coreutils/src/truncate.c, branch v8.22

doc: clarify that truncate --size represents bytes by default

2013-06-22T02:09:01Z

* src/truncate.c (usage): Mention that --size is in bytes which is by far the most common usage. * doc/coreutils.texi (truncate invocation): Likewise. Also cross reference the --io-blocks option. Reported in http://bugs.gnu.org/14686

maint: improve error messages upon failed read, write, access, close

2013-02-06T15:57:34Z

Note we use "failed to {access,close}" for those single operations, and "error {read,writ}ing" for those partial operation failures. * src/copy.c: Improve error messages for failing read, write and close. * src/cp.c: Improve error messages for failing access. * src/dd.c: Improve error messages for failing read, write and open. * src/head.c: Improve error message for failing close. * src/install.c: Improve error messages for failing access. * src/ln.c: Likewise. * src/mv.c: Likewise. * src/touch.c: Improve error message for failing close. * src/truncate.c: Likewise.

maint: define usage note about mandatory args centrally

2013-01-23T00:03:38Z

Each program with at least one long option which is marked as 'required_argument' and which has also a short option for that option, should print a note about mandatory arguments. Define that well-known note centrally and use it rather than literal printf/fputs, and add it where it was missing. * src/system.h (emit_mandatory_arg_note): Add new function. * src/cp.c (usage): Use it rather than literal printf/fputs. * src/csplit.c, src/cut.c, src/date.c, src/df.c, src/du.c: * src/expand.c, src/fmt.c, src/fold.c, src/head.c, src/install.c: * src/kill.c, src/ln.c, src/ls.c, src/mkdir.c, src/mkfifo.c: * src/mknod.c, src/mv.c, src/nl.c, src/od.c, src/paste.c: * src/pr.c, src/ptx.c, src/shred.c, src/shuf.c, src/sort.c: * src/split.c, src/stdbuf.c, src/tac.c, src/tail.c, src/timeout.c: * src/touch.c, src/truncate.c, src/unexpand.c, src/uniq.c: Likewise. * src/base64.c (usage): Add call of the above new function because at least one long option has a required argument. * src/basename.c, src/chcon.c, src/date.c, src/env.c: * src/nice.c, src/runcon.c, src/seq.c, src/stat.c, src/stty.c: Likewise.

maint: update all copyright year number ranges

2013-01-01T03:51:20Z

Run "make update-copyright", but then also run this, perl -pi -e 's/2\d\d\d-//' tests/sample-test to make that one script use the single most recent year number.

truncate: don't leak a file descriptor with --ref=PIPE

2012-08-04T10:27:20Z

* src/truncate.c (main): For a user who makes the mistake of using a non-seekable file as a reference for the desired length, truncate would open that file, attempt to seek to its end, but upon seek failure would neglect to close the file descriptor. Close the file descriptor even when lseek fails. In addition, ignore failure to close that reference FD, since as long as the lseek succeeds, a close failure doesn't matter. Coverity spotted the potential FD leak. Improved-by: Pádraig Brady.

maint: refactor common mode bits used to create files

2012-06-22T10:17:38Z

* src/system.h (MODE_RW_UGO): The new refactored define (666). * src/mkfifo.c: Use the new define. * src/mknod.c: Likewise. * src/split.c: Likewise. * src/system.h: Likewise. * src/touch.c: Likewise. * src/truncate.c: Likewise. Suggested-by: Jim Meyering

maint: handle file sizes more reliably

2012-05-10T09:02:42Z

Problem reported by Samuel Thibault in . * NEWS: Document this. * src/dd.c (skip): Handle skipping past EOF on shared or typed memory objects the same way as with regular files. (dd_copy): It's OK to truncate shared memory objects. * src/du.c (duinfo_add): Check for overflow. (print_only_size): Report overflow. (process_file): Ignore negative file sizes in the --apparent-size case. * src/od.c (skip): Fix comment about st_size. * src/split.c (main): * src/truncate.c (do_ftruncate, main): On files where st_size is not portable, fall back on using lseek with SEEK_END to determine the size. Although strictly speaking POSIX says the behavior is implementation-defined, in practice if lseek returns a nonnegative value it's a reasonable one to use for the file size. * src/system.h (usable_st_size): Symlinks have reliable st_size too. * tests/misc/truncate-dir-fail: Don't assume that getting the size of a dir is not allowed, as it's now allowed on many platforms, e.g., GNU/Linux.

maint: src/*.c: change remaining quotes (without embedded spaces)

2012-01-09T20:50:08Z

Run this (twice): git grep -E -l '`[^ ]+'\' src/*.c \ |xargs perl -pi -e 's/`([^ ]+'\'')/'\''$1/'

maint: convert `...' to '...' in --help output

2012-01-09T20:50:08Z

All affected lines end with \ or \n\, so run this command until it produces no new changes (4 times): git grep -E -l '`[^ ]+'\''.*\\' src \ |xargs perl -pi -e 's/`([^ ]+'\''.*\\)/'\''$1/'

maint: prep for global quoting changes: handle irregular cases manually

2012-01-09T20:49:51Z

* src/chroot.c (usage): Change ``...'' to '...', and describe the default more accurately (also adding quotes): s,/bin/sh,'/bin/sh -i', * src/join.c (usage): Change ` ...'' ' to "...''". * src/fmt.c (isopen): Change `' to '` in list of bytes, so that a subsequent change can safely perform the `...' to '...' conversion. * src/truncate.c (main): Tweak quoting in comments to use '...', not `...`, for consistency with the rest of comments in coreutils.