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chcon: don't disable just because SELinux is disabled

2009-10-09T12:33:10Z

* src/chcon.c (main): Now that gnulib provides getfilecon wrappers, we can revert most of the 2009-10-05 commit 3a97d664, "chcon: exit immediately if SELinux is disabled", since chcon is still useful as long as the file system provides handlers for the security.* name space. gnulib's getfilecon wrappers ensure that an offending context now evokes a return value of -1. Prompted by comments from Stephen Smalley in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18378/focus=18394 * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

stat: add support for many more file system types

2009-10-08T08:18:28Z

* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add the following FS types, from : afs, anon-inode FS, btrfs, cgroupfs, cramfs-wend, debugfs, futexfs, inotifyfs, minux3, securityfs, selinux, xenfs. Also add "nilfs". * src/Makefile.am (fs-kernel-magic): New rule. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

stat: recognize CIFS and HFS file system types

2009-10-08T07:07:12Z

* src/stat.c (human_fstype) [CIFS, HFS]: Add new file system types. Prompted by a report from Stuart Kemp. Normalize the form of a few hexadecimal magic numbers. Alphabetize on S_MAGIC_ case names. * src/Makefile.am (fs-magic-compare, fs-def, fs-magic): New rules, to automate comparison of our list with that in the Linux statfs man page. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

md5sum, sha*sum: also accept openssl checksum syntax

2009-10-07T07:31:27Z

* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Accept openssl checksum syntax, which differs only by two spaces from that of the bsd checksum tools: openssl: MD5(f)= d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e bsd: MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

post-release administrivia

2009-10-06T11:20:18Z

* NEWS: Add header line for next release. * .prev-version: Record previous version. * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

version 8.0

2009-10-06T11:04:16Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

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.

ls: always print "?" for allocated size of a dereferenced dangling symlink

2009-09-30T14:42:35Z

Previously for `ls -Ls` (but not `ls -Lsl`), we referenced the st_blocks returned from the previous failed stat() call. This undefined value was seen to be 0 for dangling symlinks at least. * src/ls.c (print_file_name_and_frills, length_of_file_name_and_frills): Don't use st_blocks if the previous stat() failed * tests/ls/dangle: Add a test case * NEWS: Mention the fix, and roll up related items into a single entry.

stat: interpret "-" as standard input

2009-09-29T14:04:12Z

* src/stat.c (do_stat): Interpret a command line argument of "-" to mean "standard input", like many other tools do. (do_statfs): Fail upon any attempt to use "-". * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it. * tests/misc/stat-hyphen: New test, to exercise the above. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/stat-hyphen.

ls: don't use an undefined struct stat after failed stat/lstat

2009-09-29T12:12:30Z

* src/ls.c (format_inode): Access f->stat only if f->stat_ok is set. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. Improved-by: Pádraig Brady