* 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
* tests/ls/stat-free-color: The system may perform additional stat
calls upon loading (seen on OpenSuSE-11.4). Count only the number
of stat calls compared to --help.
This also reduces back to "1" the number of expected calls,
effectively reverting part of 2011-06-01 commit, ccf2d9a4.
* tests/init.sh (warn_): Use "sed 1q" in place of "head -1".
The latter is officially obsolete but more portable than "head -n1".
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* tests/shell-or-perl: Prefer the `read' builtin over `grep' to
look at the shebang line of test scripts. Since `read' is a
special builtin, it might abort the whole program upon failures,
so add extra sanity checks, verifying that the test script exists
and is readable, before trying to read from it.
This change implements a more correct and idiomatic use of the
features of the Automake-provided 'parallel-tests' harness.
Moreover, this change is required in order for the testsuite to
continue to work with the new testsuite harness that is planned
to be introduced in Automake 1.12 (which, as of the writing date,
is still under development and in alpha state).
* tests/shell-or-perl: New auxiliary script.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute it.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Remove definition of the
`shell_or_perl_' shell function, whose code has been moved in
the new script above (with a few improvements and extensions).
Do not use it to run the test scripts.
(LOG_COMPILER): New, properly invoking `shell-or-perl'.
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.
* tests/init.sh (warn_): Use printf, not echo. The latter would
misbehave when given strings containing a backslash or starting
with e.g., -n. James Youngman suggested setting IFS.
Running "make check" normally prints a diagnostic to the outermost
stderr (usually a tty) to explain why a test is skipped. It did this
by redirecting FD 9 to stderr (via "exec 9>&2") before invoking the
shell script. Shell scripts write skip-explanation to FD 9 via
init.sh's skip_ function. However, with ksh and HP-UX's /bin/sh,
the effects of "exec 9>&2" are canceled upon fork-and-exec, so we
would get a "Bad file number" diagnostic and no skip explanation on
those systems.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Redirect more portably, via
"$(SHELL) 9>&2", rather than the prior "exec 9>&2; $(SHELL) ..."
Actually, we use "shell_or_perl_ 9>&2", to make this effective
also for the perl-based tests.
* tests/init.sh (stderr_fileno_): Update the advice in comments.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/22488
for lots of discussion. Stefano Lattarini suggested the solution
of putting "9>&2" after the command. Reported by Bruno Haible.
* tests/dd/nocache: Relax the test, as the system
may return various errors from posix_fadvise().
HPUX 11.31 returns ENOTTY for example.
Reported by Bruno Haible
* tests/ls/stat-free-color: This test recently began to fail on
rawhide because dynamic library start-up code now stats "/selinux",
making the total number of calls 2 rather than the prior 1.
Create two more dangling symlinks, so that any erroneous stat-
or lstat-calling code will get at least those three.
* src/chown_core.c (describe_change): Accept the ownership of
the original file and output that when not changing.
This is significant when --from is specified as then
the original and specified ownership may be different.
(user_group_str): A new helper function refactored from
describe_change().
(change_file_owner): Pass the original user and group
strings to describe_change().
* test/chown/basic: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* src/split.c (main): Exit with a diagnostic if --filter
is specified along with a specific chunk number.
* test/split/filter: Ensure this combination fails.
* src/split.c (bytes_split): Stop reading when we
can no longer write to a child process.
(lines_rr): Likewise.
(lines_bytes_split): No change is made here since
input is bounded by the original file size.
* test/split/filter: Add test cases.
src/split.c (main): Don't unblock SIGPIPE before cleanup,
as then any pending signals will be sent and cause
the main split process to exit with a non zero status (141).
* test/split/filter: Add a test for this case.
* 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/chmod.c (describe_change): Pass in the original mode,
and output this in the messages.
* tests/chmod/c-option: Adjust as per the new message.
* THANKS.in: Remove the now auto-generated name.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
* 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.
Even on a system with d_type support, the default use of --color
makes ls stat every file in order to be able to honor settings like
EXEC, STICKY, ORPHAN, SETUID, etc., because those settings require
information that is not provided by dirent.d_type. However, if
for a potentially large performance gain, you are willing to disable
those settings, you can now make ls --color give type-related coloring
and perform no stat calls at all (other than the unavoidable call-per-
command-line argument). Before this change, even with all of those
attributes disabled, ls --color would still stat every directory.
Now, we're down to the minimum of one stat call per command-line arg.
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): With --color, don't stat a
non-command-line-specified directory when no directory-coloring
attribute is enabled.
* tests/init.cfg (require_dirent_d_type_): New function.
* tests/d_type-check: New script, mostly from Pádraig Brady.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it.
* tests/ls/stat-free-color: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Describe how
to use dircolors to make ls --color refrain from calling stat
on a d_type-enabled file system.
Prompted by a query from Josef Bacik.
* 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
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Just as without inotify,
tail --follow=name now terminates when the last tailed-by-name file
is unlinked or moved aside. This bug was introduced on 2009-06-15
via commit ae494d4b, "tail: use inotify if it is available".
Reported by Tim Underwood in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/22286
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.
* tests/tail-2/follow-name: Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Otherwise, this would fail (albeit rarely) on a "make -j24 check" run.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f2: Increase timeout from 1 second to 10,
to avoid false positive failure.
* tests/cp/sparse-fiemap: Parenthesize ternary expression used
as an argument to awk's printf. Otherwise, gawk 3.0.1 and the
one from debian stable's original-awk would get a syntax error.
Reported by Dennis Clarke.
Copyright note: tiny change
* tests/cp/sparse-fiemap: When this test was run as root on an ext3
file system, (ext3 had known problems), it would trickily create and
mount a loopback ext4 file system and use that instead. However, due
to a bug in 2.6.39-rc1..rc3, this loopback test (when run in another
loopback FS) exposed a bug with 1k-blocksize ext4 whereby non-NUL
data would be read from a hole. For details, see this:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/24495
Pádraig Brady
Jim Meyering
Bernhard Voelker
Stefano Lattarini
James Youngman
Alan Curry