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2022-04-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        version 9.1
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2022-04-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: avoid unicode errors in texi conversion
        Avoid "Unicode character U+#1 not supported, sorry" error
        when converting from texi to dvi or pdf.

        * doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Avoid the @U{XXXX}
        texi representation, as even though info and html can represent
        these characters directly, there are conversion errors
        for pdf and dvi.  Instead use the more abstract shell
        $'\uXXXX' representation.

2022-04-14  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: copy: fix build on macos 10.12
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Handle the case where CLONE_NOOWNERCOPY
        is not defined.
        Reported by Jeffrey Walton

2022-04-13  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tail: detect closed stdout on Solaris
        * src/tail.c (check_output_alive): Use poll() on Solaris.
        Also handle POLLHUP, which Solaris returns in this case.
        * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Use `head -n2` rather than `sed 2q`
        as Solaris sed does not exit in this case.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

        maint: syntax-check: fix preprocessor indentation
        * gl/lib/targetdir.h: Keep '#' at start of line.

2022-04-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp,mv,install: omit an ‘inline’
        * gl/lib/targetdir.c (target_directory_operand):
        Omit unnecessary ‘inline’.

        cp,mv,install: improve EACCES targetdir messages
        This improves on the fix for --target-directory diagnostics bugs on
        Solaris 11.  Problem reported by Bruno Haible and Pádraig Brady; see:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2022-04/msg00044.html
        Also, omit some unnecessary stat calls.
        * gl/lib/targetdir.c (target_directory_operand): If !O_DIRECTORY,
        do not bother calling open if stat failed with errno != EOVERFLOW.
        Rename is_a_dir to try_to_open since that’s closer to what it means.
        If the open failed with EACCES and we used O_SEARCH, look at stat
        results to see whether errno should be ENOTDIR for better diagnostics.
        Treat EOVERFLOW as an “I don’t know whether it’s a directory and
        there’s no easy way to find out” rather than as an error.

        cp,mv,install: avoid excess stat calls on non-GNU
        * gl/lib/targetdir.c (target_directory_operand): New arg ST.
        All callers changed.
        * src/cp.c (do_copy):
        * src/mv.c (main):
        Avoid unnecessary stat call if target_directory_operand already
        got the status.

        cp,mv,install: modularize targetdir
        Move target directory code out of system.h to a new targetdir module.
        This doesn’t change functionality.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add targetdir.
        * src/cp.c, src/install.c, src/mv.c: Include targetdir.h.
        * src/system.h (must_be_working_directory, target_directory_operand)
        (targetdir_dirfd_valid): Move from here ...
        * gl/lib/targetdir.c, gl/lib/targetdir.h, gl/modules/targetdir:
        ... to these new files.

2022-04-13  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cp,mv,install: avoid EACCES with non directory destination
        * src/system.h (target_directory_operand): Also check with stat()
        on systems with O_SEARCH, to avoid open("file", O_SEARCH|O_DIRECTORY)
        returning EACCES rather than ENOTDIR, which was seen on Solaris 11.4
        when operating on non dirs without execute bit set.
        * NEWS: Remove related bug entry, as that issue was only introduced
        after coreutils v9.0 was released.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

        sync: support syncing files on cygwin
        * src/sync.c (sync_arg): Similarly to AIX, Cygwin 2.9.0
        was seen to need write access to have permission to sync a file.

        tests: cygwin: handle ENOENT from execvp(".")
        * tests/misc/env.sh: Verify with another command that
        execvp() doesn not return ENOENT, before testing the
        exit code from the command in question.
        * tests/misc/nice-fail.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/stdbuf.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/timeout-parameters.sh: Likewise.

        tests: env-S.pl: unset cygwin hardwired env vars
        * tests/misc/env-S.pl: Unset SYSTEMROOT and WINDIR.

2022-04-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: md5sum: fix false failures on cygwin
        * tests/misc/md5sum-newline.pl: Avoid binary '*' tags when
        comparing checksums.
        * tests/misc/md5sum-bsd.sh: Avoid binary '*' tags so that we correctly
        trigger the ambiguity test.
        Reported by Bruno Haible

2022-04-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: b2sum.sh: fix false failure on cygwin
        * tests/misc/b2sum.sh: Avoid binary '*' tags when comparing checksums.
        Reported by Bruno Haible

        tests: dircolors.pl: avoid false failure with TERM=dumb
        * tests/Coreutils.pm: Ensure an unset $TERM env var,
        which is required on perl 5.22.2 on Solaris 11 OpenIndiana at least,
        where TERM was being reset to 'dumb'.
        Reported By Bruno Haible.

        tests: printf-mb.sh: fix false failure with french translations
        * tests/misc/printf-mb.sh: As per commit 04148c99c,
        adjust non C warnings before comparison, to those of LC_MESSAGES=C.
        Reported by Adam Sampson

2022-04-10  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: stty.sh: skip on systems without perl
        * init.cfg (stty_reversible_init_): Add require_perl_
        to ensure we skip rather than error, without perl.

2022-04-09  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cp,mv,install: avoid opening non directory destination
        commit v9.0-66-ge2daa8f79 introduced an issue, for example
        where cp could hang when overwriting a destination fifo,
        when it would try to open() the fifo on systems
        like Solaris 10 that didn't support the O_DIRECTORY flag.

        This is still racy on such systems, but only in the
        case where a directory is replaced by a fifo in
        the small window between stat() and open().

        * src/system.h (target_directory_operand): On systems without
        O_DIRECTORY, ensure the file is a directory before attempting to open().
        * tests/cp/special-f.sh: Protect cp with timeout(1),
        as cp was seen to hang when trying to overwrite an existing fifo.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2022-04-09  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: install --compare: clarify mode of operation
        * doc/coreutils.texi (install invocation): For the --compare option,
        clarify that the ownership or permissions of the source files don't
        matter.  Also don't imply --owner or --group need to be specified
        for --compare to be effective.
        * src/install.c (usage): Add more detail on what's being compared.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/50889

2022-04-08  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: remove older ChangeLog items
        * Makefile.am: Update the oldest documented version
        to 8.27 which is now about 5 years old.

2022-04-08  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: remove obsolete statat gnulib module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove statat.

2022-04-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gnulib: Update to latest
        * src/copy.c: Replace deprecated {l,}statat(), with fstatat().
        * src/cp.c: Likewise.
        * src/install.c: Likewise.
        * src/remove.c: Likewise.

2022-04-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        factor: improve support on RISCV and loongson
        * src/longlong.h: Pull in RISCV fix and loongarch64 support from
        https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/log/tip/longlong.h

2022-04-03  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: describe `dd iseek` as a feature not a change
        * NEWS: Move description from "Changes in behavior"
        to "New features".

2022-04-03  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        ls: avoid expensive capability lookup by default
        Lookup of file-based capabilities adds 30% overhead to the common
        case of ls --color usage.  Since the use of file capabilities is
        very rare, it doesn't make sense to pay this cost in the common
        case.  It's better to use getcap to inspect capabilities, and the
        following run shows only 8 files using capabilities on my fedora
        35 distro (14 years after the feature was introduced to the linux
        kernel).

          $ getcap -r /
          /usr/bin/arping = cap_net_raw+p
          /usr/bin/clockdiff = cap_net_raw+p
          /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon = cap_ipc_lock+ep
          /usr/bin/gnome-shell = cap_sys_nice+ep
          /usr/bin/newgidmap = cap_setgid+ep
          /usr/bin/newuidmap = cap_setuid+ep
          /usr/sbin/mtr-packet = cap_net_raw+ep
          /usr/sbin/suexec = cap_setgid,cap_setuid+ep

        * src/dircolors.hin: Set "CAPABILITY" to "00", to indicate unused.
        * src/ls.c: Set the default C_CAP color to not colored.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

2022-04-03  Ville Skyttä  <ville.skytta@iki.fi>

        dircolors: colorize backup files with bright black
        * src/dircolors.hin: Add patterns for suffixes for "backup files".
        The color used is so they stand out less than non-backup files,
        and bright black works well on both light and dark backgrounds.
        * THANKS.in: Remove duplicate.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54521

2022-03-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: join: clarify that -e only effective for -12jo fields
        * src/join.c (usage): Clarify that -e is not sufficient
        to enable output of missing fields from one of the inputs.
        Rather the -12jo options are required to explicitly
        enable output of those fields.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54625

2022-03-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: sync latest bootstrap from gnulib
        * bootstrap: Should have updated this with the last gnulib update.

2022-03-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: improve recent printf test
        * tests/misc/printf-mb.sh: Given we shortcut the single char
        (invalid multi-byte) case, add a case to ensure we're correctly
        checking the return from mbrtowc().

2022-03-19  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        printf: support printing the numeric value of multi-byte chars
        * src/printf.c (STRTOX): Update to support multi-byte chars.
        * tests/misc/printf-mb.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54388

2022-03-18  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: move build-related NEWS item to its own section
        * NEWS: Follow other Build-related patterns in NEWS.

2022-03-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: test: clarify that -rwx don't just check perm bits
        * src/test.c (usage): State that -rwx is determined by
        user access, rather than permission bits.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Access permission tests): Likewise.
        * man/test.x [SEE ALSO]: access(2).
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54338

2022-03-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: address syntax-check issues in recent commit
        * cfg.mk (sc_die_EXIT_FAILURE): Generalize to match any EXIT_ define,
        and also relax to ignore error() usage with ternary operator.
        * src/chroot.c (main): Use () to avoid the sc_error_quotes check.

2022-03-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        stat: only automount with --cached=never
        Revert to the default behavior before the introduction of statx().

        * src/stat.c (do_stat): Set AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT without --cached=never.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Mention the automount
        behavior with --cached=never.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54287

2022-03-07  Rohan Sable  <rsable@redhat.com>

        ls: avoid triggering automounts
        statx() has different defaults wrt automounting
        compared to stat() or lstat(), so explicitly
        set the AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress that behavior,
        and avoid unintended operations or potential errors.

        * src/ls.c (do_statx): Pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to avoid this behavior.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54286

2022-03-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: ensure AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT is defined
        update gnulib submodule to latest,
        where this is the only change

2022-03-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        date: fix newly-introduced %%-N bug
        * src/date.c (adjust_resolution): Don’t mishandle %%-N.
        * tests/misc/date.pl (pct-pct): New test.

2022-02-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        chown: warn about USER.GROUP
        Suggested by Dan Jacobson (Bug#44770).
        * src/chown.c, src/chroot.c (main):
        Issue warnings if obsolete USER.GROUP notation is present.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2022-02-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        fmt: fix invalid multi-byte splitting on macOS
        On macOS, isspace(0x85) returns true,
        which results in splitting within multi-byte characters.

        * src/fmt.c (get_line): s/isspace/c_isspace/.
        * tests/fmt/non-space.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/54124

2022-02-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: improve compat with macOS
        * tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: Only the en_US.iso8859-1 form
        is accepted on macOS 10.15.7 at least.  GNU/Linux also
        accepts ISO-8859-1 (and canonicalizes the charmap to this).

2022-02-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        dd: counts ending in "B" now count bytes
        This implements my suggestion in Bug#54112.
        * src/dd.c (usage): Document the change.
        (parse_integer, scanargs): Implement the change.
        Omit some now-obsolete checks for invalid flags.
        * tests/dd/bytes.sh: Test the new behavior, while retaining
        checks for the now-obsolete usage.
        * tests/dd/nocache_eof.sh: Avoid now-obsolete usage.

2022-02-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        dd: improve doc relative to POSIX
        * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Improve documentation,
        clarifying whether features are extensions to POSIX.

        dd: support iseek= and oseek=
        Alias iseek=N to skip=N, oseek=N to seek=N (Bug#45648).
        * src/dd.c (scanargs): Parse iseek= and oseek=.
        * tests/dd/skip-seek.pl (sk-seek5): New test case.

2022-02-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: avoid unnecessary buffer allocation
        Do not allocate I/O buffer if copy_file_range suffices.
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy, lseek_copy): Buffer arg is now char **
        instead of char *, and buffer is now allocated only if needed.
        All uses changed.

2022-02-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2022-02-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: env: fix man page reference of exec(2) to exec(3p)
        * man/env.x: Change exec() reference from section 2 to 3p.

2022-02-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: use bold style for man page references
        It's more common to use bold style than not,
        for references to other man pages.
        Ideally each man page renderer would highlight references,
        but currently some rely on styles in the page itself.

        * man/help2man: Implement a --bold-refs option that
        will mark up references like "name(1)" with bold
        style around the "name" component.
        * man/local.mk: Pass --bold-refs to our help2man unless disabled.
        * configure.ac: Add a --disable-bold-man-page-references option.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53977

2022-02-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        dircolors: speed up processing of TERM entries
        * src/dircolors.c (main): Avoid glob matching
        when we've already matched in a group of {COLOR,}TERM entries.

2022-02-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        dircolors: consider COLORTERM as well as TERM env vars
        COLORTERM is an environment used usually to expose truecolor support in
        terminal emulators.  Therefore support matches on that in addition
        to TERM.  Also set the default COLORTERM match pattern so that
        we apply colors if COLORTERM is any value.

        This implicitly supports a terminal like "foot"
        without a need for an explicit TERM entry.

        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.
        * src/dircolors.c (main): Match COLORTERM like we do for TERM.
        * src/dircolors.hin: Add default config to match any COLORTERM.
        * tests/misc/dircolors.pl: Add test cases.

2022-02-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        tr: mention multibyte problem in man page
        * man/tr.x: Document tr problem.

        tr: improve multibyte etc. doc
        Problem reported by Dan Jacobson (Bug#48248).
        * doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Improve documentation for
        tr's failure to support multibyte characters POSIX-style.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation), src/tr.c (usage):
        Use terminology closer to POSIX's.

2022-02-13  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        dircolors: add --print-ls-colors to display colored entries
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (dircolors invocation): Describe the new
        --print-ls-colors option.
        * src/dircolors.c (print_ls_colors): A new global to select
        between shell or terminal output.
        (append_entry): A new function refactored from dc_parse_stream()
        to append the entry in the appropriate format.
        (dc_parse_stream): Adjust to call append_entry().
        * tests/misc/dircolors.pl: Add test cases.

2022-02-13  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        chown,chgrp: reinstate numeric id output in -v messages
        since gnulib commit ff208d546a,
        related to coreutils commit v9.0-143-gabde15969
        we no longer maintain numeric IDs through chopt->{user,group}_name.
        Therefore we need to adjust to ensure tests/chown/basic.sh passes.

        * src/chown-core.c (uid_to_str, gid_to_str): New helper functions
        to convert numeric id to string.
        (change_file_owner): Use the above new functions to pass
        numeric ids to describe_change().

2022-02-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        sort: fix several version-sort problems
        This also affects ls -v in some corner cases.
        Problems reported by Michael Debertol <https://bugs.gnu.org/49239>.
        While looking into this, I spotted some more areas where the
        code and documentation did not agree, or where the documentation
        was unclear.  In some cases I changed the code; in others
        the documentation.  I hope things are nailed down better now.
        * doc/sort-version.texi: Distinguish more carefully between
        characters and bytes.  Say that non-identical strings can
        compare equal, since they now can.  Improve readability in
        various ways.  Make it clearer that a suffix can be the
        entire string.
        * src/ls.c (cmp_version): Fall back on strcmp if filevercmp
        reports equality, since filevercmp is no longer a total order.
        * src/sort.c (keycompare): Use filenvercmp, to treat NULs correctly.
        * tests/misc/ls-misc.pl (v_files):
        Adjust test to match new behavior.
        * tests/misc/sort-version.sh: Add tests for stability,
        and for sorting with NUL bytes.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2022-02-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: avoid using "[" is URLS in --help output
        * src/system.h (emit_ancillary_info): While supported if entered
          manually, the "[" character is not highlighted as part of a
          URL by default in terminals, so avoid using it.
          Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53946

        doc: adust --help, --version alignment
        * src/system.h: Adjust the alignment of the --help
        and --version option descriptions, to start at column 21.
        This better aligns with the descriptions of most commands,
        and also aligns with the minimum column a description must
        start at to ensure a blank line is not output when a description
        follows an option on a line by itself.

        doc: rmdir: improve --help formatting
        * src/rmdir.c (usage): Move description to column 21,
        so that a --long-option on its own line without a
        trailing description, doesn't have an erroneous blank
        line inserted between the option and description.
        Also group descriptions with blank lines rather than indents,
        so that man pages don't have erroneous blank lines
        added within the description.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53946

        doc: ls: reference dircolors(1) from --help
        * src/ls.c (usage): s/dircolors/dircolors(1)/.
        * man/ls.x [SEE ALSO]: Reference dircolors(1).
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53946

        doc: ls: improve --help formatting
        * src/ls.c (usage): Use blank lines to group multi-line
        option descriptions, rather than indenting.
        This results in more consistent alignment of descriptions,
        and also avoids erroneous new lines in generated in man pages.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/53946

2022-02-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: improve version-sort doc
        * doc/coreutils.texi, doc/sort-version.texi:
        Capitalize “Coreutils”.
        * doc/sort-version.texi: Don’t emphasize natural sort so much,
        since Coreutils has just version sort.
        Use the term “lexicographic” instead of “alphabetic” or “standard”.
        Suggest combining ‘V’ with ‘b’, and show why ‘b’ is needed.
        Use shorter titles for sections, as GNU Emacs displays info poorly
        when titles are too long to fit in a line.
        Use @samp instead of @code for samples of data.
        Do not use @samp{@code{...}}; @samp{...} should suffice and
        double-nesting looks bad with Emacs.
        Omit blank lines in examples that would not be present
        in actual shell sessions.
        Quote with `` and '', not with " or with '.
        Mention dpkg --compare-versions more prominently.
        Don’t rely on "\n" being equivalent to "\\n" in shell args.
        Prefer Unicode name for hyphen-minus.

2022-02-07  Christian Hesse  <mail@eworm.de>

        dircolors: highlight .avif as image
        This add highlighting for AV1 Image File Format (AVIF):
        https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/

        * src/dircolors.hin: Highlight .avif as image.

2022-02-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        date: test against bug#50115
        * tests/misc/date.pl: Add test.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2022-02-05  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: fix somewhat ambiguous date format representation
        * doc/coreutils.texi (date invocation): Remove @var{...} usage,
        as that capitalizes in the representation and thus somewhat
        ambiguates the format wrt Month and Minute.  This also avoids
        a syntax check failure about redundant capitalization in @var{}.

2022-02-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        date: improve doc
        Problem reported by Dan Jacobson (Bug#51288).
        * doc/coreutils.texi (date invocation, Setting the time)
        (Options for date):
        * src/date.c (usage): Improve doc.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2022-02-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        id: print groups of listed name
        Problem reported by Vladimir D. Seleznev (Bug#53631).
        * src/id.c (main): Do not canonicalize user name before
        deciding what groups the user belongs to.

2022-02-01  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: add NEWS entry for recent cksum change
        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Add entry for commit v9.0-92-ga42a03913.

2022-02-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: suppress bogus noreturn warnings
        * configure.ac: Move the single-binary code before the
        gcc-warnings code, so that the latter can depend on the former.
        Suppress -Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn with single binaries,
        to avoid diagnostics like the following:
          src/expr.c: In function 'single_binary_main_expr':
          error: function might be candidate for attribute 'noreturn'
        Problem reported by Pádraig Brady in:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2022-01/msg00061.html

        tr: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/tr.c (main): Use main_exit, not return, in a couple of
        places missed last time.

        chgrp: fix typo in previous change
        * src/chgrp.c (main): Use main_exit, not exit.

        maint: mark some _Noreturn functions
        * src/basenc.c (finish_and_exit, do_encode, do_decode):
        * src/comm.c (compare_files):
        * src/tsort.c (tsort):
        * src/uptime.c (uptime):
        Mark with _Noreturn.  Otherwise, unoptimized compilations may warn
        that the calling renamed-main function doesn't return a value,
        when !lint and when single-binary.

        df: fix memory leak
        * src/df.c (devlist_free): Remove.
        (filter_mount_list): Free all of devlist, instead of merely
        the entries in devlist_table.

2022-01-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: cut: avoid exporting recently added variable
        * src/cut.c: Make output_delimiter_default static,
        as identified by `make syntax-check`.

2022-01-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: pacify gcc -flto -Wmaybe-uninitialized
        * gl/lib/xdectoint.c (__xnumtoint): Tell gcc that ‘error’
        does not return here.
        * gl/modules/xdectoint (Depends-on): Add stdbool, verify.

        dd: do not access uninitialized
        * src/dd.c (parse_integer): Avoid undefined behavior
        that accesses an uninitialized ‘n’ when e == LONGINT_INVALID.
        Return more-accurate error code when INTMAX_MAX < n.

        uptime: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/uptime.c (uptime): Exit here ...
        (main): ... instead of here.

        uniq: remove IF_LINT
        * src/uniq.c (check_file): Remove a no-longer-needed IF_LINT.

        unexpand: remove IF_LINT
        * src/unexpand.c (unexpand): Remove a no-longer-needed IF_LINT.

        pr: remove IF_LINT
        * src/pr.c (read_line): Remove a no-longer-needed IF_LINT.

        truncate: simplify
        * src/truncate.c (do_ftruncate): Check != 0 instead of == -1.
        Avoid a cast.
        (main): Use C99 style decls after statements.
        Simplify ‘open’ logic.

2022-01-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        shred: remove IF_LINT
        * src/shred.c (dopass): Remove a no-longer-needed IF_LINT.

        (read_line): Remove an IF_LINT; no longer needed with
        today’s GCC.

