* configure.ac: Comment on why we link rather than run the test,
and remove the moot __ELF__ check since we never ran it anyway,
and the new CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are a more direct test of support.
* tests/misc/wc-parallel.sh: Fix a syntax error in the previous change.
* tests/misc/md5sum-parallel.sh: Use better error checking, consistent
with that used in wc-parallel.sh.
Problems reported by Michael Felt, and and part of this fix taken
from code suggested by Pádraig Brady in:
http://bugs.gnu.org/20733#112
* configure.ac (stdbuf_supported): Check for warnings, and
for -fPIC and -shared, for AIX.
* src/stat.c (STRUCT_STATVFS): Define to struct statvfs64 if
STATFS is statvfs64.
* src/sync.c (sync_arg) [_AIX]: Open in write mode,
since AIX fsync doesn't work on read-only file descriptors.
* tests/misc/wc-parallel.sh: Skip test if xargs -P does not work.
* tests/tail-2/wait.sh: Without inotify, skip a portion of the test
that checks that -F never outputs from a tailed descriptor
after the followed name is recreated, because tail_forever()
doesn't guarantee that.
Noticed at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/22766288
* tests/misc/uniq-perf.sh: Use our standard 10s timeout,
which is sufficient to trigger the failure and also
avoids a false failure on slow/loaded systems.
Noticed at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/22766288
* src/copy.c (CAN_HARDLINK_SYMLINKS): Don't enable use of linkat()
on Darwin 14, as the gnulib fallback emulation there doesn't
preserve ownership and timestamps etc. This fixes a test failure
in tests/cp/link-symlink.sh
* tests/cp/link-deref.sh: Adjust accordingly.
When the parent directory exists and has a different
default context to the final directory, the context
was incorrectly left as that of the parent directory.
* src/mkdir.c (process_dir): Because defaultcon() is called for
existing ancestors (as it must be to avoid races), then we must
unconditionally call restorecon() on the last component due to
the already documented caveat with make_dir_parents().
Alternatively you could temp disable o->set_security_context
around make_dir_parents(), but that would be subject to races.
* tests (tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh): Add a TODO for improvement.
Reference mknod and mkfifo with print_ver_.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/20616
* tests/cp/no-ctx.sh: Scope of `var=val func` is inconsistent
across shells, so avoid that construct with functions.
* tests/df/no-mtab-status.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh: `read` needs an argument.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-race2.sh: Likewise.
* cfg.mk (sc_case_insensitive_file_names): A new syntax-check rule.
* tests/tail-2/descriptor-vs-rename.sh: Rename from
tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh
* tests/local.mk: Reference the renamed test.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* tests/dd/sparse.sh: Sync files before checking allocations,
which may be done asynchronously on NFS and BTRFS at least.
Also mark this test as very expensive on remote file systems.
* tests/du/2g.sh: Likewise, also use fallocate if available
to efficiently allocate the large file, otherwise skip
on remote file systems.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate-resources.sh: Use the more
standard is_local_dir_() to check remoteness.
* tests/cp/fiemap-empty.sh: Comment on the sync issue
for this currerntly unused test.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/20570
Supporting `split --numeric-suffixes=1 -n100` for example.
* doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Mention the two
use cases for the FROM parameter, and the consequences on
the suffix length determination.
* src/split.c (set_suffix_length): Use the --numeric-suffixes
FROM parameter in the suffix width calculation, when it's
less than the number of files specified in --number.
* tests/split/suffix-auto-length.sh: Add test cases.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/20511
Generally if logs are truncated, they're truncated to 0 length,
so output all existing data when our heuristic determines truncation.
Note with inotify, truncate() and write() are often determined
independently and so all data would be written if that was the case.
* src/tail.c (check_fspec): Reset file offset to 0 upon truncation.
(tail_forever): Likewise.
(recheck): Add a FIXME for the related issue where tail may lose
data due to tail discounting older log files too early.
* tests/tail-2/truncate.sh: A new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
The previous fixes to races in the various tail tests,
identified actual races in the tail inotify implementation.
With --follow=descriptor, if the tailed file was replaced before
the inotify watch was added, then any subsequent changes were ignored.
Similarly in --follow=name mode, all changes to a new name were
effectively ignored if that name was created after the original open()
but before the inotify_add_watch().
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Fix 3 cases.
