Pádraig Brady [Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:05:55 +0000 (11:05 +0000)]
new program: timeout
* AUTHORS: Register as the author.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* README: Add timeout command to list.
* src/timeout.c: New file.
* src/kill.c (operand2sig): Move function to its own file,
now that timeout.c will also use it.
* src/operand2sig.c (operand2sig): New file, extracted from kill.c.
* src/operand2sig.h (operand2sig): Declare.
* src/Makefile.am (EXTRA_PROGRAMS): Add timeout.
* src/.gitignore: Add timeout binary to list to ignore.
* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Add timeout info.
(Signal specifications): New section, also referenced by kill.
* man/Makefile.am (timeout.1): Add dependency.
* man/timeout.x: New file.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add timeout.c and operand2sig.c to list to translate.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add the two new tests.
* tests/misc/help-version: Add support for new timeout command.
* tests/misc/invalid-opt: Add support for new timeout command.
* tests/misc/timeout: New file: check basic timeout operation.
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: New file: check invalid parameter
combinations.
Erik Auerswald [Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:40:40 +0000 (12:40 +0200)]
md5sum: new option, --quiet, to suppress OK messages
sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum accept it, too.
* src/md5sum.c: add option --quiet to suppress OK messages
* doc/coreutils.texi: document option --quiet
* tests/misc/md5sum: add test for option --quiet
* NEWS: mention new option --quiet for md5sum+sha*sum in "New
features" section
Jim Meyering [Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:48:07 +0000 (14:48 +0200)]
add rules to commit three post-release changes automatically
* maint.mk (noteworthy): Define.
(emit-commit-log): Define.
(alpha beta major): Also update NEWS and cfg.mk automatically,
and commit all three changes at once.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 31 May 2008 20:42:20 +0000 (22:42 +0200)]
install: reenable matchpathcon-related code
The underlying performance problem is being dealt with in Automake
by limiting the number of install invocations, and in SELinux with
incremental changes as well as a potential new implementation.
* src/Makefile.am (ginstall_CPPFLAGS) [ENABLE_MATCHPATHCON]: Define.
* src/install.c [ENABLE_WHEN_MATCHPATHCON_IS_MORE_EFFICIENT]:
Rename to ENABLE_MATCHPATHCON.
* NEWS: mention this change
Jim Meyering [Fri, 30 May 2008 07:45:53 +0000 (09:45 +0200)]
tests: avoid failure with older version of Perl's File::Temp
* tests/CuTmpdir.pm (import): Use &File::Temp::cleanup only
if it is defined. Reported by Bruno Haible in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13652
Jim Meyering [Wed, 21 May 2008 21:08:11 +0000 (23:08 +0200)]
test installation results more thoroughly
* maint.mk (my-distcheck): Ensure that properly-named binaries
are installed. Also check all man pages, except [.1.
Move configure-time --prefix= to install-time prefix=.
(my-instcheck, install-transform-check): Define.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 21 May 2008 21:08:11 +0000 (23:08 +0200)]
install many binaries at once, when possible
* src/Makefile.am (install-exec-am): Override the standard
automake-generated target, so we can decide whether to use
the usual install-one-by-one rule, or whether we can use
the new install-many-at-once rule:
(cu-install-binPROGRAMS): New rule.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 19 May 2008 17:39:30 +0000 (19:39 +0200)]
adjust AUTHORS and check-AUTHORS rule to accommodate
* AUTHORS: Add coding: utf-8 comment at end.
Spell François' and Torbjörn's names properly.
* src/Makefile.am: Parse AUTHORS file more carefully.
Use perl to join now-split lines.
Use en_US.UTF-8 to generate --version output.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 19 May 2008 14:14:13 +0000 (16:14 +0200)]
use gnulib's proper_name_utf8 function, but *not* proper_name
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add propername.
(XGETTEXT_OPTIONS): Add options to tell xgettext about the functions.
* src/cat.c, src/cp.c, src/df.c, src/du.c, src/split.c:
Mark Torbjörn Granlund's name.
* src/ptx.c: Mark François Pinard's name.
Use "TRANSLATORS:" comment marker, rather than "Note to translators:".
* src/system.h: Include propername.h.
(proper_name): Define away.
* src/Makefile.am (cat_LDADD, df_LDADD, du_LDADD, ptx_LDADD, split_LDADD):
Initialize, so we can...
(cat_LDADD, cp_LDADD, df_LDADD, du_LDADD, ptx_LDADD, split_LDADD):
...Use "+=" to append $(LIBICONV) for each program that uses
proper_name_utf8.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 20 May 2008 15:58:42 +0000 (17:58 +0200)]
install: avoid a leak in currently-ifdef'd-out code
* src/install.c (setdefaultfilecon)
[ENABLE_WHEN_MATCHPATHCON_IS_MORE_EFFICIENT]:
Call matchpathcon_init_prefix only once.