2022-01-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        pr: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/pr.c (main): Remove an IF_LINT.
        Use main_exit rather than return.

        pinky: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/pinky.c (short_pinky): exit instead of freeing.

        paste: remove IF_LINT
        * src/paste.c (paste_parallel): Remove no-longer-needed IF_LINT.

        hostname: simplify
        * src/hostname.c (sethostname): Provide a substitute on all
        platforms, to simplify the mainline code.
        (main): Simplify.  Remove an IF_LINT.
        Use main_exit rather than return.

        factor: remove IF_LINT
        * src/factor.c (factor_using_squfof) [USE_SQUFOF]:
        Use plain assert (...), not IF_LINT (assert (...)).
        This code is currently never compiled or executed,
        so this is merely a symbolic cleanup.

        expand: remove IF_LINT
        * src/expand.c (expand): Remove no-longer-needed IF_LINT.

        env: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/env.c (unset_envvars): Remove IF_LINT code.
        (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        md5sum: remove IF_LINTs
        * src/digest.c (digest_check): Remove IF_LINTs that are no longer
        needed, as GCC has gotten smarter since 2008.

        df: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/df.c (print_table, main) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        date: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/date.c (main) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        Use main_exit, not return.

        cut: simplify and remove an IF_LINT
        * src/cut.c (enum operating_mode, operating_mode)
        (output_delimiter_specified, cut_stream):
        Remove; no longer needed.
        (output_delimiter_default): New static var.  Code can now
        use ‘output_delimiter_string != output_delimiter_default’
        instead of ‘output_delimiter_specified’.
        (cut_file): New arg CUT_STREAM.  Caller changed.
        (main): Simplify.  Coalesce duplicate code.  Redo to avoid need
        for IF_LINT, or for the static var.  No need to xstrdup optarg.

        cut: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/set-fields.c (reset_fields): Remove, as it’s not needed for
        -fsanitize=leak even when ‘lint’ is defined.  All uses removed.

        cp: simplify GCC pacification
        * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Remove IF_LINT code that is
        no longer needed, as GCC has apparently gotten smarter since 2008.

        chown: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/chgrp.c, src/chown.c (main) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        Use main_exit, not return.

        basenc: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/basenc.c (finish_and_exit): New function.
        (do_encode, do_decode): Use it.  Accept new INFILE arg.  Remove
        no-longer-needed IF_LINT code.  Exit when done.  Caller changed.

        test: simplify gcc pacification
        * src/test.c (get_mtime) [lint]: Omit ifdef lint code that is no
        longer needed, as GCC has gotten smarter since 2005.

        tail: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        Also, close a no-longer-needed file descriptor when falling
        back from inotify.
        * src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Return void, not bool.  Exit
        on fatal error, or on successful completion.  Accept an extra
        argument pointing to a hash table that the caller should free on
        non-fatal error; this simplifies cleanup.  Don’t bother setting
        errno when returning.  Caller changed.
        (main): Omit no-longer-needed IF_LINT code.  Close inotify
        descriptor if inotify fails; this fixes a file descriptor leak and
        means we needn’t call inotify_rm_watch.  Use main_exit, not return.

        tac: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/tac.c (main) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        Use main_exit, not return.

        shuf: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/shuf.c (main) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        Use main_exit, not return.

        numfmt: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/numfmt.c (main) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        Use main_exit, not return.

        mktemp: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/mktemp.c (main) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        Use main_exit, not return.

        dd: simplify -fsanitize=leak pacification
        * src/dd.c (cleanup) [lint]: Omit unnecessary cleanup.
        (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        cp: simplify cp/install/ln/mv pacification
        * src/copy.c (dest_info_free, src_info_free) [lint]:
        Remove.  All uses removed.
        (copy_internal): Pacify only Clang and Coverity; GCC doesn’t need it.
        * src/cp-hash.c (forget_all) [lint]: Remove.  All uses removed.
        * src/cp.c, src/install.c, src/ln.c, src/mv.c (main):
        Use main_exit, not return.

        chmod: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/chmod.c (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        yes: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/yes.c (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        tsort: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/tsort.c (detect_loop): Free removed successor.

        sort: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/sort.c (pipe_fork, keycompare, sort, main):
        Remove lint code that no longer seems to be needed.
        (sort): Unconditionally compile ifdef lint code that is needed
        to free storage even when not linting.
        (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        split: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/split.c (lines_rr): New arg FILESP.  All uses changed.
        (main): Use main_exit, not return.  Omit unnecessary alignfree.

        ptx: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/ptx.c (unescape_string): Rename from copy_unescaped_string,
        and unescape the string in place.  Callers changed.  This way,
        we needn’t allocate storage and thus needn’t worry about
        -fsanitizer=leak.

        seq: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/seq.c (seq_fast): If successful, exit rather than returning true.
        Callers changed.
        (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        tsort: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/tsort.c (struct item.balance): Now signed char to save space.
        (struct item.printed): New member.
        (new_item): Initialize k->printed to false.  Simplify via xzalloc.
        (scan_zeros): Use k->printed rather than nulling out string.
        (tsort): Move exiting code here ...
        (main): ... from here.
        (tsort) [lint]: Omit no-longer-needed code.  Instead, set head->printed.

        tr: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/tr.c (main): Use main_exit, not return.

        stat: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/stat.c (main):  Use main_exit, not return.

        comm: pacify -fsanitizer=leak
        * src/comm.c (compare_files): Move exiting code here ...
        (main): ... from here, to pacify gcc -fsanitize=leak.

        expr: lint cleanup, and introducing main_exit
        This introduces a new macro main_exit, which is useful
        for pacifying gcc -fsanitizer=lint and in some cases
        means we can remove some ‘IF_LINT’ and ‘ifdef lint’ code.
        * src/expr.c (main): Use main_exit, not return.
        (docolon): Omit an IF_LINT that GCC no longer needs.
        * src/system.h (main_exit): New macro.

2022-01-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: use more exact selection of digest algorithms
        Use more constrained argument matching
        to improve forward compatibility and robustness.

        For example it's better that `cksum -a sha3` is _not_
        equivalent to `cksum -a sha386`, so that a user
        specifying `-a sha3` on an older cksum would not be surprised.

        Also argmatch() is used when parsing tags from lines like:
        SHA3 (filename) = abcedf....
        so it's more robust that older cksum instances to fail
        earlier in the parsing process, when parsing output from
        possible future cksum implementations that might support SHA3.

        * src/digest.c (algorithm_from_tag): Use argmatch_exact()
        to ensure we don't match abbreviated algorithms.
        (main): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: Add a test case.

2022-01-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        To provide argmatch_exact() that does not
        use abbreviated matching, to be used by cksum.

2022-01-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        mv: when installing to dir use dir-relative names
        When the destination for mv is a directory, use functions like openat
        to access the destination files, when such functions are available.
        This should be more efficient and should avoid some race conditions.
        Likewise for 'install'.
        * src/cp.c (must_be_working_directory, target_directory_operand)
        (target_dirfd_valid): Move from here ...
        * src/system.h: ... to here, so that install and mv can use them.
        Make them inline so GCC doesn’t complain.
        * src/install.c (lchown) [HAVE_LCHOWN]: Remove; no longer needed.
        (need_copy, copy_file, change_attributes, change_timestamps)
        (install_file_in_file, install_file_in_dir):
        New args for directory-relative names.  All uses changed.
        Continue to pass full names as needed, for diagnostics and for
        lower-level functions that do not support directory-relative names.
        (install_file_in_dir): Update *TARGET_DIRFD as needed.
        (main): Handle target-directory in the new, cp-like way.
        * src/mv.c (remove_trailing_slashes): Remove static var; now local.
        (do_move): New args for directory-relative names.  All uses changed.
        Continue to pass full names as needed, for diagnostics and for
        lower-level functions that do not support directory-relative names.
        (movefile): Remove; no longer needed.
        (main): Handle target-directory in the new, cp-like way.
        * tests/install/basic-1.sh:
        * tests/mv/diag.sh: Adjust to match new diagnostic wording.

        cp: fix comment typo

2022-01-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: NEWS: explain _why_ copy_file_range() is used
        * NEWS: Mention why we're making the change in behavior in cat(1).

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        To fix a syntax-check false failure

2022-01-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        dd: synchronize output after write errors
        Problem reported by Sworddragon (Bug#51345).
        * src/dd.c (cleanup): Synchronize output unless dd has been interrupted.
        (synchronize_output): New function, split out from dd_copy.
        Update conversions_mask so synchronization is done at most once.
        (main): Do not die with the output file open, since we want to be
        able to synchronize it before exiting.  Synchronize output before
        exiting.

        dd: output final progress before syncing
        Problem reported by Sworddragon (Bug#51482).
        * src/dd.c (reported_w_bytes): New var.
        (print_xfer_stats): Set it.
        (dd_copy): Print a final progress report if useful before
        synchronizing output data.

2022-01-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cat: prefer copy_file_range to read+write
        * src/cat.c (copy_cat): New function.
        (main): Use it.

        csplit: improve integer overflow checking
        * src/csplit.c: Prefer signed integers to unsigned for sizes
        when either will do.  Check for some unlikely overflows.
        (INCR_SIZE): Remove; no longer used.
        (free_buffer): Also free the arg, simplifying callers.
        (get_new_buffer): Use xpalloc instead of computing new
        size by hand.  Add ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC.
        (delete_all_files, close_output_file):
        If unlink fails with ENOENT, treat it as success.
        (close_output_file): If unlink fails, decrement count anyway.
        (parse_repeat_count, parse_patterns): Check for int overflow.
        (check_format_conv_type): Use signed format.

        maint: simplify memory alignment
        Use the new Gnulib modules alignalloc and xalignalloc
        to simplify some memory allocation.
        Also, fix some unlikely integer overflow problems.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add alignalloc, xalignalloc.
        * src/cat.c, src/copy.c, src/dd.c, src/shred.c, src/split.c:
        Include alignalloc.h.
        * src/cat.c (main):
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg):
        * src/dd.c (alloc_ibuf, alloc_obuf):
        * src/shred.c (dopass):
        * src/split.c (main):
        Use alignalloc/xalignalloc/alignfree instead of doing page
        alignment by hand.
        * src/cat.c (main):
        Check for integer overflow in page size calculations.
        * src/dd.c (INPUT_BLOCK_SLOP, OUTPUT_BLOCK_SLOP, MAX_BLOCKSIZE):
        (real_ibuf, real_obuf) [lint]:
        Remove; no longer needed.
        (cleanup) [lint]:
        (scanargs): Simplify.
        * src/ioblksize.h (io_blksize): Do not allow blocksizes largest
        than the largest power of two that fits in idx_t and size_t.
        * src/shred.c (PAGE_ALIGN_SLOP, PATTERNBUF_SIZE): Remove.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        copy: remove unnecessary ‘free’
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Remove a ‘free’ call that does nothing
        because its argument is always a null pointer, starting with
        2007-11-1608:31:15Z!jim@meyering.net.

        dd: simplify conv=swab code
        Simplify byte-swapping, so that the code no longer needs to
        allocate a page before the input buffer.
        * src/dd.c (SWAB_ALIGN_OFFSET, char_is_saved, saved_char): Remove.
        All uses removed.
        (INPUT_BLOCK_SLOP): Simplify to just page_size.
        (alloc_ibuf, dd_copy): Adjust to new swab_buffer API.
        (swab_buffer): New arg SAVED_BYTE, taking the place of the old
        global variables.  Do not access BUF[-1].

        dd: improve integer overflow checking
        * src/dd.c: Prefer signed to unsigned types where either will do,
        as this helps improve checking with gcc -fsanitize=undefined.
        Limit the signed types to their intended ranges.
        (MAX_BLOCKSIZE): Don’t exceed IDX_MAX - slop either.
        (input_offset_overflow): Remove; overflow now denoted by negative.
        (parse_integer): Return INTMAX_MAX on overflow, instead of unspecified.
        Do not falsely report overflow for ‘00x99999999999999999999999999999’.
        * tests/dd/misc.sh: New test for 00xBIG.
        * tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file.sh: Adjust to new diagnostic wording.
        New test for BIGxBIG.

        shred: fix declaration typo
        * gl/lib/randint.h (randint_all_new):
        Do not declare with _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL (), as
        the arg can be a null pointer.  This fixes a typo added in
        2021-11-01T05:30:28Z!eggert@cs.ucla.edu.

        cat: prefer signed to unsigned
        * src/cat.c: Prefer signed to unsigned types
        where either will do, as they allow for better
        overflow checking at runtime.

        cat: improve style
        * cat.c: Improve style a bit, mostly by assuming C99-style
        declarations after statements

2022-01-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: csplit: clarify [OFFSET] syntax
        * src/csplit.c (usage): Clarify that '+' prefix is optional on OFFSET.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Likewise.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/53574

2022-01-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: allow readlinkat calls
        Problem reported by Bernhard Voelker in:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2022-01/msg00026.html
        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_readlink): Remove.  It’s OK to call
        readlinkat to determine whether a file is a symbolic link.

        cp: rely on Gnulib for copy_file_range workaround
        Gnulib now replaces copy_file_range on buggy hosts
        so there is no need for Coreutils to worry about the bug.
        * src/copy.c: Do not include sys/utsname.h, xstrtol.h.
        (functional_copy_file_range): Remove.  All uses now
        simply call copy_file_range.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2022-01-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: fix pluralization typo

        cp: fix two typos in previous change
        Somehow ‘make check’ didn’t catch these the first few times.
        * src/copy.c (copy_dir): Don’t pass null pointer to
        copy_internal where it now expects non-null if move mode.
        * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private): Initialize *attr_list
        before recentely-added quick return.

        cp: omit unnecessary stat of destination
        'cp A B' attempts to open B as a directory, to see whether to
        write to B/A instead of to B.  In the common case where the
        open fails with ENOENT, do not bother to stat B afterwards
        since the stat should also fail with ENOENT.
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal, copy): Change bool arg about
        nonexistent destination to a 3-way int argument.  All callers changed.
        (copy_internal): Do not bother to stat a destination already known
        to not exist when following symlinks.

2022-01-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        cp: when copying to dir use dir-relative names
        When copying to a directory, use functions like openat to access
        the destination files, when such functions are available.  This
        should be more efficient and should avoid some race conditions.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add areadlinkat-with-size,
        fchmodat, fchownat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, utimensat.
        * src/copy.c (lchown) [!HAVE_LCHOWN]:
        * src/copy.c, src/system.h (rpl_mkfifo, mkfifo) [!HAVE_MKFIFO]:
        Remove.  All uses removed.
        (utimens_symlink): Remove; we shouldn’t have to worry about
        those obsolete systems any more.  All uses replaced by utimensat.
        * src/copy.c (copy_dir, set_owner, fchmod_or_lchmod, copy_reg)
        (same_file_ok, writable_destination, overwrite_ok, abandon_move)
        (create_hard_link, src_is_dst_backup, copy_internal, copy):
        * src/cp.c (make_dir_parents_private, re_protect):
        New args for directory-relative names.  All uses changed.
        Continue to pass full names as needed, for diagnostics and for
        lower-level functions like qset_acl that do not support
        directory-relative names.
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Prefer readlinkat to lstatat for merely
        checking whether a file is a symlink, to avoid EOVERFLOW issues.
        (subst_suffix): New function.
        (create_hard_link): Accept a null SRC_NAME as meaning that if it
        is needed it needs to be constructed from SRC_RELNAME, DST_NAME,
        and DST_RELNAME.
        (source_is_dst_backup): Use subst_suffix instead of doing it by hand.
        (copy_internal): Remember and use directory-relative names instead
        of full names.
        * src/cp.c (lchown) [!HAVE_LCHOWN]: Remove.  All uses removed.
        (must_be_working_directory): New function.
        (target_directory_operand): Simply take file name as arg,
        and return a file descriptor or negative number on failure;
        open with O_DIRECTORY to obtain any file descriptor.
        All uses changed.
        (target_dirfd_valid): New function.
        (do_copy): Use these new functions to obtain a file descriptor
        for any target directory, and use directory-relative names
        for that directory.
        (main): Omit no-longer-needed stat when --target-directory,
        as do_copy now does this.
        * src/ln.c (O_PATHSEARCH): Move from here ...
        * src/system.h: ... to here.
        * tests/cp/fail-perm.sh: Adjust to change in diagnostic wording,
        and add a test for --no-target-directory.

        cp: tweak internal name
        * src/cp.c (do_copy): Omit confusingly-named local new_dest, since
        there’s another var new_dst that means something quite different.

2022-01-12  Daniel Knittl-Frank  <knittl89@googlemail.com>

        scripts: fix typo in commit-msg git-hook script
        Commit 2f438fa9f53250fb3c8b39a95eedd627b5569ca4 (basenc: A new program
        complementary to base64/base32) introduced a typo in the list of allowed
        commit message prefixes, accidentally changing "basename" to
        "nbasename".  Revert it back to the correct "basename".

2022-01-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        df: tiny simplification
        * src/df.c (LOG_EQ): Remove.  All callers replaced by ==.

2022-01-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: update all copyright year number ranges
        Run "make update-copyright" and then...

        * gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
        * tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.
        * tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.

2022-01-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        mainly to get updated copyright year

        * doc/fdl.texi: Sync from gnulib.
        * .gitignore: Add lib/unictype, as bitmap.h therein is depended on
        since gnulib commit f698ea71

2021-12-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        date: new option --resolution
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (Options for date): Mention this.
        * src/date.c (RESOLUTION_OPTION): New constant.
        (DEBUG_DATE_PARSING_OPTION): Rename from DEBUG_DATE_PARSING.
        All uses changed.
        (long_options, usage, main): Support --resolution.

        date: %-N now means suppress extra digits
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi: Mention this.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add gettime-res.
        * src/date.c (res_width, adjust_resolution): New functions.
        (main): Adjust %-N to be %9N, or whatever, before using it.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        doc: Document , vs . in date --rfc-3339=ns

        build: port to AIX 7.1
        This fixes a porting bug introduced in
        2019-08-12T03:29:00Z!bruno@clisp.org.
        Problem discovered on AIX 7.1.
        * src/local.mk (LDADD): Add $(LIB_MBRTOWC), since pretty much
        every command uses quotearg or mbrtowc or whatever.
        (src_sort_LDADD): Add $(LIBPMULTITHREAD) and
        $(LIB_PTHREAD_SIGMASK) instead of $(LIBTHREAD).

2021-12-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: be more careful about Perl
        Problem reported by Serge Belyshev (Bug#52844).
        * configure.ac (HAVE_PERL): Rely on latest Gnulib gl_PERL, which
        sets gl_cv_prog_perl.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2021-12-27  Max Filippov  <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>

        all: fix adjustment of /proc/$pid/cmdline by single binary
        When configured with --enable-single-binary tools issue incorrect prctl:

          prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...)      = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

        PR_SET_MM_ARG_START is not a prctl 'option' parameter, it's 'arg2'
        parameter for the option PR_SET_MM.  It also has to have 'arg4' and
        'arg5' set to 0 explicitly, otherwise the kernel also returns -EINVAL.

        * src/coreutils.c (launch_program): Fix prctl arguments.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/52800

2021-12-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ls: improve doc for =WHEN
        * src/ls.c (usage): Improve clarity of =WHEN args (Bug#52782).

        doc: colorize -> color
        Living so close to Hollywood I know that "colorize"
        means adding color to something that was already monochrome,
        whereas "color" means to give color to something.
        Coreutils apps color text instead of colorizing it.

2021-12-20  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: update tests/init.sh from gnulib
        * tests/init.sh: Sync from gnulib/tests/init.sh.
        A recent gnulib update (4f497bf3c) missed this.

2021-12-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: syntax-check requires "char const *", not "const char *"
        * gl/lib/mbsalign.c (mbs_align_pad): Adjust.
        * src/chroot.c (is_root): Adjust.
        * src/digest.c (main): Adjust.
        * src/relpath.c (buffer_or_output) Adjust.
        * src/ls.c (print_name_with_quoting, get_color_indicator): Adjust.

        maint: split a long line
        * src/test.c (three_arguments): Split long line.

        maint: commit-msg: compute UTF-8-aware line-length
        * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Count UTF-8 characters rather
        than bytes to avoid erroneously rejecting as "longer than 72" a
        log message line like the UTF-8 one for id.c just prior.  It has
        77 bytes but only 67 characters.
        (check_msg): Read in "utf8" mode. Also include actual length
        in the diagnostic.
        (main): Don't loop when stdout is redirected, as it is when
        invoked via vc-dwim.
        Paul Eggert reported privately both the error of counting bytes
        rather than chars and the re_edit loop when failing via vc-dwim.

2021-12-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        id: improve doc for when USER is omitted
        * src/id.c (usage): “current user” → “current process” (Bug#52656).

2021-12-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: use GNU style for spacing

2021-12-16  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        build: non-recursive Automake in a less hacky way
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove
        non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack.
        (gnulib_tool_option_extras): Add --automake-subdir.
        (bootstrap_post_import_hook): No need to massage lib/gnulib.mk.

2021-12-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update bootstrap to latest

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2021-12-15  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: factor.c: avoid new GCC 12 warning
        * src/factor.c (millerrabin2): Mark as ATTRIBUTE_PURE,
        per advice from GCC 12.

2021-12-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * NEWS: Mention the bugfix.

2021-12-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        mv: Bug#52410 fix
        The recent Gnulib update fixed this bug reported by Vincent Vermilya.
        * tests/mv/backup-dir.sh: Test for Bug#52410.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2021-12-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        uname: port to recent macOS
        Problem reported by Jakub Sokołowski (bug #52330).
        * src/uname.c [__APPLE__]: Don’t include sys/syctl.h,
        mach/machine.h, mach-o/arch.h.
        (print_element_env): New function.  With __APPLE__, it defers to the
        env var UNAME_MACHINE (if given) for uname -m, and similarly for -nrsv.
        (main): Use it.  For -p with __APPLE__, rely on predefined macros
        and omit any 64-bit indication, for compatibility with macOS uname.

