities.
Also capability checking was not done at all in certain cases for
non executable files. Note passing absolute rather than relative
names to cap_get_file() reduces the has_capability() overhead
from around 33% to 30%. I.E. ls --color is now around 3% faster.
* src/ls.c (struct fileinfo): Add a has_capability member.
(print_color_indicator): Refactor to pass just a fileinfo pointer
and a flag to say if we're dealing with a symlink target.
(print_name_with_quoting): Likewise.
(gobble_file): Set has_capability in the fileinfo struct. Also do
a capability check even if executable coloring is disabled.
Ditto for SETUID and SETUID coloring.
Comment on how expensive has_capability() is.
(print_long_format): Adjust to refactored print_name_with_quoting.
(quote_name): Likewise.
(print_file_name_and_frills): Likewise.
* tests/ls/capability: Test the various false positive and negatives.
* THANKS: Add reporter (Ivan Labath).
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
rm -f must not print a diagnostic for a nonexistent file. However,
most linux-based kernel unlinkat functions set errno to EROFS when
the named file (regardless of whether it exists) would lie on a
read-only file system. remove.c now performs an extra fstatat call
in that case, to determine whether the file exists.
* src/remove.c (excise): Map EROFS to ENOENT, if a file is nonexistent.
Reported by Steven Drake in <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27923>.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
* tests/rm/one-file-system (cleanup_): Unmount a/b, rather than
"$other_partition_tmpdir", to accommodate those who link /etc/mtab
to /proc/mounts. Reported by Gilles Espinasse in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18508
This change happens to avoid an abort in chcon when SELinux is
disabled while operating on a file with an "unlabeled" context from
back in 2006. However, that same abort can still be triggered by the
same file when running chcon with SELinux enabled. This bug in chcon
will be fixed in a subsequent commit via a getfilecon wrapper. See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18378/focus=18384
for how to correct your disk attributes to avoid triggering this bug.
* src/chcon.c (main): Exit immediately if SELinux is disabled.
Reported in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/527142 by Yanko Kaneti.
* src/runcon.c (main): Do not hardcode program name in error message.
* THANKS: Update.
* src/ls.c (print_dir): Diagnosing the cycle is not enough.
Also set exit status to 2. This is what Solaris' /bin/ls does, too.
* tests/ls/infloop: Rework test: match both expected stdout and stderr.
Require an exit status of 2 in this case.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Mention that a loop provokes
in an exit status of 2.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Yang Ren in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/525402.
* THANKS: Correct ordering of Yang Ren's names.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Add the missing arch, base64, link, readlink,
and unlink entries. Also remove extraneous '.' from some entries
and try to align all entries on the same column.
* THANKS: Add Benno Schulenberg.
* src/mktemp.c (mkstemp_len, mkdtemp_len): Update callers of
gen_tempname_len.
* gl/lib/tempname.c, gl/lib/tempname.h: Rebase against recently
API-modified copy of tempname module in gnulib.
Reported by Lluís Batlle.
* src/tail.c (main): Tailing a pipe "forever" is not useful,
and POSIX specifies that tail ignore the -f when there is no
file argument and stdin is a FIFO or pipe. So we do that.
In addition, GNU tail excludes "-" arguments from the list of files
to tail forever, when the associated file descriptor is connected
to a FIFO or pipe. Before this change, ":|tail -f" would hang.
Reported by Ren Yang and Ulrich Drepper.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f: Test for this.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f2: Ensure tail doesn't exit early for a fifo.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add these tests.
* NEWS (POSIX conformance): Mention it.
* src/tail.c (main) [HAVE_INOTIFY]: When stdin (i.e., "-", or no args,
but not /dev/stdin) is specified on the command line, don't use inotify.
Reported by Bill Brelsford in <http://bugs.debian.org/545422>.
* tests/tail-2/follow-stdin: New file. Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the test.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
This bug was introduced in coreutils-7.5 via commit ae494d4b,
2009-06-02, "tail: use inotify if it is available".
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Set umask to 022. A umask setting permitting
world-write access, e.g., umask o+w, would cause this test to fail.
Report by Mathias Brodala and analysis by Tom Fitzhenry in
<http://bugs.debian.org/544965>.
* src/df.c (main): If open or fstat fails when we're trying to ensure
that all arg-partitions are automounted, fall back on using stat.
Inspired by the report and patch from Olivier Fourdan in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/520630.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/df/unreadable: New test for the above.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add df/unreadable.
The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.3 via commit dbd17157,
2009-04-28, "df: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting".
* src/dd.c (main): Install the signal handlers at startup
rather than just before the copy starts. In this way signals
received before the copy (like during a slow truncate for e.g.)
will be deferred and handled consistently.
