coreutils/doc, branch v9.7

doc: mention workaround for combining hex floats with suffixes

2025-04-07T17:40:29Z

* doc/coreutils.texi (hexDuration): Mention the p style exponent trick.

doc: mention the edge case of hex durations with 'd' suffix

2025-04-05T23:07:37Z

* doc/coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Mention that suffixes are best avoided with hex arguments. (timeout invocation): Likewise. * tests/misc/sleep.sh: Ensure 'd' is not interpreted as "day".

maint: ensure that new "make syntax-check"-run sc_codespell passes

2025-04-04T20:14:29Z

* cfg.mk (codespell_ignore_words_list): Ignore false-positives. (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_codespell): Skip some file names. * doc/coreutils.texi (mktemp invocation): Use "alphanumeric" which is consistent with the rest of the documentation. * src/expand-common.c: Fix typo. * src/ls.c: Likewise. * tests/split/l-chunk-root.sh: Likewise.

doc: fix superscript in Texinfo manual's math

2025-01-19T07:46:52Z

The numeral "3" in the exponent was set at full size on the baseline.

ls: suppress "Permission denied" errors on NFS

2025-01-10T14:46:40Z

NFS (on Linux 6.12 at least) was seen to return EACCES from listxattr() for files without read access. We started using listxattr() in coreutils 9.4. * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Map EACCES from file_has_aclinfo() to '?', rather than displaying the error. * doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document the '?' flag. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/74692

doc: clarify mv -f operation in texinfo

2025-01-06T13:30:27Z

* doc/coreutils.texi (mv invocation): Be less ambiguous, in that -f is significant for any replacement operation on the destination, not just unlinking.

maint: update all copyright year number ranges

2025-01-01T09:33:08Z

Update to latest gnulib with new copyright year. Run "make update-copyright" and then... * gnulib: Update included in this commit as copyright years are the only change from the previous gnulib commit. * tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year. * bootstrap: Likewise. * tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.

date: improve doc for ambiguous formats

2024-12-30T19:53:17Z

Problem reported by Tim Connors . * doc/coreutils.texi (Date conversion specifiers): * src/date.c (usage): Warn about ambiguous formats like %D.

kill: with -l,-t list signal 0

2024-12-23T11:49:10Z

The 0 (EXIT) signal is valid as input (and useful to determine existence of a pid), so list it along with other signals. * doc/coreutils.texi (signal specifications): Document 0, "EXIT". * src/kill.c (list_signals): Start loops at 0, not 1. * tests/misc/kill.sh: Add a test case. * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

cksum: add support for --algorithm=crc32b

2024-11-02T19:57:35Z

$ echo -n '123456789' | cksum --raw -a crc32b | basenc --base16 CBF43926 * bootstrap.conf: Explicitly depend on the crc module. * doc/coreutils.texi (cksum): Add "crc32b" as an argument to -a. * src/cksum.c (crc32b_sum_stream): A new function similar to crc_sum_stream, but which does not include the length in the CRC calculation. * src/cksum.h: Add crc32b_sum_stream prototype. * src/digest.c: Add "crc32b" as an argument to -a. * tests/cksum/cksum.sh: Refactor to test both crc and crc32b. * tests/cksum/cksum-a.sh: Add "crc32b" case. * tests/cksum/cksum-base64.pl: Likewise. * tests/misc/read-errors.sh: Likewise. * NEWS: Mention the new feature.