2021-11-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: clone on macOS
        * configure.ac: Check for fclonefileat.
        * src/copy.c [HAVE_FCLONEFILEAT && !USE_XATTR]:
        Include <sys/clonefile.h>.
        (copy_reg): If possible, use fclonefileat to clone.

2021-11-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: streamline cloning by skipping fstat
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Attempt clone_file before fstat of dest,
        so that if clone_file succeeds we can skip the fstat.

2021-11-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: fix --preserve=ownership permissions bug
        This fixes a bug that I introduced in
        2006-12-06T19:44:08Z!eggert@cs.ucla.edu.
        * src/copy.c (USE_XATTR): New macro.
        (copy_reg): Use it to help the compiler.  Prefer open u+w to a
        later chmod u=rw; u+r isn’t needed for xattr.  For the later u-r,
        do only one (or zero) chmod calls instead of two (or one).
        In the last chmod, respect the umask instead of ignoring it.
        * tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh: Test for the bug.

2021-11-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: prefer MAYBE_UNUSED
        Prefer MAYBE_UNUSED to _GL_UNUSED, since the C2x syntax
        will be [[maybe_unused]] at the start of the declaration,
        and we want to look forward to that.  All uses of _GL_UNUSED
        either changed to MAYBE_UNUSED, or (when not needed) removed.

2021-11-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: fix security context race
        This fixes an issue introduced in the fix for Bug#11100.
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Fix obscure bug where open-without-CREAT
        failed with ENOENT and we forget to call set_process_security_ctx
        before calling open-with-CREAT. Also, don’t bother to unlink
        DST_NAME if open failed with ENOENT; and if unlink fails with
        ENOENT, don’t consider that to be an error (someone else could
        have removed the file for us, and that’s OK).  Also, don’t worry
        about move mode, since we use O_EXCL|O_CREAT and so won’t open
        an existing file.

2021-11-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: update NEWS for macOS fix

        cp: minor clarity tweak
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Use cached data_copy_required.

        cp: fix ptrdiff_t/ssize_t theoretical glitches
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Use system.h’s SSIZE_MAX.
        Don’t assume SSIZE_MAX <= PTRDIFF_MAX.

2021-11-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: fix nonnull decl
        * gl/lib/randread.h (randread_new): Do not mark with
        _GL_ATTRIBUTE_RETURNS_NONNULL, since it can return NULL.

2021-11-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2021-11-13  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid false failure in env-signal-handler.sh
        * tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh: Use retry_delay_ to
        avoid a false failure under load, where env hasn't setup
        the SIGINT handling before timeout(1) sends the SIGINT.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/51793

2021-11-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix recent syntax-check failures
        * cfg.mk (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_system_h_headers):
        Add chown-core.h to the regexp, to better decouple from system.h.
        * src/env.c: Remove minmax.h include already included in system.h.
        * src/libstdbuf.c: Likewise.
        * src/prog-fprintf.h: Remove doubled semicolon.

2021-11-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: use minmax.h instead of rolling our own
        * gl/lib/mbsalign.c, gl/lib/randread.c, src/system.h (MAX, MIN):
        Remove; include minmax.h instead.
        * gl/modules/mbsalign, gl/modules/randread (Depends-on): Add minmax.
        * src/factor.c (MIN): Remove.

        maint: add function attributes to .h files
        Add _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, _GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC,
        _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC, _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DALLOC_FREE,
        _GL_ATTRIBUTE_RETURNS_NONNULL to .h files when appropriate.
        * gl/lib/mbsalign.h, gl/lib/randperm.h, src/chown-core.h:
        Include stdlib.h, for the benefit of _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DALLOC_FREE.
        * gl/lib/randread.c (randread_free_body): New static function.
        (randread_new, randread_free): Use it.
        * src/copy.c (valid_options): Remove assert that is no longer
        needed because it is now checked statically.

        maint: enable -Wsuggest-attribute=format
        * configure.ac (WERROR_CFLAGS): Enable -Wsuggest-attribute=format
        for lib/ and src/.
        * src/copy.c (copy_attr_error, copy_attr_allerror):
        Add ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT.
        (copy_attr): Ignore -Wsuggest-attribute=format in the
        small section of code that needs it ignored.
        * src/test.c (test_syntax_error): Mark with ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT.
        (binary_operator): Omit unnecessary NULL args, pacifying
        -Wsuggest-attribute=format.

        maint: modernize attribute usage
        * src/system.h (__attribute__): Remove.  Replace all uses that
        rely on this by _GL_ATTRIBUTE_xxx or ATTRIBUTE_xxx.
        (ATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT): Remove.  Replace all uses by
        NODISCARD.

        maint: remove unused __attribute__ defn
        * gl/lib/randread.c (__attribute__): Remove; no longer
        used after the recent _Noreturn change.

        b2sum: simplify attribute usage
        * src/blake2/blake2.h (BLAKE2_PACKED): Simplify, and port better
        to older GCC, by using _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PACKED.

        maint: prefer attribute.h in .c files
        This will help us make the transition to C2x, where some
        attributes must come at the start of function decls.
        Leave the attributes alone in .h files for now,
        as the Gnulib tradition is to not expose attribute.h to users.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add ‘attribute’.
        * gl/lib/randperm.c, src/make-prime-list.c, src/system.h:
        Include attribute.h.
        * gl/lib/strnumcmp.c (strnumcmp): Remove _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE here,
        as this belongs in the .h file.
        * gl/lib/strnumcmp.h (strnumcmp): Add _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE here.
        * src/sort.c (human_numcompare, numcompare): Now ATTRIBUTE_PURE;
        discovered due to strnumcmp.h change.
        * gl/lib/randperm.c, src/copy.c, src/dd.c, src/df.c, src/digest.c:
        * src/env.c, src/expr.c, src/factor.c, src/ls.c:
        * src/make-prime-list.c, src/numfmt.c, src/od.c, src/pathchk.c:
        * src/pinky.c, src/pr.c, src/ptx.c, src/realpath.c, src/relpath.c:
        * src/seq.c, src/sort.c, src/stat.c, src/stty.c, src/system.h:
        * src/tr.c, src/uniq.c, src/wc.c:
        In .c files, crefer ATTRIBUTE_CONST to _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST, and
        similarly for ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT and ATTRIBUTE_PURE.
        * src/system.h (FALLTHROUGH): Remove; attribute.h defines it.

2021-10-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        sort: --debug: add warnings about sign, radix, and grouping chars
        New warnings are added related to the handling
        of thousands grouping characters, decimal points, and sign characters.
        Examples now diagnosed are:

        $ printf '0,9\n1,a\n' | sort -nk1 --debug -t, -s
        sort: key 1 is numeric and spans multiple fields
        sort: field separator ‘,’ is treated as a group separator in numbers
        1,a
        _
        0,9
        ___

        $ printf '1,a\n0,9\n' | LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 sort -gk1 --debug -t, -s
        sort: key 1 is numeric and spans multiple fields
        sort: field separator ‘,’ is treated as a decimal point in numbers
        0,9
        ___
        1,a
        __

        $ printf '1.0\n0.9\n' | LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 sort -s -k1,1g --debug
        sort: note numbers use ‘,’ as a decimal point in this locale
        0.9
        _
        1.0
        _

        $ LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 sort -n --debug /dev/null
        sort: text ordering performed using ‘fr_FR.utf8’ sorting rules
        sort: note numbers use ‘,’ as a decimal point in this locale
        sort: the multi-byte number group separator in this locale \
              is not supported

        $ sort --debug -t- -k1n /dev/null
        sort: key 1 is numeric and spans multiple fields
        sort: field separator ‘-’ is treated as a minus sign in numbers
        sort: note numbers use ‘.’ as a decimal point in this locale

        $ sort --debug -t+ -k1g /dev/null
        sort: key 1 is numeric and spans multiple fields
        sort: field separator ‘+’ is treated as a plus sign in numbers
        sort: note numbers use ‘.’ as a decimal point in this locale

        * src/sort.c (key_warnings): Add the warnings above.
        * tests/misc/sort-debug-warn.sh: Add test cases.
        Also check that all sort invocations succeed.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/51011

2021-10-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: modernize README-{hacking,prereq}

2021-10-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: revert unnecessary FreeBSD workaround
        That was a false alarm due to a bug in FreeBSD 9.1 truss;
        see Pádraig Brady’s report (Bug#51433#29).
        * src/copy.c (lseek_copy, infer_scantype): Don’t bother checking
        whether lseek returned -1.  This doesn’t entirely revert the
        previous change, as it keeps the code simplification of the
        previous change while reverting the check for -1.

        cp: defend better against FreeBSD 9.1 zfs bug
        Problem reported by Pádraig Brady (Bug#51433#14).
        * src/copy.c (lseek_copy, infer_scantype): Report an error if
        lseek with SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE returns less than -1,
        as this is an lseek bug.

2021-10-22  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: say that printf(1) is preferred over echo(1)
        * src/echo.c (usage): Say printf(1) is preferred
        due to being more standard and robust.
        * man/echo.x [SEE ALSO]: Reference printf(1).
        * doc/coreutils.texi (echo invocation): Mention in the
        summary that echo is not robust when outputting
        any string, and that printf is preferred.
        Also expand on the examples showing how to
        output a single '-n' string.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/51311

2021-10-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: timeout --kill-after: clarify disabled timeouts
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Clarify
        that -k is ignored if either its duration or the
        main timeout duration is 0.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/51128

        timeout: ensure --foreground -k exits with status 137
        * src/timeout.c (main): Propagate the killed status from the child.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Remove the
        description of the --foreground specific handling of SIGKILL,
        now that it's consistent with the default mode of operation.
        * tests/misc/timeout.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/51135

2021-10-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: timeout --foreground: add clarification on exit status
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Add detail on
        how --foreground allows timeout(1) to use more standard
        exit status as the uncatchable SIGKILL is not sent to itself.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/51135

2021-10-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        sort: fix unlikely bug when '\377' < 0
        * gl/lib/strintcmp.c (strintcmp): Don’t assume that the input
        cannot contain ((char) -1), as this equals '\377' when char is
        signed (assuming 8-bit char).
        * src/sort.c (decimal_point): Now char, to make it clear
        that it’s always in char range now.
        (NON_CHAR): New constant.
        (traverse_raw_number): Return char not unsigned char;
        this is simpler and could be faster.  All callers changed.
        (main): Do not convert decimal_point and thousands_sep to
        unsigned char, as this can mishandle comparisons on
        machines where char is signed and the input data contains
        ((char) -1).  Use NON_CHAR, not -1, as an out-of-range value for
        thousands_sep.

2021-10-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: switch to C11-style _Noreturn
        Use C11-style _Noreturn instead of the old ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN
        macro.  This pacifies clang on OpenBSD 6.9, which otherwise
        complains "'noreturn' function does return" in some places.
        * gl/lib/randread.c, src/system.h (ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN):
        Remove.  All uses either removed as GCC no longer needs them, or
        changed to C11-style _Noreturn since Gnulib arranges for _Noreturn
        globally nowadays.

        ls: port to OpenBSD
        Problem reported by Brian Callahan (Bug#50972).
        * src/ls.c (decode_switches): Don’t assume __GNUC_PREREQ.

2021-09-26  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: adjust ls --zero option order in texinfo
        * doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation - general output formatting):
        The option ordering was not changed when the option was renamed
        from --null to --zero.

2021-09-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: cp/sparse-perf: make more robust and add zfs comments
        * init.cfg (seek_data_capable_): Add a timeout to ensure failure for
        slow lseek(...SEEK_DATA) calls (even if that syscall isn't interrupted).
        * tests/cp/sparse-perf.sh: Run the SEEK_DATA check on the
        1TiB empty file to exclude both FreeBSD 9.1 which takes 35s,
        and ZFS which requires a delay of about 5s between file creation
        and use of SEEK_DATA to correctly determine it's empty (return ENXIO).
        Also remove the stat size checks as they invalidate the test
        due to cp never writing data due to it being always zeros,
        and thus converted to holes in the output.

2021-09-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        chmod: fix exit status when ignoring symlinks
        * src/chmod.c: Reorder enum so CH_NOT_APPLIED
        can be treated as a non error.
        * tests/chmod/ignore-symlink.sh: A new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/50784

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 9.0
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        tests: sparse-perf: avoid false failure
        * tests/cp/sparse-perf.sh: Avoid the case where
        we saw SEEK_DATA take 35s to return a result
        against a 1TB sparse file.  This happened on
        a FreeBSD 9.1 VM at least.
        Reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe.

        cksum: fix -a crc on 64 bit big endian systems
        * src/cksum.c (crc_sum_stream): On sparc64 for example,
        a crc of 0 was printed due to mismatch in size of
        variable copied between generator and output functions.
        uint_fast32_t is generally 64 bits on 64 bit systems,
        so we copy through an int to ensure we don't use the wrong
        end of a 64 bit variable.
        Reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe

2021-09-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tail: fix detection of closed stdout on macOS
        * bootstrap.conf: We only need poll on Linux and AIX
        where poll is not replaced.  Also resinstate dependence
        on select so we can use it unconditionally.
        * src/tail.c (check_output_alive): Reinstate use of select()
        by default as poll was seen to be ineffective for this
        application on macOS.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/50714

        maint: clean up c++ style comments
        * src/expand-common.h: Remove commented variables.
        * src/remove.h: Change to C style comment.
        * src/tail.c: Likewise.

2021-09-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: date-debug: avoid a false failure on solaris
        * tests/misc/date-debug.sh: Use a dynamic time format,
        as the C locale on solaris uses %T rather than %H:%M:%S
        for the time component.

2021-09-20  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        doc: drop extraneous single quotes in help
        * src/digest.c (usage) [cksum --help]: Drop single quotes
        around each checksum name.
        * src/tee.c (usage) [tee --help]: Likewise.

        cksum: list Pádraig as coauthor
        * src/digest.c (AUTHORS) [HASH_ALGO_CKSUM]: Add Pádraig as
        cksum coauthor.
        * AUTHORS: Likewise.

        tests: env-s.pl: avoid spurious failure on OS X
        * tests/misc/env-S.pl: The __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING envvar
        would cause many of these sub-tests to fail. Ignore it.

2021-09-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gnulib: Update to latest.
        Fixes "extern inline" and "rpl_free" issues.

        doc: fix --help formatting for checksum utils
        * src/digest.c (usage): Indicate that --length and --algorithm
        require arguments.  Emit corresponding emit_mandatory_arg_note().
        Use consistent alignment.

        cksum: support more transparent emulation of older utils
        * src/digest.c: Allow using the --untagged option with --check,
        so that `cksum -a md5 --untagged` used to emulate md5sum for example,
        may be augmented with the --check option.  Also support the --tag
        option with cksum, to allow overriding a previous --untagged setting.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Adjust accordingly.
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: Likewise.

        tests: avoid rare race in tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh
        * tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh: Keep stdout and stderr separate,
        so that interspersion doesn't impact regex checks.  Also wait
        for each file's data to be printed to avoid multiple writes
        to a file to be printed in a single iteration, which would
        impact the regex checks.  Also we refactor the check function,
        rather than repeatedly redefining variations.

2021-09-17  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: remove duplicate from THANKS.in
        * THANKS.in: Now that Tianjia Zhang has a commit in the repo.

2021-09-17  Tianjia Zhang  <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>

        tests: fix typo in cksum-a.sh
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: fix typo md5um to md5sum.

2021-09-17  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix rare false failure in tail-2/F-vs-rename
        This is wrong fix really, as only introducing delay I think.

        * tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh: Avoid a rare false failure
        due to a race in the test.  Now wait until tail has noticed
        that b is replaced before writing to a, so that the subsequent
        write of "y" to b will be displayed independently from
        current contents of b ("x").

2021-09-17  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: port removed-directory test to FreeBSD
        * tests/ls/removed-directory.sh: On FreeBSD 9.1 at least,
        one gets ENOENT when trying to traverse the current removed dir
        with ../, so instead reference the parent dir directly.

2021-09-16  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        rmdir: fix uninitialized memory causing incorrect error
        * src/rmdir.c (main): Only inspect the returned stat structure,
        when stat(2) returns success.

2021-09-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        build: avoid new chmod.c warnings from upcoming GCC12
        Here are the warnings:
        src/chmod.c:175:3: error: 'ch.new_mode' may be used uninitialized in\
            this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
          175 |   strmode (ch->new_mode, perms);
        src/chmod.c:178:3: error: 'ch.old_mode' may be used uninitialized in\
            this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
          178 |   strmode (ch->old_mode, old_perms);

        * src/chmod.c (process_file): Initialize ch.  Its new_mode and
        old_mode fields could indeed be used uninitialized to form mode
        strings, but those are used only when built from initialized members.

2021-09-16  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        digest: ignore empty lines when checking
        * src/digest.c (digest_check): Treat empty lines like comments,
        as commented checksum files very often have empty lines.
        * tests/misc/md5sum.pl: Adjust accordingly.

        factor: sync longlong.h adjustments from upstream
        * src/longlong.h: Sync changes from:
        https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/log/tip/longlong.h

        stat,tail: add support for the secretmem file system
        * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add case for the 'secretmem'
        file system type.
        * NEWS: Mention the Improvement.

        maint: sync help2man to latest version
        * man/help2man: sync to changes from version 1.48.5.
        Note this doesn't materially change the generated man pages.

        doc: remove older ChangeLog items
        * Makefile.am: Update the oldest documented version
        to 8.25 which is now about 5 years old.

        tests: ensure returns_ check failures are propagated
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: Set fail=1 if returns_ check fails.
        * tests/misc/sync.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/yes.sh: Likewise.

        cksum: fix --check with non tagged format checksums
        * src/digest.c: Always set the digest_length, so that
        we check the correct number of hex digits when parsing
        non tagged format checksums.
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: Add a test case.  Also fix
        up this test which was ineffective due to fail=1
        being set in a subshell and ignored.

2021-09-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cksum: fix off-by-1 bug with \r stripping
        Problem reported by Jim Meyering (Bug#50611).
        * src/digest.c (digest_check): When stripping trailing \r,
        avoid subscript error before start of line.

2021-09-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: prefer rawmemchr to memchr when easy
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add rawmemchr.
        * src/csplit.c: Include idx.h.
        * src/csplit.c (record_line_starts):
        * src/head.c (elide_tail_lines_pipe):
        * src/shuf.c (next_line):
        * src/split.c (lines_split):
        * src/tail.c (pipe_lines):
        * src/wc.c (wc_lines):
        Prefer rawmemchr to memchr when rawmemchr is easy.
        * src/csplit.c (load_buffer):
        * src/head.c (struct linebuffer):
        Make room for a 1-byte sentinel.

        split: avoid NULL + 1
        * src/split.c (lines_chunk_split): Don’t add to a null pointer.
        It’s undefined behavior, and it’s unnecessarily confusing
        regardless.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        digest: support windows format checksum files
        Support checksum files with CRLF line endings,
        which is a common gotcha for using --check on windows,
        or with checksum files generated on windows.
        Note we escape \r here to support the original coreutils format
        (with file name at EOL), and file names with literal
        \r characters as the last character of their name.

        * src/digest.c (filename_unescape): Convert \\r -> \r.
        (print_filename): Escape \r -> \\r.
        (output_file): Detect \r chars in file names.
        (digest_check): Ignore literal \r char at EOL.
        * tests/misc/md5sum.pl: Add a test case.
        * tests/misc/sha1sum.pl: Likewise.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: improve --help indenting in checksum utils
        * src/digest.c (usage): Indent multi-line descriptions for clarity.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: operate in binary mode only
        This only practically matters on windows.
        But given there are separate text handling options in cygwin,
        keep the interface simple, and avoid exposing the
        confusing binary/text difference here.

        * doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Mention that
        --binary and --text are not supported by the cksum command.
        * src/digest.c: Set flag to use binary mode by default.
        (output_file): Don't distinguish text and binary modes with
        ' ' and '*', and just use ' ' always.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: use --tag format by default
        This format is a better default, since it results in simpler usage,
        as you don't need to specify --tag on generation or -a on
        checking invocations.  Also it's a more general format supporting
        mixed and length adjusted digests.

        * doc/coreutils.texi (cksum invocation): Document a new --untagged
        option, to use the older coreutils format.
        (md5sum invocation): Mention that cksum doesn't support --tag.
        * src/digest.c: Adjust cksum(1) to default to --tag,
        and accept the new --untagged option.
        * tests/misc/b2sum.sh: Adjust accordingly.
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/cksum-c.sh: Likewise.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: support --zero in default mode
        * src/cksum.h: Thread DELIM through the output functions.
        * src/digest.c: Likewise.
        * src/sum.c: Likewise.
        * src/sum.h: Likewise.
        * src/cksum.c: Likewise. Also adjust check to allow -z
        with traditional output modes.  Also ajust the global variable
        name to avoid shadowing warnings.
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: Adjust accordingly.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        digest: support -length specifiers on all digest tags
        This will be generally useful going forward, for sha3-256 etc.

        * src/digest.c: Rename b2_length to digest_length, and
        adjust/simplify the code to operate on this for both
        b2sum and cksum -a blake2b.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: support digest detection for tagged format
        Support `cksum --check FILE` without having to specify a digest
        algorithm, allowing for more generic file check instructions.
        This also supports mixed digest checksum files, supporting
        more robust multi digest checks.