Suggestion from Stephen Smalley. Reported by Ben Webb in
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/447410>.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 16 May 2008 20:55:27 +0000 (22:55 +0200)]
tests: skip when a debian libc6-2.7-11 bug makes printf segfault
* tests/misc/printf-surprise: Detect case of a low-memory-provoked
segfault and skip the test (this is actually a bug in snprintf).
For details, see http://bugs.debian.org/481543
Jim Meyering [Thu, 15 May 2008 09:43:18 +0000 (11:43 +0200)]
tests: sync and update wc and du --files0-from tests
* tests/du/files0-from: Sync from tests/misc/wc-files0-from.
(minus-in-minus): New test.
Adjust for new diagnostics.
* tests/misc/wc-files0-from: Adjust for new diagnostics.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 15 May 2008 09:19:44 +0000 (11:19 +0200)]
du, wc: merge improved --files0-from=F-related diagnostics
du gave a better diagnostic for one unusual case,
and wc gave a better diagnostic for a different one.
Now each diagnoses both unusual cases.
* src/du.c (main): Disallow '-' as file name when reading from stdin.
* src/wc.c (main): Give a better diagnostic for a zero-length file name.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 14 May 2008 07:37:02 +0000 (09:37 +0200)]
tests: remove ugly /bin/sh wrapper around each perl-based test script
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Save and restore TMPDIR around
envvar-check, so that the few scripts that require $TMPDIR don't fail.
This is also good to let a user's default TMPDIR setting be used e.g.,
in the search for an 'other-partition'.
FIXME: this is pretty ugly. maybe undo it and find a better way.
(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Invoke perl scripts with $(PERL), and use -T
if the script requires that. Otherwise, use $(SHELL).
* tests/misc/md5sum-newline: Create a file whose name contains
a newline in Perl (resort to using "system", since open refuses).
Fix old brokenness exposed by this change:
* tests/du/files0-from: Correct test not to rely on stdin
being attached to a non-tty.
* tests/misc/sort (3g, 3h, 3i): Likewise: add explicit empty input file.
Avoid warnings about using qw()-around-commas.
* tests/rm/fail-eperm: Now that this test is run from a temporary
subdirectory, adjust the full name of the "rm" program we're going
to run.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 12 May 2008 12:39:55 +0000 (14:39 +0200)]
tests: allow to run Perl tests more cleanly
Before this change, perl tests were run via a #!/bin/sh script
in which perl was invoked via $(PERL) ... -- - <<\EOF.
That made some stty tests fail due to the way stdin was usurped.
* build-aux/check.mk (am__check_pre): Don't append $(SHELL) to this
nominally automake-internal variable.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Instead, define a shell function
here, and append it to the more user-visible $(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT).
Jim Meyering [Mon, 12 May 2008 06:49:58 +0000 (08:49 +0200)]
tests: env-related clean up
* tests/Coreutils.pm: tiny clean-up: s/env/env --/
* tests/misc/help-version: Use "env" rather than an absolute file
name prefix.
* tests/misc/printf-surprise: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 11 May 2008 22:27:37 +0000 (00:27 +0200)]
tests: improve coverage of printf.c
* tests/misc/printf-cov: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/printf-cov.
* tests/misc/help-version: Use env rather than abs file name prefix.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 10 May 2008 09:38:07 +0000 (11:38 +0200)]
tests: convert pr tests
* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove tests/pr/Makefile.
* tests/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Remove pr.
* tests/pr/pr-tests: New file, with tests from...
* tests/pr/Test.pm: ...here. Remove file.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add $(pr_data).
(pr_data): List all of the pr's test-related data files.
Bruno Haible [Thu, 8 May 2008 21:15:36 +0000 (23:15 +0200)]
Speed up "wc -m" and "wc -w" in multibyte case.
* src/wc.c: Include mbchar.h.
(wc): New variable in_shift. Use it to avoid calling mbrtowc for most
ASCII characters. Reported via Jan Engelhardt in
http://bugzilla.novell.com/381873 with discussion here
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13520
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 May 2008 13:17:42 +0000 (15:17 +0200)]
tests: skip another test if mcstransd is running
* tests/test-lib.sh (skip_if_mcstransd_is_running_): New function,
extracted from...
* tests/misc/chcon: ...here. Use function, not open-coded test.
* tests/misc/selinux: Use the function here, too.
Require root, not non-root.
* tests/Makefile.am (root_tests): Add misc/selinux.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 4 May 2008 19:36:00 +0000 (21:36 +0200)]
tests: Coreutils.pm improvements
* tests/Coreutils.pm: Allow test names longer than 12.
