[Notice the new test in m4/lstat-slash.m4. ]
(main): Back out change from 1999-02-19 that made ls remove
trailing slashes from command line arguments to accommodate early
versions of Linux. Now, `ls symlink-to-dir/' acts like
`ls symlink-to-dir/.' thus following the symbolic link, as POSIX says
it should. Suggestion from Bruno Haible and Andreas Schwab.
and shorter, skip to the next shorter length length if a rename fails (e.g. due to
permission denied). Otherwise, this loop would iterate for so long that shred would
appear to be stuck in an infinite loop for any but the shortest file names.
option that implies -l), and no sort-type was specified,
then sort by the ctime (-c) or atime (-u). Part of this change reverts
the 1998-01-10 delta.
(usage): Update to reflect this change.
Reported by Paul Slootman via Michael Stone.
(copy_internal): In move mode, if the rename attempt
fails, then unlink any existing destination file. This makes a
cross-device `mv' more consistent with the intra-device behavior.
This change is required by POSIX to make a cross-device move act with
semantics similar to those of the rename syscall. For example now
`mv' can move a file onto a symlink to itself when that symlink
is on a separate partition. With fileutils-4.0j, it would fail with
a diagnostic saying they were the same file.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
and *do* allow `mv' to move a file onto a symlink to itself when that
symlink is on a separate partition. With fileutils-4.0j, it would
fail with a diagnostic saying they were the same file.
Reported by Bruno Haible.
unwritable directory.
(touch): Record errno upon failed errno and use that
saved value if a subsequent fstat, stat or utime call fails.
Reported by Wichert Akkerman via Michael Stone.
New arg NEGATIVE.
(ceil_percent): Now returns double, not int.
Be more careful about adding 1 to a wild value.
(show_dev): Don't filter out wild sizes from the underlying operating
system; instead, show them to the user as faithfully as possible.
reuse) that would lead to a failed assertion.
Reported by Ken Pizzini.
(tail_forever): Record errno before using it in call to `error'
which might change it.
(tail_file): Likewise.
`mv src symlink-to-src' when src and dest are on different partitions.
Otherwise, that `mv' command would silently remove `src'.
Reported by Michael Stone.
(main): Define it.
(change_file_group): Use it. Before this change, when running chgrp
on a symlink without --dereference (-h) and when the requested group
is the same as the group for the *symlink*, chgrp would do nothing.
Now it changes the group of the file referenced through the symlink.
Reported by Martin Mitchell.