        * src/digest.c (algorithm_from_tag): A new function to
        identify the digest algorithm from a tagged format line.
        (split3): Set the algorithm depending on tag, and update
        the expected digest length accordingly.
        * tests/misc/cksum-c.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * tests/misc/md5sum.pl: Adjust to more generic error.
        * tests/misc/sha1sum.pl: Likewise.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Mention the new -c feature.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: simplify b2sum to only handle BLAKE2b
        Any further variants will use the cksum -a table driven mechanism.

        * src/digest.c: Remove BLAKE2 specific table driven code.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        digest: add support for sm3
        Add message digest sm3, which uses the OSCCA SM3 secure
        hash (OSCCA GM/T 0004-2012 SM3) generic hash transformation.

        * bootstrap.conf: Add the sm3 module.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Mention the cksum -a option.
        * src/digest.c: Provide support for --algorithm='sm3'.
        * tests/misc/sm3sum.pl: Add a new test (from Tianjia Zhang)
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

        Tested-by: Tianjia Zhang <tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: add --algorithm option to select digest mode
        * src/digest.c: Organize HASH_ALGO_CKSUM to be table driven,
        and amalgamate all digest algorithms.
        (main): Parse all options if HASH_ALGO_CKSUM, and disallow
        --tag, --zero, and --check with the traditional bsd, sysv, and crc
        checksums for now.
        * src/local.mk: Reorganize to include all digest modules in cksum.
        * tests/misc/cksum-a.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/misc/b2sum.sh: Update to default to checking with cksum,
        as b2sum's implementation diverges a bit from the others.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cksum invocation): Adjust the summary to
        identify the new mode, and document the new --algorithm option.
        * man/cksum.x: Adjust description to be more general.
        * man/*sum.x: Add [See Also] section referencing cksum(1).
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

        digest: refactor cksum(1) into digest.c
        * cfg.mk: Adjust cksum.c to not require config.h
        and support a main (for crctab) without calling bindtextdomain().
        * po/POTFILES.in: Remove cksum_pclmul.c since it no longer
        concerns itself with diagnostics.
        * src/cksum.c: Refactor to just providing stream digest,
        and digest printing functionality.
        * src/cksum.h: Adjust to the new interface.
        * src/cksum_pclmul.c: Remove diagnostics, and determine errors
        internally.
        * src/crctab.c: Separate from cksum.h since that's now included
        multiple times.
        * src/digest.c: Provide cksum(1) functionality if -DHASH_ALGO_CKSUM
        * src/local.mk: Adjust to new crctab.c and HASH_ALGO_CKSUM define.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: document the --debug option
        This should have been part of commit v8.32-113-gb73b9fcb1

        * doc/coreutils.texi (cksum invocation): Add the --debug description.
        * src/cksum.c (usage): Likewise.
        (main): Also give explicit indication when using generic hardware.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        sum: handle EOVERFLOW for too large inputs
        * src/sum.c (bsd_sum_stream): Detect overflow when updating length.
        (sysv_sum_stream): Likewise.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        digest: refactor sum(1) into digest.c
        Since digest will be providing all digest functionality,
        refactor sum.c into it.

        * po/POTFILES.in: sum.c no longer has translatable strings so remove.
        * src/digest.c: Call out to new stream interfaces in sum.c
        * src/local.mk: Adjust sources for the sum binary.
        * src/sum.c: Provide a stream interface for BSD and SYSV digests.
        * src/sum.h: A new file to declare the exported functions in sum.c

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        digest: add LENGTH parameter to digest to support cksum
        * src/digest.c (digest_file): Add a LENGTH param,
        to support cksum(1), and sum(1) which output the
        length as part of their output.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: rename md5sum.c to more general digest.c
        md5sum.c will be the base for all digest functions,
        so rename accordingly.

        * src/md5sum.c: Rename to ...
        * src/digest.c: ... renamed from md5sum.c
        * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Allow digest: commit prefix.
        * po.POTFILES.in: Adjust to new name.
        * src/local.mk: Likewise.

2021-09-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: fix ambiguities in logname(1) and whoami(1)
        * doc/coreutils.texi (whoami invocation): Clarify it prints names,
        not numeric IDs.
        * man/whoami.x: Likewise.
        * man/logname.x: Reference getlogin(3).
        * src/logname.c: Clarify that it prints the login name,
        rather than the name of the effective user ID.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/48894

2021-09-15  nl6720  <nl6720@gmail.com>

        dircolors: add *direct* to TERM matching
        Search for "direct color" at:
        https://invisible-island.net/xterm/terminfo.html

        * src/dircolors.hin: Add *direct* to match terminals that
        support direct colors (24-bit color / TrueColor).
        The trailing * will match entries like xterm-direct2.

        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/39827

2021-09-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: stat-vs-dirent.sh: avoid a false failure
        * tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent.sh: Skip the test if we can't stat(1),
        as the file may have been removed, or have a malformed name
        due to '\n' etc. in the file name.

2021-09-09  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: add new stdin reading programs to tty-eof test
        * tests/misc/tty-eof.pl: Add b2sum and basenc.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gnulib: Update to latest. This fixes a gnulib test failure in base64,
        among other fixes.
        * cfg.mk: Disable sc_indent as auto indent is too invasive for now.

2021-09-09  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: fix repeated word
        A proposed change to gnulib's sc_prohibit_doubled_word
        was made to detect this in future.

        * README: s/can can/can/.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/50484

2021-09-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: can “can can”
        Problem reported by Akbarkhon Variskhanov (Bug#50484).

2021-09-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: add missing "as" (thanks to Nelson H.F. Beebe)

2021-09-05  Justin Tracey  <j2tracey@gmail.com>

        tests: narrow scope of faulty join args
        * tests/misc/join.pl: Only test invalid-j with an invalid -j field,
        not with missing operands as well.

2021-08-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: indicate the default algorithm in the sum(1) man page
        * src/sum.c (usage): Indicate that -r (BSD algorithm) is the default.

2021-08-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        sum: always output a file name if one passed
        Adjust to output the file name if any name parameter is passed.
        This is consistent with sum -s, cksum, and sum implementations
        on other platforms.  This should not cause significant compat
        issues, as multiple fields are already output, and so already
        need to be parsed.

        * src/sum.c (bsd_sum_file): Output the file name
        if any name parameter is passed.
        * tests/misc/sum.pl: Adjust accordingly.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (sum invocation): Likewise.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

2021-08-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        tests: port better to NetBSD
        * tests/misc/help-version.sh: Test that /dev/full causes
        shell printf to fail.  This ports better to NetBSD 9.88.46,
        where it doesn’t.  Problem reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe.

        tests: merge help-version changes back from gzip
        * tests/misc/help-version.sh: Merge gzip-related changes
        back from gzip/tests/help-version.  This fixes problems
        when TERM is not 'dumb', and should simplify maintenance.

2021-08-30  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        basenc: fix bug49741: using wrong decoding buffer length
        Emil Lundberg <lundberg.emil@gmail.com> reports in
        https://bugs.gnu.org/49741 about a 'basenc --base64 -d' decoding bug.
        The input buffer length was not divisible by 3, resulting in
        decoding errors.

        * NEWS: Mention fix.
        * src/basenc.c (DEC_BLOCKSIZE): Change from 1024*5 to 4200 (35*3*5*8)
        which is divisible by 3,4,5,8 - satisfying both base32 and base64;
        Use compile-time verify() macro to enforce the above.
        * tests/misc/basenc.pl: Add test.

2021-08-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        basenc: prefer signed to unsigned integers
        This patch modifies basenc to prefer signed integers to
        unsigned, as signed are less error-prone.
        This patch also updates Gnulib to to latest, which updates Gnulib’s
        base32 and base64 modules to prefer signed to unsigned integers.
        * src/basenc.c: Include idx.h.
        (struct base2_decode_context): Use unsigned char, not unsigned
        for an octet that must fit in an unsigned char.
        (base_encode, struct base_decode_context)
        (base64_decode_ctx_wrapper, prepare_inbuf, base64url_encode)
        (base64url_decode_ctx_wrapper, base32_decode_ctx_wrapper)
        (base32hex_encode, base32hex_decode_ctx_wrapper, base16_encode)
        (base16_decode_ctx, z85_encode, Z85_HI_CTX_TO_32BIT_VAL)
        (z85_decoding, z85_decode_ctx, base2msbf_encode)
        (base2lsbf_encode, base2lsbf_decode_ctx, base2msbf_decode_ctx)
        (wrap_write, do_encode, do_decode, main):
        Prefer signed integers to unsigned.
        (main): Treat extremely large wrap columns as if they were
        infinite; that’s good enough.  Since we’re now using xstrtoimax,
        this allows ‘-w -0’ (same as ‘-w 0’).
        * tests/misc/base64.pl (gen_tests): -w-0 is no longer an error.

2021-08-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: avoid new syntax-check failure
        find-mount-point.h rightly includes <stdlib.h> for its use
        of _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE, which uses free, yet that new
        inclusion provoked a syntax-check failure. Exempt this header
        file as we've done for others.
        * cfg.mk (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_system_h_headers):
        Add find-mount-point.h to the regexp.
        (sc_system_h_headers): Use grep -E, for a more readable regexp.

2021-08-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid reflinks when testing SEEK_DATA logic
        This better tests the SEEK_HOLE logic which
        replaced the original fiemap hole identification logic.
        Also it avoids a false failure in sparse-2.sh
        on reflink supporting file systems, where we
        try to correlate the file sizes produced by cp and dd.

        * tests/cp/sparse-2.sh: s/cp/cp --reflink=never/
        * tests/cp/sparse-extents-2.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/cp/sparse-extents.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/cp/sparse-perf.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/cp/sparse.sh: Likewise.

        Fixes https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/issues/54

2021-08-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        df: pacify -Wsuggest-attribute=malloc
        Problem found with latest Gnulib and GCC 11.2.1.
        * src/find-mount-point.h (find_mount_point):
        Add _GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC and _GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEALLOC_FREE.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: use clearerr on stdin when appropriate
        This is so that commands like ‘fmt - -’ read from stdin
        both times, even when it is a tty.  Fix some other minor
        issues that are related.
        * src/blake2/b2sum.c (main):
        * src/cksum.c (cksum):
        * src/cut.c (cut_file):
        * src/expand-common.c (next_file):
        * src/fmt.c (fmt):
        * src/fold.c (fold_file):
        * src/md5sum.c (digest_file, digest_check):
        * src/nl.c (nl_file):
        * src/od.c (check_and_close):
        * src/paste.c (paste_parallel, paste_serial):
        * src/pr.c (close_file):
        * src/sum.c (bsd_sum_file):
        Use clearerr on stdin so that stdin can be read multiple times
        even if it is a tty.  Do not assume that ferror preserves errno as
        POSIX does not guarantee this.  Coalesce duplicate diagnostic
        calls.
        * src/blake2/b2sum.c (main):
        * src/fmt.c (main, fmt):
        Report read error, even if it's merely fclose failure.
        * src/fmt.c: Include die.h.
        (fmt): New arg FILE.  Close input (reporting error) if not stdin.
        All callers changed.
        * src/ptx.c (swallow_file_in_memory): Clear stdin's EOF flag.
        * src/sort.c (xfclose): Remove unnecessary feof call.

        doc: spell out stdin, stdout, stderr
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Spell out words like “stdin” in
        English prose.

2021-08-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        chmod: fix use of uninitialized var if -v
        Problem reported by Michael Debertol (Bug#50070).
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        * src/chmod.c (struct change_status): New struct, replacing the
        old enum Change_status.  All uses changed.
        (describe_change): Distinguish between cases depending on
        whether 'stat' or its equivalent succeeded.  Report a line
        of output even if 'stat' failed, as that matches the documentation.
        Rework to avoid casts.
        (process_file): Do not output nonsense modes computed from
        uninitialized storage, removing a couple of IF_LINTs.  Simplify by
        defaulting to CH_NO_STAT.

2021-08-14  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: update .gitignore
        * .gitignore: ignore new lib/malloc gnulib directory.

        maint: allow hook script accept "Signed-off-by:"
        * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Relax this constraint.

2021-08-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        df: fix bug with automounted
        If the command-line argument is automounted, df would use
        stat info that became wrong after the following open.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix (bug#50012).
        * src/df.c (automount_stat_err): New function.
        This fixes the hang on fifos in a better way, by using O_NONBLOCK.
        (main): Use it.

2021-08-08  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cat: with -E fix handling of \r\n spanning buffers
        We must delay handling when \r is the last character
        of the buffer being processed, as the next character
        may or may not be \n.

        * src/cat.c (pending_cr): A new global to record whether
        the last character processed (in -E mode) is '\r'.
        (cat): Honor pending_cr when processing the start of the buffer.
        (main): Honor pending_cr if no more files to process.
        * tests/misc/cat-E.sh: Add test cases.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/49925

2021-07-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: update .gitignore

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        uniq: pacify GCC -fanalyzer
        Pacify GCC 11.1 -fanalyzer.
        * src/uniq.c (check_file): Use simpler test to check whether this
        is the first time through the loop.  Although the old test was
        correct, the new one is easier to understand and perhaps a tiny
        bit more efficient.

        numfmt: omit unnecessary pointer test
        Caught by GCC 11.1 -fanalyzer.
        * src/numfmt.c (simple_strtod_int): Remove unnecessary test of
        *endptr vs NULL.  Presumably this was a typo and **endptr was
        intended instead of *endptr, but an **endptr test is also
        unnecessary since c_isdigit (0) returns false.

2021-07-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: add options summary list to tr texinfo
        * doc/coreutils.texi (tr invocation): Provide a summary
        list of the available options, which is useful to
        provide a quick reminder for those already familiar
        with the functionality of tr.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/49764

2021-07-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: augment new ls --zero test cases
        * tests/ls/zero-option.sh: Check for the disabled, disallowed,
        and allowed option combinations.

        maint: avoid syntax-check failures in recent ls changes
        * src/ls.c: Fix ifdef indenting and long line.

2021-07-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: modernize usage of “disk” and “core”
        In documentation and comments, don’t assume that secondary storage
        devices are disk devices.  Similarly, don’t assume that main memory
        uses magnetic cores, which became obsolete in the 1970s.
        * src/du.c (usage):
        * src/ls.c (usage):
        * src/shred.c (usage): Reword to avoid “disk” in usage messages.

        doc: improve ls documentation
        * doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Document implementation more
        closely.  Be more consistent about style.  Omit some needless words.
        * src/ls.c (usage): Don’t overdocument -f, as the details were wrong.
        Omit -1 advice as it’s a bit obsolete now that we have --zero and
        is a bit much for --usage output anyway.

        ls: rename --null to --zero (Bug#49716)
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting):
        * src/ls.c (usage):
        Document this.
        * src/ls.c (ZERO_OPTION): Rename from NULL_OPTION.
        All uses changed.
        (long_options): Rename --null to --zero.
        (dired_dump_obstack, main, print_dir): Use '\n' instead of
        eolbyte where eolbyte must equal '\n'.
        (decode_switches): Decode --zero instead of --null.
        --zero also implies -1, -N, --color=none, --show-control-chars.
        Use easier-to-decipher code to set ‘format’ and ‘dired’.
        Reject attempts to combine --dired and --zero.
        * tests/local.mk: Adjust to test script renaming.
        * tests/ls/zero-option.sh: Rename from tests/ls/null-option.sh,
        and test --zero instead of --null.

        ls: compute defaults more lazily
        * src/ls.c (enum time_type, enum sort_type, enum indicator_style)
        (enum Dereference_symlink, ignore_mode):
        Put ‘= 0’ after default values, since the code relies
        on static storage defaulting to zero.
        (enum sort_type): Reorder so that -1 can be used to represent unset.
        (main): Test print_with_color after parse_ls_color may have reset it.
        (decode_line_length): Return the line length instead of setting
        static storage.  All uses changed.  Treat line lengths exceeding
        PTRDIFF_MAX as infinite, to avoid pointer-subtraction glitches.
        (stdout_isatty): New function, to avoid calling isatty twice.
        (decode_switches): Calculate defaults more lazily, to avoid using
        syscalls or getenv during startup unless the results are more
        likely to be needed.  Use -1 to indicate options that haven’t been
        set on the command line yet.  Move print_with_color test from
        here to ‘main’.  Suppress bogus GCC warning.
        (getenv_quoting_style): Return the quoting style instead of
        setting static storage.
        (init_column_info): New arg MAX_COLS, to avoid recalculating it.
        Caller changed.

2021-07-26  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid recent syntax-check issues
        * .gitignore: Cater for recently added poll module.
        * src/stdbuf.c: Avoid false positive from sc_prohibit_readlink.

2021-07-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ls: add --null option (Bug#49716)
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting):
        * src/ls.c (usage): Document this.
        * src/ls.c (NULL_OPTION): New constant.
        (long_options): Add --null.
        (eolbyte): New static var.
        (dired_dump_obstack, main, print_dir, print_current_files)
        (print_many_per_line, print_horizontal, print_with_separator):
        Output eolbyte instead of '\n'.
        (decode_switches): Decode --null.
        * tests/ls/null-option.sh: New file.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.

        ls: port to wider off_t, uid_t, gid_t
        * src/ls.c (dired_pos): Now off_t, not size_t, since it counts
        output file offsets.
        (dired_dump_obstack): This obstack's file offsets are now
        off_t, not size_t.
        (format_user_or_group, format_user_or_group_width):
        ID arg is now uintmax_t, not unsigned long, since uid_t and
        gid_t values might exceed ULONG_MAX.
        (format_user_or_group_width): Use snprintf with NULL instead of
        sprintf with a discarded buffer.  This avoids a stack buffer,
        and so should be safer.

        ls: demacroize
        Prefer functions or constants to macros where either will do.
        That’s cleaner, and nowadays there’s no performance reason to
        prefer macros.  All uses changed.
        * src/ls.c (INITIAL_TABLE_SIZE, MIN_COLUMN_WIDTH):
        Now constants instead of macros.
        (file_or_link_mode): New function, replacing the old macro
        FILE_OR_LINK_MODE.
        (dired_outbyte): New function, replacing the old macro DIRED_PUTCHAR.
        (dired_outbuf): New function, replacing the old macro DIRED_FPUTS.
        (dired_outstring): New function, replacing the old macro
        DIRED_FPUTS_LITERAL.
        (dired_indent): New function, replacing the old macro DIRED_INDENT.
        (push_current_dired_pos): New function, replacing the old macro
        PUSH_CURRENT_DIRED_POS.
        (assert_matching_dev_ino): New function, replacing the old macro
        ASSERT_MATCHING_DEV_INO.
        (do_stat, do_lstat, stat_for_mode, stat_for_ino, fstat_for_ino)
        (signal_init, signal_restore, cmp_ctime, cmp_mtime, cmp_atime)
        (cmp_btime, cmp_size, cmp_name, cmp_extension)
        (fileinfo_name_width, cmp_width, cmp_version):
        No longer inline; compilers can deduce this well enough nowadays.
        (main): Protect unused assert with ‘if (false)’ rather than
        commenting it out, so that the compiler checks the code.
        (print_dir): Output the space and newline in the same buffer
        as the human-readable number they surround.
        (dirfirst_check): New function, replacing the old macro
        DIRFIRST_CHECK.  Simplify by using subtraction.
        (off_cmp): New function, replacing the old macro longdiff.
        (print_long_format): No need to null-terminate the string now.
        (format_user_or_group): Let printf count the bytes.

        ls: simplify sprintf usage
        * src/ls.c (format_user_or_group_width, print_long_format):
        Use return value from sprintf instead of calling strlen on
        the resulting buffer, or inferring the length some other way.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: fix white space

        env: fix usage typo
        * src/env.c (usage): Fix pluralization typo.

2021-07-02  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        df: fix duplicated remote entries due to bind mounts
        As originally reported in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1962515>,
        df invoked without -a printed duplicated entries for NFS mounts
        of bind mounts.  This is a regression from commit v8.25-54-g1c17f61ef99,
        which introduced the use of a hash table.

        The proposed patch makes sure that the devlist entry seen the last time
        is used for comparison when eliminating duplicated mount entries.  This
        way it worked before introducing the hash table.

        Patch co-authored by Roberto Bergantinos.

        * src/ls.c (struct devlist): Introduce the seen_last pointer.
        (devlist_for_dev): Return the devlist entry seen the last time if found.
        (filter_mount_list): Remember the devlist entry seen the last time for
        each hashed item.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/49298

2021-06-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        tail: use poll, not select
        This fixes an unlikely stack out-of-bounds write reported by
        Stepan Broz via Kamil Dudka (Bug#49209).
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Replace select with poll.
        * src/tail.c: Do not include <sys/select.h>.
        [!_AIX]: Include poll.h.
        (check_output_alive) [!_AIX]: Use poll instead of select.
        (tail_forever_inotify): Likewise.  Simplify logic, as there is no
        need for a ‘while (len <= evbuf_off)’ loop.

        tail: fix abuse2 test race
        * tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse2.sh (fastpoll):
        Fix race where tailed file ‘f’ temporarily did not exist.

        maint: while (1) → while (true)

2021-06-21  Nikolay Nechaev  <Nikolay_Nechaev@mail.ru>

        maint: remove redundant checks on buffer sizes in tail
        * src/tail.c: remove redundant size checks before calls to
        `xwrite_stdout`

2021-06-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        stat: use decomposed decimal device numbers by default
        * src/stat.c (default_format): Use decomposed decimal
        representation (major,minor) in the default format.
        This is least ambiguous for human interpretation,
        and more consistent with ls for example.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/48960

2021-06-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        stat: support more device number representations
        In preparation for changing the default device number
        representation (to decomposed decimal), provide more
        formatting options for device numbers.

