This is related to commit b7f2b51c, 2010-01-01,
"ls: fix color of broken symlinks colored as target"
which didn't handle the --dereference case.
The simplest way to reproduce the resultant
erroneous "argetm" is as follows:
$ ln -s /no-such dangle
$ env LS_COLORS=ln=target ls --dereference --color
ls: cannot access dangle: No such file or directory
argetmdangle
This is also an issue with the `tree` utility,
reported here: http://bugs.debian.org/586765
* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): Move the handling
of 'ln=target' in $LS_COLORS (color_symlink_as_referent == true)
to a higher scope, to handle all cases where type == C_LINK.
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Add a test case for the specific issue,
and 2 further test cases to verify other code paths in this area.
Reported by Jason Glassey.
At first this looked like a buffer overrun, since there was no test
to ensure that the buffer length was 6. However, since the LS_COLORS
string is NUL-terminated and since settings within it are separated by
":" there was neither the risk of reading beyond end of buffer nor risk
of a false-positive match.
* src/ls.c (print_color_indicator): Use color_symlink_as_referent
rather than manually comparing against "target" again.
* src/system.h (STRNCMP_LIT): Correct description in comment.
These commands would fail to terminate:
yes -- -nan | head -156903 | sort -g > /dev/null
echo nan > F; sort -m -g F F
That can happen with any strtold implementation that includes
uninitialized data in its return value. The problem arises in the
mergefps function when bubble-sorting the two or more lines, each
from one of the input streams being merged: compare(a,b) returns 64,
yet compare(b,a) also returns a positive value. With a broken
comparison function like that, the bubble sort never terminates.
Why do the long-double bit strings corresponding to two identical
"nan" strings not compare equal? Because some parts of the result
are uninitialized and thus depend on the state of the stack.
For more details, see http://bugs.gnu.org/9612.
* src/sort.c (nan_compare): New function.
(general_numcompare): Use it rather than bare memcmp.
Reported by Aaron Denney in http://bugs.debian.org/642557.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/sort-NaN-infloop: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Pulling in the latest gnulib triggered a new false-positive
syntax-check failure.
* cfg.mk (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_always-defined_macros):
Exempt remove.c; its definitions of DT_UNKNOWN, DT_DIR and DT_LNK are
harmless.
* Makefile.am: add shortcuts to run (very) expensive tests.
Use "make check-expensive" to run tests with RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes,
use "make check-very-expensive" to run tests with both
RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes and RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes.
Non-expensive tests are included in all cases.
On some systems like glibc on GNU/kFreeBSD, a thread is
implicitly created when timer_settime() is used.
This breaks our scheme to ignore signals we've
sent ourselves.
* src/timeout.c (send_sig): Change the scheme used to
ignore signals we've sent ourselves, to a more robust
but perhaps limited scheme of ignoring all signals of
a certain type after we've sent that signal to the job.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
This fixes a bug in pwd and all getcwd-using applications (for some
uses: df, readlink, stat) when run from a directory whose absolute name
contains more than PATH_MAX / 3 components. For more details, see
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=f6fe351fc534ae1
* gnulib: Update.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Detect and handle BSD reversed
format checksums.
* tests/misc/md5sum-bsd: Add a new test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement
Suggested by Rimas Kudelis.
* configure.ac (gl_GCC_VERSION_IFELSE): Define new macro.
(WERROR_CFLAGS): With --enable-gcc-warnings, use it to
add -Wsuggest-attribute=pure only with gcc 4.7 or newer.
* src/stat.c (USE_STATVFS): Adjust definition so that it is enabled
also on AIX 7.x systems that provide statvfs64 and no statvfs.
[USE_STATVFS && ! STAT_STATVFS && STAT_STATVFS64] (STATFS): Define
to statvfs64 in that precise case.
* m4/stat-prog.m4 (cu_PREREQ_STAT_PROG): Adjust the condition
here to match the new one in stat.c, to keep them in sync.
Reported by Bruno Haible. For details, see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/1668
* tests/init.cfg (require_mkfs_PATH_): New function to test whether mkfs
is in PATH, otherwise adding /sbin to PATH. Needed for distributions
(OpenSuSE, Solaris) in which sudo does not include /sbin in PATH.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Use require_mkfs_PATH_.
* tests/cp/cp-mv-enotsup-xattr: Likewise.
* tests/cp/sparse-fiemap: Likewise.
* tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly: Likewise.
* tests/rm/read-only: Likewise.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention the cp-vs-NFSv4-ACL improvement we
have inherited via gnulib. For details, see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/28100
and the following messages in that thread.
* gnulib: Update to latest, for numerous ACL-related improvements.
