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.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:37:04 +0000 (13:37 +0100)]
mv: never unlink a destination file before calling rename
While cp --preserve=links must unlink certain destination files,
mv must never do that.
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Pull the '! x->move_mode' test "up",
so it affects the entire condition, and not just DEREF_NEVER mode.
Reported by James Ralston in <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/438076>.
* tests/mv/atomic2: New file. Test for the above fix.
* tests/mv/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add atomic2.
* NEWS: Mention the bug-fix.
[Bug introduced in 367719ba5f1dbd5e2f7fa2466c441f23f66a7c9e]
Jim Meyering [Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:51:58 +0000 (23:51 +0100)]
syntax-check: Make the space-before-open-paren optional.
* Makefile.maint (sc_prohibit_assert_without_use): Match also
when there is no space before the opening parenthesis.
(sc_prohibit_getopt_without_use): Likewise.
(sc_prohibit_quotearg_without_use): Likewise.
(sc_prohibit_quote_without_use): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:32:03 +0000 (21:32 +0100)]
Factor out duplication in sc_prohibit_*_without_use rules.
* Makefile.maint (_header_without_use): New "command",
factored out of four sc_prohibit_HEADER_without_use rules.
(sc_prohibit_assert_without_use): Rewrite using $(_header_without_use).
(sc_prohibit_getopt_without_use): Likewise.
(sc_prohibit_quotearg_without_use): Likewise.
(sc_prohibit_quote_without_use): Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:34:05 +0000 (12:34 +0100)]
Generalize GNUmakefile, ...
...so that it can be used unmodified by autoconf.
* GNUmakefile: Include optional file, GNUmakefile.cfg.
Autoconf will use this to override _autoreconf and to export PATH.
(_autoreconf): Define.
(_dummy): cd to $(srcdir) before removing autom4te.cache.
Ondřej Vašík [Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:41 +0000 (17:03 +0100)]
install, rmdir: write --verbose output to stdout, not to stderr.
* src/install.c (announce_mkdir): Write verbose output to stdout,
not to stderr.
* src/mkdir.c (announce mkdir): Use prog_fprintf for verbose output.
* src/prog-fprintf.c (prog_fprintf): New function and file.
* src/prog-fprintf.h: New file.
* src/rmdir.c (main): Write verbose output to stdout, not to stderr.
Quote directory name in a diagnostic.
* src/rmdir.c (remove_parents): Write verbose output to stdout,
not to stderr.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Mention that shred verbose output is to stderr.
* NEWS: Mention the changes.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:21:37 +0000 (12:21 +0100)]
dd: avoid unnecessary, but harmless close_stdout call.
* src/dd.c (close_stdout_required): New global.
(maybe_close_stdout): New function.
(main): Set the global.
Reported by Ulrich Drepper in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/436368
ribalba [Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:03:35 +0000 (18:03 +0100)]
Work around AFS bug: id and groups would print invalid group number.
* src/id.c (main): Call print_group_list with a user name, if possible.
* src/groups.c (main): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention this.
For details, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12852
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12875
Jim Meyering [Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:33:03 +0000 (10:33 +0100)]
Avoid new "make distcheck" failure, now that VPATH has GNUmakefile.
* GNUmakefile: Remove commands to create ".version".
They were unnecessary, and caused creation of a newer .version
file in a VPATH build, which in turn caused creation of updated
man/*.1 files reflecting the newer time stamp on .version.
Those *.1 files were not removed (since they're distributed), and
the fact that they remained after "distclean" triggered the failure.
Eric Blake [Tue, 4 Mar 2008 19:54:45 +0000 (20:54 +0100)]
Reinstate GNUmakefile patch, but with workaround for automake.
* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_LINKS): Use shell variable to bypass
automake distclean rules.
* Makefile.am (distclean-local): Clean GNUmakefile in VPATH builds,
since we are bypassing automake.
* GNUmakefile (_is-dist-target): 'distclean' is not a dist target.
Eric Blake [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:56:32 +0000 (17:56 +0000)]
GNUmakefile build tweaks.
* GNUmakefile: When Makefile is not present, make common targets depend
on "all" in order to trigger nicer error message.
* configure.ac: If autoconf is new enough, link GNUmakefile into VPATH
builds.
For more details, see
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/12853>.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:50:35 +0000 (10:50 +0100)]
Don't skip the groups-version test.
* tests/Makefile.am (built_programs): Remove unused definition.