        These new (FreeBSD compat) formatting options are added:

           %Hd  major device number in decimal (st_dev)
           %Ld  minor device number in decimal (st_dev)
           %Hr  major device type in decimal (st_rdev)
           %Lr  minor device type in decimal (st_rdev)
           %r   (composed) device type in decimal (st_rdev)
           %R   (composed) device type in hex (st_rdev)

        * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Document new formats.
        * src/stat.c (print_it): Handle the new %H and %L modifiers.
        (print_statfs): Adjust to passing the format as two chars
        rather than an int.  Using an int was introduced in commit db42ae78,
        but using separate chars is cleaner and more extensible.
        (print_stat): Likewise.  Handle any modifiers and the new 'r' format.
        (usage): Document the new formats.
        * tests/misc/stat-fmt.sh: Add a test case for new modifiers.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/48960

2021-06-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        Coreutils mistakenly did not list xstrndup as a module
        that it depends on directly.  When the latest Gnulib removed
        the dirname module's dependency on xstrndup, this mistake
        caused coreutils to not build.  Since all of Coreutils's
        uses of xstrndup know the string length, xmemdup0 is a better
        match for what's needed.  Since the size args are typically
        signed or derived from subtracting pointers, the new Gnulib
        ximemdup0 function is a better match yet.
        So, use ximemdup0 instead of xstrndup.
        * src/cut.c, src/dircolors.c, src/expand-common.c, src/expand.c:
        * src/numfmt.c, src/set-fields.c, src/unexpand.c:
        Do not include xstrndup.h; no longer needed.
        * src/dircolors.c (parse_line):
        * src/expand-common.c (parse_tab_stops):
        * src/numfmt.c (parse_format_string):
        * src/set-fields.c (set_fields):
        Use ximemdup0 instead of xstrndup.

2021-05-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: bootstrap: remove reference to unused hash-pjw module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove hash-pjw. No longer used.

2021-05-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        Fixes a false test failure with MALLOC_CHECK_ set.

        * gnulib: Update to latest.

2021-05-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        copy: remove fiemap logic
        This is now only used on 10 year old linux kernels,
        and performs a sync before each copy.

        * src/copy.c (extent_copy): Remove function and all callers.
        * src/extent-scan.c: Remove.
        * src/extent-scan.h: Remove.
        * src/fiemap.h: Remove.
        * src/local.mk: Adjust for removed files.
        * NEWS: Adjust to say fiemap is removed.

2021-05-13  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        copy: disallow copy_file_range() on Linux kernels before 5.3
        copy_file_range() before Linux kernel release 5.3 had many issues,
        as described at https://lwn.net/Articles/789527/, which was
        referenced from https://lwn.net/Articles/846403/; a more general
        article discussing the generality of copy_file_range().
        Linux kernel 5.3 was released in September 2019, which is new enough
        that we need to actively avoid older kernels.

        * src/copy.c (functional_copy_file_range): A new function
        that returns false for Linux kernels before version 5.3.
        (sparse_copy): Call this new function to gate use of
        copy_file_range().

2021-05-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix tests/cp/sparse-2.sh false failure on some systems
        * tests/cp/sparse-2.sh: Double check cp --sparse=always,
        with dd conv=sparse, in the case where the former didn't
        create a sparse file.  Now that this test is being newly run
        on macos, we're seeing a failure due to seek() not creating
        holes on apfs unless the size is >= 16MiB.

2021-05-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: ensure we test SEEK_DATA where used
        fiemap is no longer the default copy implementation,
        so check for SEEK_DATA support instead as that's preferred.
        This will ensure better test coverage on systems without fiemap.

        * init.cfg: Replace fiemap_capable_ with seek_data_capable_.
        This is best supported with python 3 so prefer that.
        * tests/seek-data-capable: A new test script checking for
        SEEK_DATA support on the passed file name,
        called from seek_data_capable_.
        * tests/fiemap-capable: Remove no longer used probing script.
        * tests/cp/fiemap-perf.sh: Renamed to tests/cp/sparse-perf.sh
        * tests/cp/fiemap-2.sh: Renamed to tests/cp/sparse-2.sh
        * tests/cp/fiemap-extents.sh: Renamed to tests/cp/sparse-extents.sh
        * tests/cp/sparse-fiemap.sh: Renamed to tests/cp/sparse-extents-2.sh
        * tests/cp/fiemap-FMR.sh: Renamed to tests/cp/copy-FMR.sh
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the renamed tests.

2021-05-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        copy: handle system security config issues with copy_file_range()
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Upon EPERM from copy_file_range(),
        fall back to a standard copy, which will give a more accurate
        error as to whether the issue is with the source or destination.
        Also this will avoid the issue where seccomp or apparmor are
        not configured to handle copy_file_range(), in which case
        the fall back standard copy would succeed without issue.
        This specific issue with seccomp was noticed for example in:
        https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40900

        copy: handle EOPNOTSUPP from SEEK_DATA
        * src/copy.c (infer_scantype): Ensure we don't error out
        if SEEK_DATA returns EOPNOTSUPP, on systems where this value
        is distinct from ENOTSUP.  Generally both of these should be checked.

        copy: handle ENOTSUP from copy_file_range()
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Ensure we fall back to
        a standard copy if copy_file_range() returns ENOTSUP.
        This generally is best checked when checking ENOSYS,
        but it also seems to be a practical concern on Centos 7,
        as a quick search gave https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1840284

2021-05-10  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        Fixes a bits/long-double.h include build issue on some systems.

        * bootstrap: Sync new --version option from gnulib.
        * gnulib: Update to lastest.
        Reported by Carl Edquist

2021-05-10  Carl Edquist  <edquist@cs.wisc.edu>

        build: fix __get_cpuid_count check to catch link failure
        The test program will compile successfully even if __get_cpuid_count
        is not declared.  The error for the missing symbol will only show up
        at link time.  Thus, use AC_LINK_IFELSE instead of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.

        * configure.ac (__get_cpuid_count check): Use C_LINK_IFELSE instead
        of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
        (__get_cpuid check): Likewise.

2021-05-08  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: consistently free hash structures in dev mode
        Ensure we call hash_free() to avoid valgrind and leak_sanitizer
        "definitely lost" warnings.  These were not real leaks as
        we terminate immediately after, but we should avoid these
        "definitely lost" warnings where possible.

        * src/copy.c: Add dest_info_free() and src_info_free().
        * src/copy.h: Declare the above.
        * src/cp-hash.c: Don't define unless "lint" is defined.
        * src/install.c: Call dest_info_free() in dev mode.
        * src/mv.c: Likewise.
        * src/cp.c: Likewise. Also call src_info_free().
        * src/ln.c: Call hash_free() in dev mode.
        * src/tail.c: Call hash_free() even if about to exit, in dev mode.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/48189

2021-05-06  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: fix sc_space_before_open_paren failure
        * src/copy.c (dest_info_init): Add space before parens.
        (src_info_init): Likewise.
        Syntax-check failure introduced in the previous commit.

2021-05-03  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        copy: exit immediately upon failure to allocate hash memory
        * src/copy.c (dest_info_init, src_info_init): Terminate immediately
        upon memory exhaustion.

2021-05-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        copy: ensure we enforce --reflink=never
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Don't use copy_file_range()
        with --reflink=never as copy_file_range() may implicitly
        use acceleration techniques like reflinking.
        (extent_copy): Pass through whether we allow reflinking.
        (lseek_copy): Likewise.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/48164

        wc: add --debug to diagnose which implementation used
        * src/wc.c: (main): Handle the new --debug option.
        Only call avx2_supported if needed.
        (avx2_supported): Diagnose various failures and attempts.
        * NEWS: Mention the new wc improvement and --debug option.

2021-05-02  Kristoffer Brånemyr  <ztion1@yahoo.se>

        wc: use avx2 optimization when counting only lines
        Use cpuid to detect CPU support for avx2 instructions.
        Performance was seen to improve by 5x for a file with only newlines,
        while the performance for a file with no such characters is unchanged.

        * configure.ac [USE_AVX2_WC_LINECOUNT]: A new conditional,
        set when __get_cpuid_count() and avx2 compiler intrinsics are supported.
        * src/wc.c (avx2_supported): A new function using __get_cpuid_count()
        to determine if avx2 instructions are supported.
        (wc_lines): A new function refactored from wc(),
        which implements the standard line counting logic,
        and provides the fallback implementation for when avx2 is not supported.
        * src/wc_avx2.c: A new module to implement using avx2 intrinsics.
        * src/local.mk: Reference the new module.  Note we build as a separate
        lib so that it can be portably built with separate -mavx2 etc. flags.

2021-05-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        touch: fix wrong diagnostic (Bug#48106)
        Problem reported by Roland (Bug#48106).
        * src/touch.c (touch): Take more care when deciding whether
        to use open_errno or utime_errno in the diagnostic.
        Stop worrying about SunOS 4 (which as part of the problem),
        as it’s long obsolete.  For Solaris 10, verify that EINVAL
        really means the file was a directory.

2021-04-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: port to Autoconf 2.71
        * configure.ac: Use AC_PROG_CC, not AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
        * gl/modules/smack (configure.ac):
        * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS):
        * m4/xattr.m4 (gl_FUNC_XATTR):
        Use AS_HELP_STRING, not AC_HELP_STRING.
        * m4/check-decl.m4 (gl_CHECK_DECLS):
        Do not require AC_HEADER_TIME; we no longer care about it directly.
        * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS):
        Do not require AC_ISC_POSIX, which became obsolete in 2006.
        Use AC_LINK_IFELSE instead of AC_TRY_LINK.

        csplit: size_t overflow check
        * src/csplit.c (get_new_buffer): Fix unlikely size_t overflow.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * src/csplit.c (load_buffer):
        * src/pinky.c (create_fullname):
        Use intprops-based checks rather than xalloc_oversized,
        since Gnulib xalloc.h no longer includes xalloc-oversized.h.

2021-04-27  Zorro Lang  <zlang@redhat.com>

        copy: do not refuse to copy a swap file
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Fallback to read() if copy_file_range()
        fails with ETXTBSY.  Otherwise it would be impossible to copy files
        that are being used as swap.  This used to work before introducing
        the support for copy_file_range() in coreutils.  (Bug#48036)

2021-04-22  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        tests: fix FP in ls/stat-free-color.sh
        On newer systems like Fedora 34 and openSUSE Tumbleweed, ls(1) calls
        newfstatat(STDOUT_FILENO, ...), but only when there is something to
        output.

        * tests/ls/stat-free-color.sh: Add -a option to the reference invocation
        of ls, thus enforcing something gets output.

2021-04-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: clarify that ln --relative requires --symbolic to be specified
        * doc/coreutils.texi (ln invocation): State --symbolic is required.
        * src/ln.c (usage): Explicitly state -s is not implied.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/47703

        doc: clarify what's counted by wc
        * src/wc.c (usage): State that only printable characters are considered
        when counting words.  This also disambiguates wether we're talking
        about bytes or characters in this context.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (wc invocation): Likewise.  Also clarify
        that --characters counts valid locale aware characters,
        and that --lines does not count a trailing "line" unless
        it ends with a newline character.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/47702

        maint: use "char const *" rather than "const char *"
        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit-const-char): Add a new syntax-check to
        enforce this style.
        * *.[ch]: sed -i 's/const char \*/char const */g'

2021-04-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        ls: cache name width determination
        This is especially important now for --sort=width,
        as that can greatly increase how often this
        expensive quote_name_width() function is called per file.

        This also helps the default invocation of ls,
        or specifically the --format={across,vertical} cases
        (when --width is not set to 0),
        to avoid two calls to this function per file.

        Note the only case where we later compute the width,
        is for --format=commas.  That's only done once though,
        so we leave the computation close to use to
        maximize hardware caching.

        * src/ls.c (struct fileinfo): Add a WIDTH member to cache
        the screen width of the file name.
        (update_current_files_info): Set the WIDTH members for cases
        they're needed multiple times.  Note we do this explicitly here,
        rather than caching at use, so that the fileinfo
        structures can remain const in the sorting and presentation functions.
        (sort_files): Call the new update_current_files_info() in this
        initialization function.
        (fileinfo_name_width): Renamed from fileinfo_width,
        and adjusted to return the cached value if available.

2021-04-11  Carl Edquist  <edquist@cs.wisc.edu>

        ls: add --sort=width option to sort by file name width
        This helps identify the outliers for long filenames, and also produces
        a more compact display of columns when listing a directory with many
        entries of various widths.

        * src/ls.c (sort_type, sort_types, sort_width): New sort_width sort
        type.
        (sort_args): Add "width" sort arg.
        (cmp_width, fileinfo_width): New sort function and helper for file name
        width.
        (quote_name_width): Add function prototype declaration.
        (usage): Document --sort=width option.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Document --sort=width option.
        * tests/ls/sort-width-option.sh: New test for --sort=width option.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2021-03-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        env: simplify --split-string memory management
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add idx.
        * src/env.c: Include idx.h, minmax.h.
        Prefer idx_t to ptrdiff_t when values are nonnegative.
        (valid_escape_sequence, escape_char, validate_split_str)
        (CHECK_START_NEW_ARG):
        Remove; no longer needed now that we validate as we go.
        (struct splitbuf): New type.
        (splitbuf_grow, splitbuf_append_byte, check_start_new_arg)
        (splitbuf_finishup): New functions.
        (build_argv): New arg ARGC.  Validate and process in one go, using
        the new functions; this is simpler and more reliable than the old
        approach (as witness the recent bug).  Avoid integer overflow in
        the unlikely case where the string contains more than INT_MAX
        arguments.
        (parse_split_string): Simplify by exploiting the new build_argv.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2021-03-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: add a test case for recent env fix
        * tests/misc/env-S.pl: Add a test case for recent commit ec6904f0.

        maint: ignore all .a files in .gitignore
        * .gitignore: Rather than add the new src/libcksum_pclmul.a,
        just ignore any such libs.
        * src/.gitignore: Likewise.
        Reported by Kristoffer Brånemyr.

2021-03-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        env: prefer ptrdiff_t
        * src/env.c (usvars_used, vnlen, unset_envvars, expansion)
        (build_argv): Prefer ptrdiff_t to size_t when either will do.

        env: improve whitespace warning
        * src/env.c (main): Issue -S warning for any whitespace,
        not just space.

        env: use GNU coding style
        * src/env.c: Use GNU coding style for recentish changes.

        env: remove asserts
        The assertions didn’t help catch the most recent bug which
        was in their area, and kind of get in the way.
        * src/env.c: Do not include <assert.h>, and remove all assertions.
        These seem to have been put in to pacify gcov, but surely there’s
        a better way.
        (escape_char): Pacify GCC with 'assume' instead.

        doc: document env fix
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Document recent change.

        env: fix address violation with '\v' in -S
        Problem reported by Frank Busse (Bug#47412).
        * src/env.c (C_ISSPACE_CHARS): New macro.
        (shortopts, build_argv, main): Treate all C-locale space
        characters like space and tab, for compatibility with FreeBSD.
        (validate_split_str, build_argv, parse_split_string):
        Use the C locale, not the current locale, to determine whether a
        byte is a space character.

2021-03-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        hostname: pacify valgrind
        * src/hostname.c (main) [IF_LINT]: Free hostname (Bug#47384).

        hostname: use puts
        * src/hostname.c (main): Prefer puts to printf "%s\n".

        maint: indenting
        * src/ln.c: Fix indenting.

2021-03-25  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        ln: fix memory leaks in do_link
        * src/ln.c (do_link): Free memory allocated by convert_abs_rel
        on all code paths (Bug#47373).

2021-03-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        stdbuf: port lib to macOS
        * src/libstdbuf.c (fprintf, free, strtoumax): Undef these too,
        since Gnulib might replace them.

2021-03-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cksum: port recent changes to macOS
        * src/cksum.c (cksum_slice8): Fix bug on little-endian
        platforms lacking __bswap_32: the SWAP macro evaluates
        its argument multiple times, but the macro has a side effect.

2021-03-22  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: update bootstrap from gnulib
        * bootstrap: Sync from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap; the previous gnulib
        update (commit 1a3eb6c30) missed to update that file.

2021-03-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ptx: remove use of diacrit module
        The diacrit module is obsolete, and ptx’s use of it is obsolete
        too; it assumes an 8-bit locale (not that common these days) and
        that TeX cannot process the 8-bit characters (nowadays, it can).
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (Charset selection in ptx): Document this.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove diacrit.
        * src/ptx.c: Do not include diacrit.h.
        (print_field, fix_output_parameters): Remove obsolete support
        for 8-bit diacritics.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2021-03-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: don't exit immediately if a single file overflows
        This behavior was introduced in commit FILEUTILS-4_0_44-4-g519b707b4.

        * src/cksum.c (cksum_slice8): Only report the overflow, and continue.
        * src/cksum_pclmul.c (cksum_pclmul): Likewise.

2021-03-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cksum: add --debug to diagnose which implementation used
        * src/cksum.c: (main): Use getopt_long to parse options,
        and handle the new --debug option.
        (pclmul_supported): Diagnose various failures and attempts.
        * NEWS: Mention the new option.

2021-03-15  Kristoffer Brånemyr  <ztion1@yahoo.se>

        cksum: use pclmul hardware instruction for CRC32 calculation
        Use cpuid to detect CPU support for hardware instruction.
        Fall back to slice by 8 algorithm if not supported.
        A 500MiB file improves from 1.40s to 0.67s on an i3-2310M

        * configure.ac [USE_PCLMUL_CRC32]: A new conditional,
        set when __get_cpuid() and clmul compiler intrinsics are supported.
        * src/cksum.c (pclmul_supported): A new function using __get_cpuid()
        to determine if pclmul instructions are supported.
        (cksum): A new function refactored from cksum_slice8(),
        which calls pclmul_supported() and then cksum_slice8()
        or cksum_pclmul() as appropriate.
        * src/cksum.h: Export the crctab array for use in the new module.
        * src/cksum_pclmul.c: A new module to implement using pclmul intrinsics.
        * po/POTFILES.in: Reference the new cksum_pclmul module.
        * src/local.mk: Likewise.  Note we build it as a separate library
        so that it can be portably built with separate -mavx etc. flags.
        * tests/misc/cksum.sh: Add new test modes for pertinent buffer sizes.

2021-03-14  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: propagate DEPENDENCIES to libs in single binary mode
        build-aux/gen-single-binary.sh (override_single): A new function
        to refactor the existing mappings for dir, vdir, and arch.
        This function now also sets the DEPENDENCIES variable so that these
        dependencies can be maintained later in the script, where
        we now propagate the automake generated $(src_$cmd_DEPENDENCIES)
        to our equivalent src_libsinglebin_$cmd_a_DEPENDENCIES.
        This will ensure that any required libs are built,
        which we require in a following change to cksum that
        builds part of it as a separate library.

2021-02-19  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        rmdir: diagnose non following of symlinks with trailing slash
        GNU/Linux is unusual here in that rmdir("symlink/") returns ENOTDIR,
        whereas Solaris and FreeBSD at least, will follow the symlink
        and remove the target directory.  We don't make the behavior
        on Linux kernels consistent, but at least clarify
        the confusing error message.

        * src/rmdir (main): Output a specific error message for the above case.
        (remove_parents): In the error message, don't assume intermediate paths
        are directories, as they could be symlinks.
        * tests/rmdir/symlink-errors.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2021-02-18  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        stat,tail: add support for the exfat file system
        Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1921427

        * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add case for the 'exfat' file system type.
        * NEWS: Mention the Improvement.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/46613

2021-02-15  Erik Auerswald  <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>

        pr: fix alignment of input tabs to multiple columns
        This regression was introduced in commit COREUTILS-6_8-58-g553d347d3

        * src/pr.c (init_parameters): Process tabs for multiple columns.
        * tests/pr/pr-tests.pl: Add test cases.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/46422

2021-02-10  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cat: extend --show-ends to show \r\n as ^M$
          - \r\n is common a line end combination
          - catting such a file without options causes it to display normally
          - overwriting the first char with $, loses info

        * src/cat.c (cat): Convert \r preceeding a \n to ^M.
        * tests/misc/cat-E.sh: New test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference new test.
        * tests/misc/cat-proc.sh: Fix typo.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cat invocation): Mention the new behavior.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2021-01-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        expr: fix bug with unmatched \(...\)
        Problem reported by Qiuhao Li.
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (String expressions):
        Document the correct behavior, which POSIX requires.
        * src/expr.c (docolon): Treat unmatched \(...\) as empty.
        * tests/misc/expr.pl: New test.

2021-01-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        split: fix --number=K/N to output correct part of file
        This functionality regressed with the adjustments
        in commit v8.25-4-g62e7af032

        * src/split.c (bytes_chunk_extract): Account for already read data
        when seeking into the file.
        * tests/split/b-chunk.sh: Use the hidden ---io-blksize option,
        to test this functionality.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/46048

2021-01-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: rmdir --recursive substitutes
        * doc/coreutils.texi (rmdir invocation): Add note on how to remove
        empty subdirectories recursively.

2021-01-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        mkdir: fix bug when -m's more generous than umask
        Problem reported by David McCall (Bug#45886).
        I introduced this problem when fixing Bug#14371.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        * src/mkdir.c (struct mkdir_options): New members umask_ancestor,
        umask_self, replacing umask_value.
        (make_ancestor): Use them when temporarily adjusting umask.
        (main): Set them, and set the umask to umask_self instead
        of leaving it alone.
        * tests/mkdir/perm.sh (tests): Add test case for bug.

2021-01-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: modernize and fix regexp xref
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Fix regexp cross-reference that had become
        out-of-date (Bug#45749).  Also, fix some obsolete references to
        SunOS and to /usr/dict/words, and change “Linux” to “GNU/Linux”
        where appropriate.  Unfortunately the pipeline example gets more
        complicated since /usr/share/dict/words is not sorted the way that
        ‘comm’ wants.