1. With -f, don't stop tailing when file removed before watch.
2. With -f, watch right file when file replaced before watch.
3. With -F, inspect correct file when replaced before watch.
Existing tests identify these when tail compiled with TAIL_TEST_SLEEP.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate-resources.sh:
This test also identifies the issue with --follow=name
when TAIL_TEST_SLEEP is used. Adjust so the test is immune
to such races, and also fail quicker on remote file systems.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-race2.sh: A new test using GDB,
based on inotify-race.sh, which tests the -F race
without needed recompilation with sleeps.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh: Add a `wait` to ensure that
we reap all background gdb and tail processes. That resulted
in the test hanging intermittently and upon investigation was
due to gdb intermittently failing to terminate the child process
due to receiving a SIGCONT signal. Therefore we avoid using
timeout(1) which sends that signal, and instead rely on tail's
inbuilt --pid monitoring on a background sleep process.
Given this new implementation, the VERY_EXPENSIVE guard was removed.
Related issues with this test hanging were previously discussed at:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-12/msg00025.html
* tests/tail-2/F-vs-missing.sh: Use standard "fastpoll" options
(-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1) to speedup the non-inotify case.
Add the non-inotify case to the test. `wait` on the background
tail process to terminate which should avoid the need for the
non standard `retry_delay_ cleanup ...` on NFS.
* tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh: Remove 'out' at the start of the loop,
to avoid a race in checking its contents. Also ensure 'a' & 'b'
files are present before the tail process starts. Use the standard
"fastpoll" options as above.
* tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/append-only.sh: Use more standard variable names.
* tests/tail-2/flush-initial.sh: Use "fastpoll" options for
non-inotify platforms. Also `wait` on the background tail to avoid
stray processes and file cleanup issues on NFS.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse.sh: Always run non-inotify case.
Use "fastpoll" options. Use a more standard retry_delay_ instead
of a hardcoded sleep loop. Add a `wait` on the background tail.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate-resources.sh: Wait just on the
specific tail $pid needed.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh: Use "fastpoll" options.
* tests/tail-2/pid.sh: Use standard variable names.
Add a `wait` on the background tails.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f2.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Use "fastpoll" options.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/wait.sh: Likewise. Speedup by using sub second
parameters to timeout(1). Improve the part ensuring that
-F never follows a renamed file.
* tests/tail-2/infloop-1.sh: Remove invalid test. tail(1) was not
being passed the --pid=$yes_pid option, retry_delay_ wasn't used
to avoid races, and yes could write huge files before being killed.
* tests/local.mk: Remove the invalid test reference.
* tests/tail-2/assert-2.sh: Rewrite using retry_delay_(). Since
no longer hardcoding large delays, remove the VERY_EXPENSIVE tag.
* tests/tail-2/assert.sh: Likewise.
* tests/df/no-mtab-status.sh: getmntent is no longer called
when /proc/self/mountinfo is present, thus causing the test
to be skipped. Therefore wrap fopen() to ignore mountinfo,
and use the test genmntent table instead.
* tests/df/skip-duplicates.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ls/no-cap.sh: Ensure the test isn't skipped even if
capability coloring is disabled in the current $LS_COLORS.
Also just enable/disable capability coloring to avoid the
dircolors(1) overhead.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Only monitor write()s and
truncate()s to files in --follow=descriptor mode, thus avoiding
the bug where we removed the watch on renamed files.
Also adjust the inotify event processing code that is
now significant only in --follow=name mode.
* tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh: Improve this existing test by running
in both polling and inotify modes.
* tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh: A new test based on the existing one.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/19760
* tests/fs/skip-duplicates.sh: On this platform .mnt_opts is significant
so define to empty to avoid a NULL deref in read_file_system_list().
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/20210
* src/yes.c (main): Even when the internal buffer isn't large enough,
output what we've buffered already, and interate over the rest.
This improves the performance in the edge case where there are
many small arguments that overflow the buffer.
* tests/misc/yes.sh: Add a test case for the many small arguments case.
yes(1) may be used to generate repeating patterns of text
for test inputs etc., so adjust to be more efficient.
Profiling the case where yes(1) is outputting small items
through stdio (which was the default case), shows the overhead
of continuously processing small items in main() and in stdio:
$ yes >/dev/null & perf top -p $!
31.02% yes [.] main
27.36% libc-2.20.so [.] _IO_file_xsputn@@GLIBC_2.2.5
14.51% libc-2.20.so [.] fputs_unlocked
13.50% libc-2.20.so [.] strlen
10.66% libc-2.20.so [.] __GI___mempcpy
1.98% yes [.] fputs_unlocked@plta
Sending more data per stdio call improves the situation,
but still, there is significant stdio overhead due to memory copies,
and the repeated string length checking:
$ yes "`echo {1..1000}`" >/dev/null & perf top -p $!
