Pádraig Brady [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:23:44 +0000 (18:23 +0000)]
build: avoid unneeded spawn-pipe gnulib module
* bootstrap.conf: Reference the used pipe-posix module
rather than the uneeded and larger spawn-pipe module,
which the pipe module is the deprecated equivalent of.
Chengwei Yang [Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:46:43 +0000 (15:46 +0000)]
doc: clarify SMACK related --help and documentation
* src/ls.c: Remove all mention of SELinux since ls
should treat all security context labels equally.
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Likewise.
(id invocation): Clarify that -Z outputs the context
inherited by the process, rather than one specific to a user.
Note for SMACK this can be set instead by the SMACK64EXEC label,
in the unusual case where this is set on the id executable.
* src/id.c (usage): Likewise.
* src/mkdir.c (usage): Clarify that -Z is specific to SELinux,
while --context=CTX is also supported for SMACK.
* src/mkfifo.c (usage): Likewise.
* src/mknod.c (usage): Likewise.
* src/ln.c (errno_nonexisting): A new function to determine if
the errno implies that a file doesn't or can't (currently) exist.
(target_directory_operand): Use the new function to expand the
set of errors we handle.
* tests/ln/sf-1.sh: Add test cases for the newly handled errors.
* THANKS.in: Mention the reporter.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:30:51 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
tests: restrict a recent SELinux test to SELinux systems
* tests/cp/no-ctx.sh: Since the test diagnoses whether the
intercepted lgetfilecon() calls are actually called or not,
restrict the test to systems where that occurs.
The test cases are minimal on non SELinux systems and should
be well covered by other tests. Reported-by: Bernhard Voelker
Nicolas Iooss [Sat, 4 Jan 2014 03:03:51 +0000 (03:03 +0000)]
copy: fix a segfault in SELinux context copying code
* src/selinux.c (restorecon_private): On ArchLinux the
`fakeroot cp -a file1 file2` command segfaulted due
to getfscreatecon() returning a NULL context.
So map this to the sometimes ignored ENODATA error,
rather than crashing.
* tests/cp/no-ctx.sh: Add a new test case.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/16335
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:39:52 +0000 (19:39 +0000)]
maint: tests: refactor gcc commands for building shared lib
* init.cfg (gcc_shared_): A new function refactored from tests.
(require_gcc_shared_): Adjust to call gcc_shared_() to build the
test library, and remove that library before the function returns.
* tests/cp/nfs-removal-race.sh: Call the new gcc_shared_().
* tests/df/no-mtab-status.sh: Likewise.
* tests/df/skip-duplicates.sh: Likewise.
* tests/ls/getxattr-speedup.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/r-root.sh: Likewise.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:40:58 +0000 (16:40 +0000)]
copy: fix SELinux context preservation for existing directories
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use the global process context
to set the context of existing directories before they're populated.
This is more consistent with the new directory case, and fixes
a bug for existing directories where we erroneously set the
context to the last copied descendent, rather than to that of
the source directory itself.
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh: Add a test for this case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* THANKS.in: Add reporter Michal Trunecka.
Bernhard Voelker [Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:48:25 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
tests: improve test for a working setfacl
Prompted by a test framework failure of tests/mkdir/p-acl.sh on armv7l:
The previous test for a working setfacl was not sufficient in some
circumstances.
* init.cfg (require_setfacl_): Call setfacl twice with conflictive
ACL specs, and use ACL specs which can't be mapped into regular file
permission bits. Document the reasons.
tests: avoid FP failure when cp fails for /proc/cpuinfo
On emulated aarch64 systems like in the qemu-based OpenBuildService
of openSUSE, cp fails to copy /proc/cpuinfo because the inode number
changes between the initial stat() call and copying the file:
$ cp /proc/cpuinfo exp
cp: skipping file '/proc/cpuinfo', as it was \
replaced while being copied
* tests/cp/proc-zero-len.sh: When cp fails, check on the above
error message to skip the test.
maint: fix copyright holder and year in selinux sources
* src/selinux.c: As the copyright is assigned to the FSF for all
of coreutils, replace the copyright holder from "Red Hat, Inc."
to "Free Software Foundation, Inc.". Prompted by a warning of
'make update-copyright'. Also update the copyright year.
Run "make update-copyright", but then also run this,
perl -pi -e 's/2\d\d\d-//' tests/sample-test
to make that one script use the single most recent year number.
maint: prevent update-copyright from updating files from gnulib
The files 'bootstrap' and 'tests/init.sh' are taken from the
gnulib submodule. Therefore, 'make update-copyright' there should
already have updated the copyright year in these 2 files.
* .x-update-copyright: Add entries for the above mentioned files.
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:05:53 +0000 (14:05 +0000)]
stat,tail: improve support for hostfs and smackfs
hostfs is provided by the Linux UML subsystem.
smackfs is provided by the Linux Smack security module.
* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add new file system ID definitions.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement, and adjust for the fact that
SNFS is a remote file system.