2021-01-03  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: make formatting of SEE ALSO in cat.1 and tac.1 consistent
        None of the coreutils man pages - but the two above - are using bold
        setting for the references to other man pages in the SEE ALSO section.

        * man/cat.x (SEE ALSO): Remove '\fB...\fP' setting.
        * man/tac.x: Likewise, and add a reference to cat(1).

2021-01-02  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: exempt 'doc/fdl.texi' from 'make update-copyright'
        This file is a copy from gnulib and therefore should not get changed
        by the yearly update.

        * .x-update-copyright: Add pattern for the above file.
        * doc/fdl.texi: Revert the previous change.

2021-01-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: update all copyright year number ranges
        Run "make update-copyright" and then...

        * gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
        * tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.
        * tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.

2020-12-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: add a test for cksum
        * tests/misc/cksum.sh: Test basic operation.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.

2020-12-28  Kristoffer Brånemyr  <ztion1@yahoo.se>

        cksum: use more efficient slice by 8 algorithm
        A 100MB file improves from 2.50s to 1.80s on a Sparc T5220
        A 100MB file improves from 0.54s to 0.13s on an i3-2310M

        * bootstrap.conf: Explicitly depend on byteswap,
        since now used directly by coreutils.
        * src/cksum.c (cksum): Process in multiples of 8 bytes.
        (main): Adjust for generation of expanded crctab.
        * src/cksum.h: Split now larger crctab to separate header.
        * src/local.mk: Reference the new header.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2020-12-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * src/make-prime-list.c (free): Undef, since Gnulib's free-posix
        module now defines this to rpl_free on some platforms.

2020-12-18  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: remove extraneous ./src/ prefix from examples
        * doc/coreutils.texi (numfmt invocation): s|./src/numfmt|numfmt|

        doc: add `seq inf` and `sleep inf` examples to texinfo
        * doc/coreutils.texi (seq invocation): Mention "inf" is supported,
        and describe that it's handled specially to generate infinite
        whole integer sequences.  Also mention that such infinite generation
        is supported for integer steps up to 200.
        (sleep invocation): Give `sleep inf` as an example to sleep forever.
        * src/seq.c: Add a comment on SEQ_FAST_STEP_LIMIT, to say it's
        reflected in the texinfo description.

2020-12-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: document mkdir -m -p better
        Chris Colohan wrote that the man page did not do enough to dispel
        a common misunderstanding that “contributed to one of the scariest
        outages Google has ever seen” (Bug#45258).
        * doc/coreutils.texi (mkdir invocation):
        * src/mkdir.c (usage): Document -m vs -p better.

2020-12-15  KOBAYASHI Takashi  <a1415tk@aiit.ac.jp>

        nl: fix --section-delimiter handling of single characters
        * src/nl.c (main): Enforce the POSIX specified
        behavior of assuming ':' is specified after a single
        character argument to -d.
        * tests/misc/nl.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2020-12-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: mention the GNU extensions to nl --section-delimiter
        * doc/coreutils.texi (nl invocation): Mention the GNU extensions
        of allowing arbitrary length and empty delimiter strings.
        * src/nl.c (usage): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/nl.sh: Add test cases for the GNU extensions.

        maint: refactor nl section delimiter handling
        * src/nl.c (main): Update the default delimiter characters
        when passed two characters with --section-delimiter.
        Avoid redundant copies for the body and footer delimiter strings,
        and instead, just offset into the header string.
        (check_section): Avoid redundant comparing of 2 bytes of memory
        for an empty delimiter.

2020-12-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2020-12-08  Arman Absalan  <armanaxh@gmail.com>

        chroot,comm,join: fix usage options style
        * src/chroot.c (usage): Fix indentation of options.
        * src/comm.c: Likewise.
        * src/join.c: Likewise.

2020-12-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        date: with --debug, show the output format
        The format can be determined from --options or the locale,
        so it's useful to output the format string being used.

        * src/date.c (show_date): Show the output format
        along with the date being shown.
        * tests/misc/date-debug.sh: Adjust accordingly.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/44960

2020-11-27  Tim Gates  <tim.gates@iress.com>

        maint: fix typo, characteres -> characters
        * src/expr.c: Fix typo in comment.

2020-11-26  Nishant Nayan  <nishant.nayan@oracle.com>

        rm: do not skip files upon failure to remove an empty dir
        When removing a directory fails for some reason, and that directory
        is empty, the rm_fts code gets the return value of the excise call
        confused with the return value of its earlier call to prompt,
        causing fts_skip_tree to be called again and the next file
        that rm would otherwise have deleted to survive.

        * src/remove.c (rm_fts): Ensure we only skip a single fts entry,
        when processing empty dirs.  I.e. only skip the entry
        having successfully removed it.
        * tests/rm/empty-immutable-skip.sh: New root-only test.
        * tests/local.mk: Add it.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/44883

2020-11-26  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: mention in NEWS about new df remote fs types
        * NEWS: Mention new remote file system types
        recognized since gnulib commit dd1fc46b.

2020-11-23  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: remove no longer needed se_const helper
        This was needed before libselinux-2.3 (May 2014),
        but modern releases have the correct const declarations.

        * src/chcon.c: Remove se_const() wrapper.
        * src/cp.c: Likewise.
        * src/install.c: Likewise.
        * src/mkdir.c: Likewise.
        * src/mkfifo.c: Likewise.
        * src/mknod.c: Likewise.
        * src/system.h: Likewise.
        * gnulib: update to pick up const correctness fixes in selinux stubs.

2020-11-23  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix syntax-check failure
        * po/POTFILES.in (src/selinux.c): Remove entry as this source doesn't
        contain any translatable strings anymore; avoids a sc_po_check failure.

2020-11-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        install: suppress "Operation not supported" false alarms
        At least, I *think* they are false alarms.  An SELinux expert eye
        would be welcome.
        * src/install.c (setdefaultfilecon): If selabel_lookup fails
        due to either ENOTSUP or ENODATA, don’t diagnose the issue.
        Problem reported by Kamil Dudka in:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-11/msg00050.html

        maint: propagate errno better in selinux.c
        * src/selinux.c: Don’t include die.h; no longer needed.
        (computecon, defaultcon, restorecon): Propagate errno.
        (defaultcon, restorecon): Don’t diagnose errors or exit, as that’s
        the caller’s responsibility.

2020-11-23  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: use absolute paths with selabel_lookup
        * src/selinux.c: selabel_lookup requires absolute paths
        (while only older matchpathcon before libselinux < 2.1.5 2011-0826 did).
        * po/POTFILES.in: Readd src/selinux.c since we now have
        a translatable error message.

2020-11-22  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: minor cleanup
        The previous commit introduced a couple of syntax-check failures.

        * .gitignore (/lib/se-label.h): Add entry to silence the
        sc_gitignore_missing check.  Sort entries in C locale.
        * po/POTFILES.in (src/selinux.c): Remove entry as this source doesn't
        contain any translatable strings anymore; avoids a sc_po_check failure.
        * src/mv.c: Replace tabs by spaces to avoid complaints by
        sc_prohibit_tab_based_indentation.

2020-11-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: port from matchpathcon to selabel_lookup
        Ubuntu 20.10 is using a newer version of libselinux that
        complains that matchpathcon is obsolete.  Rewrite the code
        that it uses the recommended selabel_lookup instead.
        * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Do not check for
        matchpathcon_init_prefix, as it is no longer used.
        * src/copy.c (set_file_security_ctx): Omit process_local arg,
        as it is equivalent to !x->set_security_context.  All callers changed.
        * src/copy.h (struct cp_options): set_security_context is now of
        type struct selabel_handle *, not bool.  All uses changed.
        * src/cp.c, src/install.c, src/mkdir.c, src/mkfifo.c, src/mknod.c:
        * src/mv.c: Include selinux/label.h.
        (main): Use selabel_open for set_security context.
        * src/install.c (matchpathcon_init_prefix): Remove; now unused.
        (get_labeling_handle): New static function.
        (setdefaultfilecon, main): Use it.
        (setdefaultfilecon): Do something regardless of
        ENABLE_MATCHPATHCON, which seems to be a revenant macro.
        (setdefaultfilecon): Use selabel_lookup instead of the obsolescent
        matchpathcon.  Report an error unless it fails due to ENOENT.
        * src/local.mk (src_ginstall_CPPFLAGS): Remove.
        * src/selinux.c: Include selinux/label.h
        Do not include die.h, error.h, canonicalize.h.
        (defaultcon, restorecon_private, restorecon):
        New arg HANDLE.  All callers changed.
        Use selabel_lookup rather than matchpathcon.
        (restorecon_private, restorecon): Don’t lose track of errno.
        * src/selinux.c, src/selinux.h:
        (restorecon): Don’t call ‘error’; that’s the caller’s job.
        Use HAVE_SELINUX_LABEL_H, not HAVE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H,
        in case there is some weird system with the former but not the latter.
        * src/selinux.h (struct selinux_handle): Add forward decl.

        build: port to Solaris 10
        * src/local.mk (src_ln_LDADD, src_mktemp_LDADD, src_tac_LDADD):
        Add $(LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME), since these use tempname which uses
        clock_gettime if getrandom fails.  On platforms like Solaris 10,
        clock_gettime is not in the standard C library.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2020-11-18  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: mention that sort -g supports hex numbers
        * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Mention explicitly
        that --general-numeric-sort supports arbitrary format hex numbers,
        but also mention that consistent case/width hex numbers can
        be sorted faster with a standard sort.

2020-11-14  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tr: fix crash validating -c with some case char classes
        This crash was identified by Cyber Independent Testing Lab:
        https://cyber-itl.org/2020/10/28/citl-7000-defects.html
        and was introduced with commit v8.5-163-g3f48829c2

        * src/tr.c (validate_case_classes): Don't apply these
        extra case alignment checks in the --complement case,
        which is even more restrictive as to the contents of SET2.
        * tests/misc/tr-case-class.sh: Add a test case,
        for a large SET1, which caused the length adjustment
        in validate_case_classes to underflow and trigger the assert.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2020-11-12  Ben Pfaff  <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

        doc: clarify in texinfo that `test == ...` is non portable
        * doc/coreutils.texi (test invocation): Mention non portability
        of the double equals form.

2020-11-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        ls: fix crash printing SELinux context for unstatable files
        This crash was identified by Cyber Independent Testing Lab:
        https://cyber-itl.org/2020/10/28/citl-7000-defects.html
        and was introduced with commit v6.9.90-11-g4245876e2

        * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Ensure scontext is initialized
        in the case where files are not statable.
        * tests/ls/selinux-segfault.sh: Renamed from proc-selinux-segfault.sh,
        and added test case for broken symlinks.
        * tests/local.mk: Adjust for the renamed test.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2020-11-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        timeout: support sub-second timeouts on macOS
        * m4/jm-macros.m4: Check for setitimer.
        * src/timeout.c: Use setitimer if timer_settime is not available.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2020-11-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid strncat warning on GCC
        GCC 10.1.1 without optimization gives:

          error: ‘strncat’ argument 2 declared attribute ‘nonstring’
            [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
            strncat (comment, UT_ID (utmp_ent), utmpsize);

        Note the strncat man page says that:
          "src does not need to be null-terminated
           if it contains n or more bytes."
        And the POSIX spec says that the second (source) parameter
        is an array not a string.
        So I think it's incorrect for strncat to require src be a string type.
        This constraint seems to be being added to the gcc builtin strncat,
        as specifiying -fno-builtin also avoids the warning.
        Note specifying any optimization level also avoids the warning.

        * src/who.c (make_id_equals_comment): Avoid the issue by using
        stpcpy + stzncpy, instead of strcpy + strncat.
        This pattern is used elsewhere in who.c

2020-10-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        stat,tail: sync file system constants from the linux kernel
        * src/stat.c: Add magic constants for "devmem", and
        "zonefs" file systems.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

        maint: cleanup operation of fs-magic-compare
        * src/local.mk: Ensure we map 2 hex digits to 4,
        so that we don't output already handled Z3FOLD file system (0x33).
        Also hide the generation command for src/fs.h.

2020-10-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: make blank lines before --help consistent
        * src/basenc.c (usage): Remove extraneous blank line,
        to be consistent with other utilities that have options.
        * src/realpath.c: Likewise.
        * src/runcon.c: Likewise.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/44248

2020-10-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: avoid new sort.c warning from upcoming GCC11
        gcc version 11.0.0 20201025 (experimental) warns that
        src/sort.c:1655:1: warning: function might be candidate for attribute \
          'pure' if it is known to return normally [-Wsuggest-attribute=pure]
        * src/sort.c (limfield): Mark as pure.

2020-10-26  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        dd: drop old workaround for lseek() bug in Linux kernel
        The workaround triggers warnings from newer kernel versions in case
        a user does not have sufficient privileges for the MTIOCGET ioctl.

        * src/dd.c (skip_via_lseek): Drop wrapper function no longer needed.
        (skip): Use lseek() directly.
        (advance_input_after_read_error): Likewise.

        Reported-by: Nir Soffer at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1876840
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/44235

2020-10-26  KOBAYASHI Takashi  <a1415tk@aiit.ac.jp>

        nl: support a negative --line-increment
        * src/nl.c (main): Allow -i to accept down to INTMAX_MIN.
        * tests/misc/nl.sh: Add test cases.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2020-10-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        nl: only fail if need to output overflowed numbers
        Previously we would have failed immediately upon internal overflow,
        which didn't output the full line being processed, and assumed
        there would be another numbered line.

        * src/nl.c (line_no_overflow): A new global to track overflow.
        (print_lineno): Only fail if about to output an overflowed number.
        (reset_lineno): A new function to refactor resetting of the number,
        and which also clears line_no_overflow.
        * tests/misc/nl.sh: Add a test case.

2020-10-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: add lib/parse-datetime-gen.h to .gitignore
        * .gitignore: update to ignore new file
        generated by the latest gnulib update.

        maint: sync help2man to latest version
        * man/help2man: sync to changes from version 1.47.16.
        Note this doesn't materially change the generated man pages.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/44105

2020-10-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gl/lib/randperm.c, src/cp-hash.c, src/ls.c, src/sort.c, src/tail.c:
        Change all instaces of hash_delete to hash_remove to accommodate
        change to Gnulib API.

2020-10-17  Grigorii Sokolik  <g.sokol99@g-sokol.info>

        maint: remove already handled FIXME in tail.c
        * src/tail.c: Remove FIXME to follow a file name in a recreated
        directory. The comment was added in commit v8.5-191-g61b77891c
        while the fix (albeit not using inotify) was added in
        commit v8.27-21-gba5fe2d4b

        maint: update docs for build prerequisites
        * README-prereq: Explicitly pull tags,
        and update the xz git repo url.

2020-09-29  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@telfort.nl>

        doc: fix punctuation in stat --help
        * src/stat.c (usage): Replace a mistaken semicolon with a colon,
        and replace mistaken backticks with single quotes.  Also reorder
        some words, for clarity.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/43707

2020-08-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: clarify timeout --foreground description
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Avoid any implication
        that `timeout --foreground` could be used to retroactively
        timeout commands not already invoked by timeout(1).
        Fixes bug https://bugs.gnu.org/42831

2020-08-08  Emanuele Giacomelli  <vpooldyn-linux@yahoo.it>

        csplit: fix regex suppression with specific match count
        * src/csplit.c (process_regexp): Process the line suppression
        in all invocations so that the last match is suppressed.
        Previously with a non infinite match count,
        the last regex pattern was not suppressed.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        * tests/misc/csplit-suppress-matched.pl: Add a test case.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/42764

2020-07-31  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        tests: skip some parts of 'tests/rmdir/ignore.sh' if run as root
        Parts of this test expect that the rmdir syscall returns with EPERM,
        but the root user does not see that.

        * tests/rmdir/ignore.sh: Add uid_is_privileged_ guards around parts
        of the test which expect rmdir() to fail with EPERM.

        Reported by Nick Alcock <nix@esperi.org.uk> in
        https://bugs.gnu.org/42633

2020-07-28  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: show version in title of HTML manual
        * doc/coreutils.texi (@include version.texi): Move before ...
        (@settitle): ... this.  Add the version after the package name.

        Suggested by Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org> in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2020-07/msg00021.html

2020-07-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * src/local.mk (src_expr_LDADD, src_factor_LDADD):
        Adjust to Gnulib renaming of LIB_GMP to LIBGMP.

2020-07-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: fix typo in env --split-string documentation
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Fix grammar.

2020-07-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        date: clarify the Epoch
        * src/date.c (usage): Mention the Epoch under %s for clarity,
        and capitalize.

        doc: modernize date examples
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Use more-modern date examples.
        Capitalize “Epoch” to be consistent with POSIX.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add hash-triple.

2020-07-20  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: clarify 'timeout -k' behavior
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Document that the the
        duration of --kill-after=DURATION begins when sending the initial
        signal.  Also mention that -k does not have any effect if timeout's
        duration is 0.

        Suggested by Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>.

2020-07-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        factor: port to --without-libgmp
        * src/factor.c (mp_factor_using_division): Use mpz_fdiv_q_2exp
        instead of its no-longer-documented mpz_div_2exp alias.
        (print_factors): Use mpz_out_str instead of gmp_printf.

2020-07-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: be less aggressive about -fanalyzer
        * configure.ac: Don’t enable -fanalyzer unless configured with the
        new --enable-gcc-warnings=expensive option.  See thread at:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-07/msg00011.html

2020-07-09  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        factor: explain why non-GMP code (Bug#42269)
        * doc/coreutils.texi (factor invocation):
        * src/factor.c: Explain why the two-word algorithm is useful.

2020-07-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: mention expr and factor bignums
        * NEWS:
        * doc/coreutils.texi (expr invocation, factor invocation):
        Mention bignum support on all platforms.  Modernize timings.

        factor: treat ' +bignum' like non-bignum
        * src/factor.c (strto2uintmax): Instead of here ...
        (print_factors): ... skip spaces and '+' here, so that
        bignums are treated like non-bignums.
        * tests/misc/factor.pl (bug-gmp-plus_2_sup_128_plus_1): New test.

        tests: simplify since expr now works on bignums
        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_expr_unsigned): Remove.
        * tests/dd/skip-seek-past-dev.sh (DEV_OFLOW):
        * tests/id/setgid.sh (gp1):
        * tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh (CUT_MAX):
        * tests/misc/expr.pl:
        * tests/misc/sort-discrim.sh:
        Assume expr works on bignums.
        * tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh (subtract_one):
        Remove; no longer needed.

        factor: simplify tests by assuming libgmp
        * tests/misc/factor.pl: Test bignums even if !HAVE_GMP.

2020-07-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: use Gnulib libgmp module
        This lets use assume multiple-precision arithmetic on all
        platforms, simplifying the code.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add libgmp.
        * configure.ac: Don’t call cu_GMP, as this is now done by Gnulib.
        * m4/gmp.m4: Remove.
        * src/expr.c, src/factor.c: Use gmp.h unconditionally.
        * src/factor.c: Use the simpler ‘#ifndef mpz_inits’ to
        determine whether there is an mpz_inits macro.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2020-07-03  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: add timeout examples
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Add examples.

        Suggested by Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org> in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2020-06/msg00018.html

2020-06-30  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

        tests: avoid spurious testsuite failure
        * tests/dd/stats.sh: Increase timeout.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/42135

2020-06-26  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix false failure with valgrind and reflink
        * tests/cp/fiemap-FMR.sh: Avoid FICLONE ioctl,
        which would avoid the point of the test (fiemap testing).
        Also it avoids a valgrind bug with this ioctl:
        https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397605

2020-06-26  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: use copy_file_range if available
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add copy-file-range.
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Try copy_file_range if not
        looking for holes.

        cp: use SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE if available
        If it works, prefer lseek with SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE to FIEMAP,
        as lseek is simpler and more portable (will be in next POSIX).
        Problem reported in 2011 by Jeff Liu (Bug#8061).
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * src/copy.c (lseek_copy) [SEEK_HOLE]: New function.
        (enum scantype): New constants ERROR_SCANTYPE, LSEEK_SCANTYPE.
        (union scan_inference): New type.
        (infer_scantype): Last arg is now union scan_inference *,
        not struct extent_scan *.  All callers changed.
        Prefer SEEK_HOLE to FIEMAP if both work, since
        SEEK_HOLE is simpler and more portable.
        (copy_reg): Do the fdadvise after initial scan, in case the scan
        fails.  Report an error if the initial scan fails.
        (copy_reg) [SEEK_HOLE]: Use lseek_copy if scantype says so.

        cp: avoid copy_reg goto
        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Redo to avoid label and goto.

        cp: refactor extent_copy
        * src/copy.c (extent_copy): New arg SCAN, replacing
        REQUIRE_NORMAL_COPY.  All callers changed.
        (enum scantype): New type.
        (infer_scantype): Rename from is_probably_sparse and return
        the new type.  Add args FD and SCAN.  All callers changed.

        maint: typo fix
        * NEWS: Fix typo.

2020-06-23  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        chmod: man page fixes
        * man/chmod.x: Mention -6000 too.  Use .BR to fix trailing period.

2020-06-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: fix punctuation in man pages
        * man/chmod.x: Add missing punctuation.
        * src/expand-common.c: Likewise.
        * src/numfmt.c: Likewise.
        * src/rm.c: Likewise.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/41962

2020-06-20  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        stat,tail: add support for the VBOXSF file system
        * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add case for the 'vboxsf' file system type
        which is used for VirtualBox Shared Folders mounted in VirtualBox guest
        VMs.
        * NEWS: Mention the Improvement.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/41935

2020-06-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: default to COW
        Likewise for ‘install’.  Proposed in Bug#24400, and long past due.
        * NEWS:
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation):
        * src/copy.h (enum Reflink_type): Document this.
        * src/cp.c (cp_option_init):
        * src/install.c (cp_option_init): Implement this.

