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copy: allow symlink timestamp preservation on more systems

2009-10-10T15:14:35Z

* src/copy.c (utimens_symlink): Simplify by using lutimens. * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Drop utimensat; gnulib does this for us. * tests/cp/preserve-slink-time: Recognize lutimes support.

maint: remove unused macros and declarations

2009-10-09T02:30:06Z

* src/system.h (EDQUOT, EISDIR, ENOSYS, EOVERFLOW, F_OK, X_OK) (W_OK, R_OK): Delete; macros provided by gnulib. (includes): Gnulib guarantees both and , in either order. (free, malloc, memchr, realloc, getenv, lseek): Delete, gnulib guarantees these declarations. * m4/check-decl.m4 (gl_CHECK_DECLS): Delete checks now done by gnulib.

rm: use gnulib faccessat

2009-09-11T12:08:58Z

* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add faccessat. Replace strdup with strdup-posix. * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Revert previous change, now that gnulib does it for us. * src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Use faccessat in more situations.

rm: improve efficiency of rm -r (without -f) from O(N^2) to O(N)

2009-09-11T12:08:58Z

where N is the depth of the deepest hierarchy rm is processing. * src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Use faccessat to avoid O(N)-per-entry cost of calling euidaccess. * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for faccessat. * NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.

build: fix libcap configure flag handling

2009-09-04T06:48:03Z

* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): The code to handle configure-time enabling or disabling of libcap support was broken. It would treat any libcap configure option as --disable-libcap because it doesn't check $enableval at all. This change makes sure we do the sane thing: --disable-libcap -> disable and don't run any tests --enable-libcap -> run tests and fail if not found default -> run tests and warn if not found

global: convert indentation-TABs to spaces

2009-08-25T07:21:00Z

cp -pP (and e.g., -a): preserve time stamps on symlinks, too

2009-08-04T15:38:54Z

* src/copy.c (utimensat_if_possible): New function. (copy_internal): Remove variable, "preserve_metadata". Replace with "dest_is_symlink". That covers all cases but one: the one in which cp --link has created hard links to non-directories. In that case, there is no need to update attributes of the links. Use utimensat_if_possible, to preserve timestamps of symlinks. * NEWS (New features): Mention this. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp/preserve-slink-time. * tests/cp/preserve-slink-time: New file. * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Test for utimensat. Reported in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/230866

install runs faster again with SELinux enabled

2009-08-04T14:51:52Z

* m4/jm-macros.m4: Pull in SELinux libraries while checking for matchpathcon_init_prefix (). Emit configure warning when not found with SELinux enabled. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. The bug was introduced in coreutils-7.0 via commit 0647f3eb, 2008-06-02, "accommodate older SELinux which lacks matchpathcon_init_prefix".

maint: move the update-copyright rule to gnulib's maint.mk

2009-08-04T10:06:32Z

* gnulib: Update submodule to get latest maint.mk. * Makefile.am (update-copyright): Remove rule; now it's in maint.mk. * m4/check-decl.m4: Update sole remaining copyright year list.

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.