I didn't check how long these were documented as GNU extensions,
nor when they were added by POSIX; but since they are all part
of POSIX 2008, we no longer need call them out as extensions.
The next version of POSIX will standardize %s:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=169
but as that is not out yet, I didn't change %s.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers): %R and %z are
now POSIX.
(Date conversion specifiers): Likewise for %F, %g, %G.
Commit 5eeaca94 added /sbin to the PATH for tests using mkfs. For other
tests, e.g. tests/cp-fiemap-perf using filefrag, we need /usr/sbin also.
Add both directories generally for the tests, "since many of us always
augment our PATH with all of the sbin paths all of the time anyway" (Bob
in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-11/msg00107.html).
The previous commit is hereby obsolete.
* tests/init.cfg (sanitize_path_): Add /sbin and /usr/sbin to PATH
unless already included. Needed for tests using admin tools like mkfs
and filefrag on systems where the user's environment does not have
these directories in the PATH.
* tests/init.cfg (require_mkfs_PATH_): Remove obsolete function.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Remove require_mkfs_PATH_ call.
* tests/cp/cp-mv-enotsup-xattr: Likewise.
* tests/cp/sparse-fiemap: Likewise.
* tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly: Likewise.
* tests/rm/read-only: Likewise.
Commit 5b3e538 proved useful enough to migrate to gnulib after
enhancing it to be more generic, which in turn pointed out that
commit a2c811db missed an offender.
* gnulib: Update to latest.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_reversed_compare_failure): Delete, now that
gnulib provides it.
* tests/ls/dangle: Fix last offender.
but not in gnulib-tests/.
* configure.ac (GNULIB_WARN_CFLAGS): Do not exclude
-Wsuggest-attribute=pure|const, thus enabling these two warning
options in lib/, since gnulib now toes the line.
Continue to disable them in gnulib-tests/, since some programs
there trigger these suggestions and are not worth fixing.
Last week I made a global change, commit a2c811db, `tests: use
"compare exp out", not "compare out exp"', but forgot to add a
corresponding syntax check rule. Without that, it is far too
easy to add a new test or to merge in an old one that would
be non-conforming. Obviously this is only a heuristic, since
it relies on the expected-output file to have a name that starts
with "exp".
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_reversed_compare_failure): Prohibit use of
compare with reversed arguments.
* configure.ac: Update the comment on which gcc versions still must
not use -Wsuggest-attribute=pure option: still required on post-
Fedora 16 rawhide's 4.6.2 20111027.
* bootstrap (AUTOPOINT, AUTORECONF): Factor out definitions.
Run autopoint and libtoolize *before* gnulib-tool.
After it, run an abbreviated autoreconf, rather than a loop around
all tools.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_tool_option_extras): Add both --symlink
and --makefile-name=gnulib.mk. Remove stray use of $bt.
* lib/Makefile.am: Initialize all of the following so that
generated code in gnulib.mk may use += to append to those variables:
AM_CFLAGS, AM_CPPFLAGS, BUILT_SOURCES, CLEANFILES, EXTRA_DIST,
MAINTAINERCLEANFILES, MOSTLYCLEANDIRS, MOSTLYCLEANFILES, SUFFIXES,
noinst_LIBRARIES.
This bootstrap script arose back when gnulib-tool was young.
Since then, it has seen improvements that render much of this
script unnecessary. In particular, it can now make symlinks
to the files it uses. Also, I no longer see as much value in
marking files as read-only via comments.
* bootstrap (slirp, bt_mark_as_generated): Remove.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use gnulib's gettext-h, not the
gettext module. Not only is gettext-h far smaller (it has far fewer
dependencies than the gnulib module), but it does not suffer from
the problem with the gettext module whereby it adds a -I.../intl
option to compilation flags. That can provoke warnings, since we
don't have such a directory. We used to work around that via a
hack in bootstrap, but that was ugly and inefficient.
* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Don't warn about a line that is
longer than 72 if it is a comment. Git-generated comments would
occasionally trigger this.
* configure.ac: Disable some new warning options pulled in via
an update to gnulib's manywarnings module: -Wformat-nonliteral,
-Wunsuffixed-float-constants, -Wdouble-promotion.
