* tests/init.cfg (framework_failure, getlimits_): Use 'fatal_'
instead of 'error_'.
(error_): Delete, it's not used anymore (and one is anyway
advised to use 'fatal_' instead).
Update heading comments.
* tests/shell-or-perl (error_): Renamed ...
(fatal_): ... to this, for consistency. Also, add a useful
comment.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:48:59 +0000 (21:48 +0200)]
build: require gnulib's fclose module
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Explicitly use the fclose module.
This is required, now that gnulib's close module no longer depends
on fclose. Without this module, we would be exposed to fclose bugs
affecting at least glibc 2.13 and FreeBSD.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker. Suggested by Eric Blake.
* src/copy.c (create_hard_link): A new function refactored
from existing code.
(copy_internal): Call the new function from all 3 locations
that create hard links.
* tests/cp/same-file: Amend to match the adjusted diagnostic.
* tests/cp/preserve-link: Add test cases for when a missing
link in the destination tree is encountered first and second.
Also add cases for old and new separate files in the destination
tree, both to make the clobbering behavior explicit, and to
test any changes in this area in future.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:01:44 +0000 (09:01 +0200)]
maint: use consistent style in C and test scripts
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Adjust formatting style to conform with
guidelines in HACKING: put braces around two one-line "else" blocks.
* tests/cp/existing-perm-dir: Use $(...), not `...`, and
stat rather than ls+cut to get the mode string.
mode=$(stat --p=%A dst/dir)
Paul Eggert [Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
cp: don't mishandle existing dir dest permissions (Bug#9170)
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): If we don't create the directory,
then we cannot have omitted permissions. Problem and trivial
fix reported by Eric Lammerts.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add cp/existing-perm-dir.
* tests/cp/existing-perm-dir: New file.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:31:01 +0000 (11:31 +0200)]
cp -up: preserve all hard links
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): With --update (-u), this function would
return early once it found that the destination is not older than the
source, *without* recording the source-dev/ino--to--dest_name mapping.
That mapping is required in order to preserve src hard links in the
destination tree, so when using cp with --update and --preserve=links
(perhaps via -p or -a), cp could fail to preserve one hard link
per inode when at least one of the hard-linked names already exists
in the destination tree.
Reported by Odd Harry Mannsverk in http://debbugs.gnu.org/8419.
* tests/cp/preserve-link: New file. Exercise the flaw/fix.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* src/timeout.c (settimeout): A new function to convert
from a floating point duration and call alarm() or
timer_settime() if that's available.
(parse_duration): Return a double rather than unsigned int.
(usage): Mention floating point is supported.
(main): Pass the double to settimeout() rather than
calling alarm() directly with the parsed int.
(cleanup): Likewise.
* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Say floating point timeouts
now supported, and mention the caveat with resolution.
* bootstrap.conf: Include the timer-time gnulib module.
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Add a test with nanoseconds.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:52:34 +0000 (22:52 +0200)]
df: support partitions larger than 4 TiB on MacOS >= 10.5 & AIX >=5.2
This change derives from improvements to gnulib's fsusage module.
* NEWS (Improvements): df now supports disk partitions larger than
4 TiB on MacOS X 10.5 or newer and on AIX 5.2 or newer.
Alphabetize entries.
* gnulib: Update to latest.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:40:03 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
dd, shred: use fdatasync only if declared
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Use fdatasync only if declared.
MacOS X 10.7 has an fdatasync that is not declared, and is rumored to
be ineffective. (Bug#9141)
unexpand: fix misalignment when spaces span a tabstop
The following dropped the space from the first field
printf "1234567 \t1\n" | unexpand -a
Note POSIX says that spaces should not precede tabs.
Also a single trailing space should not be converted
if the next field starts with non blank characters.
So we enforce those rules too, with this change.
* src/unexpand.c (unexpand): Implement as per POSIX rules.
* tests/misc/unexpand: Add tests, and adjust existing
tests as per POSIX rules.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by Hallvard B Furuseth
Paul Eggert [Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:07:46 +0000 (12:07 -0700)]
timeout: treat seconds counts like 'sleep' does
Treat fractions as a request to round up to the next representable
value, and treat out-of-range values as maximal ones. This is
consistent with how "sleep" works. And this way, "timeout 999999999999999999d FOO" and "timeout 4.5 foo" are more likely to
do what the user wants.
* src/timeout.c: Include c-strtod.h and xstrtod.h, not xstrtol.h.
(apply_time_suffix): Change it to the way sleep.c's time_suffix
does things. Maybe this function (identical in both programs,
other than its name) should be moved to a library?
