Jim Meyering [Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:39:20 +0000 (15:39 +0200)]
maint: make update-copyright work in yet another case
* build-aux/update-copyright: Handle the case in which "\n#"
appears between the final year number and the copyright holder name.
* m4/lib-check.m4: Update copyright year list.
Reported by Joel E. Denny.
cp: support btrfs' copy-on-write file clone operation
* src/copy.c [HAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H]: Include <sys/ioctl.h>.
(BTRFS_IOCTL_MAGIC, BTRFS_IOC_CLONE): Define.
(clone_file): New function.
(copy_reg): Use the btrfs clone operation if possible.
Joel E. Denny [Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:05:54 +0000 (11:05 +0200)]
maint: improve update-copyright rule
* Makefile.am (update-copyright): Relax the selection rule
to match any file containing the word "Copyright".
Correct the exclusion rule so that it also excludes ChangeLog
and COPYING files that are not in the top level directory.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:25:24 +0000 (10:25 +0200)]
maint: make update-copyright handle more cases
* build-aux/update-copyright: Handle cases in which the final
year number and copyright holder are on separate lines.
Prompted by a report from Joel E. Denny.
Also, do not invoke localtime for each line we process.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Move the "SELinux context" section
down below the "System context" nodes so that the HTML
index is generated correctly. Also some extraneous and missing
'.' characters were corrected in the index.
Reported by Benno Schulenberg.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): When a PID is specified, use
select to block for no more than sleep_interval seconds at a time,
and check for process death upon timeout.
(main): Adapt to new tail_forever_inotify interface.
* doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Add realpath to the index,
and also mention it in the readlink description so people
searching for that functionality can easily make the connection.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:16:41 +0000 (23:16 +0200)]
build: use a fixed-name temporary in man/Makefile.am
* man/Makefile.am (check-x-vs-1): Using a fixed-name temporary file
is better than one ending in -$$, because many -$$-suffixed files
may accumulate over time.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:42:29 +0000 (20:42 +0200)]
doc: point to Guile's ChangeLog-writing guidelines
* HACKING (Commit log requirements): Point to Guile's
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/changelogs/guile-changelogs_3.html.
Mention that a bit of prose can be welcome.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:52:43 +0000 (00:52 +0100)]
sort: allow SI and IEC units on separate human sort fields
* src/sort.c: Store the si_present state per key rather than globally
* tests/misc/sort: Add a check that would have previously failed.
Also add a test to demonstrate that invalid IEC/SI mixtures are not
always noticed when they're not significant to the sort.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention in the description
of -b, that the locale can also affect whether blanks are significant.
Update the list of ordering options for a --key that cause it
to not inherit any global ordering options.
Update the list of ordering options that implicitly skip whitespace.
maint: generalize the development prerequisites docs
* README-hacking: Add a little more high level info and
merge notes on specific developer prerequisites into README-prereq
* README-prereq: Remove the Fedora 8 specific information
and generalize the information to be applicable to any system.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:06:52 +0000 (17:06 +0200)]
maint: don't change COPYING
* COPYING: Don't modify Copyright date list in imported file.
This file is one of very few exceptions in that we version-control it,
even though its primary source is another package.
Spotted by Eric Blake.
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:30:03 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
stdbuf: A new program to run a command with modified stdio buffering
* AUTHORS: Register as the author.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* README: Add stdbuf command to list.
* configure.ac: Only enable on ELF systems with GCC.
* cfg.mk (sc_system_h_headers): Use VC_LIST_EXCEPT rather than
VC_LIST, so we can add an exception, if needed.
* .x-sc_system_h_headers: New file. Exempt libstdbuf.c.
* Makefile.am (syntax_check_exceptions): Add .x-sc_system_h_headers.
* doc/coreutils.texi (stdbuf invocation): Add stdbuf info.
* man/.gitignore: Ignore generated manpage.
* src/.gitignore: Ignore stdbuf and libstdbuf.so binaries.
* man/Makefile.am (stdbuf.1): Add dependency.
* man/stdbuf.x: New file with example usage.
* po/POTFILES.in: Reference new command and shared library sources.
* src/Makefile.am (build_if_possible__progs): Add stdbuf and libstdbuf,
(pkglib_PROGRAMS): Reference optional shared lib,
(libstdbuf_so_LDADD): Ensure we don't link with non PIC libcoreutils.a.
(libstdbuf_so_LDFLAGS): Add -shared GCC option,
(libstdbuf_so_CFLAGS): Add -fPIC GCC option.
(check-README): Exclude libstbuf.
(check-AUTHORS): ditto.
(sc_tight_scope): Exclude functions starting with __.
