Michael Speer [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:51:29 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
sort: new --human-numeric-sort option to sort KiB MB etc.
* NEWS: Document the new option
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): ditto
* src/sort.c (main): handle the new --human-numeric-sort option (-h).
(human_numcompare): A new function to compare SI and IEC suffixes
before falling back to the standard --numeric comparison.
(find_unit_order): A new helper function to find the order
of magnitude of a number string as determined by its suffix.
(check_mixed_SI_IEC): A new helper function to exit with error
if both SI and IEC suffixes are presented.
* tests/misc/sort: Add 8 tests to test the new functionality.
* THANKS: Update
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 15 May 2009 16:28:51 +0000 (17:28 +0100)]
doc: clarify the operation of the comm -123 parameters
* src/comm.c (usage): give more information on the -123 parameters,
with examples to show that they can be combined.
Addresses <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24974>.
* doc/coreutils.texi (comm invocation): Mention that the
column separators are suppressed along with the column.
Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
* man/comm.x: Reference other commands that match adjacent lines.
* man/join.x: ditto.
* man/uniq.x: ditto.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 5 May 2009 11:00:15 +0000 (12:00 +0100)]
doc: note the use of LC_COLLATE in comm, join and uniq
* doc/coreutils.texi (uniq invocation): Simplify the
text to remove the inconsequential mentioning of order,
while implying that LC_COLLATE can alter equality comparisons.
* src/comm.c (usage): Mention LC_COLLATE is significant.
* src/join.c (usage): Ditto.
* src/uniq.c (usage): Ditto. Also improve the summary.
Suggestion from Andries Brouwer
David Bartley [Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:48:15 +0000 (03:48 -0400)]
mv, rm: adapt to new and improved gnulib interfaces
Use gnulib's new priv-set module and updated write-any-file.
With them, the remove-called can_write_any_file function no
longer tries to drop the unlink-directory privilege, so now
each caller of remove must do that separately, calling
priv_set_remove_linkdir.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add priv-set.
* src/rm.c: Include "priv-set.h".
(main): Call priv_set_remove_linkdir.
* src/mv.c (main): Likewise.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 2 May 2009 19:56:25 +0000 (21:56 +0200)]
tests: correct the "make check"-run check-AUTHORS test
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Revert back to using
en_US.UTF-8, to ease parsing (English-only) text around the
list of names, even when .po files are not installed.
Reported by Andreas Schwab.
Along the way, use $(AM_V_GEN), not "@".
(sc_tight_scope): Use $(AM_V_GEN) here, too.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest, for the proper_name_utf8 fix
that makes --version output print the UTF-8 rendering of author names
in more cases.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 3 May 2009 04:21:48 +0000 (06:21 +0200)]
tests: add tests of e.g., date -d 'next monday'
* tests/misc/date-next-dow: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/date-next-dow.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest, for getdate.y that
handles "next Monday" properly when run on a Monday.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 1 May 2009 15:55:11 +0000 (17:55 +0200)]
maint: tweak release-building notes
* README-release: Specify -j1 on the command to run all tests.
Otherwise, running some in parallel would cause failures, e.g.,
for rm/ext3-perf and tail-2/assert-2.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:50:40 +0000 (13:50 +0200)]
build: "make check" now fails in a friendlier manner for missing Perl
* doc/Makefile.am (sc-lower-case-var): Don't redirect stderr of
$(PERL) (which is sometimes build-aux/missing) to /dev/null,
so that a failing "make check" explains that Perl is not installed.
Reported by James Youngman.
Tomas Smetana [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:21:49 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
df: use open(2), not stat, to trigger automounting
* src/df.c (main): When iterating over command-line arguments,
attempting to ensure each backing file system is mounted, use
open, not stat. stat is no longer sufficient to trigger
automounting, in some cases. Based on a suggestion from Ian Kent.
More details in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/497830
cp -a: diagnose failure when preserving xattr/context required
* src/copy.c (copy_attr_by_fs): Always print diagnostics when preserving
xattrs is required.
(copy_attr_by_name): Likewise.
(copy_reg): Always print diagnostics when preserving SELinux
context is required.
(copy_internal): Likewise. Also, do not ignore ENOTSUP and ENODATA
errors when preserving SELinux context is required.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
mv: ignore xattr-preservation failure when not supported by filesystem
*src/copy.c: Do not warn about xattr-preservation failure when xattrs
are not supported and preservation of xattrs is not explicitly required.
