* src/tail.c (main): Tailing a pipe "forever" is not useful,
and POSIX specifies that tail ignore the -f when there is no
file argument and stdin is a FIFO or pipe. So we do that.
In addition, GNU tail excludes "-" arguments from the list of files
to tail forever, when the associated file descriptor is connected
to a FIFO or pipe. Before this change, ":|tail -f" would hang.
Reported by Ren Yang and Ulrich Drepper.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f: Test for this.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f2: Ensure tail doesn't exit early for a fifo.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add these tests.
* NEWS (POSIX conformance): Mention it.
* src/tail.c (main) [HAVE_INOTIFY]: When stdin (i.e., "-", or no args,
but not /dev/stdin) is specified on the command line, don't use inotify.
Reported by Bill Brelsford in <http://bugs.debian.org/545422>.
* tests/tail-2/follow-stdin: New file. Test for this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the test.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
This bug was introduced in coreutils-7.5 via commit ae494d4b,
2009-06-02, "tail: use inotify if it is available".
* src/tail.c (main): Flush any output from tail_file,
before calling tail_forever_inotify, which can block.
* tests/tail-2/flush-initial: New file. Test for the bug.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add tail-2/flush-initial.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
This bug was introduced in coreutils-7.5 via commit ae494d4b,
2009-06-02, "tail: use inotify if it is available".
* src/tail.c (main): Add an undocumented ---disable-inotify option
to allow disabling inotify.
* tests/tail-2/pid: Run test in both normal and "disable_inotify" modes.
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/wait: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/append-only: Likewise.
* src/stty.c (mode_info) [TAB0, TAB1, TAB2]: Guard each
entry with #ifdef. Required for GNU/kFreeBSD.
Reported by Petr Salinger in http://bugs.debian.org/520368.
* src/df.c (main): If open or fstat fails when we're trying to ensure
that all arg-partitions are automounted, fall back on using stat.
Inspired by the report and patch from Olivier Fourdan in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/520630.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/df/unreadable: New test for the above.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add df/unreadable.
The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.3 via commit dbd17157,
2009-04-28, "df: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting".
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't return from the function after an
unsuccessful and required preservation of extended attributes.
This resulted in leaking the copy buffer and file descriptors.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.
The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.1 via commit 0889381c, 2009-01-23,
"cp/mv: add xattr support".
* src/chown-core.c: Include "ignore-value.h".
(change_file_owner): Don't set "ent" only to ignore it.
* src/chcon.c (process_file): Likewise.
* src/chmod.c: Include "ignore-value.h".
(process_file): Don't set "ent" only to ignore it.
After diagnosing root-dev/ino failure, return false immediately:
Now that we don't set "ent" we must be sure not to use it uninitialized,
and there's no point in issuing --verbose-related output in this case.
* src/timeout.c (main): While keeping argc and argv in
sync may be marginally useful, it is redundant to update argc,
so just remove that to suppress the clang warning.
* src/timeout.c (main): Handle all possible cases of unexpected
failures from wait(). This was prompted by the clang tool reporting
the possible non-initialization of the status variable.
On most unix- and linux-based kernels, ls -i DIR_CONTAINING_MOUNT_POINT
would print the wrong inode number for any entry that is a mount point.
It would do that by relying on readdir's dirent.d_ino values, while
most readdir implementations return the inode number of the underlying,
inaccessible directory. Thus, it is not consistent with what you'd
get when applying stat to the same entry. This bug led to surprising
results like "ls -i" and "ls -i --color" printing different numbers (ls
must usually "stat" a file to colorize its name). This change makes it
so that on offending systems, ls must stat non-command-line-arguments
for which otherwise it would be able to use "for free" dirent.d_ino
values. Regardless of this change, ls is already required to stat every
command-line argument. Note: versions of GNU ls prior to coreutils-6.0
did not perform the invalid optimization, and hence always printed
correct inode numbers. Thus, for the sake of correctness, ls -i is
forgoing the readdir optimization, for any kernel (including linux!)
with POSIX-nonconforming readdir. Note that currently, only Cygwin has
been agile enough to conform.
* src/ls.c (RELIABLE_D_INO): Define.
(print_dir): Use it.
For plenty of discussion, see this long thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/14020
This bug was introduced by the 2006-02-26 commit, 33eb3efe:
"In ls, avoid calling stat for --inode (-i), when possible."