2020-06-15  Tobias Stoeckmann  <tobias@stoeckmann.org>

        maint: avoid signed integer overflows
        Since -LONG_MIN results in LONG_MIN again, the operation itself is
        a signed integer overflow.

        This can be observed with the following calls (best if compiled
        with -ftrapv or -fsanitize=undefined):

          $ numfmt --padding=-9223372036854775808
          $ seq 1e-9223372036854775808

        Technically, the change in seq "reduces" the precision, but a double
        or long double that small would be represented as 0 anyway.

        * src/numfmt.c: Explicitly disallow --padding=LONG_MIN.
        * src/seq.c: Treat 1e$LONG_MIN as 1e-$LONG_MAX.
        * tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Add a test case.
        * tests/misc/seq-precision.sh: Likewise.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/41850

2020-06-07  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: timeout: improve documentation of the exit status
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Document that the exit
        status is 137 when the KILL signal is used, regardless of whether that
        signal is sent to COMMAND or timeout.
        * src/timeout.c (usage): Likewise. Also split out and expand
        on the possible exit status values to a separate table.

        Discussed at https://bugs.gnu.org/41634

2020-06-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: use getrandom, not getentropy
        This makes for one Gnulib module less, and at runtime there’s
        typically just one getrandom syscall instead of several for large
        nonces.
        * gl/lib/randread.c: Include sys/random.h instead of sys/time.h
        and unistd.h.
        (get_nonce): Use getrandom, not getentropy.
        * gl/modules/randread (Depends-on):
        Depend on getrandom, not getentropy.
        * src/shred.c (main):
        * src/shuf.c (main):
        * src/sort.c (random_md5_state_init):
        Say "getrandom" rather than "getentropy" in (unlikely) diagnostic.

        maint: use getentropy and new tempname modules
        Update gnulib submodule to latest and use its new features.
        Gnulib’s new getentropy module means coreutils can now assume
        getentropy instead of approximating it, badly in some cases.
        Gnulib’s improvements to the tempname module mean coreutils no
        longer needs to maintain private patches.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove gettimeofday.
        * gl/lib/randread.c (NAME_OF_NONCE_DEVICE): Remove.
        (get_nonce): Return success indicator.  Remove bytes_bound arg.
        All callers changed.  Rewrite by using getentropy instead of
        reading the nonce device and falling back on gettimeofday.
        Fail if getentropy fails.
        (randread_new): Return NULL (setting errno) if get_nonce fails.
        All callers changed.
        * gl/lib/tempname.c.diff, gl/lib/tempname.h.diff:
        * gl/modules/tempname.diff: Remove.
        * gl/modules/randread (Depends-on):
        Depend on getentropy, not gettimeofday.
        * src/ptx.c (swallow_file_in_memory):
        * src/shuf.c (read_input):
        Adjust to read_file changes in Gnulib.
        * src/shred.c (main):
        * src/shuf.c (main):
        * src/sort.c (random_md5_state_init):
        Diagnose the new form of randread_new failures: randread_new can
        fail now when !random_source, meaning getentropy failed.

        echo: pacify Oracle Studio 12.6
        * src/echo.c (main): Don’t assign pointer to bool.
        This is well-defined in C99, but is arguably bad style
        and Oracle Studio 12.6 complains.

2020-05-25  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: copy FDL from gnulib instead of using it as module
        Since the previous gnulib update, bootstrap outputs this warning:

          Notice from module fdl:
            Don't use this module! Instead, copy the referenced license file \
            into your version control repository.

        See gnulib commit:
          https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=88fc5afbccc9

        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove 'fdl'.
        * doc/fdl.texi: Add file as a copy of 'gnulib/doc/fdl.texi'.
        * doc/.gitignore (/fdl.texi): Remove entry.
        * cfg.mk (FILTER_LONG_LINES): Add pattern for the 'fdl.texi' file.

2020-05-23  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: fix syntax-check failure from recent adjustment
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate after commit v8.32-15-g6d0107a37

2020-05-23  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        tests: fix removed-directory test
        The previous attempt to skip that test on NFS (commit 4181fc518362)
        made the test fail; it introduced two problems:
        a) In the good case, i.e., when the subshell returns with exit status 0,
        the test ran into framework_failure_.
        b) As the subshell also runs with 'set -x', the later comparison of
        /dev/null with 'err' would fail.

        * tests/ls/removed-directory.sh: Revert to the style without subshell,
        and add 'test -d .' to verify that 'ls' can read the removed dir.

2020-05-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        date: document +%-N change
        Suggested by Kamil Dudka in:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2020-05/msg00205.html
        * NEWS: Mention the change for coreutils 8.23.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Padding and other flags):
        Document it.

        ls: port removed-directory test to NFS
        * tests/ls/removed-directory.sh:
        Port test to NFS, where one gets a stale file handle
        when looking at a removed directory.

        dd: omit unnecessary vars when !lint
        * src/dd.c (real_ibuf, real_obuf) [!lint]:
        Remove, as they're needed only when lint checking.
        All uses removed when 'lint' is not defined.

        maint: omit unnecessary pragmas and fix tsort.c
        * src/chown-core.c, src/comm.c:
        * src/tsort.c (record_relation):
        Remove GCC 10 pragmas that are not needed in GCC 10.1.0 (the first
        public GCC 10 release) and that in some cases cause diagnostics
        with GCC 10.1.0.  The tsort.c change fixes a bug that was
        inadvertantly introduced when these pragmas were added.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2020-05-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid warnings from GCC's -fanalyzer
        * src/env.c (build_argv): Add an assert() to avoid:
          warning: use of NULL 'n' where non-null expected
          [CWE-690] [-Wanalyzer-null-argument]
          note: argument 1 of 'getenv' must be non-null
        * src/dd.c (alloc_ibuf): Don't discard the allocated pointer, to avoid:
          [CWE-401] [-Wanalyzer-malloc-leak]
        (alloc_obuf): Likewise.
        (cleanup): Deallocate the now tracked buffers which
        also avoids "possibly lost" warnings from valgrind.
        * src/tsort.c (search_item): Add asserts to avoid:
          [CWE-690] [-Wanalyzer-null-dereference]
        (record_relation): An assert doesn't suffice here,
        so disable the warning for this function.
        * src/comm.c: Suppress the following false positive for the whole file:
          [CWE-457] [-Wanalyzer-use-of-uninitialized-value]
        * src/chown-core.c: Suppress the following false positive for the file:
          [CWE-415] [-Wanalyzer-double-free]

2020-04-27  Jason Kim  <git@jasonk.me>

        ls: allow --classify to be ignored for non tty output
        Have the `ls` `--classify` option take an optional argument for when to
        classify ("always", "auto", "never"), just like the optional argument
        for `--color`.  When the optional argument is not specified, default to
        "always" for backwards compatibility.

        * src/ls.c (usage): Update help text.
        (decode_switches): Support an optional argument for --classify.
        * tests/ls/classify.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2020-04-22  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        build: update gnulib to latest - to avoid du(1) crash on XFS
        Pull in a fix for FTS to avoid a crash when traversing a heavily
        changed XFS file system:

        > fts: remove NOSTAT_LEAF_OPTIMIZATION

        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.
        * gnulib: Update to latest.
        * bootstrap: Sync from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap.

        Discussed at:
        <https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2020-04/msg00068.html>

2020-04-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: clean up recently added test
        * tests/misc/uniq-collate.sh: Remove logic that
        was already refactored into gen_input().

        cp: ensure --attributes-only doesn't remove files
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Ensure we don't unlink the destination
        unless explicitly requested.
        * tests/cp/attr-existing.sh: Add test cases.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/40352

2020-03-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * src/selinux.c: Do not include dosname.h; not needed, since
        system.h does that for us via dirname.h.

2020-03-15  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: add texi2dvi build directory to doc/.gitignore
        * doc/.gitignore (/coreutils.t2p/): Add entry for the build directory
        left behind after 'make pdf'.
        While at it, sort the file.

2020-03-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ls: improve removed-directory test
        * tests/ls/removed-directory.sh: Remove host_triplet test.
        Skip this test if one cannot remove the working directory.
        From a suggestion by Bernhard Voelker (Bug#39929).

        ls: restore 8.31 behavior on removed directories
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * src/ls.c: Do not include <sys/sycall.h>
        (print_dir): Don't worry about whether the directory is removed.
        * tests/ls/removed-directory.sh: Adjust to match new (i.e., old)
        behavior.

2020-03-05  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 8.32
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2020-03-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: don't rely on system env(1) being present
        * tests/misc/env-S.pl: `env -i env` will call the system env
        due to the path being cleared, so pass the absolute path
        of our env binary under test to avoid that.  This was seen
        to be an issue on Guix where /usr/bin/env was not available.

        basenc: avoid undefined behaviour in z85 processing
        * src/basenc.c (z85_decode_ctx_init): Ensure we're working
        with unsigned, as otherwise ubsan triggers with:
          src/basenc.c:767:18: runtime error: signed integer overflow:
          43 * 52200625 cannot be represented in type 'int'
        (z85_encode): Likewise to avoid the usban error:
          src/basenc.c:630:26: runtime error:
          left shift of 134 by 24 places cannot be represented in type 'int'

2020-03-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid a false failure on OpenIndiana 11
        * tests/misc/timeout-parameters.sh: Split the large timeout
        handling to ...
        * tests/misc/timeout-large-parameters.sh: ... here, so that
        the 3 second delay is contained in its own test, and if
        the test is skipped due invalid handling within timeout(1),
        it will be more apparent.
        Also adjust the check so we skip whenever the kernel timer
        fires immediately, to handle the buggy OpenIndiana 11 kernel also.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

        tests: avoid a hang on GNU/Hurd from 2019
        * tests/du/8gb.sh: Add a timeout around:
        `dd bs=1 seek=8G of=big < /dev/null`

        tests: use bash in some scripts to avoid false failures
        * init.cfg (require_bash_as_SHELL_): A new function to replace
        SHELL for the current test, with bash if available.
        This is useful on OpenIndiana 11 where /bin/sh was seen
        to have races in handling of SIGPIPE.
        * tests/misc/seq-epipe.sh: Use the new function to enforce bash.
        * tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh: Likewise.
        Reported by Bruno Haible

        tests: improve test coverage for ls stat checks
        * tests/ls/stat-free-color.sh: Check for the availability
        of various stat calls individually, and add statx() and fstatat64()
        to the list to check.  Fix the stat counting logic to
        ignore lines like "+++ exited with 0 +++".
        * tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks.sh: Check syscalls other than stat().

2020-03-01  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        tests: enable 4 more tests to be executed on FreeBSD
        * init.cfg (gcc_shared_libs_): New variable.
        (gcc_shared_): Use it, instead of hardcoding -ldl.
        (require_gcc_shared_): Determine the suitable value
        for gcc_shared_libs_.

2020-02-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix incorrect `|| fail` pattern in tests
        * tests/ls/stat-free-symlinks.sh: s/|| fail/|| fail=1/.
        * tests/misc/tee.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/touch/relative.sh: Likewise.
        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_or_fail): A new syntax-check to avoid this.

2020-02-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid false failures on darwin 19.2.0
        With these adjustments, all tests pass on macOS Catalina.

        * tests/dd/sparse.sh: Adjust so that systems like apfs that
        don't create holes < 16 MiB do not fail erroneously.
        * tests/touch/trailing-slash.sh: Darwin was seen to dereference
        symlinks to files when given a trailing slash, so avoid
        that particular case.

2020-02-29  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        tests: fix test failure on FreeBSD 12
        * tests/misc/csplit-io-err.sh: Limit the effect of the fwrite
        override to streams != stderr, as fwrite is in the error() path there.

2020-02-27  Jan Nieuwenhuizen  <janneke@gnu.org>

        build: once again distribute .tar.gz files
        * configure.ac: Reenable distribution of gzip-compressed
        tarballs, for Guix bootstrapping reasons as discussed at:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-02/msg00042.html
        * THANKS.in: Remove me, as now a committer.
        * NEWS (Build-related): Mention this.

2020-02-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: ensure .deps/ in the project root is ignored by git
        * .gitignore: s|*/.deps/|.deps|

        doc: remove older ChangeLog items
        * Makefile.am: Update the oldest documented version
        to 8.23 which is now about 5 years old.

2020-02-27  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@debian.org>

        ls: issue error message on removed directory
        If the current directory has been removed, then "ls" confusingly
        produced no output and no error message, indistinguishable from
        running on an empty directory.

        * src/ls.c (print_dir): Report ENOENT on GNU/Linux if readdir
        finds no directory entries at all, not even "." or "..",
        and a recheck with the getdents syscall returns ENOENT.
        We recheck with getdents() as POSIX states that
        "The directory entries for dot and dot-dot are optional".
        * tests/ls/removed-directory.sh: New file.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
        Reported by Owen Thomas.

2020-02-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update to latest gnulib
        * bootstrap.conf: Adjust for changes to fchmodat and fchownat,
        which are now separated from chmodat and chownat respectively.

        b2sum: sync better with upstream
        * src/blake2/blake2-impl.h: Sync load16() implementation,
        which doesn't change code generation.
        Also leverage (builtin) memcpy to more efficiently
        move data on little endian systems,
        giving a 2% win with GCC 9.2.1 on an i3-2310M.

        factor: sync longlong.h adjustments from upstream
        * src/longlong.h: Sync changes from:
        https://gmplib.org/repo/gmp/log/tip/longlong.h
        mips64: Provide r6 asm code as default expression yields.
        arm32: Define sub_ddmmss separately for non-thumb (no rsc instruction).
        powerpc: Add "CLOBBER" descriptions for some registers.
        x86: Fix criterion for when to use mulx in umul_ppmm.

        stat,tail: sync file system constants from the linux kernel
        * src/stat.c: Add magic constants for "binderfs", "dma-buf-fs",
        "erofs", "ppc-cmm-fs", and "z3fold".
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2020-02-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        uniq: avoid strcoll() to improve performance and consistency
        strcoll() is only significant to uniq(1) if it returns 0,
        and it generally only does so with buggy locales or mismatched
        locales and data.  Some systems may have strcoll()
        return 0 for equivalent normalized unicode forms,
        but for consistency across platforms strcoll() is avoided.
        The various cases are defined in the new test.
        This is consistent with newer POSIX standards as discussed at:
        https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=963

        * src/uniq.c: s/xstrcoll/memcmp/.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * tests/misc/uniq-collate.sh: Add a new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/38627

2020-02-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: clarify that '%a' stat format outputs mode bits
        * src/stat.c (usage): Mention permission bits rather than
        "access" so there is no confusion with ACLs etc.
        Also indicate we output the file type with '%A'.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Likewise.
        Also indicate '%A' is similar to `ls -ld` output.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/39613

2020-02-10  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix test for symlink
        * tests/cp/preserve-gid.sh: s/-l/-L/.
        Reported by Kamil Dudka

2020-02-09  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        tests: ensure tests/cp/preserve-gid.sh works with single binary
        * tests/cp/preserve-gid.sh: If configured with --enable-single-binary
        copy the coreutils single binary, instead of the cp one-line launcher.

        Discussed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1800597
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/39485

2020-02-09  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid syntax-check failure in previous commit
        * configure.ac: Restrict lines to 80 chars.

2020-02-09  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        build: suppress new FP warning from gcc-10.0.1
        * configure.ac (GNULIB_WARN_CFLAGS): Add -Wno-return-local-addr
        to avoid FP warning about careadlinkat.c. Discussed starting in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-02/msg00006.html

2020-02-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update to latest gnulib
        Pick up recent build fixes to avoid sysctl.h inclusion on glibc systems,
        restrict the max file size supported by read-file to PTRDIFF_MAX,
        and to avoid a -Werror=unused failure in test-canonicalize.

        tests: avoid false failure due to varying /proc/kallsyms
        * tests/cp/proc-short-read.sh: Switch to using /proc/cpuinfo,
        rather than /proc/kallsyms which was seen to vary in some cases.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/39357

2020-02-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        rmdir: fix --ignore-fail-on-non-empty with permissions errors
        Since v6.10-21-ged5c4e7 `rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty`
        had reversed the failure status for directories that failed
        to be removed for permissions reasons.  I.E. it would have
        returned a failure status for such non empty dirs, and vice versa.

        * src/rmdir.c (errno_may_be_non_empty): Rename from the
        more confusing errno_may_be_empty(), and remove the EEXIST
        case (specific to Solaris), which is moot here since
        handled in errno_rmdir_non_empty().
        (ignorable_failure): Fix the logic error so that
        _non_ empty dirs are deemed to have ignorable failures.
        (main): Fix clobbering of errno by is_empty_dir().
        (remove_parents): Likewise.
        * tests/rmdir/ignore.sh: Add a test case.
        * THANKS.in: Add reporter who fixed the errno handling.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/39364

2020-02-03  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: avoid vector performance warnings in randperm
        * configure.ac: Add -Wno-vector-operation-performance to suppress the
        following gcc-9.2 error in gl/lib/randperm.c:
          error: vector operation will be expanded piecewise

        build: avoid including sysctl.h on glibc
        * src/uname.c: Avoid unneeded header with GLIBC,
        which has been deprecated since glibc-2.30.
        * src/uptime.c: Likewise.

        ls: support --time=creation to show/sort birth time
        * src/ls.c (usage): Reorganize help for --time,
        and add description for --time=birth.
        (do_statx): Store btime in mtime if available.
        (get_stat_btime): A new function to read the creation time
        from the appropriate stat structure member.
        (cmp_btime): A new function to compare birth time.
        (print_long_format): Output '?' when birth time unavailable.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Document --time={birth,creation}.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * tests/ls/birthtime.sh: Add a new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2020-01-30  Chris Meyering  <christophe.meyering@gmail.com>

        build: rearrange yes(1) code to prevent GCC 10 warning
        * src/yes.c (main): Convert for loop to do-while in order to indicate
        that the loop will be run at least once.
        This avoids the following warning after the second loop:
        src/yes.c:110:20: error: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0

2020-01-01  Emil Engler  <me@emilengler.com>

        maint: add lib/iconv_open-zos.h to .gitignore
        * .gitignore: Add file newly generated by gnulib commit 49e78fc

2020-01-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: auto enable use of openssl with >= version 3
        * configure.ac: Set --with-openssl=auto-gpl-compat as the default,
        so that openssl is used for md5sum etc., with openssl >= 3,
        which is newly licensed under ASL v2.
        * gnulib: Update to include "auto-gpl-compat" support.

        maint: adjust to split out xstrtol-error gnulib module
        * bootstrap.conf: Depend on the new module split from xstrtol.
        * src/df.c: Include "xstrtol-error.h" for xstrtol_fatal.
        * src/du.c: Likewise.
        * src/ls.c: Likewise.
        * src/od.c: Likewise.
        * src/pr.c: Likewise.
        * src/sort.c: Likewise.

2020-01-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: update all copyright year number ranges
        Run "make update-copyright" and then...

        * gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
        * tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.
        * tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.

2019-12-08  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: add example to demonstrate sub-second sleep times
        * doc/coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Add an example to demonstrate
        how to use the floating-point and the scientific notation to sleep
        for sub-second times, e.g. milli-, micro- and nanoseconds.

        Inspired by Stephane Chazelas in:
          https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-12/msg00005.html

2019-12-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix syntax-check failure from recent adjustment
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate after commit v8.31-56-gc1e1965.

2019-12-02  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        chcon: do not validate security context if SELinux is disabled
        * src/chcon.c (main): Skip call of security_check_context()
        in case SELinux is disabled to avoid unnecessary failure.

        Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1777831

2019-11-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: remove colon from node name
        * doc/sort-version.texi (Minus/Hyphen and Colon characters):
        Rename from “Minus/Hyphen @samp{-} and Colon @samp{:} characters”,
        as texi2any 6.6 complains about colons in node names.

        shred: modernize documentation
        * doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation):
        Modernize discussion to today’s technology (Bug#38168).
        * src/shred.c (usage): Omit lengthy duplication of the manual’s
        discussion of file systems and storage devices, as that became out
        of sync with the manual.  Instead, just cite the manual.

2019-10-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        all: improve parsing of numeric arguments
        This addresses a longstanding "update all callers" FIXME in
        lib/xstrtol.c, by having programs check that numbers do not
        have unknown suffixes.  The problem was also reported for
        'shuf' by my student Maggie Huang while reimplementing a shuf
        subset in Python as an exercise in UCLA Computer Science 35L:
        https://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/fall19/cs35L/assign/assign3.html
        This patch also improves the portability of the code to unusual
        platforms where ULONG_MAX < SIZE_MAX.
        * NEWS: Mention user-visible changes.
        * src/chgrp.c (parse_group):
        * src/chroot.c (parse_additional_groups):
        * src/du.c (main):
        * src/install.c (get_ids):
        * src/join.c (string_to_join_field):
        * src/ls.c (decode_switches):
        * src/md5sum.c (split_3):
        * src/shuf.c (main):
        * src/sort.c (specify_nthreads):
        * src/uniq.c (size_opt, main):
        Use uintmax_t instead of unsigned long, for portability
        to oddball platforms where unsigned long is not wide enough.
        * src/du.c (main):
        * src/expr.c (mpz_init_set_str) [!HAVE_GMP]:
        * src/install.c (get_ids):
        * src/ls.c (decode_switches):
        * src/mknod.c (main):
        * src/ptx.c (main):
        * src/shuf.c (main):
        * src/sort.c (specify_nmerge, specify_nthreads):
        Reject numbers with suffixes.
        * src/md5sum.c (split_3): Simplify.

        stdbuf: improve size checking
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add minmax.
        * src/libstdbuf.c: Include stdint.h, minmax.h.
        (apply_mode): Don’t assume SIZE_MAX <= ULONG_MAX.
        Improve checking for invalid sizes.

        shuf: improve randperm overflow checking
        * gl/lib/randperm.c: Include randperm.h first, since it’s the API.
        Include stdint.h, count-leading-zeros.h, verify.h.
        (floor_lg): Rename from ceil_log (which was not actually
        implementing the ceiling!) and implement the floor using
        count_leading_zeros.
        (randperm_bound): Use floor_lg, not ceil_log.  Use uintmax_t
        instead of size_t in case the size gets large on a 32-bit host.
        * gl/modules/randperm (Depends-on): Add count-leading-zeros, stdint.

        build: don’t worry about logical-op checking
        * configure.ac: Remove code tailoring --enable-gcc-warnings
        to GCC 4.7 and earlier, as developers no longer need to worry
        about GCCs that old.

        build: re-enable type-limits checking
        * configure.ac: When --enable-gcc-warnings is used, omit
        -Wno-type-limits.  The need for -Wno-type-limits has passed, now
        that intprops.h uses builtin primitives for GCC 5 and later, given
        that recent GCCs issue type-limits warnings only for non-constant
        expressions.  --enable-gcc-warnings is not intended for use with
        old compilers, so we can drop -Wno-type-limits now.

