When recursively copying files into OS trees, it often happens that
some subdirectory of the source directory is a symlink in the target
directory. Currently, cp will fail in that scenario with the error:
"cannot overwrite non-directory %s with directory %s"
However, we'd like cp in this scenario to follow the destination
directory symlink and copy the files into the symlinked directory
instead. Let's support this by adding a new option
--keep-directory-symlink that makes cp follow destination directory
symlinks.
We name the option --keep-directory-symlink to keep consistent with
tar which has the same option with the same effect.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe the new option.
* src/copy.h: Add the new setting.
* src/copy.h: Adjust to follow symlinks if setting enabled.
* src/cp.c (usage): Describe the new option.
(main): Accept the new option.
* tests/cp/keep-directory-symlink.sh: A new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* configure.ac: Ensure the compiler can promote 16 bit floating point
types to float, before enabling that code in od. This was an issue
with clang 16 at least.
* src/od.c: Adjust for the new defines.
* tests/od/od-float.sh: Likewise. Also port to the dash shell,
whose inbuilt printf doesn't support hex escapes.
This was introduced in coreutils 9.2 through commit v9.1-184-g40bf1591b,
and was fixed in coreutils 9.5 through commit v9.4-111-gc4c5ed8f4.
This issue has been assigned CVE-2024-0684.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* tests/split/line-bytes.sh: Add a test case.
Reported by Valentin Metz.
ulimit -v is generally not supported with ASAN, giving errors like:
"ReserveShadowMemoryRange failed while trying to map 0x... bytes.
Perhaps you're using ulimit -v"
* tests/cp/link-heap.sh: Mention ASAN as a possible reason for skipping.
* tests/csplit/csplit-heap.sh: Likewise.
* tests/cut/cut-huge-range.sh: Likewise.
* tests/dd/no-allocate.sh: Likewise.
* tests/printf/printf-surprise.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOM.sh: Likewise.
* tests/head/head-c.sh: Only skip the part of the test needing ulimit.
* tests/split/line-bytes.sh: Likewise.
Update to latest gnulib with new copyright year.
Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* gnulib: Update included in this commit as copyright years
are the only change from the previous gnulib commit.
* tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
* bootstrap: Manually update copyright year,
until we fully sync with gnulib at a later stage.
* tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Following on from v9.4-86-g615167cc4,
adjust this test accordingly. This test was being skipped
on some systems, and so only noticed now.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Determine the thousands grouping character
in use, rather than skipping locale tests when it's not a space.
For example fr_FR.UTF-8 uses "NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE" as the grouping
char on modern glibc systems at least.
* tests/sort/sort-h-thousands-sep.sh: Likewise.
Do not perform SELinux context translation for operations not involving
user input or output. Context translation converts MCS/MLS labels into
human readable form, which is useful for user facing applications like
ls(1) or the --context=CTX argument of cp(1).
* src/copy.c (set_process_security_ctx): Use raw selinux variants.
* src/install.c (need_copy): Likewise.
(setdefaultfilecon): Likewise.
* src/selinux.c (computecon): Likewise.
(defaultcon): Likewise.
* tests/cp/no-ctx.sh: Add raw variants to preload lib.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* doc/coreutils.texi (chown invocation): Convert --from option
description to a macro and call from ...
(chgrp description): ... here.
* src/chown-core.h (emit_from_option_description): A new function
refactored from ...
* src/chown.c (usage): ... here, and called from ...
* src/chgrp.c (usage): ... here.
(main): Accept the --from option as chown(1) does.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add chown-core.h as now translated.
* tests/chown/basic.sh: Decouple the root user from id 0.
* tests/chgrp/from.sh: A new test largely based on chown/basic.sh.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Suggested by Ed Neville.
* src/tail.c (file_lines): Ensure we use a buffer size >= PAGE_SIZE when
searching backwards to avoid seeking within a file,
which on sysfs files is accepted but also returns no data.
