Log message:
coreutils: Update to 9.0
Changelog:
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.0 (2021-09-24) [stable]
** Bug fixes
chmod -v no longer misreports modes of dangling symlinks.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
cp -a --attributes-only now never removes destination files,
even if the destination files are hardlinked, or the source
is a non regular file.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
csplit --suppress-matched now elides the last matched line
when a specific number of pattern matches are performed.
[bug introduced with the --suppress-matched feature in coreutils-8.22]
df no longer outputs duplicate remote mounts in the presence of bind mounts.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
df no longer mishandles command-line args that it pre-mounts
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.29]
du no longer crashes on XFS file systems when the directory hierarchy is
heavily changed during the run.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.25]
env -S no longer crashes when given unusual whitespace characters
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.30]
expr no longer mishandles unmatched \(...\) in regular expressions.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
ls no longer crashes when printing the SELinux context for unstatable files.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.91]
mkdir -m no longer mishandles modes more generous than the umask.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
nl now handles single character --section-delimiter arguments,
by assuming a second ':' character has been specified, as specified by POSIX.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
pr again adjusts tabs in input, to maintain alignment in multi column output.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.9]
rm no longer skips an extra file when the removal of an empty directory fails.
[bug introduced by the rewrite to use fts in coreutils-8.0]
split --number=K/N will again correctly split chunk K of N to stdout.
Previously a chunk starting after 128KiB, output the wrong part of the file.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.26]
tail -f no longer overruns a stack buffer when given too many files
to follow and ulimit -n exceeds 1024.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
tr no longer crashes when using --complement with certain
invalid combinations of case character classes.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
basenc --base64 --decode no longer silently discards decoded characters
on (1024*5) buffer boundaries
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.31]
** Changes in behavior
cp and install now default to copy-on-write (COW) if available.
cp, install and mv now use the copy_file_range syscall if available.
Also, they use lseek+SEEK_HOLE rather than ioctl+FS_IOC_FIEMAP on sparse
files, as lseek is simpler and more portable.
On GNU/Linux systems, ls no longer issues an error message on a
directory merely because it was removed. This reverts a change
that was made in release 8.32.
ptx -T no longer attempts to substitute old-fashioned TeX escapes
for 8-bit non-ASCII alphabetic characters. TeX indexes should
instead use '\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}' or equivalent.
stat will use decomposed (major,minor) device numbers in its default format.
This is less ambiguous, and more consistent with ls.
sum [-r] will output a file name, even if only a single name is passed.
This is consistent with sum -s, cksum, and other sum(1) implementations.
** New Features
cksum now supports the -a (--algorithm) option to select any
of the existing sum, md5sum, b2sum, sha*sum implementations etc.
cksum now subsumes all of these programs, and coreutils
will introduce no future standalone checksum utility.
cksum -a now supports the 'sm3' argument, to use the SM3 digest algorithm.
cksum --check now supports auto detecting the digest type to use,
when verifying tagged format checksums.
expr and factor now support bignums on all platforms.
ls --classify now supports the "always", "auto", or \
"never" flags,
to support only outputting classifier characters if connected to a tty.
ls now accepts the --sort=width option, to sort by file name width.
This is useful to more compactly organize the default vertical column output.
ls now accepts the --zero option, to terminate each output line with
NUL instead of newline.
nl --line-increment can now take a negative number to decrement the count.
stat supports more formats for representing decomposed device numbers.
%Hd,%Ld and %Hr,%Lr will output major,minor device numbers and device types
respectively. %d corresponds to st_dev and %r to std_rdev.
** Improvements
cat --show-ends will now show \r\n as ^M$. Previously the \r was taken
literally, thus overwriting the first character in the line with '$'.
cksum [-a crc] is now up to 4 times faster by using a slice by 8 algorithm,
and at least 8 times faster where pclmul instructions are supported.
A new --debug option will indicate if pclmul is being used.
md5sum --check now supports checksum files with CRLF line endings.
This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum.
df now recognizes these file systems as remote:
acfs, coda, fhgfs, gpfs, ibrix, ocfs2, and vxfs.
rmdir now clarifies the error if a symlink_to_dir/ has not been traversed.
