Jim Meyering [Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:36:54 +0000 (09:36 +0200)]
tests: reorder some tests in the long list
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Move some tests that use sleep
"up" in the list so that they don't delay even a little the
completion of "make check". Also run a chmod test early.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:58:24 +0000 (12:58 +0200)]
tests: put root-only (usually skipped) tests at the end
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Don't list root-only tests explicitly.
Instead, just use $(root_tests).
* tests/check.mk (vc_exe_in_TESTS): Now that root_tests are separate,
parse out the union of $(TESTS) and $(root_tests).
Jim Meyering [Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:43:20 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
tests: cp/perm (usually not run) was failing on systems with SELinux
* tests/cp/perm: Use stat to get the permission string, not ls.
This test was run only when RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes was set
in the environment. It would fail on SELinux-enable systems
because ls-generated permission strings would not match, e.g.,
"test _-rw-r--r--+ = _-rw-r--r--" would fail.
id: do not print SELinux context when invoked with a USERNAME argument
* NEWS: Mention new behaviour.
* src/id.c (main): Do not print SELinux context when user is specified.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add the new test.
* tests/misc/id-context: New file. Test for the fix.
Problem reported by Ronny Buchmann in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/443485.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:45:38 +0000 (11:45 +0200)]
id: do print the AFS-specific nameless group ID (called a PAG)
In 6.11, we mistakenly suppressed the printing of certain group IDs,
thinking they were useless AFS-specific artifacts.
This change reverts that, so now they are printed once again.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/867/focus=13345
This also reverts the bug-fix that applied solely to the new code
used to avoid printing those IDs
Jim Meyering [Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:52:37 +0000 (10:52 +0200)]
Accommodate building on OS/2 (www.ecomstation.com Ecs v2 rc4)
* configure.ac: Filter out carriage returns in more places.
Reported by Elbert Pol, details here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/867/focus=13332
Jim Meyering [Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:45:21 +0000 (10:45 +0200)]
guard against inserting a NEWS entry into a block for a prior release
Without a guard like this, it is far too easy to apply a patch
prepared against a preceding release, and not notice that a NEWS
entry is inserted into the wrong block.
* maint.mk (sc_immutable_NEWS): New rule.
(update-NEWS-hash): New rule to update the hard-coded hash.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:29:19 +0000 (23:29 +0200)]
tests: convert umask-check to a function
* tests/test-lib.sh (working_umask_or_skip_): New function, from...
* tests/umask-check: ...here. Remove file.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove umask-check.
* tests/mkdir/perm: Use the function rather than sourcing the file.
* tests/cp/cp-parents: Likewise.
* tests/cp/parent-perm: Likewise.
Bruno Haible reported that parent-perm was failing to run umask-check.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:51:18 +0000 (15:51 +0200)]
tests: clean up root tests; adapt to new layout
* tests/Makefile.am (root_tests): New list.
(check-root): Add 'SUBDIRS='.
(root-hint): Point to README.
* Makefile.am (check-root): Add 'SUBDIRS=' here, too.
* maint.mk (sc_root_tests): Adapt rule to new syntax used
in tests/Makefile.am.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:34:45 +0000 (23:34 +0200)]
Revamp test-related Makefiles.
One side-effect of this change is that "make check" now works even if
you put "." early in your shell's search PATH (don't do that!).
Remove all test-related Makefile.am files, except those generated
by mk-script. Instead, tests/Makefile.am now lists not only the
tests directly under tests/, but also those in tests/*/ that are
not generated by mk-script, e.g., cp/abuse, cp/acl, mv/i-1, etc.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:18:48 +0000 (23:18 +0200)]
Use "env" to invoke potential built-ins.
* tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: Invoke pwd via "env -- pwd",
rather than via an absolute name.
* tests/touch/not-owner: Likewise for test.
* tests/chmod/setgid: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:48:10 +0000 (12:48 +0200)]
pr -e, with a mix of backspaces and TABs, could corrupt the heap
* tests/pr/Test.pm: New tests for the above.
* src/pr.c (char_to_clump): Ensure that "input_position" never
goes below 0.
Also, elide any backspace encountered when input_position is 0,
to be compatible at least with /bin/pr from Solaris 10.
This bug is present in the original version: b25038ce9a234ea0906ddcbd8a0012e917e6c661
* NEWS [Bug fixes]: Mention this.
Report and diagnosis by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler
in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13272
Jim Meyering [Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:42:40 +0000 (23:42 +0200)]
md5sum -c: ignore a line with a NUL byte among checksum hex digits
* src/md5sum.c (hex_digits): Require that all "digest_hex_bytes"
be hexadecimal digits, not just those before the first NUL byte.
This bug dates back to the original version: 3763a4f24eb21be40674d13ff7b04e078f473e85
* tests/misc/md5sum (nul-in-cksum): Test for the above.
