coreutils/THANKS, branch v7.5

dd: fix a signal handling race

2009-08-13T15:06:50Z

* src/dd.c (main): Install the signal handlers at startup rather than just before the copy starts. In this way signals received before the copy (like during a slow truncate for e.g.) will be deferred and handled consistently. * THANKS: Add Bernhard's email address. * NEWS: Mention the fix. Reported by Bernhard Voelker.

maint: make update-copyright work in yet another case

2009-07-29T13:39:25Z

* build-aux/update-copyright: Handle the case in which "\n#" appears between the final year number and the copyright holder name. * m4/lib-check.m4: Update copyright year list. Reported by Joel E. Denny.

ls -1U dir arg ... now works again

2009-07-27T15:10:39Z

* src/ls.c (print_dir): Emit "$dir_name:\n" *before* accumulating (and possibly printing) directory entry names. The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.0 via commit 8d974b00, 2008-07-30, "ls -U1 now uses constant memory". Reported by Julian Bradfield. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.

sort: Ignore fields where end position is before the start position

2009-06-13T00:25:06Z

* NEWS: Mention the fix * THANKS: Add Cliff Miller * src/sort.c (keycompare): Ensure lima >= texta * tests/misc/sort: Add 3 corresponding tests Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady

sort: new --human-numeric-sort option to sort KiB MB etc.

2009-05-26T13:49:17Z

* NEWS: Document the new option * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ditto * src/sort.c (main): handle the new --human-numeric-sort option (-h). (human_numcompare): A new function to compare SI and IEC suffixes before falling back to the standard --numeric comparison. (find_unit_order): A new helper function to find the order of magnitude of a number string as determined by its suffix. (check_mixed_SI_IEC): A new helper function to exit with error if both SI and IEC suffixes are presented. * tests/misc/sort: Add 8 tests to test the new functionality. * THANKS: Update

df: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting

2009-04-28T12:32:17Z

* src/df.c (main): When iterating over command-line arguments, attempting to ensure each backing file system is mounted, use open, not stat. stat is no longer sufficient to trigger automounting, in some cases. Based on a suggestion from Ian Kent. More details in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/497830

sort -m: don't segfault when output file is also an input file

2009-04-23T19:03:14Z

* src/sort.c (avoid_trashing_input): Fix an off-by-one error and guard the use of memmove. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. * tests/misc/sort: Add tests to exercise the offending code. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Otavio Salvador in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.

id: fix infinite loop on some systems

2009-04-09T13:07:29Z

Steven Parkes reported that `id -G $USER` went into an infinite loop on Darwin systems for users in more than 10 groups: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264007 * gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Work around buggy getgrouplist implementations that don't update the required size correctly, by doubling the result buffer and retrying. Also return the parameter updated by getgrouplist rather than its return value, as the documentation doesn't actually state the number of groups stored is returned by getgrouplist. * tests/misc/id-groups: Add test to exercise this logic * tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test * NEWS: Mention the fix * THANKS: Update

shred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default

2009-04-07T18:01:46Z

Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at: http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797 to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred. * gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom * src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom * src/shuf.c (usage); ditto * src/sort.c (usage): ditto * doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour for aquiring random data.

tests: skip mv/i-3 if /dev/stdin is unreadable

2009-04-02T06:44:12Z

* tests/mv/i-3: Skip if /dev/stdin is unreadable. Reported by Sergei Steshenko.