coreutils, branch v8.1

version 8.1

2009-11-18T18:38:50Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

build: update gnulib for Solaris utimens workaround

2009-11-18T14:58:20Z

build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2009-11-18T06:33:02Z

maint: remove local gnulib-related patches

2009-11-17T20:44:37Z

* gl/lib/printf-args.c.diff: Remove file. No longer needed. * gl/lib/vasnprintf.c.diff: Likewise.

build: update gnulib for Solaris 10 unsetenv work-around

2009-11-17T20:44:30Z

doc: mention the du/fts vs. NFSv4 mount-point work-around

2009-11-17T07:56:12Z

* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.

build: update from gnulib for (un)setenv fixes

2009-11-17T07:48:15Z

build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2009-11-16T10:37:09Z

true, false: perform initialization only when argc == 2

2009-11-16T08:30:50Z

* src/true.c (main): There is no reason to examine argv[0], call atexit, etc., in the usual case in which we're about to exit. This has the side effect of making it so that these programs no longer segfault when subjected to execve abuse. Before this change, these commands would make "true" segfault: printf '%s\n' '#include ' 'int main(int c, char**v)' \ '{ execve (v[1], 0, 0); }' > k.c && gcc k.c && ./a.out $PWD/true Now it succeeds. Reported by Tetsuo Handa and Bart Van Assche via Ondřej Vašík in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/537684.

tail -F can fail to track a file after it's been rotated

2009-11-16T08:30:43Z

Tailing forever and by-name (--follow=name, -F), tail would sometimes fail to follow a file that had been removed via rename. If you can't apply this patch and have tail 7.6 or newer, you can work around the bug via the undocumented --disable-inotify option. * src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): When tailing by name (-F), do not un-watch a file upon receipt of the IN_MOVE_SELF event. Reported by Arjan Opmeer in http://bugs.debian.org/548439. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. Also see http://marc.info/?l=coreutils-bug&m=125829031916515 * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add tail-2/inotify-rotate. * tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate: New test.