* tests/init.sh: Relax check for diff -u support.
Rather than checking for GNU diff via --version, simply check
for support for -u itself. Useful at least on OpenBSD 4.9.
* tests/require-perl: Remove file.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove it from this list.
* tests/init.cfg (require_perl_): New function.
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Use the new function, not the file.
* tests/ls/nameless-uid: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sum-sysv: Likewise.
* tests/misc/cut: Repeat each test using a multibyte locale,
if the configure-time test found such a locale.
Adjust the tests so that they also accept a slightly
different diagnostic that is specific to the MB-patched cut.
* HACKING (Add tests): Mention the variables and default values.
* README-release (Pre-release testing): Mention that setting
the SHELL variable may be required.
Suggested by Bruno Haible.
* tests/split/l-chunk: Don't use the `test "$var"`
idiom to test that var is set to something as
that's not supported by all shells.
The new style matches the usage is the rest of
the test in any case.
Reported by Bruno Haible on AIX 6.1 and 7.1
Without this change, we'd get use-of-uninit value warnings
and harder-to-diagnose failure down the road.
* tests/misc/pwd-long (normalize_to_cwd_relative): Diagnose stat
failure. This failed on AIX 6.1 and 7.1. Reported by Bruno Haible.
* tests/misc/printf-surprise: Also accept a strerror-style string
after the usual 'printf: write error:' diagnostic prefix.
Otherwise, this test would fail on HP-UX 11.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
* src/stdbuf.c (main): Pass the path of `stdbuf` rather than
the command it's running to the search function. This is
significant on platforms without /proc/self/exe
Reported by Bruno Haible
... which is not available on some platforms,
and the replacement currently requires linking
with threading libraries.
* src/split.c (closeout): Remove the call to strsignal()
which is largely redundant anyway as sig2str()
is already used to map number to name in the error.
Reported by Bruno Haible on AIX 6.1 and 7.1
Thanks to an improvement in gnulib's parse-datetime module,
commands like this now succeed (output manually indented):
$ ./date -u -d 2004-02-29T16:21:42.33+07:00 +%FT%T.%N%z
2004-02-29T09:21:42.330000000+0000
* tests/misc/date: Add a test to exercise the new-in-gnulib
parsing of ISO8601-with-"T" dates.
* NEWS (New features): Mention it.
* gnulib: Update, to pull in this parse-datetime improvement.
* gl/lib/heap.c: Move declaration to the top of scope.
Reported by Rob McMahon and Wolfgang Steinwender
in relation to "Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3 Patch 111679-12
2003/05/18" and "GCC 2.95.3" respectively.
This effectively reverts the unreleased commit 5a647a05
* src/timeout.c (main): Don't propagate signals from the monitored
process, as on Linux /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern could still
handle them and cause false reports against `timeout`
Lesson: do not include details like "4 million" in a file name.
* tests/rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOM: Renamed from ...
* tests/rm/4-million-entry-dir: ...this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Reflect renaming.
* tests/rm/4-million-entry-dir: Create only 200,000 files, rather
than 4 million. The latter was overkill, and was too likely to
fail due to inode exhaustion. Not everyone is using btrfs yet.
Now that this test doesn't take so long, label it as merely
"expensive", rather than "very expensive". Thanks to
Bernhard Voelker for pointing out the risk of inode exhaustion.
Ever since the LAST_PAGE functionality was added
in commit ed0923a1, 1996-12-05,
"Apply big patch (patch-20) from Roland Huebner"
it was ignored when -t or -T were specified or
when -l <= 10.
* src/pr.c (print_page): Increment the current page here.
(print_header): Don't increment the current page here.
* tests/pr/pr-tests: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix
Reported at http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9347
For details, see the gnulib commit,
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=47cb657e
* tests/rm/4-million-entry-dir: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* gnulib: Update to latest to get the required fts fixes.
* src/head.c (elide_tail_bytes_pipe): Remove the empty statement, ";"
after a jump label; it is needed only when a declaration follows.
* src/kill.c (main): Likewise.
* src/od.c (main): Likewise.
* src/paste.c (collapse_escapes): Likewise.
* src/printf.c (print_formatted): Likewise.
This problem was discovered when trying to build git coreutils on
Solaris 8 sparcv9 with Sun C 5.8: the 3rd argument to mbrlen was
of type int * (a pointer to the gnulib replacement mbstate_t) but
the system mbrlen wants the system mbstate_t *.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add mbrlen.
* src/pathchk.c (mbrlen, mbstate_t) [!(HAVE_MBRLEN && HAVE_MBSTATE_T)]:
Remove macros, which are wrong now that gnulib supplies
replacements for mbstate_t and mbrlen.