A lot of this is converting http: to https:.
Also, gmane went away, so remove URLs that no longer work and
are not easy to figure out what they were.
Some of this stuff is so old that it no longer matters anyway.
The above new section looked a bit odd as the only general documentation
in between the utility chapters.
* doc/coreutils.texi (File timestamps): Move to a separate chapter.
Commit 4f650aad was incomplete; it changed NEWS but not the hash,
and introduced a grammar error.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update via 'make update-NEWS-hash'.
* doc/coreutils.texi (File timestamps): Fix doubled word.
Prompted by a bug report from Scott Deerwester (Bug#25407).
* doc/coreutils.texi (File timestamps): New section.
Revamp other sections to use this new section, and
use more-consistent terminology.
* 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.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
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
* src/wc.c (main): Reset fstatus[0].failed between files when reusing
the fstatus[0] entry in --files-from0 mode. This ensures a stat() is
done for each file, avoiding incorrect counts and redundant reading.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* tests/misc/wc-files0.sh: Add a test case.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/23073
When running "make check" on a Linux system running SELinux with a
non-MLS policy, tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh test fails with:
chcon: invalid context: root:object_r:tmp_t:s0: Invalid argument
Indeed in such a configuration, contexts cannot have ":s0" suffix.
* init.cfg (get_selinux_type): Refactor this function to here
from various tests. Update to work with a non-MLS policy.
(mls_enabled_): A new function to detect if MLS is enabled.
(skip_if_mcstransd_is_running_): Update to not skip when
MLS is not enabled.
* tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh: Use a valid non-MLS context when needed.
* tests/install/install-Z-selinux.sh: Likewise.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/selinux.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/chcon.sh: Skip if non-MLS as --range used throughout.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/22631
* tests/misc/ls-time.sh: Skip the test rather than ERROR
when `touch -m -d ...` fails (Hurd).
* tests/tail-2/follow-stdin.sh: Avoid false FAILs by ignoring
the variances in sterror output.
* tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh: Likewise. Also avoid ERRORs
on systems that don't define _D_EXACT_NAMELEN.
* src/head.c (elide_tail_bytes_file): Ensure we don't use
st_size unless we've previously used seek() to determine
the CURRENT_POS in the seekable file.
This was seen to cause issue on FreeBSD 11 when the pipe
buffer was filled with `yes | head --lines=-0`, in which
case st_size was 64KiB while ST_BLKSIZE() was 4KiB.
Reported by Assaf Gordon.
... in the case where two or more directories nested in each other are
created and each of them defaults to a different SELinux context.
* src/install.c (make_ancestor): When calling defaultcon(), give it the
same path that is given to mkdir(). The other path is not always valid
wrt. current working directory.
* src/mkdir.c (make_ancestor): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1398913
This was detected with ASAN, but can also be seen without ASAN with:
$ tac - - <&-
tac: standard input: read error: Bad file descriptor
*** Error in `tac': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x...
* src/tac.c (copy_to_temp): Don't close our output stream on
(possibly transient) output error, or on input error.
(temp_stream): clearerr() on the stream about to be reused,
to ensure future stream use is not impacted by transient errors.
* tests/misc/tac-2-nonseekable.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/25041
Reproduced under UBSAN with `tail -f <&-` giving:
tail.c:2220:18: runtime error: load of value 190,
which is not a valid value for type ‘_Bool'
* src/tail.c (tail_file): Ensure f->ignore is initialized
in all cases where we can't tail the specified file.
* tests/tail-2/follow-stdin.sh: Add a test case which
checks stderr has no UBSAN warnings.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/25041
* NEWS: Mention in improvements about the workaround for
the glibc issue with closed stdin, and the new supported file systems.
* tests/misc/b2sum.sh: Spelling fix.
* src/longlong.h: Sync from gmp repo incorporating:
Protect umul_ppmm with do ... while (0)
Replace obsolete ARC asm 'J' constraints with 'Cal'
Provide umul_ppmm for riscv64
glibc has changed the public define
from _STRING_ARCH_unaligned to _STRING_INLINE_unaligned as per
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19462
* gl/lib/rand-isaac.c: Cater for both defines.
