coreutils/NEWS, branch v8.1

version 8.1

2009-11-18T18:38:50Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

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

2009-11-17T07:56:12Z

* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.

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.

ls: fix capability coloring

2009-11-09T08:16:20Z

Capability checking was incorrectly done on just the base name rather than on the whole path. Consequently there could be both false positives and negatives when coloring files with capabilities. Also capability checking was not done at all in certain cases for non executable files. Note passing absolute rather than relative names to cap_get_file() reduces the has_capability() overhead from around 33% to 30%. I.E. ls --color is now around 3% faster. * src/ls.c (struct fileinfo): Add a has_capability member. (print_color_indicator): Refactor to pass just a fileinfo pointer and a flag to say if we're dealing with a symlink target. (print_name_with_quoting): Likewise. (gobble_file): Set has_capability in the fileinfo struct. Also do a capability check even if executable coloring is disabled. Ditto for SETUID and SETUID coloring. Comment on how expensive has_capability() is. (print_long_format): Adjust to refactored print_name_with_quoting. (quote_name): Likewise. (print_file_name_and_frills): Likewise. * tests/ls/capability: Test the various false positive and negatives. * THANKS: Add reporter (Ivan Labath). * NEWS: Mention the fix.

chcon, chgrp, chmod and chown now diagnose a directory cycle

2009-11-07T07:43:00Z

* lib/xfts.c (cycle_warning_required): New function. * lib/xfts.h: Declare it. * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Diagnose a cycle. * src/chmod.c (process_file): Likewise. * src/chcon.c (process_file): Likewise. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

nproc: A new program to count the available processors

2009-11-06T16:54:12Z

* AUTHORS: Add my name. * NEWS: Mention it. * README: Likewise. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add nproc. * doc/coreutils.texi (nproc invocation): Add nproc info. * man/Makefile.am (nproc.1): Add dependency. * man/nproc.x: New template. * man/.gitignore: Ignore generated man page. * po/POTFILES.in: Add src/nproc.c. * src/.gitignore: Exclude nproc. * src/Makefile.am (EXTRA_PROGRAMS): Add nproc. * src/nproc.c: New file. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/nproc-{avail,positive}. * tests/misc/nproc-avail: New file. * tests/misc/nproc-positive: New file.

mktemp: add suffix handling

2009-11-05T14:10:40Z

Now that mkstemps is supported, we might as well use it. * src/mktemp.c (TMPDIR_OPTION): New enum value. (longopts): Add new option. (usage): Document it. (count_trailing_X_s): Rename... (count_consecutive_X_s): ...to this, and add parameter. (mkstemp_len, mkdtemp_len): Add parameter. (main): Implement new option. (AUTHORS): Add myself. * AUTHORS (mktemp): Likewise. * tests/misc/mktemp: Test new option. * doc/coreutils.texi (mktemp invocation): Document it. * NEWS: Likewise. Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548316.

mktemp: don't leave file behind on write failure

2009-11-05T13:53:21Z

* src/mktemp.c (main): Remove just-created file if stdout had problems. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add remove. * tests/misc/close-stdout: Test it. * NEWS: Document it.

du now diagnoses cycles, rather than ignoring them

2009-11-05T07:32:31Z

* src/du.c (symlink_deref_bits): New global, decl moved from ... (main): ...here. (process_file): When fts detects a directory cycle that can't be due to symlinks, report it and arrange to exit nonzero. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

rm -f: ignore EROFS when it's really ENOENT

2009-11-03T13:14:00Z

rm -f must not print a diagnostic for a nonexistent file. However, most linux-based kernel unlinkat functions set errno to EROFS when the named file (regardless of whether it exists) would lie on a read-only file system. remove.c now performs an extra fstatat call in that case, to determine whether the file exists. * src/remove.c (excise): Map EROFS to ENOENT, if a file is nonexistent. Reported by Steven Drake in . * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention it.