This is the case on GNU/Linux systems, where the trailing slash is ignored.
stat and tail now know about the "devmem", "exfat", \
"secretmem", "vboxsf",
and "zonefs" file system types. stat -f -c%T now reports the file system
type, and tail -f uses polling for "vboxsf" and inotify for the others.
timeout now supports sub-second timeouts on macOS.
wc is up to 5 times faster when counting only new line characters,
where avx2 instructions are supported.
A new --debug option will indicate if avx2 is being used.
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Log message:
coreutils: Update to 8.32
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.32 (2020-03-05) [stable]
** Bug fixes
cp now copies /dev/fd/N correctly on platforms like Solaris where
it is a character-special file whose minor device number is N.
[bug introduced in fileutils-4.1.6]
dd conv=fdatasync no longer reports a "Bad file descriptor" error
when fdatasync is interrupted, and dd now retries interrupted calls
to close, fdatasync, fstat and fsync instead of incorrectly
reporting an "Interrupted system call" error.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-6.0]
df now correctly parses the /proc/self/mountinfo file for unusual entries
like ones with '\r' in a field value ("mount -t tmpfs tmpfs \
/foo$'\r'bar"),
when the source field is empty ('mount -t tmpfs "" /mnt'), and when the
filesystem type contains characters like a blank which need escaping.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-8.24 with the introduction of reading
the /proc/self/mountinfo file]
factor again outputs immediately when stdout is a tty but stdin is not.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
ln works again on old systems without O_DIRECTORY support (like Solaris 10),
and on systems where symlink ("x", ".") fails with errno \
== EINVAL
(like Solaris 10 and Solaris 11).
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.31]
rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty now works correctly for directories
that fail to be removed due to permission issues. Previously the exit status
was reversed, failing for non empty and succeeding for empty directories.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.11]
'shuf -r -n 0 file' no longer mistakenly reads from standard input.
[bug introduced with the --repeat feature in coreutils-8.22]
split no longer reports a "output file suffixes exhausted" error
when the specified number of files is evenly divisible by 10, 16, 26,
for --numeric, --hex, or default alphabetic suffixes respectively.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
seq no longer prints an extra line under certain circumstances (such as
'seq -f "%g " 1000000 1000000').
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.10]
** Changes in behavior
Several programs now check that numbers end properly. For example,
'du -d 1x' now reports an error instead of silently ignoring the 'x'.
Affected programs and options include du -d, expr's numeric operands
on non-GMP builds, install -g and -o, ls's TABSIZE environment
variable, mknod b and c, ptx -g and -w, shuf -n, and sort --batch-size
and --parallel.
date now parses military time zones in accordance with common usage:
"A" to "M" are equivalent to UTC+1 to UTC+12
"N" to "Y" are equivalent to UTC-1 to UTC-12
"Z" is "zulu" time (UTC).
For example, 'date -d "09:00B" is now equivalent to 9am in UTC+2 \
time zone.
Previously, military time zones were parsed according to the obsolete
rfc822, with their value negated (e.g., "B" was equivalent to UTC-2).
[The old behavior was introduced in sh-utils 2.0.15 ca. 1999, predating
coreutils package.]
ls issues an error message on a removed directory, on GNU/Linux systems.
Previously no error and no entries were output, and so indistinguishable
from an empty directory, with default ls options.
uniq no longer uses strcoll() to determine string equivalence,
and so will operate more efficiently and consistently.
** New Features
ls now supports the --time=birth option to display and sort by
file creation time, where available.
od --skip-bytes now can use lseek even if the input is not a regular
file, greatly improving performance in some cases.
stat(1) supports a new --cached= option, used on systems with statx(2)
to control cache coherency of file system attributes,
useful on network file systems.
** Improvements
stat and ls now use the statx() system call where available, which can
operate more efficiently by only retrieving requested attributes.
stat and tail now know about the "binderfs", "dma-buf-fs", \
"erofs",
"ppc-cmm-fs", and "z3fold" file systems.
stat -f -c%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f uses inotify.
** Build-related
gzip-compressed tarballs are distributed once again
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