Redirect with the shell command, not in a separate 'exec'.
Without this patch, Fedora 15 x86-64 /bin/sh (i.e., Bash 4.2.10)
complained about running out of file descriptors in the shell.
These issues were seen on an OpenSuse 10.3 system
(kernel 2.6.22.5 x86_64, glibc 2.6.1-18, bash updated to 4.2),
and also on a 64 bit SLES system with a 2.6.16 kernel.
Both systems had 2 CPUs.
There were two issues seen. 1. Occasionally the
timeout.cmd shell script would block SIGINT until
the sleep command exited. 2. Much less frequently the
signal handler in the timeout command itself was ignored,
causing SIGALRM to kill the process.
* tests/misc/timeout-group: Detect the above two cases,
and skip rather than fail. Note only issue 2. causes
a failure unless skipped, but we skip for case 1. also,
for diagnostic purposes.
This could cause a false failure, or even
an infinite loop in rare circumstances.
* tests/misc/timeout-group: Increase the timeouts
passed to the timeout command, so that they're
effectively not used. Instead the command termination
is triggered by the kill commands when everything
is in the correct state.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* src/tac.c (copy_to_temp): Do not reuse the template buffer.
Instead, scribble only on a freshly-xstrdup'd copy each time.
Free that buffer both here, upon failure, and ...
(tac_nonseekable): ...free the buffer in caller, upon success.
* tests/misc/tac-2-nonseekable: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Ambrose Feinstein in http://debbugs.gnu.org/9762.
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.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
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.
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.
* src/join (g_names): New global (was main's "names").
(main): Update all uses of "names".
(line_no[2]): New globals.
(get_line): Increment after reading each line.
(check_order): Print the standard "file name:line_no: " prefix
as well as the offending line when reporting disorder.
Here is a sample old/new comparison:
-join: file 1 is not in sorted order
+join: in:4: is not sorted: contents-of-line-4
* tests/misc/join: Change the two affected tests to expect
the new diagnostic.
Add new tests for more coverage: mismatch in file 2,
two diagnostics, zero-length out-of-order line.
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
Suggested by David Gast in http://debbugs.gnu.org/9236
These changes were mostly mechanical, made by running the
following command:
git grep -lw framework_failure | grep -v ChangeLog \
| xargs perl -pi -e 's/\b(framework_failure)\b/${1}_/'
and then editing init.cfg and `tests/cp/cp-a-selinux' by hand.
* tests/init.cfg (framework_failure): Remove, `framework_failure_'
from init.sh should be used instead in the tests.
Remove now-obsolete "FIXME" comment.
(is_local_dir_, require_strace_, require_membership_in_two_groups_,
require_sparse_support_, skip_if_mcstransd_is_running_,
mkfifo_or_skip_) Use `framework_failure_', not `framework_failure'.
* Many test scripts: Likewise.
* src/timeout.c (settimeout): A new function to convert
from a floating point duration and call alarm() or
timer_settime() if that's available.
(parse_duration): Return a double rather than unsigned int.
(usage): Mention floating point is supported.
(main): Pass the double to settimeout() rather than
calling alarm() directly with the parsed int.
(cleanup): Likewise.
* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Say floating point timeouts
now supported, and mention the caveat with resolution.
* bootstrap.conf: Include the timer-time gnulib module.
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Add a test with nanoseconds.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
The following dropped the space from the first field
printf "1234567 \t1\n" | unexpand -a
Note POSIX says that spaces should not precede tabs.
Also a single trailing space should not be converted
if the next field starts with non blank characters.
So we enforce those rules too, with this change.
* src/unexpand.c (unexpand): Implement as per POSIX rules.
* tests/misc/unexpand: Add tests, and adjust existing
tests as per POSIX rules.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by Hallvard B Furuseth
Treat fractions as a request to round up to the next representable
value, and treat out-of-range values as maximal ones. This is
consistent with how "sleep" works. And this way, "timeout
999999999999999999d FOO" and "timeout 4.5 foo" are more likely to
do what the user wants.
* src/timeout.c: Include c-strtod.h and xstrtod.h, not xstrtol.h.
(apply_time_suffix): Change it to the way sleep.c's time_suffix
does things. Maybe this function (identical in both programs,
other than its name) should be moved to a library?
(parse_duration): Return a maximal value on overflow. Return
unsigned int, not unsigned long. Allow fractions, which round
up to the next integer value.
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Adjust tests to match new behavior.
Add a very large number.
* src/timeout.c (cleanup): Send signals directly to the child
in case it has started its own process group (like a cascaded
timeout command would for example).
* test/misc/timeout-group: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Or more accurately, commands not started from the shell prompt,
that are interactive, or need to receive Ctrl-C etc. from the terminal.
* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Document --foreground.
* src/timeout.c (main): Set the foreground flag and don't create
a separate group.
(cleanup): Only send a signal directly to the monitored command
when the foreground flag is set.
(usage): Describe --foreground.
* tests/misc/timeout-group: Add a new test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test.
NEWS: Mention the new option.
Reported by Shay Shimony
Analysis by Alan Curry
Fix suggested by Paul Eggert
Ensure that English diagnostics are emitted even when using
French sorting rules.