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 11 Dec 2013 04:36:08 +0000 (04:36 +0000)]
tests: avoid unlikely deadlock in dd/no-allocate on some shells
* test/dd/no-allocate.sh: Use 'wait' to ensure we don't have
multiple writers to the fifo, which was seen to trigger
a very hard to reproduce deadlock with make -j20 on solaris.
Also avoid writing to the fifo with the shell; instead using dd.
(check_dd_seek_alloc): A new function refactored from the various
cases, which are now constructed from function parameters.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:43:05 +0000 (22:43 +0000)]
tests: restrict cp --link inode comparisons to compatible systems
* tests/cp/link-deref.sh: On systems were cp can't determine if
gnulib linkat() emulation might create a symlink instead of a hardlink
to a symlink, copy.c will create a symlink to the symlink so that
it has more control over its metadata. Also even if the system
supports this operation, the particular file system under test may not.
So avoid the hardlinked symlink verification in these cases.
This fixes a false failure on aix, solaris and freebsd.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:22:10 +0000 (15:22 +0000)]
build: default to avoiding openssl system libraries
* configure.ac: Don't change the gnulib default of 'no' for
whether to link with openssl system libraries if available.
Distributions can explicitly enable this as their policy allows.
* NEWS: Adjust accordingly.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:29:11 +0000 (16:29 +0000)]
tests: df/total-unprocessed: fix false failure with lofs
* tests/df/total-unprocessed.sh: Skip the test when we can't
determine the file system type as the exclusion filter is not
applied in that case. "lofs" being ignored is effectively
an unknown file system type.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:10:40 +0000 (13:10 +0000)]
tests: fix false failure on systems without /dev/stdin
* tests/rm/interactive-once.sh: Ensure the expected output
matches with the output on systems without /dev/stdin (like AIX 7).
Also change some fail=1 to a more appropriate framework_failure_.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:07:05 +0000 (12:07 +0000)]
build: update gnulib and improve --with-openssl configure help
* configure.ac: Use gl_SET_CRYPTO_CHECK_DEFAULT() to set the
coreutils default for --with-openssl early, so that the
help text can be provided in a standard and complete form.
* gnulib: Update to incorporate a build fix on platforms
with only some of md5 and sha* implemented by libcrypto.
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:43:49 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
tests: fix false failure due to gdb inline function handling
Inline functions are awkward to breakpoint as mentioned at:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10738
The normal case here was for the breakpoint on the inline function
to fail, resulting in a 10s delay before skipping the test.
However on GCC 4.7.2 on ppc64 at least it was seen that
the test failed erroneously due to the breakpoint being successfully
set on an "out of line" function, but an inline function was
actually being called.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh: Switch to a line based breakpoint,
rather than a symbol base one, which avoids issues with breakpoints
on inline functions. Also skip_ on the initial breakpoint check
in case the breakpoint is not traversed which would be the case
on remote file systems for example.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 9 Dec 2013 01:58:25 +0000 (01:58 +0000)]
tail: use consistent diagnostics with and without inotify
* src/tail.c: With inotify, when a file is initially absent,
we fstat(-1) for that file spec, thus recording an errnum of EBADF,
which caused the "has become accessible" diagnostic to be issued,
when the file first appears. Instead we avoid the fstat(-1) and
thus emit the more natural and consistent "has appeared" diagnostic.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Use the new diagnostic which also causes
this test to pass on systems without inotify.
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 7 Dec 2013 15:00:06 +0000 (15:00 +0000)]
tests: fix false failure on platforms using newfstatat
* tests/ls/stat-free-color.sh: Add newfstatat to the list
of syscalls to trace. Also add all "stat" syscalls to the
list of syscalls that we verify that strace supports.
Also only create a single dangling symlink to check, since
we already only check for a single "stat" call.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/16075 seen on AArch64
Pádraig Brady [Sat, 7 Dec 2013 16:14:40 +0000 (16:14 +0000)]
tests: avoid a false memory leak test failure
* tests/misc/shuf-reservoir.sh: Restrict the valgrind
"exit on leak" behavior to developer environments where
specific "lint" code is enabled to avoid inconsequential leaks.
tests: fix shuf test verifying that -i and -e can not be combined
Previously, the test triggered another error diagnostic:
shuf: invalid input range ‘-e’
and therefore eclipsed the expected one:
shuf: cannot combine -e and -i options
While at it, reindent a line with more than 80 characters, present
since the previous commit to silence sc_long_lines.
* tests/misc/shuf.sh: Pass a valid range to the -i option.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 6 Dec 2013 17:55:17 +0000 (09:55 -0800)]
shuf: --repeat, not --repetitions; default --head-count is infinity
Original problem reported by Philipp Thomas in
<http://bugs.gnu.org/16061>.
* NEWS: shuf --repeat, not shuf --repetitions.
