coreutils, branch v8.0

version 8.0

2009-10-06T11:04:16Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2009-10-06T09:15:54Z

chcon: exit immediately if SELinux is disabled

2009-10-06T08:10:51Z

This change happens to avoid an abort in chcon when SELinux is disabled while operating on a file with an "unlabeled" context from back in 2006. However, that same abort can still be triggered by the same file when running chcon with SELinux enabled. This bug in chcon will be fixed in a subsequent commit via a getfilecon wrapper. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18378/focus=18384 for how to correct your disk attributes to avoid triggering this bug. * src/chcon.c (main): Exit immediately if SELinux is disabled. Reported in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/527142 by Yanko Kaneti. * src/runcon.c (main): Do not hardcode program name in error message. * THANKS: Update.

build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2009-10-03T04:56:55Z

dircolors: highlight .cgm and .emf as images

2009-10-02T16:58:05Z

* src/dircolors.hin: Add .cgm, .emf. * THANKS: Update.

maint: remove obsolete syntax-check exclusion

2009-10-02T13:48:08Z

* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove strftime-check.

tail: avoid a race where we could miss new data with --pid

2009-10-02T13:00:06Z

* src/tail.c (tail_forever, tail_forever_inotify): Close a race in tail_forever_inotify where new data written after the file check by a now dead process, but before the pid check, is not output. We use the POSIX guarantee that read() and write() are serialized wrt each other even in separate processes, to assume full file consistency after exit() and so poll for new data _after_ the writer has exited. This also allows us to not redundantly _wait_ for new data if the process is dead. * tests/tail-2/pid: Remove the now partially invalid sub second sleep check as we now don't unconditionally wait, and replace it with a check for the redundant sleep. Also clarify some of the existing comments. * NEWS: Mention the fix.

maint: move gnu-web-doc-update script to gnulib

2009-10-02T10:10:21Z

* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gnu-web-doc-update. Remove gendocs, since gnu-web-doc-update depends on it. * gnu-web-doc-update: Remove file, now that we get it from gnulib.

build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2009-10-02T10:10:21Z

tests: tail-2/pid: use a 3-second timeout, not 1

2009-09-30T21:28:13Z

* tests/tail-2/pid: When using the timeout program to ensuring that tail -s.1 --pid=$PID_T_MAX does not wait forever, use a timeout longer than 1 second. A 1-second timeout could be too short on a very busy system, and result in a timeout, and hence false-positive failure. 2009-09-30 Jim Meyering