* tests/tail/tail-sysfs.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/67490
For consistency with the "SI" standard, and with other coreutils
which output a lowercase 'k' in "SI" mode.
* src/numfmt.c (suffix_power): Treat 'k' like 'K' on input.
(double_to_human): Output lowercase 'k' in SI mode.
(usage): Adjust accordingly.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Mention 'k' accepted, and printed in SI mode.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Adjust accordingly.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/47103
-w counted bytes not characters, which is wrong in multibyte locales.
This bug exists even in Fedora, which is why the recently-added
test cases from Fedora didn’t catch it.
* src/uniq.c (find_field): New arg PLEN. All callers changed.
Compute length of field correctly in multi-byte locales.
(different): Don’t worry about check_chars; find_field now does that.
* tests/uniq/uniq.pl: Test for this bug.
* src/ls.c (print_long_format): Use correct column width,
introduced due to a copy/paste error in commit v9.4-2-gcbb6dfec5
* tests/ls/size-align.sh: Add a test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/66919
* src/join.c (xfields): Simplify and fix bug with fields
that start with a NUL byte when -t is not used.
* tests/misc/join-utf8.sh: Also test when -t is not used,
and when a field starts with NUL.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove cu-ctype, as this module
is now more trouble than it’s worth. All uses removed.
Add skipchars.
* gl/lib/cu-ctype.c, gl/lib/cu-ctype.h, gl/modules/cu-ctype:
Remove.
* gl/lib/skipchars.c, gl/lib/skipchars.h, gl/modules/skipchars:
* tests/misc/join-utf8.sh:
New files.
* src/join.c: Include skipchars.h and mcel.h instead of cu-ctype.h.
(tab): Now mcel_t, not int. All uses changed.
(output_separator, output_seplen): New static vars.
(eq_tab, newline_or_blank, comma_or_blank): New functions.
(xfields, prfields, prjoin, add_field_list, main):
Support multi-byte characters.
* src/numfmt.c: Include ctype.h, skipchars.h.
Do not include cu-ctype.h.
(newline_or_blank): New function.
(next_field): Support multi-byte characters.
* src/sort.c: Include ctype.h instead of cu-ctype.h.
(inittables): Open-code field_sep since it no longer exists.
‘sort’ is not multi-byte safe yet, but when it is this code
will need revamping anyway.
* src/uniq.c: Include mcel.h and skipchars.h instead of cu-ctype.h.
(newline_or_blank): New function.
(find_field): Support multi-byte characters.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add tests/misc/join-utf8.sh
This will make decoding more resilient to corruption
whether due to transmission errors or nefarious adjustment.
See https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/361.pdf
* gnulib: Update to commit 3f463202bd enforcing canonical encoding.
* tests/basenc/base64.pl: Add test cases, and adjust existing cases.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* src/basenc.c (base16_decode_ctx): Convert to uppercase
before converting from hex.
* tests/basenc/basenc.pl: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/66698
Padding of encoded data is useful in cases where
base64 encoded data is concatenated / streamed.
I.e. where there are padding chars _within_ the stream.
In other cases padding is optional and can be inferred.
Note we continue to treat partial padding as invalid,
as that would be indicative of truncation.
* src/basenc.c (do_decode): Auto pad the end of the input.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* tests/misc/base64.pl: Adjust to not fail for missing padding.
Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/66265
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove c32isprint.
* src/wc.c (wc): Consider all non-white-space characters
to be word constituents, even if they are not printable.
POSIX requires this, and it is what BSD does.
Partly do this by simplifying the check for a word,
by counting word starts rather than word ends.
* tests/wc/wc.pl: Test for the bug.
tail can watch multiple files, but currently only a single writer. It
can be useful to watch files from multiple writers, or even processes
not directly related to the files (e.g. watch log files written by a
server process, for the duration of a test driven by a separate
client).
* src/tail.c (writers_are_dead): New function.
(tail_forever): Use it to wait for writers.
(tail_forever_inotify): As above.
