* src/tail.c (main): If -n0 or -c0 were specified without -f,
then no data would ever be output, so exit without reading input.
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f.sh: Augment the related test with this case.
* src/shuf.c (main): If -n0 specified then no data would ever be output,
so exit without reading input.
* tests/misc/shuf.sh: Augment the related test with this case.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ln invocation): Describe how symlinks are
resolved with --relative, and give an example showing the greater
control available through realpath(1).
* tests/ln/relative.sh: Add a test to demonstrate full symlink
resolution, in a case where it might not be wanted.
Don't dereference an existing symlink being replaced.
I.E. generate the symlink relative to the symlink's containing dir,
rather than to some arbitrary place it points to.
* src/ln.c (convert_abs_rel): Don't consider the final component
of the symlink name when canonicalizing, as we want to avoid
dereferencing the final component.
* tests/ln/relative.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Resolves http://bugs.gnu.org/14116
Reservoir sampling optimizes selecting K random lines from large or
unknown-sized input: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
Note this also avoids reading any input when -n0 is specified.
* src/shuf.c (main): Use reservoir-sampling when the number of output
lines is known, and the input size is large or unknown.
(input_size): A new function to get the input size for regular files.
(read_input_reservoir_sampling): New function to read lines from input,
keeping only K lines in memory, replacing lines with decreasing prob.
(write_permuted_output_reservoir): New function to output reservoir.
* tests/misc/shuf-reservoir.sh: An expensive_ test using valgrind to
exercise the reservoir-sampling code.
* tests/local.mk: Reference new test.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* README-release: fix the `make` command, and mention how
to get the latest results without requring running a
system with the latest kernel.
* src/local.mk (src/fs-latest-magic.h): A new target to
document how/where to place the latest magic header.
(src/fs-kernel-magic): Adjust to include separately
downloaded header if available.
(src/fs-magic): Undefine MANPAGER as it may impact the
ability to pipe the output of man(1).
(fs-magic-compare): Don't echo the commands run as they're
distracting from the output which needs to be examined.
* m4/gmp.m4 (cu_GMP): Add an extra check that gmp.h is available
which is required on one Mac OS X 10.5.8 system at least,
where the lib was available but the header wasn't.
Also enable our GMP code on systems where GMP is not in a separate lib.
* src/od.c (usage): Mention any printable character is output,
Not just ASCII.
* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation): Further clarify that only
single byte characters are output (due to the alignment requirement).
Also mention the fact that 3 digit octal sequences are output
for non printable characters without a corresponding C escape.
Reported in http://bugs.gnu.org/13947
* src/stat.c (usage): Mention that the values are only
defined for character and block special files.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Likewise.
Also mention st_rdev.
Reported in http://bugs.gnu.org/13927
* doc/coreutils.texi (ambiguousGroupNote): Ensure '\' is escaped
appropriately within the macro. This was verified to generate
a single '\' in both "info" and "pdf" outputs.
* src/uniq.c (usage): Summarize the new option,
and adjust the --all-repeated option to be more consistent.
(check_file): Merge the --group functionality into
the core loop for the default uniq operation since
it's very similar and can output lines immediately upon reading.
(main): Handle the new --group option and make it
mutually exclusive with other selection options.
* tests/misc/uniq.pl: Add tests.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): Describe --group.
* src/system.h (emit_ancillary_info): Link to the bug report email
addresses and general help URLs online rather than specifying directly.
This give us greater scope to present better info like describing
the difference between bug-coreutils@gnu.org and coreutils@gnu.org etc.
* tests/misc/help-version.sh: Remove the check for bug-coreutils@gnu.org
* tests/local.mk: Remove the no longer needed PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.
* NEWS: Mention join's new option: --zero-terminated (-z).
* src/join.c: Add new option, --zero-terminated (-z), to make
join use the NUL byte as separator/delimiter rather than newline.
(get_line): Use readlinebuffer_delim in place of readlinebuffer.
(main): Handle the new option.
(usage): Describe new option the same way sort does.
* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Describe the new option.
* tests/misc/join.pl: add tests for -z option.
* src/dircolors.hin: Add .cab, .alz, .lzo, .lrz, .t7z, .tzo, .lha
to colorized archives.