* doc/coreutils.texi (shuf invocation):
* src/shuf.c (usage, long_opts, main):
* tests/misc/shuf.sh:
Likewise. Also, the default head-count is infinity.
doc: clarify that df now generally processes special files correctly
Since v8.21-172-g33660b4, df not only treats symbolic link arguments
differently, as stated there, but now generally processes special file
arguments in a non-canonicalized form correctly:
$ cd /dev && df-old sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1014572 48 1014524 1% /dev
$ cd /dev && df-new sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 1019013660395323609932 63% /home
Document df's new behavior.
* doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): In the paragraph describing
df's behavior regarding special file arguments, relax the condition
for such special files from "... is an absolute name of ..." to
"... resolves to ...".
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the new behavior also here.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:02:41 +0000 (00:02 +0000)]
tests: fix false failure with disabled SELinux support
This could trigger on SELinux systems where we build --qithout-selinux
or where the SELinux development libraries are not installed.
* init.cfg (require_selinux_enforcing_): Call require_selinux_()
to determine if the current build supports SELinux. This avoids
a false failure in tests/mkdir/selinux.sh where only mkdir would
determine that SELinux was disabled and thus ignore invalid contexts.
(require_selinux_): Refactor a little to distinguish whether it's
the build or the (file) system that doesn't support SELinux.
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 4 Dec 2013 19:10:37 +0000 (19:10 +0000)]
selinux: fix --context=CTX for cp and diagnose defaultcon() errors
* src/selinux.h (ignorable_ctx_err): A new function used
to determine if a warning should be given after a call
to defaultcon() or restorecon().
* src/cp.c (main): Fix the setfscreatecon() call to use
the argument passed by the user.
* src/mkdir.c (make_ancestor): Show all but "ignoreable" errors
from defaultcon() and restorecon().
* tests/misc/selinux.sh: Add a test run as root in selinux enforcing
mode, to ensure cp --context=invalid is honored and fails immediately.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 3 Dec 2013 03:51:52 +0000 (03:51 +0000)]
md5sum, sha*sum: use libcrypto where available
libcrypto is generally available and has well optimized
crypto hash routines particular to various systems.
For example, testing sha1sum with openssl-1.0.0j
on an i3-2310M, gives a performance boost of about 40%:
* configure.ac: By default, enable use of libcrypto if available.
* src/local.mk: Link with libcrypto.
* NEWS: Mention the md5sum and sha*sum improvements.
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 4 Dec 2013 00:50:10 +0000 (00:50 +0000)]
df: handle bind mounts when processing device nodes
* src/df.c (get_disk): Use the same heuristic used in
get_point() to select the shortest file system mount point,
in an attempt to show the base mounted file system.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 3 Dec 2013 23:36:02 +0000 (23:36 +0000)]
df: dereference symlinks to disk device nodes
This is so the matching for the device is done on the canonical name
of the disk node, rather than on the path of the symlink.
In any case the user will generally want to use the symlink target.
* src/df.c (get_disk): Canonicalize the passed file,
before matching against the list of mounted file system devices.
Note we pass the original symlink name to the "file" output field,
as the symlink target is usually available through the "source" field.
* tests/df/df-symlink.sh: Test the dereferencing operation.
* tests/local.mk: Mention the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by Ondrej Oprala
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 4 Dec 2013 02:00:55 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Note tests/init.sh and bootstrap are still in sync with gnulib.
* gnulib: Sync many fixes/changes, including the base64
encoding speedup mentioned in commit v8.21-145-g9120845
Also included is support for enabling use of libcrypto hash routines
which are generally well optimized for particular systems.
maint: avoid '%s' quoting notation in diagnostic messages
Add a new rule to ensure the use of quote() instead of '%s' or `%s'
in format strings of diagnostics messages.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_quotes_notation): Add rule.
* TODO: Remove the entry regarding the '%s' notation.
* src/mkfifo.c (main): Remove the offending and in this case even
duplicate quoting in the format string of the error diagnostic.
* src/mknod.c (main): Likewise.
* src/df.c (decode_output_arg): Change two invocations of error()
according to the above new rule.
* src/numfmt.c: Fix numerous wrong quote notations to fit the above
new rule, mostly in internal debugging diagnostic messages.
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 1 Dec 2013 12:15:34 +0000 (12:15 +0000)]
doc: remove obsolete info on terminal alignment bugs
* doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Remove the note about
OSX terminals not aligning properly as this is no longer the case.
Tested by: Philipp Thomas
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 04:13:11 +0000 (04:13 +0000)]
build: fix potential factor build failure on arm and powerpc
* src/longlong.h: Sync with the latest longlong.h from libgmp to:
- avoid arm asm when being compiled for the thumb instruction [sub]set
- avoid old powerpc assembly that is incompatible with newer GCC
- add arm64 optimized count_trailing_zeros()
- add sparc64 optimized add_ssaaaa() and umul_ppmm()
Bernhard Voelker [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:18:06 +0000 (12:18 +0100)]
maint: remove various FIXME comments
* src/extent-scan.c (extent_need_sync): Remove the FIXME comment about
removing the work around. As discussed in [1], the needed FIEMAP fix
never made it into the Linux kernel.