* NEWS [Bug fixes]: Mention this.
Prompted by a report from Flóki Pálsson in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/439531
Jim Meyering [Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:28:33 +0000 (15:28 +0200)]
tests: accommodate built-in mknod more cleanly
* tests/mkdir/selinux: Undo most of previous change, bc22dbbf844f31ddaf2e68b167d0128a985d73ab, and instead
invoke the command via "nice". Using "exec" should be
enough, but isn't with OpenBSD's PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2.
Eric Blake suggested using nice.
* src/md5sum.c (bsd_split_3): Return right away if s_len == 0.
* tests/misc/md5sum (bsd-segv): New test for the above.
* tests/misc/sha1sum (bsd-segv): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:21:26 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
seq: work around floating point inaccuracies on more systems
* src/seq.c: Include <math.h> for fabs.
Include <float.h> for DBL_EPSILON.
(abs_rel_diff): New function.
(print_numbers): Use abs_rel_diff rather than a strict equality test.
Without this change, Solaris 8 and Irix 6.2 would fail the float-6
test. Reported by Peter Fales in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13183
* src/c99-to-c89.diff: Adjust seq.c offsets.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:38:27 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
remove.c: accommodate systems with negative errno values
This is required at least on Haiku and BeOS.
* src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Return 1 for a write-
protected non-symlink, 0 if we determine it's not, and -1 upon
error (setting errno accordingly only in this final case).
(prompt): Deal with the changed semantics of the above function.
Based on this patch from Axel Dörfler:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13071
Jim Meyering [Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:07:20 +0000 (15:07 +0200)]
"touch E; mkfifo F; cp -fR F E" no longer fails due to existing E
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Revert change of 2005-03-01, 4303f0454592421eea48be87777d32a49e1d5e5b
Prompted by Michael Stone, who pointed me to an old bug report from
Ian Jackson: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/7504
* tests/cp/special-f: New file. Test for the above.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add special-f.
* NEWS: mention this bug fix.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:34:08 +0000 (16:34 +0200)]
Avoid root-only SELinux-related test failures w/o mcstransd.
When mcstransd is not running (i.e., after service mcstrans stop),
"make check" as root would provoke two test failures.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Use the context, root:object_r:tmp_t:s0,
that works both with and without mcstransd.
Thanks to Eric Paris for the tip and to Ondřej Vašík for alerting
me to the problem.
Reported by Robert Scheck in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/436717>.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:38:02 +0000 (11:38 +0200)]
printf doc: xref print(3) and libc's "Output Conversion Syntax" node
* coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Add xref.
Use "The GNU C Library Reference Manual" as the name of the 'libc'
document consistently.
* man/printf.x: Add See also: printf(3).
Suggested by A. Costa in http://bugs.debian.org/465522
Jim Meyering [Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:42:35 +0000 (22:42 +0200)]
Emit "#line 1" right after the two 'read-only/GENERATED' lines.
* bootstrap (cp_mark_as_generated): This preserves line numbering
e.g., in assertions, which is important when correlating between
coreutils test failures and the original files in gnulib/tests.
Suggested by Eric Blake.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:40:54 +0000 (13:40 +0200)]
"rm -r DIR" would mistakenly prompt about very long names
* src/remove.c (write_protected_non_symlink): Return 0(-1) when
euidaccess_stat pronounces a writable(not-writable) file, not -1(0).
* tests/rm/deep-2: New file. Test for the above-fixed bug.
* tests/rm/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add deep-2.
Discovered while reviewing this change:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13071
Paul Eggert [Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:37:36 +0000 (08:37 +0200)]
dd bug fix: accept e.g., if=/dev/stdin and of=/dev/stdout
* lib/fd-reopen.c: Work even if FILE is "/dev/stdin".
Problem reported by Geoffrey Lee in <http://bugs.debian.org/290727>.
* tests/dd/misc: Check for this bug.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:00:44 +0000 (10:00 +0100)]
tests: accept ENOTSUP message as well as the EINVAL one
This test would fail on most non-Linux systems because the original
expected an "Invalid argument" diagnostic, yet they all produced
"Operation not supported".
* tests/mkdir/selinux: Accept both strings. Factor out duplication.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:37:19 +0000 (22:37 +0100)]
mknod, mkfifo: don't segfault when diagnosing invalid SELinux context
Identical to the bug fixed by 72d052896a9092b811961a8f3e6ca5d151a59be5.
* src/mkfifo.c (main): Use "scontext", not NULL optarg in diagnostic.
* src/mknod.c (main): Likewise.
Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler.
* tests/mkdir/selinux: Test for the above fixes.
* NEWS: Mention the fixes.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:18:25 +0000 (12:18 +0100)]
paste -d\\: avoid heap overrun for backslash at end of delim list
* src/paste.c: Include "quotearg.h".
