* build-aux/update-copyright: Handle cases in which the final
year number and copyright holder are on separate lines.
Prompted by a report from Joel E. Denny.
Also, do not invoke localtime for each line we process.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Move the "SELinux context" section
down below the "System context" nodes so that the HTML
index is generated correctly. Also some extraneous and missing
'.' characters were corrected in the index.
Reported by Benno Schulenberg.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): When a PID is specified, use
select to block for no more than sleep_interval seconds at a time,
and check for process death upon timeout.
(main): Adapt to new tail_forever_inotify interface.
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Add realpath to the index,
and also mention it in the readlink description so people
searching for that functionality can easily make the connection.
* man/Makefile.am (check-x-vs-1): Using a fixed-name temporary file
is better than one ending in -$$, because many -$$-suffixed files
may accumulate over time.
* src/sort.c: Store the si_present state per key rather than globally
* tests/misc/sort: Add a check that would have previously failed.
Also add a test to demonstrate that invalid IEC/SI mixtures are not
always noticed when they're not significant to the sort.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention in the description
of -b, that the locale can also affect whether blanks are significant.
Update the list of ordering options for a --key that cause it
to not inherit any global ordering options.
Update the list of ordering options that implicitly skip whitespace.
* README-hacking: Add a little more high level info and
merge notes on specific developer prerequisites into README-prereq
* README-prereq: Remove the Fedora 8 specific information
and generalize the information to be applicable to any system.
* COPYING: Don't modify Copyright date list in imported file.
This file is one of very few exceptions in that we version-control it,
even though its primary source is another package.
Spotted by Eric Blake.
* AUTHORS: Register as the author.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* README: Add stdbuf command to list.
* configure.ac: Only enable on ELF systems with GCC.
* cfg.mk (sc_system_h_headers): Use VC_LIST_EXCEPT rather than
VC_LIST, so we can add an exception, if needed.
* .x-sc_system_h_headers: New file. Exempt libstdbuf.c.
* Makefile.am (syntax_check_exceptions): Add .x-sc_system_h_headers.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stdbuf invocation): Add stdbuf info.
* man/.gitignore: Ignore generated manpage.
* src/.gitignore: Ignore stdbuf and libstdbuf.so binaries.
* man/Makefile.am (stdbuf.1): Add dependency.
* man/stdbuf.x: New file with example usage.
* po/POTFILES.in: Reference new command and shared library sources.
* src/Makefile.am (build_if_possible__progs): Add stdbuf and libstdbuf,
(pkglib_PROGRAMS): Reference optional shared lib,
(libstdbuf_so_LDADD): Ensure we don't link with non PIC libcoreutils.a.
(libstdbuf_so_LDFLAGS): Add -shared GCC option,
(libstdbuf_so_CFLAGS): Add -fPIC GCC option.
(check-README): Exclude libstbuf.
(check-AUTHORS): ditto.
(sc_tight_scope): Exclude functions starting with __.
* src/libstdbuf.c: The LD_PRELOAD shared library to control buffering.
* src/stdbuf.c: New file to setup env variables before execing command.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test file.
* tests/misc/help-version: Set expected exit codes.
* tests/misc/invalid-opt: ditto.
* tests/misc/stdbuf: Add 9 tests.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation) [-L]: Elaborate.
[--preserve=links]: Remove comments saying that we need documentation
for just this situation. Provide more explanation and examples.
Reported by Brian M. Carlson in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.
Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady
Giuseppe Scrivano
Kamil Dudka
Heikki Orsila
Ondřej Vašík