Print a useful diagnostic for bogus spec entry.
Handle the combination of IN_PIPE and ENV properly.
* tests/Coreutils.pm (run_tests): Put ENV right before command,
not before the "cat INPUT_FILE |" prefix.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 3 May 2008 13:46:41 +0000 (15:46 +0200)]
tests: move "sparse-file" into test-lib.sh
* tests/sparse-file: Remove file Move contents into ...
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_sparse_support_): ...here. New function.
* tests/cp/sparse: Use the function, not the file.
* tests/du/8gb: Likewise.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove sparse-file.
Jim Meyering [Thu, 1 May 2008 21:01:40 +0000 (23:01 +0200)]
tests: hoist envvar-check so it is run for every test
I.e., also for Perl-based tests; not just the ones using test-lib.sh.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Source envvar-check here, ...
* tests/test-lib.sh: ...not here.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:28:48 +0000 (09:28 +0200)]
avoid problems with sign-extended "char" operand to is* functions
* src/cut.c (set_fields): Apply to_uchar to isblank operands.
* src/uniq.c (find_field): Likewise.
* src/seq.c (scan_arg): Likewise, for isspace.
* tests/misc/uniq: New file. Test for the above, but only
when isspace(0240).
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/uniq.
* configure.ac: Use gt_LOCALE_FR.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Propagate LOCALE_FR to scripts.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fixes.
Before this patch, on FreeBSD 6:
$ printf 'x y z\nx \xa0 y z\n' > in
$ LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 uniq -f2 in|tr ' ' .
x.y.z
x. .y.z
With the patch:
$ LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 uniq -f2 in|tr ' ' .
x.y.z
This also affected many other locales:
for i in $(locale -a); do test $(LC_ALL=$i ./uniq -f1 in|wc -l)
= $(LC_ALL=$i uniq -f1 in|wc -l) || echo $i ; done
...
en_GB.ISO8859-1
en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_GB.UTF-8
en_IE.UTF-8
en_NZ.ISO8859-1
en_NZ.ISO8859-15
en_NZ.UTF-8
en_US.ISO8859-1
en_US.ISO8859-15
en_US.UTF-8
...
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 May 2008 22:35:28 +0000 (00:35 +0200)]
help2man: fix perl 5.10 problem properly
* man/help2man: Do pull LC_ALL via "use POSIX".
Instead, limit the importing of gettext-related symbols
to just those two we'll use: gettext and textdomain.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 5 May 2008 20:44:57 +0000 (22:44 +0200)]
help2man: avoid failure with Debian unstable's Perl 5.10.0
Avoid failure that produced this diagnostic:
Constant subroutine main::LC_ALL redefined at /.../Exporter.pm
* man/help2man: Don't include LC_ALL in the "use POSIX" list,
since Locale::gettext->import will get it.
Bo Borgerson [Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:40:38 +0000 (17:40 -0400)]
base64 module: adjust API so it's compatible with gnulib's
* gl/lib/base64.c (base64_decode_ctx): If no context structure was passed in,
treat newlines as garbage (this is the historical behavior). Formerly
base64_decode.
(base64_decode_alloc_ctx): Formerly base64_decode_alloc.
* gl/lib/base64.h (base64_decode): Macro for four-argument calls.
(base64_decode_alloc): Likewise.
* src/base64.c (do_decode): Call base64_decode_ctx instead of base64_decode.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 4 May 2008 22:07:08 +0000 (00:07 +0200)]
tac: avoid segfault for e.g., "echo > x; tac -r x x"
* src/tac.c (tac_seekable): Move local "regs" declaration out
to file scope, so its values aren't clobbered between calls.
Discovered by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler,
reported in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13501
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/tac.
* tests/misc/tac: New file. Test for the above.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:50:02 +0000 (22:50 +0200)]
tests: avoid spurious "make check-root" failure
* README (Running tests as root): Also set PATH in suggested "sudo"
command. This avoids failure of at least tests/cp/cp-a-selinux
when the default PATH does not contain /sbin.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Don't redirect stderr to /dev/null.
"mkfs" was failing due to /sbin not being in PATH.
Bo Borgerson [Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:49:59 +0000 (08:49 -0400)]
Add Daniel Dunbar's lcov instructions to HACKING
* HACKING: New section `Finding things to do', points to TODO file and
gives instructions on generating an html coverage report as provided by
Daniel Dunbar.
* TODO: Add item for improving test coverage. Point back to HACKING.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:40:03 +0000 (23:40 +0200)]
move wc tests from own subdir into a single script
* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Remove wc/Makefile from the list.
* tests/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Remove wc from the list.
(TESTS): Add misc/wc.
* tests/misc/wc: New file, derived from tests/wc/Tests.pm.
* tests/wc/Test.pm: Remove file.
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