Lookup of file-based capabilities adds 30% overhead to the common
case of ls --color usage. Since the use of file capabilities is
very rare, it doesn't make sense to pay this cost in the common
case. It's better to use getcap to inspect capabilities, and the
following run shows only 8 files using capabilities on my fedora
35 distro (14 years after the feature was introduced to the linux
kernel).
$ getcap -r /
/usr/bin/arping = cap_net_raw+p
/usr/bin/clockdiff = cap_net_raw+p
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon = cap_ipc_lock+ep
/usr/bin/gnome-shell = cap_sys_nice+ep
/usr/bin/newgidmap = cap_setgid+ep
/usr/bin/newuidmap = cap_setuid+ep
/usr/sbin/mtr-packet = cap_net_raw+ep
/usr/sbin/suexec = cap_setgid,cap_setuid+ep
* src/dircolors.hin: Set "CAPABILITY" to "00", to indicate unused.
* src/ls.c: Set the default C_CAP color to not colored.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* src/dircolors.hin: Add patterns for suffixes for "backup files".
The color used is so they stand out less than non-backup files,
and bright black works well on both light and dark backgrounds.
* THANKS.in: Remove duplicate.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54521
* src/join.c (usage): Clarify that -e is not sufficient
to enable output of missing fields from one of the inputs.
Rather the -12jo options are required to explicitly
enable output of those fields.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54625
* tests/misc/printf-mb.sh: Given we shortcut the single char
(invalid multi-byte) case, add a case to ensure we're correctly
checking the return from mbrtowc().
* src/printf.c (STRTOX): Update to support multi-byte chars.
* tests/misc/printf-mb.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54388
* src/test.c (usage): State that -rwx is determined by
user access, rather than permission bits.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Access permission tests): Likewise.
* man/test.x [SEE ALSO]: access(2).
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54338
* cfg.mk (sc_die_EXIT_FAILURE): Generalize to match any EXIT_ define,
and also relax to ignore error() usage with ternary operator.
* src/chroot.c (main): Use () to avoid the sc_error_quotes check.
Revert to the default behavior before the introduction of statx().
* src/stat.c (do_stat): Set AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT without --cached=never.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Mention the automount
behavior with --cached=never.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54287
statx() has different defaults wrt automounting
compared to stat() or lstat(), so explicitly
set the AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress that behavior,
and avoid unintended operations or potential errors.
* src/ls.c (do_statx): Pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to avoid this behavior.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54286
Signed-off-by: Rohan Sable <rsable@redhat.com>
On macOS, isspace(0x85) returns true,
which results in splitting within multi-byte characters.
* src/fmt.c (get_line): s/isspace/c_isspace/.
* tests/fmt/non-space.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/54124
* tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: Only the en_US.iso8859-1 form
is accepted on macOS 10.15.7 at least. GNU/Linux also
accepts ISO-8859-1 (and canonicalizes the charmap to this).
This implements my suggestion in Bug#54112.
* src/dd.c (usage): Document the change.
(parse_integer, scanargs): Implement the change.
Omit some now-obsolete checks for invalid flags.
* tests/dd/bytes.sh: Test the new behavior, while retaining
checks for the now-obsolete usage.
* tests/dd/nocache_eof.sh: Avoid now-obsolete usage.
Alias iseek=N to skip=N, oseek=N to seek=N (Bug#45648).
* src/dd.c (scanargs): Parse iseek= and oseek=.
* tests/dd/skip-seek.pl (sk-seek5): New test case.
Do not allocate I/O buffer if copy_file_range suffices.
* src/copy.c (sparse_copy, lseek_copy): Buffer arg is now char **
instead of char *, and buffer is now allocated only if needed.
All uses changed.
It's more common to use bold style than not,
for references to other man pages.
Ideally each man page renderer would highlight references,
but currently some rely on styles in the page itself.
* man/help2man: Implement a --bold-refs option that
will mark up references like "name(1)" with bold
style around the "name" component.
* man/local.mk: Pass --bold-refs to our help2man unless disabled.
* configure.ac: Add a --disable-bold-man-page-references option.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53977
COLORTERM is an environment used usually to expose truecolor support in
terminal emulators. Therefore support matches on that in addition
to TERM. Also set the default COLORTERM match pattern so that
we apply colors if COLORTERM is any value.
This implicitly supports a terminal like "foot"
without a need for an explicit TERM entry.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* src/dircolors.c (main): Match COLORTERM like we do for TERM.