(parse_options): Manage --pid options in an array.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Update documentation.
* tests/tail/pid.sh: Add a variant with two PIDs.
* News: Mention the new feature.
Currently --dired is silently ignored
with conflicting output formats
* src/ls.c (decode_switches): Set default format and hyperlink mode
when the --dired option is specified.
* tests/ls/dired.sh: Check that formats are implied / overridden.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Adjust --dired description.
This simplifies memory allocation a bit, and removes an arbitrary
limitation from numfmt, which formerly limited cell output to 127
bytes.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove mbsalign, strncat.
Add strnlen (the code already used strnlen directly, and we were
saved only because Gnulib used the module indirectly)
* gl/lib/mbsalign.c, gl/lib/mbsalign.h, gl/modules/mbsalign:
* gl/modules/mbsalign-tests, gl/tests/test-mbsalign.c: Remove.
* src/df.c, src/ls.c: Do not include mbsalign.h.
(MBSWIDTH_FLAGS): New constant, now used for all
mbswidth calls. All callers changed to check for -1 return.
* src/df.c (struct field_data_t): ‘width’ is now int not size_t,
since mbswidth can’t do widths greater than INT_MAX anyway.
Replace ‘align’ with ‘align_right’. All uses changed.
(print_table): Redo to avoid the need for ambsalign.
(get_header, get_dev): mbswidth returns int, not size_t.
* src/ls.c (MAX_MON_WIDTH): Remove; no longer used.
(abmon_init): Use strnlen to cheaply discard too-long month names.
Align by hand instead of using mbsalign.
* src/numfmt.c: Include stdckdint.h, mbswidth.h.
Do not include mbsalign.h.
(padding_buffer_size): Now idx_t. All uses changed.
(padding_width): Now intmax_t, since it’s no longer an object
size. Its sign now records alignment. All uses changed.
(zero_padding_width): Now int, since it’s given to sprintf.
All uses changed.
(padding_alignment): Remove; it’s now taken from padding_width’s sign.
(double_to_human): Return string length. BUF_SIZE arg is now idx_t.
Include suffix in output. All callers changed. Simplify by not
calling strncat or stpcpy. Calculate fmt size bound more carefully.
(setup_padding_buffer): Remove. All uses removed.
(parse_format_string): Use intmax_t, not long, for pad.
On overflow, set widths to large values that cause later code
to do the right thing, rather than separately checking for
overflow here.
(prepare_padded_number): Return bool, not int 0/1. New arg
PADDING. All uses changed. Do not limit padded output to 127
bytes; instead, use xpalloc to expand the output buffer.
(print_padded_number): New arg PADDING. All uses changed.
(process_suffixed_number): Simplify.
(main): Take extremum if xstrtoimax overflows, as this does
the right thing.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: New test suf-20 to test for truncation bug.
Remove tests pad-3.2, fmt-err-7, as they’re no longer invalid but
are quite expensive.
Most of this just affects commentary and documentations. The only
significant behavior change is translating author names via
proper_name_lite rather than proper_name_utf8, or not translating
them at all. proper_name_lite is good enough for coreutils and
avoids the bloat that had coreutils not using Gnulib proper_name.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use propername-lite instead
of propername.
(XGETTEXT_OPTIONS): Look for proper_name_lite instead of for
proper_name_utf8.
* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove
sc_proper_name_utf8_requires_ICONV, since we no longer use
proper_name_utf8.
(old_NEWS_hash): Update.
(sc_check-I18N-AUTHORS): Remove; no longer needed.
* tests/sort/sort-continue.sh: Use ulimit -n 7 not -n 6. On
Solaris 10 'sort' uses Gnulib mkostemp, which calls Gnulib
getrandom, which opens /dev/urandom to calculate the temp file's
name, which means 'sort' needs one more file descriptor to work.
* tests/cksum/md5sum-bsd.sh: Avoid part of test dealing with backslashes
in file names, on systems where backslash is a directory separator.