Suggested by Ville Skyttä in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/868510
* src/install.c (strip): Indicate failure with a return code instead
of terminating the program.
(install_file_in_file): Handle strip's return code and unlink the
created file if necessary.
* tests/install/strip-program.sh: Add a test to cover the changes.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.
Reported by John Reiser in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/632444.
* tests/du/long-from-unreadable.sh: This test requires a NAME_MAX
of at least 200, so skip the test otherwise.
* tests/rm/deep-2.sh: Likewise.
Reported by C de-Avillez with ecryptfs where NAME_MAX = 143.
Git honours the GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the "core.editor" Git
configuration variable, and the EDITOR environment variable (in that
order, and defaulting to "vi" if none of them is set) to decide which
editor should be invoked for the user when he has to or want to edit
his commit message.
However, our commit-msg hook, when invoking an editor on behalf of the
user to allow him to fix a non-policy-complaint commit message, only
honoured the EDITOR environment variable. To avoid potential annoying
inconsistencies, we should really use the same logic used by Git in the
selection of the editor. Luckily, we don't have to duplicate this
logic (that would be brittle in the long term), as we can rely on the
"git var" command, designed exactly to be used in situations like this.
* scripts/git-hooks ($editor): Adjust definition.
I have a custom 'editor' script in ~/bin, and a system-provided
'editor' program in /usr/bin (on Debian, this is a link set up the
"debian alternatives" subsystem). My '$EDITOR' and '$GIT_EDITOR'
variables are set simply to 'editor' (no absolute path), which I
expect should point to my 'editor' script, since ~/bin precedes
/usr/bin in my PATH definition. But the 'commit-msg' hook used in
coreutils unconditionally resets its PATH to '/bin:/usr/bin', which
causes it to call the "wrong" editor (the one in /usr/bin, not the
one in ~/bin) when it makes me update a botched commit message.
* scripts/git-hooks: Don't reset $ENV{PATH} to '/bin:/usr/bin',
which was only done to avoid failure when enabling Perl's taint
checking.
* tests/du/threshold.sh: use `cut` rather than
sed to avoid using the non portable \t which
fails on sed on openbsd 5 at least.
Also remove a redundant call to `tr` and avoid
explicit setting of LANG=C which is done globally.
On linkers that don't remove unused functions,
there will be a reference to a missing dev_debug symbol
in the devmsg() function. So for now ...
* src/system.h: ... move devmsg() from here ...
* src/numfmt.c: ... to here, and document future cleanup.
* src/factor.c: Likewise.
src/numfmt.c (parse_format_string): On some systems, strtol() returns
EINVAL if no conversion was performed. So only handle ERANGE here,
and handle other format errors directly.
* src/numfmt.c (usage): Keep a single space between the "K = 1000",
so that it's not displayed on a separate line. Also place ','
between each unit entry to improve readability.
* src/numfmt.c (usage): Correct synopsis and make command description
clearer. Start option descriptions with lowercase letter; use
semicolon instead of period where needed; indent continuation lines;
gettextize single options for ease of translation and maintenance;
sort options alphabetically.
* doc/coreutils.texi (numfmt invocation): Sort numfmt options
alphabetically. Enforce double-blank-after-period style.
This addresses http://bugs.gnu.org/13681.
Improved-by: Bernhard Voelker
Both factor and numfmt recently introduced debug messages
for developers, enabled by --verbose and ---devdebug respectively.
There were a few issues though:
1. They used different mechanisms to enable these messages.
2. factor used --verbose which might be needed for something else
3. They used different methods to output the messages,
and numfmt used error() which added an unwanted newline
4. numfmt marked all these messages for translation and factor
marked a couple. We really don't need these translated.
So we fix the above issues here while renaming the enabling
option for both commands to ---debug (still undocumented).
* src/factor.c (verbose): Rename to dev_debug and change from int to
bool as it's just a toggle flag.
(long_options): Rename --verbose to ---debug.
* src/system.h (devmsg): A new inline function to output a message
if enabled by a global dev_debug variable in the compilation unit.
* src/numfmt.c: Use devmsg() rather than error().