Reported by Eric Sandeen in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/496142
Jim Meyering [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:23:48 +0000 (09:23 +0200)]
build: adjust use of automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable
* src/Makefile.am (dircolors.h, wheel-size.h, wheel.h, fs.h):
(version.c, version.h): Use $(AM_V_GEN) only as a prefix of an existing
command. Otherwise, it provokes warnings from some "make" programs.
Suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:36:22 +0000 (21:36 +0200)]
build: move coreutils-specific rules from maint.mk to new file
* dist-check.mk: New file: coreutils-specific rules extracted
from maint.mk, now that maint.mk has migrated to gnulib.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add dist-check.mk.
* coreutils/cfg.mk: Include $(srcdir)/dist-check.mk.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:16:46 +0000 (15:16 +0200)]
build: use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at) variables
* src/Makefile.am (dircolors.h, wheel-size.h, wheel.h, fs.h):
(version.c, version.h): Mark with $(AM_V_GEN) and $(AM_V_at),
so that the latest automake prints "GEN $@" by default.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:41:52 +0000 (13:41 +0200)]
build: make --enable-silent-rules the default
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove silent-rules. Instead,...
(AM_SILENT_RULES): Use this, with it's undocumented [yes] argument.
Those who want verbose build output may configure with
--disable-silent-rules or use "make V=1".
Jim Meyering [Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:45:27 +0000 (08:45 +0200)]
sort -m: don't segfault when output file is also an input file
* src/sort.c (avoid_trashing_input): Fix an off-by-one error and
guard the use of memmove.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/sort: Add tests to exercise the offending code.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Otavio Salvador in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:45:51 +0000 (08:45 +0200)]
tests: make the check-AUTHORS test more portable, now that it's...
run as part of "make check".
* src/Makefile.am (check-AUTHORS): Don't depend on en_US.UTF-8.
Instead, use the French UTF8 locale, if configure found one.
If not found, just skip the test.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:21:38 +0000 (08:21 +0200)]
avoid parallel "make distcheck" failure due to two run-in-src/ rules
Move the check-AUTHORS rule from "syntax-check" to "check".
* maint.mk (local-checks-available): Remove check-AUTHORS.
(check-AUTHORS): Remove rule.
* src/Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Add $(no_install__progs),
since they too are built sometimes.
(check-AUTHORS): Split a longer-than-80 sed command.
(../AUTHORS): Remove obsolete rule.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:44:18 +0000 (18:44 +0200)]
cp: work around linux kernel bug: short-read != EOF on /proc
Remove the optimization that avoided up to 50% of cp's read syscalls.
Do not assume that a short read on a regular file indicates EOF.
When reading from a file in /proc on linux [at least 2.6.9 - 2.6.29]
into a 4k-byte buffer or larger, a short read does not
always indicate EOF. For example, "cp /proc/slabinfo /tmp"
copies only 4068 of the total 7493 bytes. This optimization
(25719a33154f0c62ea9881f0c79ae312dd4cec7a, Improve performance a bit
by optimizing away; 2005-11-24) appears to have been worth less than
a 2% speed-up (and usually much less), so the impact of removing it
is negligible.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't exit the loop early.
* tests/cp/proc-short-read: New test, lightly based on a suggestion
from Mike Frysinger, to exercise this fix.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp/proc-short-read.
* NEWS (Improve robustness): Mention this change.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:41:10 +0000 (21:41 +0200)]
tests: avoid new "make distcheck" failure due to newer File::Temp
With newer perl (e.g., Fedora 10's 4:5.10.0-68.fc10), tests/CuTmpdir.pm
stopped removing its temporary directories, with diagnostics like this:
cannot remove path when cwd is /c/coreutils/tests/misc/seq.tmp-e2up \
for /c/coreutils/tests/misc/seq.tmp-e2up: at \
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm line 902
Chdir out of the target directory before that code runs:
* tests/CuTmpdir.pm (END): chdir '..'.
(chmod_tree): Remove explicit "chdir $dir".
Jim Meyering [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:17:04 +0000 (09:17 +0200)]
doc: update README
* README: (Reporting bugs): List the bug-reporting address here, too,
not just in the following more test-oriented paragraph.
Reported by Tim Mooney.
All changes are no longer listed in version-controlled ChangeLog
files, so note that contributions are attributed in the commit logs.