42.26% libc-2.20.so [.] __GI___mempcpy
17.38% libc-2.20.so [.] strlen
5.21% [kernel] [k] __srcu_read_lock
4.58% [kernel] [k] __srcu_read_unlock
4.27% libc-2.20.so [.] _IO_file_xsputn@@GLIBC_2.2.5
2.50% libc-2.20.so [.] __GI___libc_write
2.45% [kernel] [k] system_call
2.40% [kernel] [k] system_call_after_swapgs
2.27% [kernel] [k] vfs_write
2.09% libc-2.20.so [.] _IO_do_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5
2.01% [kernel] [k] fsnotify
1.95% libc-2.20.so [.] _IO_file_write@@GLIBC_2.2.5
1.44% yes [.] main
We can avoid all stdio overhead by building up the buffer
_once_ and outputting that, and the profile below shows
the bottleneck moved to the kernel:
$ src/yes >/dev/null & perf top -p $!
15.42% [kernel] [k] __srcu_read_lock
12.98% [kernel] [k] __srcu_read_unlock
9.41% libc-2.20.so [.] __GI___libc_write
9.11% [kernel] [k] vfs_write
8.35% [kernel] [k] fsnotify
8.02% [kernel] [k] system_call
5.84% [kernel] [k] system_call_after_swapgs
4.54% [kernel] [k] __fget_light
3.98% [kernel] [k] sys_write
3.65% [kernel] [k] selinux_file_permission
3.44% [kernel] [k] rw_verify_area
2.94% [kernel] [k] __fsnotify_parent
2.76% [kernel] [k] security_file_permission
2.39% yes [.] main
2.17% [kernel] [k] __fdget_pos
2.13% [kernel] [k] sysret_check
0.81% [kernel] [k] write_null
0.36% yes [.] write@plt
Note this change also ensures that yes(1) will only write
complete lines for lines shorter than BUFSIZ.
* src/yes.c (main): Build up a BUFSIZ buffer of lines,
and output that, rather than having stdio process each item.
* tests/misc/yes.sh: Add a new test for various buffer sizes.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/20029
Adjust commit v8.23-140-gfdd6ebf to add the --output-error option
instead of --write-error, and treat open() errors like write() errors.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tee invocation): s/write-error/output-error/.
* src/tee.c (main): Exit on open() error if appropriate.
* tests/misc/tee.sh: Add a case to test open() errors.
* NEWS: Adjust for the more general output error behavior.
Suggested by Bernhard Voelker.
tee is very often used with pipes and this gives better control
when writing to them. There are 3 classes of file descriptors
that tee can write to: files(1), pipes(2), and early close pipes(3).
Handling write errors to 1 & 2 is supported at present with the caveat
that failure writing to any pipe will terminate tee immediately.
Handling write errors to type 3 is not currently supported.
To improve the supported combinations we add these options:
--write-error=warn
Warn if error writing any output including pipes.
Allows continued writing to still open files/pipes.
Exit status is failure if any output had error.
--write-error=warn-nopipe, -p
Warn if error writing any output except pipes.
Allows continued writing to still open files/pipes.
Exit status is failure if any non pipe output had error.
--write-error=exit
Exit if error writing any output including pipes.
--write-error=exit-nopipe
Exit if error writing any output except pipes.
Use the "nopipe" variants when files are of types 1 and 3, otherwise
use the standard variants with types 1 and 2. A caveat with the above
scheme is that a combination of pipe types (2 & 3) is not supported
robustly. I.e. if you use the "nopipe" variants when using both type
2 and 3 pipes, then any "real" errors on type 2 pipes will not be
diagnosed.
Note also a general issue with type 3 pipes that are not on tee's
stdout, is that shell constructs don't allow to distinguish early
close from real failures. For example `tee >(head -n1) | grep -m1 ..`
can't distinguish between an error or an early close in "head" pipe,
while the fail on the grep part of the pipe is distinguished
independently from the resulting pipe errors. This is a general
issue with the >() construct, rather than with tee itself.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tee invocation): Describe the new option.
* src/tee.c (usage): Likewise.
(main): With --write-error ignore SIGPIPE, and handle
the various exit, diagnostics combinations.
* tests/misc/tee.sh: Tess all the new options.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/11540
Since v5.2.1-1247-g8dafbe5, tee(1) treated '-' as stdout while POSIX
explicitly requires to treat this as a file name. Revert this change,
as the interleaved output - due to sending another copy of input to
stdout - is not considered to be useful. Discussed in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-02/msg00085.html
* src/tee.c (tee_files): Remove the special handling for "-" operands.
(usage): Remove the corresponding sentence.
* doc/coreutils.texi (common options): Remove the "tee -" example.
(tee invocation): Document that tee(1) now treats "-" as a file name.