* src/realpath.c (longopts): Remove the FIXME comment about deprecating
the --strip option as it's a valid alias for --no-symlinks option.
Also discussed in [1].
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:23:11 +0000 (02:23 +0000)]
build: fix selinux.c build failure on 32 bit
* src/selinux.c: Don't include the system "fts.h" as
that disallows _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 which gnulib auto enables
to support large files on 32 bit systems. Instead include
our "xfts.h" which includes the less limited gnulib replacement,
and also a checked version of xfts_open().
(restorecon): Use the checked xfts_open() rather than the standard
fts_open().
Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6934169
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:21:48 +0000 (18:21 +0000)]
build: avoid more selinux build failures
Handle both newer selinux libraries with mode_to_security_class(),
and systems without selinux at all. We could easily adjust
gnulib to provide the necessary stubs for use by this module,
but it's more efficient to just stub out the module completely,
when not using selinux.
* src/selinux.h: Define stubs for the two module functions,
when SELinux is not available.
* src/selinux.c: Exclude all logic in preference for the stubs
when selinux isn't used. Also when newer selinux libs are used,
don't use our conflicting static version of mode_to_security_class().
m4/jm-macros.m4: Check for the system mode_to_security_class().
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:35:24 +0000 (16:35 +0000)]
build: avoid build failure on non selinux systems
* src/selinux.c: This module introduced in commit v8.21-159-gd8e27ab
doesn't need to include <selinux/flask.h>. That header file
isn't catered for by gnulib, but is not needed as we're not
explicitly referencing any class IDs.
Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6920020
Pádraig Brady [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:26:51 +0000 (12:26 +0000)]
selinux: adjust utils to run restorecon with -Z
cp, mv, install, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod are adjusted so that:
-Z no longer accepts an argument.
-Z or --context without an argument do not warn without SELinux.
--context with an argument will warn without SELinux.
* src/local.mk: Reference the new selinux module where required.
* src/system.h: Make the argument to --context optional.
* src/mkdir.c: Likewise. Also handle the SMACK case for --context.
Note we currently silently ignore -Z with SMACK.
* src/mkfifo.c: Likewise.
* src/mknod.c: Likewise.
* src/install.c: Likewise. Note install(1) by default already
set the context for target files to their system default,
albeit with an older method. Use the -Z option to select between
the old and new context restoration behavior, and document
the differences and details for how context restoration
is done in new and old methods, with a view disabling the
old method entirely in future.
* src/cp.c: Make the argument to --context optional.
Note -Z implies --no-preserve=context. I.E. -Z overrides
that aspect of -a no matter what order specified.
(struct cp_options): Document the context handling options.
(main): Check/adjust option combinations after all
options are processed, to both simplify processing
and to make handling independent of order of options
on the command line. Also improve the diagnostics
from a failed call to setfscreatecon().
(set_process_security_ctx): A new function,
refactored to set the default context from the source file,
or with the type adjusted as per the system default for
the destination path.
(set_file_security_ctx): A new function refactored to
set the security context of an existing file, either based on
the process context or the default system context for a path.
(copy_internal): Use the refactored functions to simplify
error handling and consistently fail or warn as needed.
(copy_reg): Likewise.
(copy_internal): With --preserve=context, also copy
context from non regular files. Note for directories this may
impact the copying of subsequent files to that directory?
(copy_attr): If we're handling SELinux explicitly,
then exclude to avoid the redudant copy with --preserve=context,
and the problematic copy with -Z. Note SELinux attribute exclusion
also now honors cp -a --no-preserve=context. Note there was a
very small window over 10 years ago, where attr_copy_file was
available, while attr_copy_check_permissions was not, so we
don't bother adding an explicit m4 check for the latter function.
* src/mv.c: Support --context, but don't allow specifying an argument.
* src/chcon.c: Adjust a comment to be specific to SELinux.
* src/runcon.c: Likewise.
* src/copy.c: Honor the context settings to "restorecon" as appropriate.
* src/copy.h: Add a new setting to select "restorecon" functionality.
* tests/mkdir/selinux.sh: s/-Z/--context=/
* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh: Augment this test with cases
testing basic -Z functionality, and also test the various
invalid option combinations and option precedence.
* tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh: Add a new test for the
more involved mkdir -Z handling, since the directory changing
and non existent directories need to be specially handled.
Also check the similar but simpler handling of -Z by mk{nod,fifo}.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Update as per interface changes.
(mv invocation): Likewise.
(install invocation): Likewise.
(mkfifo invocation): Likewise.
(mknod invocation): Likewise.
(mkdir invocation): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature and change in behavior.
Daniel J Walsh [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:24:26 +0000 (12:24 +0000)]
selinux: a new module implementing "restorecon" functionality
* src/selinux.c: A new module implementing "restorecon" functionality.
