Run this command to remove the factored-out "fail=0" lines.
perl -ni -e '/^fail=0$/ or print' $(g grep -l '^fail=0$')
* tests/test-lib.sh: Initialize fail=0 here, not in 300+ scripts.
* tests/...: nearly all bourne shell scripts
Suggested by Eric Blake.
These programs can print non-fatal diagnostics to stderr prior to
exec'ing a subsidiary program. However, if we thought the situation
warranted a diagnostic, we insist that the diagnostic be printed
without error, rather than blindly exec, as it may be a security risk.
For an example, try 'nice -n -1 nice 2>/dev/full'. Failure to raise
priority (by lowering niceness) is not fatal, but failure to inform
the user about failure to change priority is dangerous.
* src/nice.c (main): Declare failure if writing advisory message
to stderr fails.
* src/nohup.c (main): Likewise.
* src/su.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/nice: Test this.
* tests/misc/nohup: Likewise.
* NEWS: Document this.
Allows for unambiguous processing when environment values (or even
non-portable names!) contain newline.
* src/env.c (longopts): Add new option.
(usage): Document it.
(main): Implement it.
* src/printenv.c (longopts): New variable.
(usage): Document new option.
(main): Implement it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): New macro optNull.
(du invocation, env invocation, printenv invocation): Use it.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* tests/misc/env-null: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Run it.
* tests/misc/sort-compress: Remove non-portable over-restriction
of PATH; besides, commit 3ea177e changed sort to no longer default
to gzip.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Untaint, rather than clear, PATH.
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Likewise. Also skip test if long path
cannot be created.
(normalize_to_cwd_relative): Use eq rather than ==, since cygwin
perl doesn't properly handle 64-bit ino_t numerically.
The comment in env.c about -- handling has not matched the behavior
in the code since the initial commit back in 1992.
* src/env.c: Fix bogus comment.
* tests/misc/env: Further tweaks, avoiding PATH problems inherent
in testing -i, and testing program name containing =.
* doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Mention that intermediate
program is needed to invoke program with name containing =.
* src/env.c (main): Use unsetenv rather than putenv to remove
items from environ, and check for failure.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add unsetenv.
* tests/misc/env: Test this.
* NEWS: Document it.
* tests/misc/nice (tests): Accommodate a nice program for which
"nice -n -1 nice" prints nothing. It should print -1 or (usually) 0.
Otherwise, we'd get syntax errors.
* src/md5sum.c (main): Set stdout to line buffered mode
to ensure parallel running instances don't intersperse
their output. This adds 5% to the run time in the worst case
of many zero length files, or 2% with standard file sizes.
* src/sum.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-parallel: New test for atomic output.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference it.
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Accept openssl checksum syntax, which
differs only by two spaces from that of the bsd checksum tools:
openssl: MD5(f)= d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
bsd: MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
* src/stat.c (do_stat): Interpret a command line argument of "-"
to mean "standard input", like many other tools do.
(do_statfs): Fail upon any attempt to use "-".
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.
* tests/misc/stat-hyphen: New test, to exercise the above.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/stat-hyphen.
* tests/misc/sort-continue: Change first line to standard #!/bin/sh,
not #!/bin/bash (though it doesn't matter, since each is invoked
via $(SHELL) dir/test-name.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Temporarily set u+rw on the destination file
to allow GNU/Linux to set xattrs.
* tests/misc/xattr: Test that change.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Ernest N. Mamikonyan.
* tests/misc/cat-buf: Increase the delay between writes
to decrease the chance that dd will read both at once.
Since the test is inherently racy, print a warning via
skip_test_ rather than failing outright.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* tests/misc/ls-misc: Set umask to 022. A umask setting permitting
world-write access, e.g., umask o+w, would cause this test to fail.
Report by Mathias Brodala and analysis by Tom Fitzhenry in
<http://bugs.debian.org/544965>.
* 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.
* 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.
* NEWS: Document the new option
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ditto
* src/sort.c (main): handle the new --human-numeric-sort option (-h).
(human_numcompare): A new function to compare SI and IEC suffixes
before falling back to the standard --numeric comparison.
(find_unit_order): A new helper function to find the order
of magnitude of a number string as determined by its suffix.
(check_mixed_SI_IEC): A new helper function to exit with error
if both SI and IEC suffixes are presented.
* tests/misc/sort: Add 8 tests to test the new functionality.
* THANKS: Update
* tests/misc/date-next-dow: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/date-next-dow.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest, for getdate.y that
handles "next Monday" properly when run on a Monday.
* src/sort.c (avoid_trashing_input): Fix an off-by-one error and
guard the use of memmove.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/sort: Add tests to exercise the offending code.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Otavio Salvador in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.
Steven Parkes reported that `id -G $USER` went into an infinite loop
on Darwin systems for users in more than 10 groups:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264007
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Work around buggy getgrouplist
implementations that don't update the required size correctly,
by doubling the result buffer and retrying. Also return the
parameter updated by getgrouplist rather than its return value,
as the documentation doesn't actually state the number of groups
stored is returned by getgrouplist.
* tests/misc/id-groups: Add test to exercise this logic
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* THANKS: Update
* tests/sample-test: Don't recommend using lang-default here.
It is now run for each test automatically, via TESTS_ENVIRONMENT.
* tests/dd/reblock: Don't source lang-default here.
* tests/misc/truncate-fail-diag: Likewise.
Jim Meyering
Eric Blake
Pádraig Brady
Guenter Knauf
Ondřej Vašík
Cliff Miller
Michael Speer