* tests/misc/tee.sh: Add a test case for "tee -".
While at it, re-indent the above multi-argument processing case and
extend that to 13 operands, as POSIX mandates that, too.
* tests/misc/tee-dash.sh: Remove now-obsolete test.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Remove the above test.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention the change.
* src/tee.c (main): Don't continue reading if we can't
output anywhere.
* tests/misc/tee.sh: Ensure we exit when no more outputs.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* tests/init.sh (returns_): Disable tracing for this wrapper
function, so that stderr of the wrapped command is unchanged,
allowing for verification of the contents.
Each user has a maximum number of inotify watches,
so handle the cases where we exhaust these resources.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Ensure we inotify_rm_watch()
the watch for an inode, when replacing with a new watch for a name.
Return all used inotify resources when reverting to polling.
Revert to polling upon first indication of inotify resource exhaustion.
Revert to polling on any inotify resource exhaustion.
Diagnose resource exhaustion correctly in all cases.
Avoid redundant reinsertion in the hash for unchanged watches
(where only attributes of the file are changed).
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Avoid false failure when reverting to polling.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate-resources.sh: New test to check
that we're calling inotify_rm_watch() for replaced files.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* THANKS.in: Thanks for reporting and problem identification.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh (cleanup_fail_): Set fail=1
so that failures are identified. Regression in v8.23-63-g111a2b9
Also use print_ver_ rather than open coding --verbose support.
Also check for more than a single 'b' which seems brittle.
The following test fails on aarch64 on openSUSE's OpenBuildService
due to glibc's execvp reversing the pointers of 'environ', i.e.,
the output of "env|tac" equals "env env" on that platform.
* tests/misc/printenv.sh: Use 'env env' to work around the behavior
on that platform.
While at it, fix the grep pattern which suppressed all environment
variables starting with an underscore "_" instead of "$_" (and
"$LD_PRELOAD") only.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for syncfs().
* man/sync.x: Add references to syncfs, fsync and fdatasync.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sync invocation): Document the new feature.
* src/sync.c: Include "quote.h".
(AUTHORS): Include myself.
(MODE_FILE, MODE_DATA, MODE_FILE_SYSTEM, MODE_SYNC): New enum values.
(long_options): Define.
(sync_arg): New function.
(usage): Describe that arguments are now accepted.
(main): Add arguments parsing and add support for fsync(2),
fdatasync(2) and syncfs(2).
* tests/misc/sync.sh: New (and only) test for sync.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* AUTHORS: Add myself to sync's authors.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* tests/split/record-sep.sh: Use the recently added returns_ function
to simplify the shell syntax in this test. Also remove the redirection
of stdout/stderr to /dev/null as this eases analyzing errors.
* src/split.c (eolchar): A new variable to hold
the separator character (unibyte for now).
This is reference throughout rather than hardcoding '\n'.
(usage): Describe the new --separator option, and
mention records along with lines so there is no ambiguity
that all options treat lines and records equivalently.
(main): Have -t update eolchar, or default to '\n'.
* tests/split/record-sep.sh: New test case.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Document the new option.
Adjust --lines, --line-bytes, --number=[lr]/... to mention
they pertain to records if --separator is specified.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
When some program produces unexpected output, that use of
compare-vs-/dev/null will ensure that the surprising output is
printed in the test's output. With "test -s err" only, one
would have to instrument and rerun in order to see the offending
output.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_and_fail_1): Exempt 'compare' from this check.
* tests/dd/misc.sh: Change "tests -s ... || fail=1" to
"compare /dev/null ... && fail=1".
* tests/misc/nice.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/read-only.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh: Likewise.
* tests/touch/no-dereference.sh: Likewise.
Suggested by Jim Meyering in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-01/msg00042.html
Many tests use `program ... && fail=1` to ensure expected
error situations are indicated. However that would mask
an unexpected exit (like a crash). Therefore explicitly
check the expected exit code.
Note where error messages are also verified, the extra
protection is not added.
* tests/init.sh (returns_): A new helper function to
check the return code of a command, and used
throughout the tests.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_and_fail_1): Add a syntax check
to avoid new instances of this issue.
* tests/df/no-mtab-status.sh: Provide libmount placeholders,
to avoid skipping the test when libmount is in use.
* tests/df/skip-duplicates.sh: Likewise.
* tests/df/skip-rootfs.sh: Comment that the test is moot
when libmount (/proc/self/mountinfo) is being used.
Problem reported by Daiki Ueno in: http://bugs.gnu.org/19520
* src/shuf.c (main): Avoid core dump if !input_range.
* tests/misc/shuf.sh: Test for this bug.