Also remove the translation tags from these messages.
Also change debug flag to bool from int.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Adjust for the ---devdebug to ---debug change.
* cfg.mk (sc_marked_devdiagnostics): Add a syntax check to ensure
translations are not added to devmsg calls.
Reported by Göran Uddeborg in http://bugs.gnu.org/13665
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh: Avoid a subshell with bash,
which in turn causes the `kill` to be ineffective to the tail
processes (as the SIGTERM is sent to the subshell which doesn't
propagate the signal on to its children). On NFS the test
cleanup will then fail as there will be .nfs files maintained
in the directory for the files still opened by the tail processes.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: When the system locale grouping doesn't
match our expected format for grouping 1234 in the fr_FR locale,
reset the locale to 'C' so as to skip all locale tests.
* tests/cp/fail-perm.sh: Adjust expected diagnostic to match
just-changed cp diagnostic.
* tests/ln/hard-to-sym.sh: Likewise.
* .mailmap: Also map my new address.
Notes tests/init.sh is still in sync with gnulib
* bootstrap: update to latest
* gnulib: update avoiding secure_getenv and subsequent patches
as these are reported to fail on FreeBSD at least.
Note we use "failed to {access,close}" for those single operations,
and "error {read,writ}ing" for those partial operation failures.
* src/copy.c: Improve error messages for failing read, write and close.
* src/cp.c: Improve error messages for failing access.
* src/dd.c: Improve error messages for failing read, write and open.
* src/head.c: Improve error message for failing close.
* src/install.c: Improve error messages for failing access.
* src/ln.c: Likewise.
* src/mv.c: Likewise.
* src/touch.c: Improve error message for failing close.
* src/truncate.c: Likewise.
Originally requested in Red Hat bugzilla #445213.
* src/stty.c (mode_info): Add support for DTR/DSR hardware flow control,
if available.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document it.
* tests/misc/stty.sh: Add it to the list of serial options to avoid.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4010493
* src/numfmt.c (parse_format_string): Correct both sign and size of
a printf format, which only gives a warning on 32 bit builds.
* AUTHORS: Add my name.
* NEWS: Mention the new program.
* README: Reference the new program.
* src/numfmt.c: New file.
* src/.gitignore: Ignore the new binary.
* build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh: Update.
* scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Allow numfmt: commit prefix.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add new c file.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: A new test file giving >93% coverage.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* man/.gitignore: Ignore the new man page.
* man/local.mk: Reference the new man page.
* man/numfmt.x: A new template.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document the new command.
Fixes the issue introduced in unreleased commit v8.20-60-gec48bea.
* src/cut.c (set_fields): Don't access the bit array if
we've an open ended range that's outside any finite range.
* tests/misc/cut.pl: Add tests for this case.
Reported by Marcel Böhme in http://bugs.gnu.org/13627
This fixes Bug#12115, reported by Reuben Thomas.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tac invocation): Document how to reverse a
file character by character. Break out MS-DOS into a separate
section, like 'cat' does.
Like any other pseudo file system, df should show rootfs only
when the -a option is specified, i.e. specifying -trootfs alone
is not sufficient. As the rootfs entry is now elided by the
general deduplication in filter_mount_list (commit v8.20-103-gbb116d3),
all other references to rootfs can be removed again.
* src/df.c (show_rootfs): Remove global variable.
(ROOTFS): Remove constant.
(filter_mount_list): Remove case to handle rootfs specially.
(main): In the case for handling the -t option, remove setting
of the show_rootfs variable.
* tests/df/skip-rootfs.sh: Adapt the test case "df -t rootfs":
the rootfs file system must not be printed (because no -a).
* doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): Correct the documentation
about eliding mount entries: it is not the first occurrence of
the the device which wins, but now rather the entry with the
shortest mount point name. Also adapt the description about
eliding pseudo file system types like rootfs.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Adapt entry.
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Rémy Lefevre
Assaf Gordon
Torbjörn Granlund
Javier López
Ondřej Vašík
Ondrej Oprala
Joachim Schmitz
Stefano Lattarini
Bernhard Voelker
Benno Schulenberg
Jim Meyering
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