Issue reported by Bruno Haible on cygwin.
Following commit v9.3-80-g5e1e0993b which makes cksum
match the output of the standalone utilities...
* doc/coreutils.texi (cksum output modes): Remove the mention
that cksum never outputs a binary indicator, as that's no longer the
case.
* tests/cksum/b2sum.sh: Avoid outputting a binary indicator.
* tests/cksum/sm3sum.pl: Likewise.
* src/cp.c (main): Set default reflink mode appropriately
with --sparse=never.
* src/copy.c (infer_scantype): Add a comment to related code.
* tests/cp/sparse-2.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the bug.
* tests/sort/sort-debug-keys.sh: Decimal point was seen to be '.'
on fr_FR.UTF-8 on Alpine Linux 3.18, so add an extra guard
to ensure we've a ',' as the decimal point on this locale.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/65310
Problem reported by Nir Oren <https://bugs.gnu.org/64785>.
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use a more-specific diagnostic when
a rename fails due to a problem that must be due to the
destination, avoiding user confusion in cases like 'mv dir x'
where x is a nonempty directory.
* tests/mv/dir2dir.sh: Adjust to match.
* tests/split/l-chunk.sh: Move the "expensive" portion to ...
* tests/split/l-chunk-root.sh: .. A new test split from l-chunk.sh
which uses an isolated TMPDIR, rather than exhausting /tmp,
as that gives false positive failures with some other coreutils tests
like tac-2-nonseekable.sh and shuf-reservoir.sh at least.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
This also refactors temp_stream() to its own module,
in preparation for use by split.
* src/tac.c: Refactor temp_stream() out to ...
* src/temp-stream.c: ... A new module mostly refactored from tac,
but uses tmpdir to more robustly support $TMPDIR,
while falling back to /tmp if not available.
* src/temp-stream.h: The new module interface.
* src/local.mk: Reference the new module from tac.
* tests/tac/tac.pl: Adjust to non failing missing $TMPDIR.
* po/POTFILES.in: Reference the new module with translatable strings.
* NEWS: Mention the user visible improvements to tac TMPDIR handling.
* src/join.c (prjoin): Check for write errors after each line.
* tests/misc/write-errors.sh: enable the test for join.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* src/comm.c (writeline): Simplify by removing the unneeded STREAM
parameter. Call write_error() upon ferror().
(compare_files): Adjust to simplified writeline().
* tests/misc/write-errors.sh: Enable comm test.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* src/cut.c (cut_bytes): Diagnose errors from fwrite() and putchar().
(cut_fields): Likewise.
* tests/misc/write-errors.sh: Enable the test for cut,
and augment to cover both cut_bytes() and cut_fields().
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* src/uniq.c (write_line): Check the output from fwrite() immediately.
(check_file): Likewise.
* tests/misc/write-errors.sh: Enable the test case.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* src/od.c (dump): Check for write errors after each block written,
to exit early even with large / unbounded inputs.
* tests/misc/write-errors.sh: enable od check.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/64540
* cfg.mk (sc_some_programs_must_avoid_exit_failure): Adjust to
avoid false positive.
(sc_prohibit_exit_write_error): A new syntax check to prohibit
open coding error(..., "write error"); instead directing to use...
* src/system.h (write_error): ... a new function to clear stdout errors
before we explicitly diagnose a write error and exit.
* src/basenc.c: Use write_error() to ensure no repeated diagnostics.
* src/cat.c: Likewise.
* src/expand.c: Likewise.
* src/factor.c: Likewise.
* src/paste.c: Likewise.
* src/seq.c: Likewise.
* src/shuf.c: Likewise.
* src/split.c: Likewise.
* src/tail.c: Likewise.
* src/tr.c: Likewise.
* src/unexpand.c: Likewise.
* tests/misc/write-errors.sh: Remove TODOs for the fixed utilities:
expand, factor, paste, shuf, tr, unexpand.
