coreutils/src, branch v6.8

* NEWS: sort no longer compresses temporaries by default.

2007-02-24T11:24:27Z

* bootstrap.conf: Remove findprog. * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): The default is to not compress. Don't treat "" specially. * src/sort.c: Don't include findprog.h. (create_temp): Compress only if the user specified --compress-program. * tests/misc/sort-compress: Adjusts tests to match new behavior.

* src/date.c (usage): Split a diagnostic that had grown to be

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longer than the C89 maximum of 509 bytes.

* src/date.c (usage): Mention that --rfc-3339 uses space, not 'T',

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for a separator. Include sample RFC 2822 and 3339 output.

With -Dlint, make shuf free all heap-allocated storage.

2007-02-23T14:18:16Z

* src/shuf.c (main): Move declaration of input_lines to function scope, and initialize to NULL, so we can free it. [lint]: Free all malloc'd memory. * tests/misc/shuf: Also test shuf's -e and -i options.

Honor dd's noatime flag if possible, even if not supported on build fs

2007-02-22T18:09:35Z

* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn that noatime might not be reliable. * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Look at O_NOATIME, not HAVE_WORKING_O_NOATIME, to decide whether to support the noatime flag, so that dd attempts O_NOATIME even if the build file system does not support it. Problem reported by Jim Meyering today in bug-coreutils. * tests/dd/misc: Generate a warning, not a failure, if noatime exists but fails.

Adjust preceding change not to perform an unaligned access.

2007-02-22T15:32:45Z

* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Undo previous change. Instead, make it clearer that we're using a single-byte sentinel, and [lint]: Initialize uintptr_t-1 bytes after the sentinel. Reported by Andreas Schwab.

Placate valgrind, wrt ./cp --sparse=always

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* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Place the sentinel by setting a full word's worth of bits, not just a single byte's worth. This avoids a harmless (but distracting) case of memory being used-uninitialized.

* src/copy.c (cached_umask): Cast -1 to mode_t to avoid a warning

2007-02-21T16:23:05Z

about out-of-range initializer with Sun C 5.8.

* src/env.c (main): When invoked with no arguments (i.e. when printing

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the environment), use a local variable to iterate through the global "environ" array, rather than "environ" itself. This is solely to avoid changing the environment for an LD_PRELOAD-substituted "puts" or "exit" function. Tiny patch by Harvey Eneman. See . * THANKS: Update.

* NEWS: sort now uses a --compress-program option rather than

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an environment variable. * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document this. * src/sort.c (usage): Likewise. (COMPRESS_PROGRAM_OPTION): New const. (long_options, create_temp, main): Support new option. * tests/misc/sort-compress: Test it.