This patch was originally written by Andreas Grünbacher, nowadays
available at
http://www.suse.de/~agruen/coreutils/5.91/coreutils-xattr.diff
* bootstrap.conf: Add gnulib module verror.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add lib/verror.c.
* m4/xattr.m4: Check for libattr availability, new configure option
--disable-xattr.
* m4/prereq.m4: Require gl_FUNC_XATTR.
* src/Makefile.am: Link cp, mv and ginstall with libattr.
* src/copy.h: Add preserve_xattr and require_preserve_xattr to
cp_options.
* src/copy.c (copy_attr_error): New function to handle errors during
xattr copying.
(copy_attr_quote): New function to quote file name in error messages
printed by libattr.
(copy_attr_free): Empty function requested by libattr to free quoted
string.
(copy_attr_by_fd): New fd-oriented function to copy xattr.
(copy_attr_by_name): New name-oriented function to copy xattr.
(copy_reg, copy_internal): Call copy_extended_attributes function.
* src/cp.c (usage): Mention new --preserve=xattr option.
(decode_preserve_arg): Handle new --preserve=xattr option.
* src/mv.c: Always attempt to preserve xattr.
* src/install.c: Never attempt to preserve xattr.
* tests/misc/xattr: New test for xattr support in cp, mv and install.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add the new test to list.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Mention xattr support, new --preserve=xattr
option.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* NEWS: Mention the change to the default number of passes.
* doc/Makefile.am: Update constants.texi with the default
number of passes shred uses, so that the documentation
will automatically reflect any future changes.
* doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Update the description
of the --iterations option to have the correct default number,
while still conveying that there are 25 internal patterns
that may be useful.
* src/cp.c (usage): Show new option -n in --help.
(main): Handle new option -n.
* src/mv.c (usage): Show new option -n in --help.
(main): Handle new option -n.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document new cp/mv option -n.
* tests/cp/cp-i: Add tests for -f, -i and -n options.
* tests/mv/mv-n: New test for mv -n.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add test mv/mv-n to the list.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* doc/coreutils.texi (pathchk invocation): Mention pathchk
checks validity (for current system) as well as portability.
Say messages go to stderr, and reorder description of checks
done for the -p option, to match what's done in code.
* src/pathchk.c (usage): Mention pathchk checks name validity.
Suggested clarifications were from Dan Jacobson.
* src/dd.c (O_CIO): New flag.
* src/dd.c (O_FULLBLOCK): Add O_CIO to the list of flags that
O_FULLBLOCK should be greater than.
* src/dd.c (flags): Give the name "cio" to the new O_CIO flag, mirroring
the treatment of O_DIRECT.
* src/dd.c (usage): Add a description of the new flag when it is available.
* doc/coreutils.text (dd invocation): Describe the new flag.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stty invocation): Clarify any
ambiguity in regard to the direction of input and output settings.
Add some notes on the case changing settings.
Most of the text was supplied by Dan Jacobson.
* src/du.c (usage): Update --help output.
(main): Move -H-handling code from the --si block to
the one for --dereference-args (-D).
* doc/coreutils.texi (du invocation): Update description.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention this.
doc/coretuils.texi: Refactor shuf, sort and uniq --zero-terminated
option to use the same text. Also refer to NUL characters as
@acronym{ASCII} @sc{nul} consistently.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Fix remaining violations.
* doc/Makefile.am (sc-lower-case-var): New rule.
Add some command-suppressing "@" directives so that a successful
"make check" run is less noisy.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Describe the most common
usage of --files0-from=- to read names from stdin.
* src/du.c: Likewise.
* src/sort.c: Likewise.
* src/wc.c: Likewise.
* coreutils.texi (multiplierSuffixes, multiplierSuffixesNoBlocks):
New macros.
(od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation, split invocation):
(truncate invocation): Use them.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Use @var{n} consistently,
not a mix of that and @var{bytes}. Reported by anonymous
in <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24934>.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Move the list of regular,
non-file-system, format directives from the description of --terse,
out of the enclosing table.
Here's a patch to remove the --bignum and --no-bignum options from
'factor'. The case for removing --bignum isn't as strong as that for
'expr', but still, it seems to me that these options are not needed and
complicate the documentation unnecessarily.
* doc/coreutils.texi (factor invocation): Remove --bignum, --no-bignum.
* src/factor.c (algorithm, ALGORITHM_CHOICE, USE_BIGNUM, NO_USE_BIGNUM):
Remove; all uses removed.
(extract_factors_multi): Remove, replacing with....
(print_factors_multi): New function, with signature similar to that
of new signature of print_factors_single.
(print_factors_single): Migrate checking code to caller.
(print_factors): Use GMP if it's available; don't bother asking user.
Improve accuracy of check for "large" numbers.
(long_options, main): Remove support for --bignum.
* src/ls.c (gobble_file) [long_format]: Map SELinux-only to '.',
any other nonempty combination of MAC and ACL to '+', and all else
to the usual ' '. Suggested by Michael Stone.
* tests/misc/selinux: Adapt: expect '.', not '+'.
* doc/coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Document this.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Remove the --bignum and
--no-bignum options. They weren't really needed, and they broke
longstanding (albeit nonportable) scripts.
* src/expr.c: Don't include <assert.h>. Include "inttostr.h",
"long-options.h", "verify.h". Check at compile-time that
size_t fits in unsigned long int, as the code assumes this in
several places.
(HAVE_GMP): Define to 0 if not defined, for convenience.
(mpz_t, mpz_clear, mpz_init_set_ui, mpz_init_set_str, mpz_add):
(mpz_sub, mpz_mul, mpz_tdiv_q, mpz_tdiv_r, mpz_get_str, mpz_sgn):
(mpz_fits_ulong_p, mpz_get_ui, mpz_out_str):
Supply substitutes when !HAVE_GMP, which work well enough for
expr's purposes.