* tests/ls/readdir-mountpoint-inode: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: Don't suppress failure of this test,
now that ls -i is fixed. Though note that it doesn't test well,
since it compares only the always-stat'd command-line arguments.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): When cloning only skip the data copying
* tests/cp/reflink-perm: New test to check times and modes copied
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Document the new
"auto" and "always" options to --reflink.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Fall back to a standard copy
when reflink() is not supported and --reflink=auto specified.
* src/copy.h [struct cp_options] (reflink): Change type s/bool/enum/.
* src/cp.c (usage): Describe the --reflink={always,auto} options
and expand a little on what --reflink does.
(main): parse the new parameters to --reflink and allow all
--sparse options with --reflink=auto.
* src/install.c (cp_option_init): Init the enum instead of bool.
* src/mv.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
* tests/cp/reflink-auto: A new test for falling back to normal copy.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
...when run on a kernel older than what was implied by headers and
libraries tested at configure time.
* src/copy.c (utimens_symlink): Ignore failure when errno == ENOSYS.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Reported by Todd Zullinger and Kamil Dudka.
Details in this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/119834
* src/install.c (extra_mode): Be careful to return only a 0 or 1
value, since this is a "bool" function, and there are still some
compilers for which this is necessary. Without this change,
Bernhard Voelker reported that the Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09
compiler would produce a malfunctioning "install" binary. Details in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17710/focus=17760
Now that "make check" no longer builds programs like arch, ...
* src/Makefile.am (dist-hook): Depend on $(all_programs), so that the
subsequent build in man/ doesn't fail due to lack of a program like
arch that is not going to be installed.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Document the new --line-increment option.
* src/nl.c (struct option): Add --line-increment,
(usage): Describe it,
(main): Use it.
* src/Makefile.am (check): Don't depend on check-AUTHORS.
That check fails on systems for which a program like stdbuf is
not built. Instead, move this check to "make syntax-check".
(sc_check-AUTHORS): Rename rule from check-AUTHORS.
* cfg.mk (sc_check-AUTHORS): New rule.
Reported by Berhnard Voelker.
* src/sort.c (find_unit_order): Spell out 256-element static
initializer, rather than relying on C99 syntax.
Required for Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09 on Solaris 10.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): On systems without utimensat don't
use utimens on a symlink, as that would dereference the symlink.
* tests/cp/abuse: To work around possible attribute preservation
failures breaking the test, use cp -dR rather than cp -a.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Remove the redundant and
incorrect error check of the return from inotify_add_watch().
Also initialize the wd member of each File_spec to an invalid value.
Reported by C de-Avillez.
* src/dd.c (main): Install the signal handlers at startup
rather than just before the copy starts. In this way signals
received before the copy (like during a slow truncate for e.g.)
will be deferred and handled consistently.
* THANKS: Add Bernhard's email address.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* NEWS: Mention it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe it.
* src/copy.h (struct cp_options) [reflink]: New member.
* src/copy.c (usage): Describe it.
(copy_reg): If reflink is true try to clone the file.
(main): Check for --reflink.
(cp_option_init): Initialize the new member.
* src/install.c (cp_option_init): Initialize the new member.
* src/mv.c (cp_option_init): Likewise.
* tests/cp/sparse: Add a new test case.
* src/dd.c: Include "ignore-value.h"
(iwrite): When disabling O_DIRECT, try to compensate
via POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED and fsync.
Suggested by Eric Sandeen.
dd oflag=direct would fail to copy a file with size that is
not a multiple of 512 (destination file system specific)
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* src/dd.c (iwrite): Turn off O_DIRECT for any
smaller-than-obs-sized write. Don't bother to restore it.
* tests/dd/direct: New test for the above.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add dd/direct.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Mention oflag=direct
buffer size restriction.
Details in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/17586
Reported by Eric Sandeen.
* src/copy.c (utimensat_if_possible): New function.
(copy_internal): Remove variable, "preserve_metadata".
Replace with "dest_is_symlink". That covers all cases but one:
the one in which cp --link has created hard links to non-directories.
In that case, there is no need to update attributes of the links.
Use utimensat_if_possible, to preserve timestamps of symlinks.
* NEWS (New features): Mention this.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp/preserve-slink-time.
* tests/cp/preserve-slink-time: New file.
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Test for utimensat.
Reported in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): The fractional
part of the delay was 1000 times too large.
* tests/tail-2/pid: Add a test to ensure the
timeout happens for this case.