(collapse_escapes): Handle backslash-escaped backslash explicitly.
Handle unescaped backslash at end of string by returning nonzero,
rather than by overrunning memory.
(main): Diagnose an invalid delimiter list -- carefully.
Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler.
* tests/misc/paste-no-nl (delim-bs): Add a test to demonstrate the
heap-smashing capability.
(delim-bs2): Prior to coreutils-5.1.2, this bug was a little harder
to demonstrate: it would corrupt a first-argument containing e.g., \b
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Reflect renaming.
* tests/misc/paste: Rename from paste-no-nl.
Daniel Dunbar [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:51:47 +0000 (00:51 +0100)]
mkdir -Z x d: don't segfault when diagnosing invalid context "x" (tiny change)
* src/mkdir.c (main): Use "scontext", not NULL optarg in diagnostic.
Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Peter Fales [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:44:01 +0000 (22:44 +0100)]
id bug fix: don't point to potentially clobbered static storage
On at least Mac OS, when calling getpwuid twice with the same UID,
the static storage containing results from the first call is
invalidated by the second call.
* src/id.c (main): Point to a copy of the user name string.
Eric Blake [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:51:10 +0000 (05:51 -0600)]
Use new gnulib gnumakefile module.
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Pull in new module.
* GNUmakefile: Remove from version control.
* .gitignore: Update.
* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Delete; rely on gnulib to do
this now.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST, distclean-local): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:31:07 +0000 (12:31 +0100)]
join bug fix: adapt keycmp to work with new order-checking feature
* src/join.c (keycmp): Add two join-field parameters.
(check_order, join): Update callers.
Reported by Dmitry V. Levin in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12731/focus=13017
* tests/join/Test.pm (chkodr-7): New test for this fix.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:37:21 +0000 (10:37 +0100)]
join.c: syntax/style tweaks
* src/join.c (check_order): Rename from checkorder.
Move definition to precede first use and remove prototype.
Use EXIT_FAILURE, rather than "1".
(key_cmp): Move definition to precede first use.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:33:15 +0000 (18:33 +0100)]
portability: work around a "busybox sed" limitation
* configure.ac: While every other sed tested supports usage like
'/\(re\)/{s//\1/;...<NEWLINE>}', and POSIX appears to requires this,
busybox's sed does not support it. So duplicate the regexp:
'/\(re\)/{s/\(re\)/\1/;...<NEWLINE>}'. Reported by Vincent Lefevre:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13013>.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:37:26 +0000 (10:37 +0100)]
ptx: avoid heap overrun for backslash at end of optarg string
* src/ptx.c (copy_unescaped_string): Ignore a lone backslash
at end of string. Reported by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar
and Dawson Engler. Details here:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13005>.
* tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add ptx-overrun.
* tests/misc/ptx-overrun: New file. Test for the above fix.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Ingo Weinhold [Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:10:27 +0000 (14:10 +0100)]
remove.c: Accommodate systems with negative errno values.
* src/remove.c (cache_fstatat): Store errno value directly in
the st_ino field, rather than trying to shoehorn it into st_size.
This is required at least on BeOS and Haiku.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:01:35 +0000 (18:01 +0100)]
Kludge to make automake generate install-man rules
* man/Makefile.am (dist_man_MANS): Add a literal, rm.1.
Without this, "make install" would not install man pages.
However, with this kludge, the rm.1 man page is installed
even when you configure with --enable-no-install-program=rm.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:49:30 +0000 (17:49 +0100)]
Revert recent man/Makefile.am change.
Revert 4b544e447eb78fd1f031a026a499f6aed177808a.
* man/Makefile.am: That change was only a band-aid. It solved
the stated problem, but not a deeper one: that "make install"
would no longer man pages. Reported by Dmitry V. Levin.
The latter problem arose in 167b8025aca487de001da2448c1aebc2747bc1d3 with the removal of
the sole literal from the definition of dist_man_MANS. When
automake perceives dist_man_MANS as empty, it no longer emits
the install-man* rules.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:32:21 +0000 (23:32 +0100)]
bootstrap: restore kludge removed on 2008-03-12: it's still necessary.
* bootstrap: Make the gnulib-tests/test-*.sh scripts executable.
This restores code removed by dec8bb25bb6da2fe9fe6dd63c0fbbd593a0e94cb.
Reported by Bob Proulx.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:52:26 +0000 (15:52 +0100)]
Check for -- and remove -- some unnecessarily included header files.
* Makefile.maint: Add checks for a handful of additional header files.
* src/mktemp.c: Don't include "long-options.h". Not used.
* src/pr.c: Don't include "inttostr.h". Not used.
* src/printenv.c: Don't include "error.h". Not used.
* src/test.c: Don't include "error.h". Not used.
* src/touch.c: Don't include "safe-read.h". Not used.