coreutils/tests/misc, branch v8.5

sort: fix parsing of end field in obsolescent key formats

2010-04-20T21:37:18Z

This regression was introduced in commit 224a69b5, 2009-02-24, "sort: Fix two bugs with determining the end of field". The specific regression being that we include 1 field too many when an end field is specified using obsolescent key syntax (+POS -POS). * src/sort.c (struct keyfield): Clarify the description of the eword member, as suggested by Alan Curry. (main): When processing obsolescent format key specifications, normalize eword to a zero based count when no specific end char is given for an end field. This matches what's done when keys are specified with -k. * tests/misc/sort: Add a few more tests for the obsolescent key formats, with test 07i being the particular failure addressed by this change. * THANKS: Add Alan Curry who precisely identified the issue. * NEWS: Mention the fix. Reported by Santiago Rodríguez

tests: add a PATH-sanity-check to help-version

2010-04-07T09:47:28Z

* tests/misc/help-version: Sync from gzip's version. * tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Export VERSION, as required for new help-version test.

tests: avoid spurious sc_prohibit_test_minus_ao syntax-check failures

2010-03-29T06:28:51Z

* tests/misc/ls-time: Change comments and diagnostics. * tests/misc/xattr: Likewise.

nice,chroot: use more standard option parsing

2010-03-26T14:31:16Z

Related to the 2010-03-25 commit, 88d4b346, "timeout: use more standard option parsing". * src/nice.c (main): Don't use parse_long_options() which is a helper for commands that don't have any long options specific to them. * src/chroot.c (main): Likewise. * tests/misc/nice-fail: Remove a case that now passes due to us accepting multiple instances of the --help and --version options. * tests/misc/chroot-fail: Likewise.

timeout: use more standard option parsing

2010-03-26T14:27:54Z

* src/timeout.c (main): Don't use parse_long_options() which is a helper for commands that don't have any long options specific to them. * tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Remove a case that now passes due to us accepting multiple instances of the --help and --version options. * THANKS: Add the author. Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady

tests: change help-version to per-program functions

2010-03-19T12:13:08Z

* help-version: Change each *_args variable to a *_setup function.

timeout: add the --kill-after option

2010-03-16T23:10:15Z

Based on a report from Kim Hansen who wanted to send a KILL signal to the monitored command when `timeout` itself received a termination signal. Rather than changing such a signal into a KILL, we provide the more general mechanism of sending the KILL after the specified grace period. * src/timeout.c (cleanup): If a non zero kill delay is specified, (re)set the alarm to that delay, after which a KILL signal will be sent to the process group. (usage): Mention the new option. Separate the description of DURATION since it's now specified in 2 places. Clarify that the duration is an integer. (parse_duration): A new function refactored from main(), since this logic is now called for two parameters. (main): Parse the -k option. * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Describe the new --kill-after option and use @display rather than @table to show the duration suffixes. Clarify that a duration of 0 disables the associated timeout. * tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Check invalid --kill-after. * tests/misc/timeout: Check a valid --kill-after works. * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

sort: fix issues with month sorting in some locales

2010-03-01T10:58:02Z

* src/sort.c (char fold_toupper[]): Change to unsigned so as the correct comparisons are made in getmonth(). This fixes unibyte locales where abbreviated months have characters that are > 0x7F, but it also works for multibyte locales with the caveat that multibyte characters are matched case sensitively. With this change, the following example sorts correctly: $ echo -e "1 márta\n2 Feabhra" | LANG=ga_IE.utf8 sort -k2,2M 2 Feabhra 1 márta * src/sort.c (inittables): Since we ignore blanks around months in the input, don't include them when they're present in the locale. With this change, the following example sorts correctly: $ echo -e "1 2月\n2 1月" | LANG=ja_JP.utf8 sort -k2,2M 2 1月 1 2月 * tests/misc/sort-month: A new test to exercise the above cases. * tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test. * NEWS: Mention the fix.

expr: clarify error message

2010-02-25T15:54:49Z

* src/expr.c (eval4, eval3): Clarify that expr expects integers, and not the broader category of numbers. * tests/misc/expr: Update test accordingly. Suggested by Dan Jacobson.

tests: include help-version test settings used by gzip and grep

2010-02-07T16:18:02Z

* tests/misc/help-version: ...the better to keep this file in sync.