There are two main functions to adjust the type of the referenced
file system item. defaultcon() will setup the process context so
that new items will have the required context without races. This is
the preferred method. For existing files, the equivalent restorecon()
is available which has two modes. With the "local" parameter set to
false, restorecon() will adjust the type according to the system
configuration for that file, and set to true will update the context
as per the context for the current process (disregarding type).
* src/selinux.h: Likewise.
* po/POTFILES.in: Reference the new module.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:00:56 +0000 (17:00 +0000)]
shred: provide --remove methods to avoid excessive syncing
A sync operation is very often expensive. For illustration
I timed the following python script which indicated that
each ext4 dir sync was taking about 2ms and 12ms, on an
SSD and traditional disk respectively.
import os
d=os.open(".", os.O_DIRECTORY|os.O_RDONLY)
for i in range(1000):
os.fdatasync(d)
So syncing for each character for each file can result
in significant delays. Often this overhead is redundant,
as only the data is sensitive and not the file name.
Even if the names are sensitive, your file system may
employ synchronous metadata updates, which also makes
explicit syncing redundant.
* tests/misc/shred-remove.sh: Ensure all the new parameters
actually unlink the file.
* doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Describe the new
parameters to the --remove option.
* src/shred.c (Usage): Likewise.
(main): Parse the new options.
(wipename): Inspect the new enum to see which of
the now optional tasks to perform.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* THANKS.in: Add reporter Joseph D. Wagner
Previous behavior failed to read contents of a (re)appearing file,
when symlinked by tail's watched file. Also we now diagnose other
edge cases when running in inotify mode, where an initially
missing or regular file changes to a symlink.
* src/tail.c (main): If any arg is a symlink, use polling mode.
(recheck): Diagnose the edge case where a symlink appears during
inotify processing.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Test the fix. Mention the edge cases.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by: Ondrej Oprala
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:12:34 +0000 (02:12 +0000)]
df: add --output=file to directly output specified arguments
* src/df.c (usage): Document the new 'file' --output field.
(get_dev): Add a new parameter to pass the specified
argument from the command line through. Use '-' if a
command line parameter is not being used.
* doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): Describe the new 'file' field.
* tests/df/df-output.sh: Adjust all fields test, and
add a specific test for --output=file.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:27:25 +0000 (14:27 +0000)]
timeout: avoid unlikely issues with --kill-after
* src/timeout.c (cleanup): When calling settimeout() from
this signal handler, ensure we don't call out to error()
or gettext(), which are not async-signal-safe.
Also reset the errno which may be cleared by settimeout().
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:37:50 +0000 (13:37 +0000)]
tests: ensure factor tests can be regenerated
* tests/local.mk (factor-tests:) Add -f to the mv command that
replaces any existing generated tests. This is required to avoid
prompts when root initially generates the tests, and they subsequently
need to be regenerated by a non root user.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:47:36 +0000 (02:47 +0000)]
sort: avoid issues when issuing diagnostics from child processes
* src/sort.c: (async_safe_die): A new limited version of error(),
that outputs fixed strings and unconverted errnos to stderr.
This is safe to call in the limited context of a signal handler,
or in this particular case, between the fork() and exec() of
a multithreaded process.
(move_fd_or_die): Use the async_safe_die() rather than error().
(maybe_create_temp): Likewise.
(open_temp): Likewise.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15970
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:32:39 +0000 (15:32 +0000)]
doc: clarify the operation of ls -k
* src/ls.c (usage): Mention -k only changes the display
for disk usage (directory total, and ls -s), and imply
that it can be overridden (by --block-size, and -h).
* doc/coreutils.texi (block size): Mention that ls -k
handling is different to other utilities.
Addresses http://bugs.gnu.org/14525
Bernhard Voelker [Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:03:15 +0000 (01:03 +0100)]
doc: enhance diagnostic when rm skips "." or ".." arguments
The error diagnostic
"rm: cannot remove directory: '.'"
does not give the user a hint for the reason.
Issue a clearer error message.
* src/remove.c (rm_fts): Enhance the error diagnostic in the above
case to emphasize that skipping is done deliberately.
In the corresponding comment, mention that POSIX mandates this
behavior. Likewise in the subsequent comment for skipping "/".
* doc/coreutils.texi (rm invocation): In the paragraph describing
the above behavior, mention that POSIX mandates it.
Colin Leitner [Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:14:18 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
stty: add support for mark/space parity
This adds support for using a constant or "stick" parity bit.
* src/stty.c (usage): Mention the new flag.
* tests/misc/stty.sh: Adjust for the new flag.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
* docs/coreutils.texi (stty invocation): Mention the new flag.
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 11 Nov 2013 02:51:17 +0000 (02:51 +0000)]
base64: improve encoding I/O efficiency
Since the I/O overhead is significant to the relatively
simple processing done by this utility, use fputs() rather
than fputc() to output '\n'.
Time to process a 100MiB file was measured to
decrease from 0.417s to 0.383s, i.e. an 8% improvement.