* src/Makefile.am (built_programs.list): Print a space-separated
list of program names, not NL-separated, since all clients now
expect a space-separated list.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:29:40 +0000 (15:29 +0100)]
Make copyright comments consistent.
* src/mktemp.c: Update copyright to use newer form.
Make first copyright lines consistent. Some did not end in ", Inc.".
Due to that missing ", Inc" at end of line, emacs' copyright-updating
code missed some opportunities. This corrects most of those, and
adds some mistakenly omitted years.
* src/chown-core.c: Adjust.
* src/chown-core.h: Likewise.
* src/copy.c: Likewise.
* src/copy.h: Likewise.
* src/cp-hash.c: Likewise.
* src/cp.c: Likewise.
* src/group-list.h: Likewise.
* src/mktemp.c: Likewise.
* src/stat.c: Likewise.
* tests/chmod/equal-x: Likewise.
* tests/dd/skip-seek: Likewise.
* tests/envvar-check: Likewise.
* tests/mv/into-self-2: Likewise.
Jim Meyering [Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:22:58 +0000 (23:22 +0100)]
Avoid test failures when root (/) is not readable.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_readable_root_): New function.
* tests/misc/pwd-long: Skip this test when / is unreadable.
* tests/du/slash: Likewise.
This is required at least for Mandrake/Mandriva in "secure" mode.
Reported by Theodoros V. Kalamatianos in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/12800
Jim Meyering [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:01:36 +0000 (10:01 +0100)]
id: avoid race when a group is added between getgrouplist calls
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups) [N_GROUPS_INIT]: Rename enum.
Use a larger value.
Update *groups only upon success.
Iterate upon failed getgrouplist.
James Youngman [Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:01:15 +0000 (15:01 +0100)]
id: use getgrouplist when possible
* gl/m4/mgetgroups.m4: Check for getgrouplist.
* gl/lib/mgetgroups.c (mgetgroups): Use getgrouplist, if available.
* TODO: Remove the item about switching to getgrouplist.
* NEWS: mention this
James Youngman [Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:44:53 +0000 (21:44 +0100)]
join: avoid new leaks
* src/join.c (prevline): Make prevline module-level static, so that
the allocated items can be freed at exit.
(free_prevline): new atexit function; frees items in prevline[].
Use ARRAY_CARDINALITY, so include "argmatch.h" to get that.
(main): Arrange for free_prevline to be called during exit.
(get_line): Free prevline[which - 1] also, as that
will have been allocated by dup_line.
Steven Schubiger [Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:39:22 +0000 (22:39 +0100)]
seq: give better diagnostics for invalid formats.
* src/seq.c: (validate_format): New function.
(main): Use it.
* tests/misc/seq (fmt-d, fmt-e): Test for expected diagnostics with
invalid formats.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* TODO: Remove this item.
[jm: src/seq.c: make diagnostics more consistent
tests/misc/seq (fmt-eos1): adjust the expected diagnostic ]
James Youngman [Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:13:00 +0000 (14:13 +0100)]
join: new options: --check-order and --nocheck-order.
* src/join.c: Support --check-order and --nocheck-order.
New variables check_input_order, seen_unpairable and
issued_disorder_warning[]. For --check-order, verify that the
input files are in sorted order. For the default case, check the
order only if there are unpairable lines.
(join): Perform ordering checks after reaching EOF on either
input.
(usage): Mention --check-order and --nocheck-order.
(dupline): Save a copy of the previously-read input line so that
we can detect disorder on the input.
(get_line): Temporarily save a copy of the previous line (by
calling dupline) and check relative ordering (by calling
checkorder) before returning the newly-read line.
(getseq, join): Tell get_line which file we are reading from.
(advance_seq): New function, factoring out some of the code
commonly surrounding calls to getseq.
(checkorder): New function. Verifies that a pair of consecutive
input lines are in sorted order.
* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Document the new options
--check-order and --nocheck-order.
* tests/join/Test.pm (tv): Added tests for --check-order and
--nocheck-order.
* NEWS: Mention this new feature.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:38:52 +0000 (18:38 +0100)]
seq: give a proper diagnostic for an invalid --format=% option
* src/seq.c (long_double_format): Handle '%' at end of string.
* tests/misc/seq [fmt-eos1, fmt-eos2]: New tests for the bug.
* NEWS: Mention this.
Reported by Pádraig Brady.