* tests/misc/sort-debug-keys: Unset LC_ALL and set LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE and LC_NUMERIC to the fr_FR.UTF-8 locale, while setting
LC_MESSAGES=C. Reported by Stefano Lattarini.
* tests/init.cfg (skip_test_): Remove function.
Use skip_ in place of skip_test_ everywhere else.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_skip_): Remove rule.
* tests/**: Use skip_, not skip_test_, everywhere.
* src/split.c (lines_bytes_chunk): Handle the edge case
where the file is truncated as we read.
* tests/misc/split-lchunk: Cleanup; no functional change.
* src/split.c (lines_chunk_split): Ensure that data is only
written to stdout when k specified. Also ensure that
extra files are not created when there is more data available
than reported in the file size.
* tests/misc/split-lchunk: Verify that split -n l/k/n doesn't
generate any files, and that -n l/n always generates n files.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* tests/misc/tac-continue: Fix typo in usually-skipped test:
s/mkfifo_or_skip/mkfifo_or_skip_/ (i.e., append "_").
This test is usually skipped, because I'm probably the only
one to set the FULL_PARTITION_TMPDIR envvar, and recently the
one I'd been using ceased to exist, so this test was skipped
even for me. Good argument for making this a root-only test
and creating a full partition just for this test case.
* src/printf.c (STRTOX): Don't access memory after a
string containing a single quote character.
* tests/misc/printf: Add tests for various combinations
of single quote characters combined with a numeric format.
* THANKS.in: Add bug reporter.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported-by: Paul Marinescu <paul.marinescu@imperial.ac.uk>
* gl/lib/randperm.c (randperm_new): When the number of items
to return H, is much smaller than the total number of items N,
use a hash to represent the sparse permutations of the set N.
This is currently enabled for N > 128K and N/H > 32.
* tests/misc/shuf: Ensure shuf can quickly return 2 numbers
from a large range.
* gl/modules/randperm: Depend on hash.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
skip_test_ emits its diagnostic both to FD 9 (tty), and to
FD 2 (usually the log file), whereas init.sh's skip_ emits
only to FD 9. Without that, the log is slightly less useful.
* tests/cp/fiemap-2: Use skip_test_, not skip_.
* tests/cp/fiemap-perf: Likewise.
* tests/du/bigtime: Likewise.
* tests/du/files0-from-dir: Likewise.
* tests/du/move-dir-while-traversing: Likewise.
* tests/init.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/sort-stale-thread-mem: Likewise.
* tests/misc/stat-nanoseconds: Likewise.
* tests/mv/i-3: Likewise.
* tests/mv/sticky-to-xpart: Likewise.
* tests/split/filter: Likewise.
Prompted by a report from Pádraig Brady.
* src/sort.c (key_warn): `sort -k2,1n --debug` would output
warnings about being both "zero width" and "spanning multiple fields".
Suppress the latter one.
* tests/misc/sort-debug-warn: Add a couple of test cases.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Remove misc/pwd-unreadable-parent.
This test was misleading and useless (was always skipped).
Inspired by a report from Bruno Haible: http://debbugs.gnu.org/8570
* tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Remove file.
* tests/CuSkip.pm (skip): New file/module/function, to help
the perl test scripts "skip" a test consistently, emitting
a diagnostic both into the log file and into the outermost
stderr stream that is more likely to be seen by a human.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Add -MCuSkip.
* tests/misc/date-next-dow: Use CuSkip::skip in place of warn+exit-77.
* tests/misc/tty-eof: Likewise.
* tests/misc/uniq: Likewise.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-newline: Likewise. Also, s/program_name/ME/.
* tests/misc/ls-misc (setuid_setup, main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Likewise, and add -I"$abs_srcdir" -MCuSkip
to the $PERL invocation command.
Inspired by a request from Bruno Haible regarding misc/tty-eof:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/8570
* tests/misc/help-version: Sleep only ~30s, not 10m.
The latter was a problem when somehow that sleep process would
hang around and thereby prevent (for up to 10m) a normal unmount
of the temporary partition in which I'd run the tests.
* src/cut.c (set_fields): When computing the maximum range endpoint,
take into consideration the start of any unbounded range, like "999-".
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/cut (big-unbounded-b,c,f): Add tests.
Reported by Paul Marinescu in http://debbugs.gnu.org/7993
The bug was introduced on 2004-12-04 via commit 7380cf79.
This case was overlooked in commit bdde34f9, 2010-08-05,
"sort: tune and refactor --debug code, and fix minor underlining bug"
* src/sort.c (debug_key): Don't adjust the key end when
it's before the key start.
* tests/misc/sort-debug-keys: Add a test case.
This allows one to use join as a field extractor like:
join -a1 -o 1.3,1.1 - /dev/null
* src/join.c (join): Don't flag unpairable lines when
one of the files is empty.
* tests/misc/join: Add a new test for empty input, and adjust
a previous test that was only checking against empty input.
* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Document the change.
* NEWS: Likewise.
Lines with a different number of fields than the first line,
will be truncated or padded.
* src/join.c (prfields): A new function refactored from prjoin(),
to output all but the join field.
(prjoin): Don't swap line1 and line2 when line1 is blank
so that the padding is applied to the right place.
(main): Handle the -o 'auto' option.
* tests/misc/join: Add 6 new cases to test the auto format.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Suggestion from Assaf Gordon