Mention bootstrap.conf, now that it's the authoritative source of
minimal prerequisite program/version# pairs.
tests: avoid failure of install-C test on FreeBSD UFS file system
* tests/install/install-C: Use 2755 (set-gid), not 1755 (sticky),
to test install -C with non-permission mode bits set. At least on
FreeBSD with a UFS file system, a non-root user may not set the
sticky bit on a non-directory.
Steven Parkes reported that `id -G $USER` went into an infinite loop
on Darwin systems for users in more than 10 groups:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264007
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Work around buggy getgrouplist
implementations that don't update the required size correctly,
by doubling the result buffer and retrying. Also return the
parameter updated by getgrouplist rather than its return value,
as the documentation doesn't actually state the number of groups
stored is returned by getgrouplist.
* tests/misc/id-groups: Add test to exercise this logic
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* THANKS: Update
shred,sort,shuf: don't use /dev/urandom by default
Suggestion from Steven Schveighoffer at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6797
to greatly speed up the random passes done by shred.
* gl/lib/randread.c: Default to using the internal
pseudorandom generator, rather than reading /dev/urandom
* src/shred.c (usage): remove mention of /dev/urandom
* src/shuf.c (usage); ditto
* src/sort.c (usage): ditto
* doc/coreutils.text: Document the new behaviour
for aquiring random data.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:44:44 +0000 (16:44 +0200)]
tests: improve ChangeLog syntax check
* maint.mk (sc_changelog): Use $(VC_LIST_EXCEPT), not find.
Don't hang when there are no ChangeLog files.
(sc_require_config_h): For the file-name-filter, use grep -l
to be slightly more efficient.
(sc_require_config_h_first, _header_without_use, sc_program_name):
Likewise.
* maint.mk (_prohibit_regexp): Add ';' at end of ':'-introduced
comment so that the comment doesn't gobble up the following test
for a missing regexp definition.
(_header_without_use): Escape all '.'s in a header file name,
not just the first one.
* NEWS: Reword an entry from 7.2 and change "linux" to "GNU/Linux".
The latter was requested by Richard Stallman.
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:29:21 +0000 (14:29 +0000)]
ls: fix alignment when month names have varying widths
Reported by Samuel Thibault and Stéphane Raimbault, as the glibc fr_FR
locale has recently changed to use the official but variable width
abbreviated month names. Other glibc locales also have variable widths.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-locales/2008-q1/msg00035.html
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9859
* NEWS: Mention the fix
* gl/lib/mbsalign.c: A new module to align and truncate a
string in a specified number of screen cells, while handling
multi-byte characters appropriately.
* gl/lib/mbsalign.h: Ditto
* gl/modules/mbsalign: Ditto
* bootstrap.conf: Reference the new module
* src/ls.c (abmon_init): New function, precompute the abbreviated
months aligned left in a minimum width column <= 5 screen cells.
(align_nstrftime): New function, replace the first %b in the
format specification to strftime with the precomputed month string.
Note using the cached month strings speeds up `ls -lU` by around 17%
on glibc-2.7-2 on linux at least. Also if we implement this function
using heap storage rather than automatic storage, and use snprintf
instead of strcpy, ls will slow down by 2% and 1% respectively
(i.e. a net gain of 14% rather than 17%).
* tests/ls/abmon-align: A new test to test ls alignment for
various formats and locales
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test
Jim Meyering [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:44:09 +0000 (13:44 +0200)]
doc: adjust README-prereq instructions
* README-prereq: Reverse order of -b/--track options.
Pádraig Brady mentioned that is required with at least git-1.5.3.6.
Invoke automake's own bootstrap script.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:43:35 +0000 (20:43 +0200)]
build: set automake's silent-rules option via configure.ac
* bootstrap: Revert commit 9f39fa855, 2009-03-28,
"build: use automake's --silent-rules option when possible".
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Instead, set it here.
Require the just-released version of automake: 1.10b.
Ralf Wildenhues [Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:40 +0000 (12:15 +0100)]
build: use Automake's new parallel-tests feature
* build-aux/check.mk: Remove, not needed any more.
* tests/Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add parallel-tests and
color-tests.
* tests/check.mk: Do not include build-aux/check.mk any more.
(SUFFIXES, TEST_LOGS): Remove.
(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Use $$f rather than $$tst in $PERL invocation.
* gnulib-tests/Makefile.am: Do not include build-aux/check.mk.
(AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): New macro, add parallel-test and color-tests.
(TEST_LOGS): Remove.