* gl/lib/randread.c: Likewise.
* src/system.h: Update commented out code.
* tests/ls/quote-align.sh: Remove "total" line
which can vary per file system depending on allocation.
Reported by Assaf Gordon on OpenSolaris (5.11/5.10).
This was detected with:
echo a > a; pr "-S$(printf "\t\t\t")" a -m a > /dev/null
Resulting in ASAN triggering:
====================================================
ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow
READ of size 1 at 0x00000041b622 thread T0
#0 0x40506a in print_sep_string ../src/pr.c:2241
#1 0x407ec4 in read_line ../src/pr.c:2493
#2 0x40985c in print_page ../src/pr.c:1802
#3 0x40985c in print_files ../src/pr.c:1618
#4 0x4036e0 in main ../src/pr.c:1136
* src/pr.c (init_parameters): Ensure we only override the
specified separator when it's a single tab, thus matching
the calculated separator length.
* tests/pr/pr-tests.pl: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* src/ptx.c (fix_output_parameters): Ensure line_width doesn't
go negative, which can happen when the --width is less
than the --gap-size.
* tests/misc/ptx-overrun.sh: Add a test case that triggers
with ASAN. (Note the longer filename is needed to trigger).
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/25011
* tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh: ASAN correctly indicated
that fts was writing to freed memory. This was because
we reused a single dirent in our readdir() test wrapper.
Since fts was deallocating those dirents, we now get
a new dirent for each call to our readdir wrapper.
ASAN reported this error for: split -n2/3 /dev/null
ERROR: AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param: (size=-1)
#0 0x7f0d4c36951d in __asan_memmove (/lib64/libasan.so.2+0x8d51d)
#1 0x404e06 in memmove /usr/include/bits/string3.h:59
#2 0x404e06 in bytes_chunk_extract src/split.c:988
#3 0x404e06 in main src/split.c:1626
Specifically there would be invalid memory access
and subsequent processing if the chunk to be extracted
was beyond the initial amount read from file (which is
currently capped at 128KiB). This issue is not in a
released version, only being introduced in commit v8.25-4-g62e7af0
* src/split.c (bytes_chunk_extract): The initial_read != SIZE_MAX
should have been combined with && rather than ||, but also this
condition is always true in this function so remove entirely.
* tests/split/b-chunk.sh: Add a test case.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/25003
In recent commit v8.25-93-g7fc7206 we used the f->remote flag
which wasn't set in all cases. This was detected with
ASAN giving this error when reading f->remote;
runtime error: load of value 190,
which is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
* src/tail.c (fremote): Query the system even without inotify.
(recheck): Always set f->fremote for valid files.
Installing with -j2 or greater could result in a failure like
/bin/sh: line 29: /P/bin/install: Permission denied
when /P/bin/install specifies your PATH-selected install program.
This would arise because we're using "install" to install all
man/*.1 files, and that command would run concurrently with the one
that installs "/P/bin/install" itself. We would run this command:
"src/ginstall src/ginstall /P/bin/install", and it would result
in intervals during which the destination file does not exist,
is empty or incomplete and not executable. We addressed this
problem long ago for installation of actual binaries by telling the
installation rules to use our just-built bin/ginstall (only when not
cross-compiling) rather than the PATH-resolved "install" program.
This change is to do the same for those .1 files.
* src/local.mk (INSTALL): Override automake's default of something
like "INSTALL = /P/bin/install -c".
(INSTALL_PROGRAM): Now that we set INSTALL, there is no longer any
need to set this derived variable. Its default definition,
"INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}" does what we require.
Improved by Eric Blake.
* src/comm.c (total_option): Add bool variable for the new option.
(TOTAL_OPTION): Add enum value.
(long_options): Add array element for the new option.
(usage): Document the new option here.
(compare_files): Count the lines in total[3], and output the summary at
the end.
(main): Accept the new option.
* doc/coreutils.texi (comm invocation): Document it.
* tests/misc/comm.pl: Test it. While at it, improve the test data
to have 1 unique line in the first file, 2 unique lines in the second
file, and 3 common lines.
* NEWS (New Features): Mention the new option.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/24929