* bootstrap: Update copyright year manually (missing in previous
gnulib update).
* tests/init.sh: Likewise.
The entries in the exemption list are processed by
"grep -vEf ./.x-update-copyright", and therefore evaluated as an
extended regular expression (ERE). Thus, the "bootstrap" entry
also matched for bootstrap.conf which we want to be updated.
* .x-update-copyright: Change all entries to EREs, i.e. including
the caret ^ and dollar sign $ meta-characters matching the beginning
and the end of a line.
* bootstrap.conf: Update copyright year by "make update-copyright".
Finally, the only one showing up with the following command should
be the COPYING file:
$ git grep 'Copyright .* Free Software' | grep -v '2015 Free Software'
Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.
* tests/du/bind-mount-dir-cycle-v2.sh: Fix case in copyright message,
so that year is updated automatically in future.
Commit v8.23-63-g111a2b9 removed the expensive tag on this test,
as it runs quickly on systems with inotify. However without that
it would take about 8 minutes for the test to complete all iterations.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh: Tag as expensive without inotify.
Also adjust the polling parameters used on systems without inotify
so that the test completes within about 15 seconds.
Included in this are gnulib changes 3ea43e02 2768ceb7
which make the device IDs from /proc/self/mountinfo
available to df. This can be leveraged by a subsequent
change to df to present a more accurate list of file systems.
* bootstrap: Merge from gnulib.
* src/ls.c (dev_ino_pop): s/obstack_blank/obstack_blank_fast/
as this API/ABI has changed, giving memory exhausted errors
if negative (large positive) numbers are passed to obstack_blank().
* tests/df/skip-duplicates.sh: Adjust as the new gnulib code
requires a non NULL mnt_opts even when mnt_type is not "none".
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/18129583 identified (on OS X)
an incorrect test assumption in the previous commit.
* gl/lib/xdectoint.c (__xnumtoint): Suppress the EINVAL
error message as it's redundant in this context.
* tests/misc/tail.pl: Suppress _optionally_ appended
strerror messages.
* tests/fmt/base.pl: Likewise.
* tests/pr/pr-tests.pl: Likewise.
* tests/split/l-chunk.sh: Likewise.
Following on from commit v8.23-82-gaddae94, consistently diagnose
numbers that are too large, so as to distinguish from other errors,
and make the limits obvious.
* gl/modules/xdectoint: A new module implementing xdecto[iu]max(),
which handles the common case of parsing a bounded integer and
exiting with a diagnostic on error.
* gl/lib/xdectoimax.c: The signed variant.
* gl/lib/xdectoint.c: The parameterized implementation.
* gl/lib/xdectoint.h: The interface.
* gl/lib/xdectoumax.c: The unsigned variant.
* bootstrap.conf: Reference the new module.
* cfg.mk (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_require_config_h_first):
Exclude the parameterized templates.
* src/csplit.c: Output EOVERFLOW or ERANGE errors if appropriate.
* src/fmt.c: Likewise.
* src/fold.c: Likewise.
* src/head.c: Likewise.
* src/ls.c: Likewise.
* src/nl.c: Likewise.
* src/nproc.c: Likewise.
* src/shred.c: Likewise.
* src/shuf.c: Likewise.
* src/stdbuf.c: Likewise.
* src/stty.c: Likewise.
* src/tail.c: Likewise.
* src/truncate.c: Likewise.
* src/split.c: Likewise.
* src/pr.c: Likewise.
* tests/pr/pr-tests.pl: Adjust to avoid matching errno diagnostic.
* tests/fmt/base.pl: Likewise.
* tests/split/l-chunk.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/shred-negative.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/tail.pl: Likewise. Also remove the redundant
existing ERR_SUBST from test err-6.
* tests/ls/hex-option.sh: Check HEX/OCT options.
* tests/misc/shred-size.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/stty-row-col.sh: Likewise.
glibc <= 2.5 would crash when passed invalid long double values,
therefore internal gnulib routines were used, essentially only by od,
to output such invalid values. Later glibc versions don't crash,
as per https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4586
and subsequently od was adjusted to use the system printf routines
through the use of the ftoastr module with commit v8.7-22-ga71c22f.
Consequently our testing of this feature was moot, and use of
the gnulib printf replacement for printf(1), od(1) and error(3) etc.
was redundant.
* configure.ac (gl_printf_safe): Unset so that we don't check that
"nan" is output for these long double values.
* tests/misc/od-float.sh: Adjust all existing checks to fail if od
exits with failure status (like crashing for example). Add a new case
for one of the problematic invalid long double values for x86_64.
We only check that od exits successfully at present, which may change
if https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17661 is resolved.