Related to these changes, is a processing improvement in
gnulib, which increases throughput by 60% when processing
full buffers, which improves processing of a 100MiB file
with standard wrapped output, down to 0.256s.
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=43fd1e7b
Also increase the encoding buffer size from 3 to 30KiB.
This was seen to give a further 8% improvement, taking
processing time down to 0.235s in the wrapped output case.
The decoding size buffer is not adjusted,
due to the noted caveat with --ignore-garbage.
* src/base64.c (BLOCKSIZE): Split into ENC_ and DEC_ variants,
with the former increased from 3KiB to 30KiB.
(wrap_write): Use the simpler fputc() rather than fputs()
to output the '\n' character. Also check against EOF
rather than < 0 for errors.
(do_encode): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the large increase in performance, which
with the I/O improvements in coreutils and the processing
improvement in gnulib, amount to about a 60% throughput increase.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:32:29 +0000 (12:32 +0000)]
shred: avoid data write pass with --size=0
* src/shred.c (dopass): Exit early to avoid redundant heap
allocation, and more importantly avoiding a file sync
when we're writting no data, as this can have side effects.
Also with --verbose, this avoids printing of "pass status"
which could be confusing as to whether data was actually written.
* tests/misc/shred-passes.sh: Ensure the status for data
passes are not written when not doing any data writes.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:57:09 +0000 (11:57 +0000)]
shred: increase I/O block size for periodic pattern case
* src/shred.c (dopass): In the periodic pattern case increase the
I/O block size from 12KiB to 60KiB (also a multiple of 3 and 4096).
* NEWS: Adjust accordingly.
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 7 Nov 2013 13:26:25 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
shred: fix direct I/O failures for last write to file
Since direct I/O is now enabled with commit v8.21-139-gebaf961
we must handle the case where we write an odd size at the
end of a file (with --exact), or we specify an odd --size that
is larger than 64KiB, or in the very unlikely case of a device
with an odd size. This issue was present since direct I/O
support was first added in v5.3.0, but latent since v6.0.
Theoretically this could have also been an issue after that on
systems which didn't have alignment constraints, but did have
size constraints for direct I/O.
* src/shred.c (dopass): On the first pass for a file, always
retry a write that fails with EINVAL, so we handle direct I/O
failure at either the start or end of the file. Adjust the comment
as the original case is out of date and implicitly handled
by this more general fix.
* tests/misc/shred-exact.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Add a "bug fix" entry for shred since there are
two related issues now fixed.
cp: fix --link regarding the dereferencing of symbolic links
* src/copy.c (create_hard_link): Add a bool 'dereference' parameter,
and pass AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW as 'flags' to linkat() when dereference
is true.
(should_dereference): Add new 'bool' function to determine if a
file should be dereferenced or not.
(copy_internal): Use the above new should_dereference() and remember
its return value in a new local bool 'dereference' variable. Use that
in all three calls to create_hard_link().
* src/cp.c (main): after parsing the options, if x.dereference is
still DEFEF_UNDEFINED and the x.recursive is true, then only set
x.dereference to DEREF_NEVER iff --link was not specified.
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Mention that cp(1) does not
follow symbolic links in the source when --link is specified.
Likewise in the description of the -R option when used together with
that option.
* tests/cp/same-file.sh: Adapt the expected results for the -fl,
the -bl and the -bfl tests.
* tests/cp/link-deref.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Reference the above new test.
* NEWS (Changes in behavior): Mention the change.
This fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15173
Co-authored-by: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 4 Nov 2013 23:14:10 +0000 (23:14 +0000)]
shred: enable direct I/O when possible
Commit v5.92-1057-g43d487b introduced a regression
in coreutils 6.0 where it removed the page alignment
of the buffer to write, thus disabling direct I/O.
We want to use direct I/O when possible to avoid
impacting the page cache at least, as we know we don't
want to cache the data we're writing.
* src/shred.c (dopass): Allocate the buffer on the heap,
while using a more general calculation to allow to have
the output size independent from the fillpattern() size
constraint of a multiple of 3. Also we dispense with the
union as it's no longer needed given we're aligning on
a page boundary and thus don't need to explicitly handle
uint32_t alignment.
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 1 Nov 2013 10:20:23 +0000 (10:20 +0000)]
md5sum, sha*sum: improve help for --check related options
* src/md5sum.c (usage): s/three/four/ in the message pertaining
to the --check related options. Also clarify that --strict
is just significant for the formatting of the checksum lines.
Also since we're changing both strings, move the --strict description
in with the description of the other options and order alphabetically.
* THANKS.in: Added reporter: Daniel Mach
Pádraig Brady [Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:14:44 +0000 (16:14 +0000)]
maint: simplify printing of md5sum file names
* src/md5sum.c (main): Add a comment as to why we continue
to escape names that do not have '\n' but do have '\\' chars.