(parse_duration): Return a maximal value on overflow. Return
unsigned int, not unsigned long. Allow fractions, which round
up to the next integer value.
* tests/misc/timeout-parameters: Adjust tests to match new behavior.
Add a very large number.
* src/csplit.c (interrupt_handler): Reset signal to SIG_DFL
after deleting the files, so that a second interrupt won't
prematurely terminate cleanup.
(main): Don't use SA_NODEFER | SA_RESETHAND, as that might
allow premature termination of cleanup. Also, this ports better
to platforms like NonStop, which don't ahve SA_RESETHAND.
build: avoid a st_blksize compile failure on some systems
* src/stat.c (print_stat): Use ST_BLKSIZE() rather than
accessing st_blksize directly, which is not present on
NonStop at least. Reported by Joachim Schmitz.
build: avoid a fiemap compile failure on some systems
* src/fiemap.h (struct fiemap): Adjust the previous change
to the fiemap_extents array, which would also require changes
to the sizeof calculations in extent_scan_read().
Instead, only declare the fiemap_extents zero length array
on linux, which is the only platform that references this member.
This avoids a compilation failure on systems that don't support
this non standard construct. We don't use the equivalent C99
flexible array construct so as to have maximum portability.
* src/extent-scan.c: Cleanup. Remove a redundant #ifndef.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:06:46 +0000 (22:06 -0700)]
* src/fiemap.h (struct fiemap.fm_extents): Change size to 1.
This is for portability to non-GCC C89 and C99 compilers.
Original problem, on NonStop, reported by Joachim Schmitz in
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9077>.
Bernhard Voelker [Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:56:23 +0000 (11:56 +0100)]
maint: fix warning 'possible use of "=" where "==" was intended'
* src/mktemp.c: maint: avoid warning by using the comma operator
rather than an always-true conditional (as suggested by Eric Blake).
Reported by Joachim Schmitz in http://debbugs.gnu.org/9064.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:10:17 +0000 (17:10 +0200)]
maint: add syntax-check rule to prohibit "."-terminated "SEE ALSO"
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_man_see_also_period): Prohibit a period at
the end of the first line after a "SEE ALSO" marker in man/*.x.
With this, we shouldn't have to make any more changes like those
in today's commit, f2dabd68.
doc: don't terminate SEE ALSO sections with a period
man-pages(7) explicitly says about SEE ALSO sections: "Do not terminate
this with a period." This is also in line with all the other man pages
in coreutils.
* man/cat.x: Remove period at the end of the SEE ALSO section.
* man/tac.x: Likewise.
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Define HAVE_SETRLIMIT.
* src/timeout.c: If the child exited with a signal,
raise that signal to the timeout process itself,
so that callers may also see the signal status.
Use setrlimit to disable core dumps for the timeout
process, which would be generated by some signals.
* src/timeout.c (cleanup): Send signals directly to the child
in case it has started its own process group (like a cascaded
timeout command would for example).
* test/misc/timeout-group: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
timeout: add --foreground to support interactive commands
Or more accurately, commands not started from the shell prompt,
that are interactive, or need to receive Ctrl-C etc. from the terminal.
* doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Document --foreground.
* src/timeout.c (main): Set the foreground flag and don't create
a separate group.
(cleanup): Only send a signal directly to the monitored command
when the foreground flag is set.
(usage): Describe --foreground.
* tests/misc/timeout-group: Add a new test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference new test.
NEWS: Mention the new option.
Reported by Shay Shimony
Analysis by Alan Curry
Fix suggested by Paul Eggert
This fact was already noted in the Texinfo manual, but not in the
output of --help.
* src/cp.c (usage): As above, for --help.
Reported by Jari Aalto in http://bugs.debian.org/294327.
Use this new option with --check when the input is expected to
consist solely of checksum lines. With only --check, an invalid
line evokes a warning, but the program can still exit successfully.
With --strict, any invalid line makes the program exit non-zero.
* src/md5sum.c (strict, STRICT_OPTION): Declare/define.
(long_options): Add "strict".
(usage): Describe --strict.
(digest_check): Count improperly_formatted lines, too, and use
that number and the global "strict" to determine the return value.
(main): Handle STRICT_OPTION.
Reject --strict without --check.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Describe it.
* NEWS (New features): Mention it.
doc: note date's %k, %l are space-padded and equivalent to %_H and %_I
* src/date.c (usage): As above, for --help.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Time conversion specifiers): Likewise.