* src/libstdbuf.c: The LD_PRELOAD shared library to control buffering.
* src/stdbuf.c: New file to setup env variables before execing command.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test file.
* tests/misc/help-version: Set expected exit codes.
* tests/misc/invalid-opt: ditto.
* tests/misc/stdbuf: Add 9 tests.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:10:50 +0000 (09:10 +0200)]
doc: cp: describe an oddity of combining -H/-L and --preserve=links
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation) [-L]: Elaborate.
[--preserve=links]: Remove comments saying that we need documentation
for just this situation. Provide more explanation and examples.
Reported by Brian M. Carlson in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.
* NEWS: Document the new feature.
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Check if inotify is present.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): New function.
(main): Use the inotify-based function, if possible.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new tests for tail.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_proc_pid_status_, get_process_status_):
New functions.
* tests/tail-2/pid: New file.
* tests/tail-2/wait: New file.
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Refactor code into the test-lib.sh
require_proc_pid_status_ function.
Kamil Dudka [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:44:43 +0000 (19:44 +0200)]
ls --color: do not colorize files with multiple hard links by default
* src/ls.c: Rename hl->mh, do not colorize files with multiple
hard links by default.
* src/dircolors.c: Rename HARDLINK -> MULTIHARDLINK, hl -> mh.
* src/dircolors.hin: Do not colorize files with multiple hard links by
default.
* tests/Makefile.am: Rename the test case accordingly.
* tests/ls/multihardlink: Additionally test ls' default behavior
and factor out some duplication.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 8 Jun 2009 07:42:00 +0000 (08:42 +0100)]
maint: Add a syntax-check to ensure all .x-sc_ files are distributed
* Makefile.am: Add a couple of missing entries to
syntax_check_exceptions for distribution.
* cfg.mk: Add a rule to ensure the syntax_check_exceptions list
stays in sync with the .x-sc_* files in the repository.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:28:34 +0000 (18:28 +0200)]
doc: HACKING: minor adjustments, additions
* HACKING (Amending...): Remove spurious "-e" used with commit --amend.
(log message policy): Mention the 72-column limit.
"build:" and "maint:" are common prefixes, these days.
Matěj Cepl [Wed, 3 Jun 2009 00:02:01 +0000 (01:02 +0100)]
doc: adjust README-prereq instructions
* README-prereq: Mention new requirement on automake-1.11,
with its new location and updated dependency on autoconf-2.62.
Remove the reference to coreutils-7.0 so that this file
implicitly refers to the latest or release version of coreutils.
Fix and clarify the instructions for updating the $PATH.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 31 May 2009 13:18:16 +0000 (15:18 +0200)]
build: no longer list gnulib's "memchr" module as obsolete
* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Remove memchr from
the list, now that it fixes a problem in some modern C libraries.
(gnulib_modules): Add it here.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 31 May 2009 07:52:51 +0000 (09:52 +0200)]
build: make generated man/*.1 files read-only
This should help people notice that they are generated.
Note: each file already has a comment to that effect from help2man.
* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Make generated files read-only.
Also, don't redirect directly to the target, $@.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:23:50 +0000 (22:23 +0200)]
build (man/): use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable
* man/Makefile.am (.x.1, check-x-vs-1, check-programs-vs-x):
Mark with $(AM_V_GEN), so that automake-1.11 prints
"GEN $@" by default (stick with "GEN" in spite of the latter two
rules not officially generating anything -- they're just tests).
Jim Meyering [Fri, 29 May 2009 06:44:56 +0000 (08:44 +0200)]
chroot: make --groups= work without --userspec=; be more robust
* src/chroot.c (set_additional_groups): Add comments.
Given an empty or all-comma group list, diagnose it and return nonzero.
When more than one group is invalid, diagnose all of them,
not just the first.
(main): Honor --groups= also when --userspec= is not specified.
Now that set_additional_groups consistently diagnoses its failures,
don't diagnose it separately here.
* tests/chroot/credentials: Do not invoke with an empty group list.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 27 May 2009 21:06:15 +0000 (23:06 +0200)]
chroot: don't set bogus user-ID or group-ID for --u=U: or --u=:G
* src/chroot.c (main): Initialize both "uid" and "gid". To -1.
This also allows one to set the user-ID or primary group-ID to 0,
in case it's not that already.
* tests/chroot/credentials: Test for the above.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:33:49 +0000 (16:33 +0200)]
build: make distcheck rules use --enable-gcc-warnings
* dist-check.mk (warn_cflags): Remove definition, now that it's
been subsumed by --enable-gcc-warnings.
(my-distcheck): Use configure with --enable-gcc-warnings and remove
use of $(warn_cflags).
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