coreutils/NEWS, branch v9.4

version 9.4

2023-08-29T13:36:22Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

maint: spelling fixes, including author names

2023-08-28T21:06:43Z

Most of this just affects commentary and documentations. The only significant behavior change is translating author names via proper_name_lite rather than proper_name_utf8, or not translating them at all. proper_name_lite is good enough for coreutils and avoids the bloat that had coreutils not using Gnulib proper_name. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use propername-lite instead of propername. (XGETTEXT_OPTIONS): Look for proper_name_lite instead of for proper_name_utf8. * cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Remove sc_proper_name_utf8_requires_ICONV, since we no longer use proper_name_utf8. (old_NEWS_hash): Update. (sc_check-I18N-AUTHORS): Remove; no longer needed.

shred: fix operation on Solaris with 64 bit builds

2023-08-23T14:23:42Z

* NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * gl/lib/randread.c (get_nonce): Limit getrandom() <= 1024 bytes.

cp: with --sparse=never, avoid COW and copy offload

2023-08-21T13:28:14Z

* src/cp.c (main): Set default reflink mode appropriately with --sparse=never. * src/copy.c (infer_scantype): Add a comment to related code. * tests/cp/sparse-2.sh: Add a test case. * NEWS: Mention the bug.

maint: remove extraneous line in NEWS

2023-08-16T10:47:54Z

* NEWS: Remove extraneous line.

maint: update uptime NEWS

2023-08-15T22:22:27Z

* NEWS: Update as per Bruno Haible .

maint: fix typo in NEWS

2023-08-15T11:35:13Z

* NEWS: s|/who/log/wtmp|/var/log/tmp|, introduced in commit 85edb4afbd1.

doc: improve NEWS discussion of systemd

2023-08-13T06:51:59Z

doc: separate out description of 2038 time stamp change

2023-08-11T13:34:49Z

* NEWS: Separate out the description of the _existing_ issues with outputting timestamps on 32 bit systems, from _future_ issues outputting timestamps on all systems. Also move this to the "improvement" section, since it's not really a coreutils specific issue, and also is a build time configurable option.

maint: Update after gnulib module 'readutmp' changed

2023-08-04T06:16:00Z

(This patch is coauthored with Bruno Haible, with original version at .) This updates the gnulib submodule to latest. For year-2038 safety on Linux/{x86,arm}, this adds an --enable-systemd option to ‘configure’. The idea is that this sort of thing will become the default after it has been tested more. * configure.ac: Don't test whether struct utmp and struct utmpx have the ut_host field; this is now done in gnulib's readutmp module. * src/local.mk: Link the programs 'pinky', 'uptime', 'users', 'who' with $(READUTMP_LIB). * src/pinky.c, src/who.c: Test HAVE_STRUCT_XTMP_UT_HOST instead of HAVE_UT_HOST. * src/pinky.c (print_entry): * src/who.c (print_user, print_deadprocs, print_login) (print_initspawn, scan_entries): Support the situation where ut_line is a 'char *' rather than a 'char[]' of fixed size. Likewise for ut_user and ut_host. (make_id_equals_comment): Likewise for ut_id. * src/pinky.c (print_entry): * src/who.c (print_user): Open /dev to simplify looking up its entries. Don’t use printf if the output might in theory be longer than INT_MAX. * src/pinky.c (scan_entries, short_pinky): * src/uptime.c (print_uptime, uptime): * src/users.c (list_entries_users, users): * src/who.c (who): Use idx_t where new read_utmp needs it. * src/system.h (STREQ_LEN): Add comment that last arg can be -1.