(print_filename): Use the predetermined boolean to decide
whether to escape or not, so that in the common case we
can output the file name directly, rather than inspecting each char.
* tests/misc/md5sum.pl: Add case to show '\\' chars cause escaping.
* tests/misc/sha1sum.pl: Likewise.
Pádraig Brady [Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:05:49 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]
maint: update the instructions for building prerequisites
* README-prereq: Update as per the latest required versions
in bootstrap.conf. Also add a missing cd command.
Reported by Aaron Davies
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15612
Ondřej Vašík [Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:07:37 +0000 (17:07 +0100)]
cp: correct error message for invalid arguments of '--no-preserve'
* src/cp.c (decode_preserve_arg):
Correct error message for invalid arguments of '--no-preserve'.
Reported by M.Vadkerti in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1018206
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15588
Pádraig Brady [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:13:30 +0000 (10:13 +0100)]
doc: clarify the example for cp --preserve=links
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Give more detail about what's
happening in the example, explicitly calling out the --no-dereference
option required to make the -H and -L options significant.
Also mention the option order significance of the -H and -L options.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15579
Pádraig Brady [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:59:53 +0000 (11:59 +0100)]
mktemp: fix incorrect exit status from previous commit
* src/mktemp.c (main): Use an exit() strategy consistent with the
previous clauses dealing with optional error messages to ensure
we exit with the correct status in all cases.
Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6412979
Pádraig Brady [Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:26:51 +0000 (17:26 +0100)]
mktemp: with --quiet, only suppress I/O errors
The reason for having a --quiet option is to
suppress only some subset of possible errors.
The most useful separation here is with usage/internal errors,
and errors due to file creation etc. (i.e. I/O errors).
* src/mktemp.c (main): Match the --help and info docs and
only suppress the file/dir creation error messages.
* tests/misc/mktemp.pl: Adjust accordingly.
* src/mktemp.c (usage): Synchronize the -p option description with
the logic and info docs. I.E. that -p is just an alias of --tmpdir.
Also for consistency treat --tmpdir='' the same with or without -t.
I.E. always ignore the --tmpdir option if the param is empty.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15425
Karl Berry [Sun, 6 Oct 2013 15:39:58 +0000 (16:39 +0100)]
doc: expand the texinfo examples for the paste command
* doc/coreutils.texi (paste invocation): Move the synopsis to the top.
Provide examples for the different type of operations possible.
Add a specific common example to join consecutive lines with a space.
* src/rm.c (main): Make the -I option behave like --interactive=once.
* tests/rm/interactive-once.sh: Add cases for single and multiple files.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/9308
maint: remove unused parameters to parse_user_spec()
* src/chown.c (main): Since "name" parameters to parse_user_spec()
are now optional, just pass NULL for those unused parameters.
* src/chroot.c (main): Likewise.
* src/id.c (usage): Remove 'name' from the synopsis,
implying that one can also specify by user ID.
(main): Like chown(1), call parse_user_spec() to implement
user name or ID lookup with appropriate precedence.
* doc/coreutils.texi (id invocation): Mention that
a user ID is supported and how '+' affects lookup order.
* tests/misc/id-groups.sh: Remove test now subsumed into...
* tests/misc/id-uid.sh: New test covering new interface.
* tests/local.mk: Rename the test.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Addresses http://bugs.gnu.org/15421
build: update gnulib submodule to latest; also bootstrap to latest
Notes tests/init.sh is still in sync with gnulib.
* bootstrap: Update to latest.
* gnulib: Sync many fixes/changes, including:
a fix for http://bugs.gnu.org/15066
and preparation for http://bugs.gnu.org/15421
Bernhard Voelker [Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:15:45 +0000 (14:15 +0200)]
id: add -z, --zero option
* src/group-list.h (print_group_list): Add a parameter for the
delimiter of type char.
* src/group-list.c (print_group_list): Likewise, and use it instead
of a white space character to delimit the group entries.
* src/groups.c (main): Pass white space character to print_group_list().
* src/id.c (longopts): Add array element for the new long option.
(usage): Document the new option. While at it, fix the alignment
of the descriptions to match that of HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION.
(main): Define the bool flag opt_zero indicating the use of the
new option. In the getopt_long loop, handle it.
Output an error diagnostic in the case the --zero option has been
specified together with the default format.
In the case of -gG, pass either a NUL or a white space character to
print_group_list() - depending on the above new flag.
Likewise change the printing of the final newline character: output
a NUL instead if the --zero option has been specified.
* doc/coreutils.texi (id invocation): Document the new option.
While at it, move the @exitstatus macro down after the macro
@primaryAndSupplementaryGroups in order to be consistent with
other texinfo documents.
(groups invocation): Move @exitstatus down after the macro
@primaryAndSupplementaryGroups here, too.
* tests/misc/id-zero.sh: Add new test exercising the new option.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Reference it.
* NEWS (New features): Mention the new option.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/9987
Bernhard Voelker [Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:02:33 +0000 (00:02 +0200)]
maint: avoid patching help2man
Commit cde1ea0e separated the coreutils-specific patches from help2man.