Reported by Britton Leo Kerin in http://bugs.debian.org/115833.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:49:56 +0000 (22:49 +0200)]
stat: recognize GPFS as a file system type
* src/stat.c (human_fstype) [S_MAGIC_GPFS]: Add a case,
to handle GPFS_SUPER_MAGIC/0x47504653. Prompted by this discussion:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/14007
* NEWS (Improvements): Mention it.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:12:59 +0000 (09:12 +0200)]
maint: don't use gnulib's pathmax module; define PATH_MAX if needed
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove pathmax.
* src/system.h: Don't include "pathmax.h".
(PATH_MAX) [!PATH_MAX]: Define to 8192. Defining it to a constant
is preferable to using a definition from pathmax.h that might expand
to pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX). Prompted by discussion leading to:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/27183/focus=27269
Bernhard Voelker [Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:26:50 +0000 (16:26 +0200)]
tests: stat-free-color: do not count stat calls before main
* tests/ls/stat-free-color: The system may perform additional stat
calls upon loading (seen on OpenSuSE-11.4). Count only the number
of stat calls compared to --help.
This also reduces back to "1" the number of expected calls,
effectively reverting part of 2011-06-01 commit, ccf2d9a4.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:01:43 +0000 (10:01 +0200)]
tests: init.sh: use "sed 1q" in place of "head -1"
* tests/init.sh (warn_): Use "sed 1q" in place of "head -1".
The latter is officially obsolete but more portable than "head -n1".
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
* tests/shell-or-perl: Prefer the `read' builtin over `grep' to
look at the shebang line of test scripts. Since `read' is a
special builtin, it might abort the whole program upon failures,
so add extra sanity checks, verifying that the test script exists
and is readable, before trying to read from it.
tests: make test runner a script, not a shell function
This change implements a more correct and idiomatic use of the
features of the Automake-provided 'parallel-tests' harness.
Moreover, this change is required in order for the testsuite to
continue to work with the new testsuite harness that is planned
to be introduced in Automake 1.12 (which, as of the writing date,
is still under development and in alpha state).
* tests/shell-or-perl: New auxiliary script.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute it.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Remove definition of the
`shell_or_perl_' shell function, whose code has been moved in
the new script above (with a few improvements and extensions).
Do not use it to run the test scripts.
(LOG_COMPILER): New, properly invoking `shell-or-perl'.
Jim Meyering [Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:41:24 +0000 (11:41 +0200)]
stdbuf: fix automake variable name to work with cutting edge automake
* src/Makefile.am (pkglibexec_PROGRAMS): Rename from pkglib_PROGRAMS.
The latter is invalid. Without this change, automake v1.11-373-g9ca6326 and newer (on master) would fail with this:
`pkglibdir' is not a legitimate directory for `PROGRAMS'
This changes the default installation directory of libstdbuf.so from
$prefix/lib/coreutils/ to
$prefix/libexec/coreutils/
* src/stdbuf.c (set_LD_PRELOAD): Search in PKGLIBEXECDIR, not PKGLIBDIR,
since that's where we install libstdbuf.so.
Do not search in "", the system default search path.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:30:10 +0000 (20:30 +0200)]
tests: sort-debug-keys: fix a bug with translated diagnostics
Ensure that English diagnostics are emitted even when using
French sorting rules.
* tests/misc/sort-debug-keys: Unset LC_ALL and set LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE and LC_NUMERIC to the fr_FR.UTF-8 locale, while setting
LC_MESSAGES=C. Reported by Stefano Lattarini.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:02:58 +0000 (10:02 +0200)]
maint: use modules/tempname.diff file, not a replacement; update gnulib
Using a .diff is much more maintainable. Otherwise, changes in
the gnulib module description file may not be noticed and merged
promptly and may even result in subtle errors. Luckily, this time,
the failure to propagate gnulib's changes to modules/tempname resulted
only in an obvious link failure.
* gl/modules/tempname: Remove file.
* gl/modules/tempname.diff: Use a .diff file instead.
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:22:41 +0000 (16:22 +0200)]
tests: remove skip_test_ function; use new skip_ instead
* tests/init.cfg (skip_test_): Remove function.
Use skip_ in place of skip_test_ everywhere else.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_skip_): Remove rule.
* tests/**: Use skip_, not skip_test_, everywhere.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:37:48 +0000 (15:37 +0200)]
tests: use printf, not echo in init.sh's warn_ function
* tests/init.sh (warn_): Use printf, not echo. The latter would
misbehave when given strings containing a backslash or starting
with e.g., -n. James Youngman suggested setting IFS.