* THANKS: Add Bernhard's email address.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* build-aux/update-copyright: Handle the case in which "\n#"
appears between the final year number and the copyright holder name.
* m4/lib-check.m4: Update copyright year list.
Reported by Joel E. Denny.
* NEWS: Document the new option
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ditto
* src/sort.c (main): handle the new --human-numeric-sort option (-h).
(human_numcompare): A new function to compare SI and IEC suffixes
before falling back to the standard --numeric comparison.
(find_unit_order): A new helper function to find the order
of magnitude of a number string as determined by its suffix.
(check_mixed_SI_IEC): A new helper function to exit with error
if both SI and IEC suffixes are presented.
* tests/misc/sort: Add 8 tests to test the new functionality.
* THANKS: Update
* src/df.c (main): When iterating over command-line arguments,
attempting to ensure each backing file system is mounted, use
open, not stat. stat is no longer sufficient to trigger
automounting, in some cases. Based on a suggestion from Ian Kent.
More details in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/497830
* src/sort.c (avoid_trashing_input): Fix an off-by-one error and
guard the use of memmove.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/sort: Add tests to exercise the offending code.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Otavio Salvador in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.
Steven Parkes reported that `id -G $USER` went into an infinite loop
on Darwin systems for users in more than 10 groups:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264007
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Work around buggy getgrouplist
implementations that don't update the required size correctly,
by doubling the result buffer and retrying. Also return the
parameter updated by getgrouplist rather than its return value,
as the documentation doesn't actually state the number of groups
stored is returned by getgrouplist.
* tests/misc/id-groups: Add test to exercise this logic
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* THANKS: Update
Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797
to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred.
* gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal
pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom
* src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom
* src/shuf.c (usage); ditto
* src/sort.c (usage): ditto
* doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour
for aquiring random data.
* src/pwd.c (longopts): New variable.
(logical_getcwd): New function.
(main): Use it.
(usage): Document new options.
* doc/coreutils.texi (pwd invocation): Likewise.
* NEWS: Likewise.
* TODO (pwd): Mark it done.
* tests/misc/pwd-option: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add test.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Paul D. Smith, in savannah bug 24949.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add sort-merge-fdlimit.
* tests/misc/sort-merge-fdlimit: New file.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that we now silently
lower nmerge if necessary.
Patch by Paul Eggert, Nima Nikzad, Max Chang, Alexander Nguyen,
Sahil Amoli, and Nick Graham.
This is an alternative to my 9 March patch labeled "Silently lower
nmerge; don't (sometimes incorrectly) range-check"
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00070.html>.
It differs by not using 'dup' to probe for extra file descriptors;
instead, it simply calls 'open' (and 'pipe') to open files and pipes,
until one of these calls fails due to file descriptor exhaustion; it
then backs off by 1, does a merge with the files that it has opened,
and then retries with the (now-smaller) number of files.
This patch requires quite a few more changes to the source code than
the earlier patch, but it is in some sense "better" because it doesn't
need to call "dup" ahead of time in order to decide whether "open" or
"pipe" will fail. Also, it's more robust in the case where "open" or
"pipe" fails with errno==EMFILE because some system-wide limit is
exhausted.
* src/sort.c (create_temp_file): New arg SURVIVE_FD_EXHAUSTION.
(stream_open): New function, containing guts of xfopen.
(xfopen): Use it.
(pipe_fork): Set errno on failure.
(maybe_create_temp): New function, containing guts of create_temp.
(create_temp): Use it.
(open_temp): Distinguish failures due to file descriptor exhaustion
from other failures, and on fd exhaustion return a notice to caller
rather than dying. Don't test execlp's return value; when it returns,
it *always* returns -1.
(open_input_files): New function.
(mergefps): New arg FPS. It's now the caller's responsibility to open
the input and output files. All callers changed.
(mergefiles): New function.
(avoid_trashing_input, merge): Handle the case where a single merge
can't merge as much as we wanted due to file descriptor exhaustion, by
merging as much as we can and then retrying.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/sort-continue.
* tests/misc/sort-continue: New file.
* THANKS: Add Glen Lenker and Matt Pham who coauthored this patch.
* src/pr.c (print_header): Honor chars_per_margin also for the header.
Inspired by a patch from C de-Avillez.
This change also adjusts two other %*s directives to be %*.*s instead,
(for the padding on either side of "file_text") to correct a bug that
could make pr print one space of padding instead of none.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/pr/o3Jml24f-lm-lo: Adjust for new expected output.
* tests/pr/o3a3Sl24f-tn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3a3Snl24f-tn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3a3l24f-tn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3b3Sl24f-tn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3b3Snl24f-tn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3b3l24f-tn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3mSl24f-bl-tn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3mSnl24fbltn: Likewise.
* tests/pr/o3ml24f-bl-tn: Likewise.