(mp_integer): Remove. All integers are gmp, if gmp is available.
(struct valinfo): Remove 'z' member; no longer needed. The 'i'
member is always of type mpz_t.
(enum arithmetic_mode, MP_NEVER, MP_ALWAYS, MP_AUTO, mode):
Remove; no longer needed.
(usage): Remove documentation of --bignum and --no-bignum.
(integer_overflow): Abort if error misbehaves, to pacify GCC.
Restore old message on arithmetic overflow, to be conservative.
(die): Omit exit_status parameter; not needed (is always EXPR_FAILURE).
(string_too_long, USE_BIGNUM, NO_USE_BIGNUM, long_options):
Remove; no longer needed.
(main): Don't use getopt_long; this breaks old nonportable scripts.
(int_value): Arg is unsigned, in case we have strings whose length
exceeds LONG_MAX (!).
(int_value, freev, printv, null, tostring, toarith):
(eval6, eval4, eval3):
Always use mpz_ functions, to simplify the code.
(substr_value): Remove; no longer needed.
(getsize): Simplify the API: one arg rather than 3. Don't assume
unsigned long int fits in size_t.
(promote, domult, dodivide, doadd): Remove; no longer needed.
* tests/misc/expr: Don't use --bignum to test for bignum support.
Instead, use big numbers to test this.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tsort invocation, tsort background): Move these
nodes "down", so that they follow the ptx nodes, thus matching the
alphabetized order in the menu.
(tsort background): Make this a subsection.
Suggested by Karl Berry.
* doc/coreutils.texi (mayConflictWithShellBuiltIn): New macro.
(mknod invocation, stat invocation, echo invocation)
(printf invocation, test invocation, pwd invocation)
(nice invocation, kill invocation, sleep invocation): Use it.
(printf invocation): Invoke via "env" rather than using a
literal /usr/local/bin/ prefix in examples.
...to specify the program used to strip binaries
* src/install.c (main): Handle new option --strip-program.
(strip): Use strip program from global variable strip_program.
(usage): Mention new option --strip-program in --help.
* tests/tests/strip-program: Test case for new option --strip-program.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new test case to test set.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Mention new option --strip-program.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* TODO: Remove completed task.
* src/df.c (add_uint_with_neg_flag): New function to add two integral
values with separate negation flag.
(show_dev): New parameter force_fsu to display numbers directly. Collect
summary statistics on each printed device.
(usage): Mention new option --total in --help.
(main): Initialize summary on program start. Handle new option --total.
* tests/df/total: Dummy test case for new --total option.
* tests/df/total-awk: Better test case for new --total option (requires
awk).
* doc/coreutils.texi: Mention new parameter --total.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* TODO: Removed completed task.
* src/sort.c [struct keyfield] (version): New member.
(usage): Describe --version-sort.
(sort_options): Add 'V'.
(long_options): Add "version-sort".
(CHECK_TABLE, _ct_, SORT_TABLE, _st_): Define new macros.
(check_args, sort_args, sort_types): Use these new macros in declarations.
(ARGMATCH_VERIFY): Remove use. No longer needed.
(compare_version): New function.
(key_compare): Add a case.
(check_ordering_compatibility): Handle new type.
(main): Likewise. Reformat two expressions for readability.
* tests/misc/sort-version: new test file
* tests/Makefile.am: add it to the list
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document it.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* src/Makefile.am (expr_LDADD): Link expr against GNU MP.
* doc/coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Describe --bignum,
--no-bignum. Explain the new arbitrary-precision functionality.
* NEWS: Indicate that arbitrary-precision arithmetic is now
supported in expr.
* src/expr.c (enum valtype): Added mp_integer, signifying a GNU MP
number.
(usage): Document the new options --bignum and --no-bignum which
force and prohibit the use of arbitrary-precision arithmetic,
respectively.
(long_options): data structure for getopt_long, which we need to
use to parse the options mentioned above.
(main): parse these options with getopt_long instead of
parse_long_options.
(valinfo): Downgrade the numeric member of the union from
intmax_t to signed long, since MP lacks functions for promoting an
intmax_t to an arbitrary-precision quantity.
(enum arithmetic_mode): Represents the current choice between
--bignum, --no-bignum and the default (automatically switch from
one to the other if needed).
(integer_overflow): issue a more explicit error message indicating
that MP is not available.
(string_too_long): new function, emits a fatal error message for
the case where an argument to the 'index' expression is too long
for a string offset to be represented.
(int_value): With --bignum, create the value as mp_integer rather
than plain integer.
(substr_value): factored out of eval6; implements "substr".
(freev): also destroy mp_integer values. Check that no mp_integer
values exist if --no-bignum was specified.
(printv, null, tostring): support mp_integer.
(toint): new funtion for converting from string or mp_integer to
integer.
(getsize): extracts a size_t value from a VALUE object; used to
implement substr.
(promote): promotes a value from integer to mp_integer.
(domult, dodivide): functions for multiplication and division,
factored out of eval4.
(doadd): addition/subraction function, factpred out of eval3.
(eval3): support mp_integer types; call doadd.
(eval4): support mp_integer types; call domult, dodivide.
(eval6): support mp_integer offsets and lengths for "substr" and
"index".
* TODO: Mention that expr supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic,
and suggest that this might also be a good idea for seq.
* AUTHORS (expr): Add James Youngman.
* doc/coreutils.texi (uptime invocation): document uptime.
* TODO: uptime is documented now.
* src/uptime.c (print_uptime): Use fprintftime to print the time, rather
than printf. This should make the situation better for translations.