Jim Meyering [Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:59:14 +0000 (09:59 +0200)]
tests: accommodate HP-UX and ksh-derived shells
Running "make check" normally prints a diagnostic to the outermost
stderr (usually a tty) to explain why a test is skipped. It did this
by redirecting FD 9 to stderr (via "exec 9>&2") before invoking the
shell script. Shell scripts write skip-explanation to FD 9 via
init.sh's skip_ function. However, with ksh and HP-UX's /bin/sh,
the effects of "exec 9>&2" are canceled upon fork-and-exec, so we
would get a "Bad file number" diagnostic and no skip explanation on
those systems.
* tests/check.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Redirect more portably, via
"$(SHELL) 9>&2", rather than the prior "exec 9>&2; $(SHELL) ..."
Actually, we use "shell_or_perl_ 9>&2", to make this effective
also for the perl-based tests.
* tests/init.sh (stderr_fileno_): Update the advice in comments.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/22488
for lots of discussion. Stefano Lattarini suggested the solution
of putting "9>&2" after the command. Reported by Bruno Haible.
Jim Meyering [Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:20:14 +0000 (18:20 +0200)]
maint: revert previous commit
Revert "init.sh: accommodate shells for which 1>&$stderr_fileno_ fails"
This reverts commit 6fb9aeedd1b858a61d5cbf7f15782adf29ff733a.
That change did not solve the problem. For details, see
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8846#74
James Youngman [Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:28:34 +0000 (16:28 +0100)]
maint: use stat-size module from gnulib
* gnulib: Update to latest.
* src/system.h: Definitions of ST_* macros have moved into the
gnulib module stat-size (specifically, the header file
stat-size.h), so remove them from here.
* src/truncate.c: Include stat-size.h.
* src/stat.c: Likewise.
* src/shred.c: Likewise.
* src/ls.c: Likewise.
* src/du.c: Likewise.
* src/ioblksize.h: New file. Move definition of io_blksize out of
system.h so that system.h does not have to include stat-size.h.
* src/cat.c: Include ioblksize.h.
* src/split.c: Likewise.
* src/copy.c: Include both stat-size.h and ioblksize.h.
* src/Makefile.am (noinst_HEADERS): Add ioblksize.h.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:33:10 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
tests: avoid a false failure on HPUX systems
* tests/dd/nocache: Relax the test, as the system
may return various errors from posix_fadvise().
HPUX 11.31 returns ENOTTY for example.
Reported by Bruno Haible
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:00:18 +0000 (13:00 +0100)]
doc: add examples to date --help
* src/date.c (usage): Add examples for TZ handling,
and "seconds since epoch" parsing, neither of which
was mentioned in the man page until now.
* THANKS.in: Add Rick.
Suggested by Rick Stanley.
Jim Meyering [Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:28:15 +0000 (13:28 +0200)]
build: require at least 2-year old autoconf-2.64 (was 2.62)
* configure.ac: Require autoconf-2.64, which is nearly two years old.
* src/system.h (emit_ancillary_info): Use PACKAGE_URL, now that we
require autoconf-2.64.
Jim Meyering [Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:08:21 +0000 (16:08 +0200)]
tests: stat-free-color: accommodate stat of /selinux on rawhide
* tests/ls/stat-free-color: This test recently began to fail on
rawhide because dynamic library start-up code now stats "/selinux",
making the total number of calls 2 rather than the prior 1.
Create two more dangling symlinks, so that any erroneous stat-
or lstat-calling code will get at least those three.
Marek Polacek [Fri, 27 May 2011 07:25:11 +0000 (09:25 +0200)]
yes.c: do not use exit after error
I think it would be better to exit through the error() and not
to call the exit() after the error(). This way we can get rid of
one function call (and curly brackets).
* src/yes.c (main): Exit through the error(), remove exit() call
after error().
Jim Meyering [Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:48:12 +0000 (13:48 +0200)]
tail: fix an inconsequential bug spotted by coverity
* src/tail.c (start_bytes): Increase *READ_POS (not READ_POS)
by the number of bytes read. This is a real bug that happens
to have no consequence in practice. First, this code is exercised
only when tailing-forever a non-regular file by bytes, and with a
start-relative offset, e.g., "mkfifo f; tail -f -c +3 f", but even
then, the invalid READ_POS value does not influence how tail works.
It is stored in the File_spec.size member, but that member is not
used at all in tail_forever_inotify, and in tail_forever, it is
used only when the File_spec refers to a regular file.
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