* src/dircolors.hin: Add default config to match any COLORTERM.
* tests/misc/dircolors.pl: Add test cases.
Problem reported by Dan Jacobson (Bug#48248).
* doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Improve documentation for
tr's failure to support multibyte characters POSIX-style.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation), src/tr.c (usage):
Use terminology closer to POSIX's.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dircolors invocation): Describe the new
--print-ls-colors option.
* src/dircolors.c (print_ls_colors): A new global to select
between shell or terminal output.
(append_entry): A new function refactored from dc_parse_stream()
to append the entry in the appropriate format.
(dc_parse_stream): Adjust to call append_entry().
* tests/misc/dircolors.pl: Add test cases.
since gnulib commit ff208d546a,
related to coreutils commit v9.0-143-gabde15969
we no longer maintain numeric IDs through chopt->{user,group}_name.
Therefore we need to adjust to ensure tests/chown/basic.sh passes.
* src/chown-core.c (uid_to_str, gid_to_str): New helper functions
to convert numeric id to string.
(change_file_owner): Use the above new functions to pass
numeric ids to describe_change().
This also affects ls -v in some corner cases.
Problems reported by Michael Debertol <https://bugs.gnu.org/49239>.
While looking into this, I spotted some more areas where the
code and documentation did not agree, or where the documentation
was unclear. In some cases I changed the code; in others
the documentation. I hope things are nailed down better now.
* doc/sort-version.texi: Distinguish more carefully between
characters and bytes. Say that non-identical strings can
compare equal, since they now can. Improve readability in
various ways. Make it clearer that a suffix can be the
entire string.
* src/ls.c (cmp_version): Fall back on strcmp if filevercmp
reports equality, since filevercmp is no longer a total order.
* src/sort.c (keycompare): Use filenvercmp, to treat NULs correctly.
* tests/misc/ls-misc.pl (v_files):
Adjust test to match new behavior.
* tests/misc/sort-version.sh: Add tests for stability,
and for sorting with NUL bytes.
* src/system.h (emit_ancillary_info): While supported if entered
manually, the "[" character is not highlighted as part of a
URL by default in terminals, so avoid using it.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53946
* src/system.h: Adjust the alignment of the --help
and --version option descriptions, to start at column 21.
This better aligns with the descriptions of most commands,
and also aligns with the minimum column a description must
start at to ensure a blank line is not output when a description
follows an option on a line by itself.
* src/rmdir.c (usage): Move description to column 21,
so that a --long-option on its own line without a
trailing description, doesn't have an erroneous blank
line inserted between the option and description.
Also group descriptions with blank lines rather than indents,
so that man pages don't have erroneous blank lines
added within the description.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53946
* src/ls.c (usage): Use blank lines to group multi-line
option descriptions, rather than indenting.
This results in more consistent alignment of descriptions,
and also avoids erroneous new lines in generated in man pages.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53946
* doc/coreutils.texi, doc/sort-version.texi:
Capitalize “Coreutils”.
* doc/sort-version.texi: Don’t emphasize natural sort so much,
since Coreutils has just version sort.
Use the term “lexicographic” instead of “alphabetic” or “standard”.
Suggest combining ‘V’ with ‘b’, and show why ‘b’ is needed.
Use shorter titles for sections, as GNU Emacs displays info poorly
when titles are too long to fit in a line.
Use @samp instead of @code for samples of data.
Do not use @samp{@code{...}}; @samp{...} should suffice and
double-nesting looks bad with Emacs.
Omit blank lines in examples that would not be present
in actual shell sessions.
Quote with `` and '', not with " or with '.
Mention dpkg --compare-versions more prominently.
Don’t rely on "\n" being equivalent to "\\n" in shell args.
Prefer Unicode name for hyphen-minus.
* doc/coreutils.texi (date invocation): Remove @var{...} usage,
as that capitalizes in the representation and thus somewhat
ambiguates the format wrt Month and Minute. This also avoids
a syntax check failure about redundant capitalization in @var{}.
Problem reported by Dan Jacobson (Bug#51288).
* doc/coreutils.texi (date invocation, Setting the time)
(Options for date):
* src/date.c (usage): Improve doc.
Problem reported by Vladimir D. Seleznev (Bug#53631).
* src/id.c (main): Do not canonicalize user name before
deciding what groups the user belongs to.