* src/groups.c (main):
* src/install.c (need_copy):
* src/su.c (log_su):
* src/test.c (unary_operator):
* src/whoami.c (main):
Don't assume that getuid and friends always succeed.
This fixes the same problem that we recently fixed with 'id'.
* build-aux/git-log-fix: Comment out two unused entries.
Each of those two entries does indicate an error in a commit log,
but precedes the cut-off date, so has an actual VC'd ChangeLog entry.
I.e., gitlog-to-changelog generates ChangeLog entries since 2008-02,
and these two predate that.
* ChangeLog-2008: Make the indicated correction.
* src/ln.c (usage): A paragraph describing interactions of -s
with -L and -P somehow snuck in between the description of the
--backup option and the values used to control it. Fix this by
moving the value description up.
* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Rewrite in perl.
This is still a work in progress in that it hard-codes coreutils-
specific program names and policies that should be easy to selectively
enable or disable without modifying the script.
* src/sort.c (usage): Use KEYDEF instead of POS, and call out the
specific OPTS that can occur in KEYDEF.
Based on a report by Lars Noodén, http://bugs.gnu.org/10019
* src/id.c (main): Report an error if no args are given and getuid
fails, because print_full_info needs ruid. Redo code so that
getuid and friends are invoked only when needed; this makes the
code easier to follow, and is how I found the above bug.
* src/system.h (emit_size_note): Use "unit" rather than "suffix",
and move multiplication to example instead of in suffix list.
See additional discussion in Bug#9939.
* src/id.c (GETID_MAY_FAIL): Remove.
(main): Check for nonzero errno, rather than having a compile-time
GETID_MAY_FAIL guess. Suggested by Roland McGrath in
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10021#47>.
Also, the old code was incorrect if uid_t was narrower than int.
(print_full_info): Remove unnecessary cast to -1.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Block size): IEC 60027-2 has been superseded
by ISO/IEC 80000-13, so prefer the newer standard but also mention
the old. The new standard specifies Zi and Yi, so they are no
longer GNU extensions. Fix stale URL to BIPM.
2011-11-14 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
id: handle (uid_t) -1 more portably
* src/id.c (GETID_MAY_FAIL): Remove.
(main): Check for negative return values, not for -1.
The old code was incorrect if uid_t was narrower than int,
regardless of whether we were on a GNU or a POSIX platform.
The new code is simpler and doesn't need GETID_MAY_FAIL.
(print_full_info): Remove unnecessary cast to -1.
POSIX-conforming getuid, geteuid, etc. functions cannot fail,
but on GNU/Hurd systems and some others, they may.
* src/id.c (main) [__GNU__]: Detect and diagnose any such failure.
* tests/id/gnu-zero-uids: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it to the list.
* tests/init.cfg (require_gnu_): New function.
* Makefile.am (check-git-hook-script-sync): New rule -- not used
anywhere, because it depends on having very recent git.
* scripts/git-hooks/pre-applypatch: New file.
* cfg.mk (url_dir_list): Use this http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$(PACKAGE)
for the first link listed in the generated announcement.
announce-gen now provides the faster mirror link automatically.
Using ls -l on an SELinux-enabled system would leak one SELinux
context string per non-empty-directory command-line argument.
* src/ls.c (free_ent): New function, factored out of...
(clear_files): ...here. Use it.
(extract_dirs_from_files): Call free_ent (f), rather than simply
free (f->name). The latter failed to free the possibly-malloc'd
linkname and scontext members, and thus could leak one of those
strings per command-line argument.
* THANKS.in: Update.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Juraj Marko in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/751974.
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.
This fixes an incompatibility with POSIX 2008 and with BSD.
Problem reported by Abdallah Clark (Bug#9939)
via Alan Curry (Bug#10016).
* NEWS: Document this.
* doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Document the
new -k behavior, and --kibibytes.
* src/ls.c (file_human_output_opts): New static var.
(long_options, usage): Add --kibibytes.
(decode_switches, gobble_file, print_long_format):
Implement the new -k behavior.
* tests/ls/block-size: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