Most changes had been made to accommodate to the coreutils style guide,
i.e., to avoid syntax-check failures like sc_long_lines.
Yet 2 changes had to be put into the patch help2man.diff.
But this added the dependency to patch(1) in distribution builds.
Incidentally, the 2 remaining parts of the patch can easily be
done outside of help2man. Therefore, this commit partly reverts
the recent separation of help2man into 'help2man.in' and
'help2man.diff', and instead uses the original help2man script.
* man/help2man.in: Rename to ...
* man/help2man: ... this file.
* man/help2man.diff: Remove.
* man/local.mk (mandeps): Remove man/help2man.
(man/help2man): Remove recipe.
(.x.1): Add the --info-page option when calling help2man in order
to change the name of the texinfo manual from the default, "info PRG",
to "info coreutils 'PRG invocation'".
Furthermore, use an sed pattern to remove the sentence starting
with "For complete documentation".
* .gitignore (/man/help2man): Remove entry.
* .x-update-copyright: Replace the entries for the files
'man/help2man.diff' and 'man/help2man.in' by 'man/help2man'.
* cfg.mk (sc_long_lines): Instead of 'man/help2man.in', exempt
'man/help2man' from this test.
(sc_po_check): Likewise.
(sc_space_tab): Instead of 'man/help2man.diff', exempt 'man/help2man'
from this test.
(sc_trailing_blank): Likewise.
(sc_prohibit_tab_based_indentation): Instead of 'man/help2man.in' and
'man/help2man.diff', exempt 'man/help2man'.
* man/dummy-man: Recognize the option --info-page=... as no-op.
Bernhard Voelker [Tue, 10 Sep 2013 05:56:18 +0000 (07:56 +0200)]
maint: use help2man configured with --disable-nls
Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/6038769
The previously committed 'help2man' requires a Perl module
which does not seem to be installed everywhere - and which
is not needed for our purposes:
Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm in @INC
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./man/help2man line 28.
This module was pulled in automatically by the default configure call.
Use the NLS-disabled version instead.
* man/help2man.in: Use help2man configured with the --disable-nls
option to avoid the dependency to the above Perl module.
* man/help2man.diff: Adapt the line numbers of the hunks in the
coreutils-specific patch for help2man to apply without fuzz.
* gl/modules/tempname.diff: Fix the offsets so that the patch
applies cleanly. Note that this was only apparent with patch < 2.6.
With patch >= 2.6, patch will not indicate an error applying
the second hunk of the patch and silently ignore it.
I double checked that all patches now apply cleanly by adjusting
gnulib-tool to run patch with --fuzz=0 which might be advisable
going forward, even on a per project basis.
The silent ignoring of hunks by newer patch(1) has been reported.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15255
Instead of diverging further from the upstream GNU help2man project
(http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/), hold a copy of the original
script and keep track of our changes in a separate patch file.
The man pages created with the new version show the following,
non-invasive differences:
a) command options in the EXAMPLE sections are no longer in bold format,
b) file names are underlined now consistently.
* man/help2man: Rename to ...
* man/help2man.in: ... this file, and update content from the
upstream GNU help2man project.
* man/help2man.diff: Add patch file for help2man to remove the
sentence "For complete documentation ..." (see commit 5d4f09d8),
and to emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man
pages (77abf69a).
* man/local.mk (mandeps): Add help2man to the dependencies of
the man pages.
(man/help2man): Add rule to generate this script from the upstream
help2man.in file and the help2man.diff patch.
* .gitignore: Add man/help2man as it is no longer version controlled.
* cfg.mk (sc_long_lines): Exempt help2man.in from this check.
(sc_po_check): Likewise.
(sc_space_tab): Likewise.
(sc_trailing_blank): Exempt man/help2man.diff from this check.
(sc_prohibit_tab_based_indentation): Instead of help2man, now exempt
both help2man.in and help2man.diff from this test.
* .x-update-copyright: Add new file and add the above new help2man
files as well as the COPYING file.
ls: fix possible incorrect exit status when recursing directories
If there is an error reading a directory that was referenced
through recursion, rather than directly on the command line,
then exit with the "less serious" exit code, rather than the
"serious" exit code reserved for command line arguments.
This issue was introduced in commit v5.2.1-1908-gb58dea5
* src/ls.c (print_dir): Ensure that the command_line_arg param
is false for directories being recursed into.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15249
* src/copy.c (copy_internal): Change mention of the removed --reply=no
option, to the similar in this context --no-clobber.
* src/sort.c: SI and IEC suffixes can now be mixed when --human-numeric.
Bernhard Voelker [Sat, 10 Aug 2013 15:19:06 +0000 (17:19 +0200)]
doc: clarify when seq ends
* doc/coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Add a sentence clarifying
that seq terminates when LAST becomes smaller than the current number
plus INCREMENT.
* src/seq.c (usage): Likewise.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15068