coreutils/NEWS, branch v9.7

version 9.7

2025-04-09T10:44:57Z

* NEWS: Record release date.

timeout: don’t sleep less than requested

2025-04-07T07:59:27Z

Also, change sleep and tail to not sleep less than requested. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add dtimespec-bound. * gl/lib/dtimespec-bound.c, gl/lib/dtimespec-bound.h: * gl/modules/dtimespec-bound: New files. * src/sleep.c, src/tail.c, src/timeout.c: Include dtimespec-bound.h. * src/sleep.c, src/tail.c: Don’t include xstrtod.h. * src/sleep.c (apply_suffix, main): * src/tail.c (parse_options): * src/timeout.c (apply_time_suffix): Don’t sleep less than the true number of seconds. * src/timeout.c: Don’t include ctype.h. (is_negative): Remove; no longer needed. (parse_duration): Use a slightly looser bound on the timeout, one that doesn’t need -lm on GNU/Linux. Clear errno before calling cl_strtod.

timeout: ensure infinitesimal timeouts timeout quickly

2025-04-04T19:52:32Z

* src/timeout.c (parse_duration): Clamp infinitesimal values to 1ns. * tests/timeout/timeout-large-parameters.sh: Add a test case. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/77535

ls: print correct xattr error on all platforms

2025-03-30T14:12:52Z

* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Output errno, as u.err is not populated by file_has_aclinfo() on all platforms. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

ls: fix crash on systems with SELinux but without xattr support

2025-03-21T12:13:12Z

This was seen on termux on Android with ./configure --disable-xattr where listxattr() and getxattr() returned ENOTSUP. Then the valid security context obtained by file_has_aclinfo() was discounted, and problematically then freed multiple times. Reported at https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/23752 * src/ls.c (file_has_aclinfo_cache): Only discount the returned acl info when all components are defaulted due to being unsupported.

dd: fix error detection with "nocache" flag

2025-03-10T12:32:08Z

* NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * src/dd.c (invalidate_cache): Adjust to the unusual error propagation sematics of posix_fadvise().

doc: mention logname improvement in NEWS

2025-03-09T12:46:46Z

* NEWS: Mention the improvement in gnulib commit 90840606. Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/76876

who: fix -m with guessed tty names

2025-02-24T15:33:17Z

* who.c (scan_entries): Account for guessed tty names (e.g. 'sshd pts/1') from the readutmp module when using the systemd backend. * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add str_endswith. * News: Mention the bug fix. Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2343998

cksum: port to 32-bit uint_fast32_t

2025-02-17T10:31:50Z

* src/cksum_vmull.c (cksum_vmull): Don’t assume uint_fast32_t can hold 64 bits. Problem reported by Alyssa Ross (Bug#76360).

cat: fix plain ‘cat’ bug

2025-02-14T21:13:08Z

* src/cat.c (main): Do not fail with plain ‘cat’ where input and output are both /dev/tty, if the output happens to have O_APPEND set. Problem reported by lilydjwg . Also, don’t report an error if the seek position is at or after EOF, even if O_APPEND is set.