2019-10-21  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        shuf: fix bug with ‘-r -n 0’
        ‘shuf -r -n 0 file’ would mistakenly read from standard input.
        Problem reported by my student Jingnong Qu while reimplementing a
        shuf subset in Python as an exercise in UCLA Computer Science 35L:
        https://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/fall19/cs35L/assign/assign3.html
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.  Also, ASCIIfy a previous item.
        * src/shuf.c (main): Fix bug.
        * tests/misc/shuf.sh: Add a test case for the bug.

2019-10-09  Jeff Layton  <jlayton@kernel.org>

        ls: use statx instead of stat when available
        statx allows ls to indicate interest in only certain inode metadata.
        This is potentially a win on networked/clustered/distributed
        file systems. In cases where we'd have to do a full, heavyweight stat()
        call we can now do a much lighter statx() call.

        As a real-world example, consider a file system like CephFS where one
        client is actively writing to a file and another client does an
        ls --color in the same directory. --color means that we need to fetch
        the mode of the file.

        Doing that with a stat() call means that we have to fetch the size and
        mtime in addition to the mode. The MDS in that situation will have to
        revoke caps in order to ensure that it has up-to-date values to report,
        which disrupts the writer.

        This has a measurable affect on performance. I ran a fio sequential
        write test on one cephfs client and had a second client do "ls --color"
        in a tight loop on the directory that held the file:

        Baseline -- no activity on the second client:

        WRITE: bw=76.7MiB/s (80.4MB/s), 76.7MiB/s-76.7MiB/s (80.4MB/s-80.4MB/s),
               io=4600MiB (4824MB), run=60016-60016msec

        Without this patch series, we see a noticable performance hit:

        WRITE: bw=70.4MiB/s (73.9MB/s), 70.4MiB/s-70.4MiB/s (73.9MB/s-73.9MB/s),
               io=4228MiB (4433MB), run=60012-60012msec

        With this patch series, we gain most of that ground back:

        WRITE: bw=75.9MiB/s (79.6MB/s), 75.9MiB/s-75.9MiB/s (79.6MB/s-79.6MB/s),
               io=4555MiB (4776MB), run=60019-60019msec

        * src/stat.c: move statx to stat struct conversion to new header...
        * src/statx.h: ...here.
        * src/ls.c: Add wrapper functions for stat/lstat/fstat calls,
        and add variants for when we are only interested in specific info.
        Add statx-enabled functions and set the request mask based on the
        output format and what values are needed.
        * NEWS: Mention the Improvement.

2019-10-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        truncate: avoid integer-overflow assumptions
        * src/truncate.c (do_ftruncate): Simplify overflow checking,
        and don’t rely on theoretically-nonportable assumptions
        like assuming that OFF_MAX < UINTMAX_MAX.

        numfmt: avoid unlikely integer overflow
        * src/numfmt.c (parse_format_string): Report overflow if
        pad < -LONG_MAX, since that can’t be negated.

        nl: fix integer-overflow bug
        Problem reported by Roland Illig (Bug#37585)
        * src/nl.c (print_lineno): Don’t rely on undefined behavior when
        checking for integer overflow.

        cp: simplify integer overflow checking
        * src/copy.c (sparse_copy): Use INT_ADD_WRAPV instead
        of doing overflow checking by hand.

2019-09-08  Pádraig Brady  <pbrady@fb.com>

        seq: use faster processing for integer steps from 2 to 200
        * src/seq.c: (seq_fast): Accept STEP as a parameter and use that
        to skip the output of generated numbers.
        (main): Relax to using seq_fast for integer steps between 1 and 200.
        For larger steps the throughput was faster using the standard
        incrementing procedure.
        (cmp): Use the equivalent but faster memcmp for equal len strings.
        * tests/misc/seq.pl: Update fast path cases.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/37241

2019-09-08  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: use consistent header ordering and spacing in NEWS
        * NEWS: Move "Changes in behavior" before "New features",
        and ensure there is only a single blank line between sections.

2019-08-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2019-08-15  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        scripts: document how to build older versions on newer systems
        Based on https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-08/msg00011.html .

        * scripts/build-older-versions/README.older-versions: Documentation
        * scripts/build-older-versions/build-older-versions.sh: Helper script.
        * scripts/build-older-versions/.gitignore: Ignore build directory.
        * scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-5.0-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-5.97-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-6.10-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-6.11-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-6.12-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-7.2-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-8.13-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-8.17-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-8.18-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-8.24-on-glibc-2.28.diff,
        scripts/build-older-versions/coreutils-8.4-on-glibc-2.28.diff: Patches.

2019-08-12  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

        build: adjust for recent gnulib pthread changes
        Discussed in https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-08/msg00030.html .

        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Replace 'pthread' with
        pthread-* modules.
        * src/sort.c: Remove GNULIB_defined_pthread_functions conditional.

2019-08-11  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        date: mention military timezone changes from gnulib
        Gnulib commits f1f10d47be8762e4ca17c8957a0520b08d28abfb and
        0673d8ab42c9bb0cf618a21b537cdd8fb976fb73 negated the meaning of
        military timezones parsed in gnu date.
        See https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2019-08/msg00005.html and
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-08/msg00021.html

        * NEWS: Mention this user-visible change.
        * tests/misc/date.pl: Add tests for the new behavior.

2019-08-11  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: add lib/argmatch.h to po/POTFILES.in
        * po/POTFILES.in (lib/argmatch.h): Add to avoid sc_po_check error:
            "maint.mk: you have changed the set of files with translatable \
             diagnostics;"

2019-08-11  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        gnulib: update to latest

2019-08-08  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: clarify that truncate creates sparse files
        * src/truncate.c (usage): Explicitly mention "sparse".
        * doc/coreutils.texi (truncate invocation): Likewise.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/36963

2019-08-07  Mike Swanson  <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>

        dircolors: recognize the WebP image format
        * src/dircolors.hin: Add .webp for the WebP image format.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/36899

2019-08-07  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: fix error in syntax-check checking
        The previous commit introduced a bug into the following syntax-check,
        and thus effectively turned it off:

          $ make sc_prohibit_test_calls_print_ver_with_irrelevant_argument; \
              echo $?
          prohibit_test_calls_print_ver_with_irrelevant_argument
          fatal: cannot change to 'grep': No such file or directory
          0

        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_test_calls_print_ver_with_irrelevant_argument):
        Remove changing directory, and pass $(srcdir) as argument to 'git -C'.

2019-08-04  Akim Demaille  <akim.demaille@gmail.com>

        maint: fix issues in syntax-check
        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_colon_redirection): Don't expect `|` to denote
        the pipe character in git grep.
        (sc_tests_executable)
        (sc_case_insensitive_file_names)
        (sc_some_programs_must_avoid_exit_failure)
        (sc_prohibit_test_background_without_cleanup_)
        (sc_prohibit_test_calls_print_ver_with_irrelevant_argument)
        (sc_prohibit_test_ulimit_without_require_)
        (sc_prohibit_test_background_without_cleanup_)
        (sc_THANKS_in_duplicates)
        *sc_prohibit_test_calls_print_ver_with_irrelevant_argument):
        Don't expect builddir to be a descendant of srcdir.
        (sc_strftime_check): Don't check file size against 0 when "N\nq\n" was
        already put in the file.
        * THANKS.in: Remove me.

2019-08-03  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        seq: fix superfluous output line
        Under certain circumstances seq prints an extra line when the output
        format has custom format with characters following the printed numbers:

            $ seq -f "%g " 1000000 1000000
             1e+06
             1e+06

        This is due to the "print_extra_number" logic using strings to determine
        whether a 'extra number' is needed, but only one string was trimmed
        when using a custom printf format.

        Prompted by https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-08/msg00001.html

        * NEWS: Mention fix.
        * src/seq.c (print_numbers): Trim the 'x0_str' string before comparing
        it to the previous 'x_str' string.
        * tests/misc/seq-extra-number.sh: Add this scenario.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add new test.

2019-07-22  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: improve new version sort chapter
        * doc/sort-version.texi: Fix some typos, avoid overly long lines in
        the generated PDF, enclose some sample strings in @samp{...} for better
        readability, etc.  This also avoids an sc-avoid-builtin error:
        s/builtin/built-in/

2019-07-15  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        doc: add "version sort ordering" chapter
        * doc/sort-version.texi: New file.
        * doc/local.mk (doc_coreutils_TEXINFOS): Add new file.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: @include new file, replace previous "Details about
        version sort" section.

2019-07-12  Andreas Dilger  <adilger@whamcloud.com>

        stat: don't explicitly request file size for filenames
        When calling 'stat -c %N' to print the filename, don't explicitly
        request the size of the file via statx(), as it may add overhead on
        some filesystems.  The size is only needed to optimize an allocation
        for the relatively rare case of reading a symlink name, and the worst
        effect is a somewhat-too-large temporary buffer may be allocated for
        areadlink_with_size(), or internal retries if buffer is too small.

        The file size will be returned by statx() on most filesystems, even
        if not requested, unless the filesystem considers this to be too
        expensive for that file, in which case the tradeoff is worthwhile.

        * src/stat.c: Don't explicitly request STATX_SIZE for filenames.

2019-06-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        od: use fseek on non-regular files
        Problem reported by Szőts Ákos (Bug#36291).
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * src/od.c (skip): Try fseek even on files that do not have usable
        sizes, falling back on fread if fseek fails.

2019-06-18  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: mention ls -l user/group justification
        * doc/coreutils.texi (What information is listed):
        Document justification of user and group columns in ls -l output
        (Bug#36220).

2019-06-14  Jeff Layton  <jlayton@kernel.org>

        stat: fix enabling of statx logic
        * src/stat.c: STATX_INO isn't defined until stat.h is included.
        Move the test down so it works properly.

2019-06-13  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        tests: avoid false-positive in date-debug test
        When debugging an invalid date due to DST switching, the intermediate
        'normalized time' should not be checked - its value can differ between
        systems (e.g. glibc vs musl).

        Reported by Niklas Hambüchen in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-05/msg00031.html
        Analyzed by Rich Felker in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-05/msg00039.html

        * tests/misc/date-debug.sh: Replace the exact normalized time
        with 'XX:XX:XX' so different values would not trigger test failure.

2019-06-10  Jeff Layton  <jlayton@kernel.org>

        stat: Use statx where available and support --cached
        * src/stat.c: Drop statbuf argument from out_epoch_sec().
        Use statx() rather than [lf]stat() where available,
        so a separate call is not required to get birth time.
        Set STATX_* mask bits only for things we want to print,
        which can be more efficient on some file systems.
        Add a new --cache= command-line option that sets the appropriate hint
        flags in the statx call.  These are primarily used with network
        file systems to indicate what level of cache coherency is desired.
        The new option is available unconditionally for better portability,
        and ignored where not implemented.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Add documention for --cached.
        * man/stat.x (SEE ALSO): Mention statx().
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2019-06-09  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: fix description of tail -f on truncated files
        * doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Update to match
        the new behavior following commit v8.23-189-gb28ff6a

2019-06-08  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        split: fix failure for certain number of specified files
        * src/split.c (set_suffix_length): Use a more standard
        zero based logN calculation for the number of units.
        * tests/split/suffix-auto-length.sh: Add a test case.
        * THANKS.in: Mention the reporter.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/35291

2019-05-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        dd: be more careful about signal handling
        Problem reported by Hans Henrik Bergan (Bug#36007).
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * src/dd.c (iclose, ifdatasync, ifstat, ifsync):
        New functions, which are more careful about SIGINT.
        (cleanup): Use iclose instead of close.
        (finish_up): Process signals first.
        (skip, dd_copy, main): Use ifstat instead of fstat.
        (dd_copy): Use ifdatasync and ifsync instead of fdatasync and fsync.

        maint: fix version number in NEWS

2019-05-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: fix /dev/stdin problem on Solaris
        Problem reported by Jakub Kulik (Bug#35713).
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * configure.ac (DEV_FD_MIGHT_BE_CHR): New macro.
        * src/copy.c (DEV_FD_MIGHT_BE_CHR): Default to false.
        (follow_fstatat): New function.
        (copy_internal): Use it.
        * src/copy.h (XSTAT): Remove; no longer used.

2019-05-26  Kevin Locke  <kevin@kevinlocke.name>

        doc: clarify dd sparse detection is by *output* block
        The wording of the dd --help text suggests that output will be skipped
        for sparse *input* blocks (i.e. that NUL-checking is done on input
        blocks) while the code actually checks/skips all-NUL *output* blocks.[1]

        * src/dd.c (usage): Update the --help text to clarify the above.
        * tests/dd/sparse.sh: Ensure sparseness is controlled with obs.

        [1]: https://superuser.com/a/1136358

2019-05-22  Martin Castillo  <castilma@uni-bremen.de>

        doc: fix typo in sort set operations example
        * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Add a missing -u
        option to uniq.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/35849

2019-05-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        b2sum: port blake2b-ref.c to HP-UX aCC
        Continue the fix for Bug#35650.
        * src/blake2/blake2b-ref.c [HAVE_CONFIG_H]: Include <config.h>.

2019-05-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        b2sum: sync better with upstream
        * src/blake2/b2sum.c: Reorder source code to minimize diffs from:
        https://github.com/BLAKE2/BLAKE2/blob/master/b2sum/b2sum.c

        b2sum: port to HP-UX aCC
        Its support for the -include option is flaky.  Problem reported by
        Michael Osipov (Bug#35650).  Plus, we could run into other
        compilers that don’t support any option like -include.  Change the
        code so that -include is not needed.  Although this causes us to
        depart from the upstream version, we’re already doing that for
        other reasons.
        * configure.ac (USE_XLC_INCLUDE): Remove, as there’s no
        guarantee a compiler will support something like -include.
        * src/blake2/b2sum.c [HAVE_CONFIG_H]: Include <config.h>.
        * src/local.mk (src_b2sum_CPPFLAGS): Add -DHAVE_CONFIG_H.
        Do not use -include or a substitute.

2019-05-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        stdbuf: port configure-time checking to HP-UX aCC
        Problem reported by Michael Osipov (Bug#35650).
        * configure.ac: Use AC_LANG_WERROR to pay attention to compiler
        and linker warnings when testing whether stdbuf will work.

2019-05-11  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        b2sum: port to HP-UX C
        * src/blake2/blake2.h (BLAKE2_PACKED):
        Don’t assume __attribute__ ((packed)) works on non-Microsoft
        compilers.  Instead, assume it works only if we have good
        reason to assume so, and fall back on Microsoft (or not packing)
        otherwise.  In practice, not packing is good enough and the
        BLAKE2_PACKED macro is mostly just for documentation.

        cp: port fiemap.h to C99
        * src/extent-scan.c (extent_scan_read): Adjust to change in
        struct fiemap.
        * src/fiemap.h (struct fiemap): Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER
        to port to C99.

        basenc: port to C99
        * src/basenc.c: Various minor style cleanups.
        (struct base_decode_context): Do not use anonymous unions, as
        they’re not in C99.  Use a named union instead.  All uses changed.

        maint: adjust to recent verify_true removal
        * src/system.h (X2NREALLOC, X2REALLOC, DECIMAL_DIGIT_ACCUMULATE):
        Use verify_expr instead of verify_true, which has been removed.
        (DECIMAL_DIGIT_ACCUMULATE): Remove unnecessary size check.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2019-04-19  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        gnulib: update to the latest
        * gnulib: Update to latest, mainly for:
          > mountlist: make parsing /proc/self/mountinfo more robust
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/33468

2019-03-31  Shugo Maeda  <shugo@ruby-lang.org>

        factor: output immediately if stdout is a tty but stdin is not
        * src/factor.c (lbuf_putc): Use line buffered mode if the standard
        output is a terminal in the same way as the stdio library.
        User programs might use pty only for the standard out
        like the example of Ruby's PTY module:
        https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.6.0/PTY.html#module-PTY-label-Example
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.orv/35046

2019-03-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix syntax check failure
        * src/ln.c: Remove leading TAB.

2019-03-30  Martin Castillo  <castilma@uni-bremen.de>

        maint: tee: use STDIN_FILENO rather than 0
        * src/tee.c (tee_files): Use the name rather than the value.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/35041

2019-03-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        dd: improve doc of stderr output
        * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation):
        Document stderr output more carefully.
        Say that conv=block can lose input data.

2019-03-18  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: --help: add note about binary/text mode
        * src/md5sum.c (usage): Make it clear that there is no difference
        between binary mode and text mode on GNU systems.

        Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/406981
        Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1688740

2019-03-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: add NEWS item for Solaris symlink fix

        ln: port to symlink ("x", ".") failing with EINVAL
        Problem reported by John Marino (Bug#34894).
        * src/ln.c (main): Port ln -s to Solaris symlink function,
        where symlink ("x", ".") fails with errno == EINVAL.

2019-03-16  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: add a NEWS entry for the ln O_DIRECTORY fix
        * NEWS: Mention the bugfix.

2019-03-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ln: port to platforms lacking O_DIRECTORY
        * src/ln.c (main): Port to older platforms lacking
        support for POSIX.1-2008’s O_DIRECTORY flag (Bug#34876).

2019-03-15  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        doc: improve wording of the --kibibytes option description
        Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1527391 , https://bugs.gnu.org/33646

        * doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Improve wording of
        '--kibibytes' option.

2019-03-11  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: sync extra files from gnulib
        Some files are physically copied from gnulib, and should get sync'ed
        after each update to latest gnulib.  This was forgotten during recent
        updates.

        * COPYING: Merge from gnulib/doc/COPYINGv3.
        * tests/init.sh: Merge from gnulib/tests/init.sh.

2019-03-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

2019-03-10  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        version 8.31
        * NEWS: Record release date.

        tests: test-N: include subsecond values in gating check
        * tests/misc/test-N.sh: The subsecond values for atime and mtime
        were potentially seen to differ on newlyl created files.
        So we include the subsecond portion when comparing stat values.

        tests: wc-nbsp: fix false failures on various systems
        * tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: Add gating checks for all characters,
        as there are disparate classifications on various systems:
        SunOS 5.10 treats \u202F, \u2060 as !iswprint()
        SunOS 5.10 treats \u00A0, \u2007 as iswspace()
        AIX 7.2, Darwin 17.4.0, NetBSD 7.1 treat \u2060 as !iswprint()

2019-03-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: tail-2/pipe-f: avoid false failure closing stdout
        * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Check closing stdout with >&-
        is effective, which avoids a false failure on NetBSD 7.1
        Reported by Assaf Gordon

        tests: tac-2-nonseekable: ensure we don't block indefinitely
        * tests/misc/tac-2-nonseekable.sh: Add a timeout to both
        protect and check whether we can close stdin correctly.

        tests: id/zero: avoid false failure due to sed differences
        * tests/id/zero.sh: sed on OSX will output a \n even
        if the input doesn't have a \n on the last "line".
        So ensure we always have a trailing '\n' to avoid the disparity.

2019-03-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: test-N: fix false positives on some systems
        Testing by Assaf Gordon on OSX showed the atime wasn't
        being updated when explicitly set back in time.
        Also Debian 8.11 / mips64 was seen to not update the
        mtime when truncating an empty file.

        * tests/misc/test-N.sh: Isolate from different timestamping
        behaviors of various (file) systems, by correlating
        the timestamps with stat(1) before using `test -N`.

2019-03-07  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        doc: replace @hashchar{} with actual hash character
        Very old makeinfo-4.13 fails with:
          ./doc/coreutils.texi:2286: Unknown command `hashchar'.
          ./doc/coreutils.texi:2286: Misplaced {.
          ./doc/coreutils.texi:2286: Misplaced }.

        Reported Bernhard Voelker in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-03/msg00016.html .

        * doc/coreutils.texi (basenc invocation): Replace @hashchar{} with
        actual hash character.  The special syntax is only required
        when referring to #line directives.

2019-03-06  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: avoid statx related build failure on AIX
        * src/stat.c (get_birthtime): Check also for STATX_BTIME define,
        as a different statx is available on AIX 7.2.

        tests: wc-nbsp.sh: avoid failure on FreeBSD
        * tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: FreeBSD and OS X don't
        treat non breaking space as printable characters.
        So use wc -L to determine printability before
        testing non breaking space functionality.

        build: fix env build where SIGNUM_BOUND is not constant
        * src/env.c (initialize_signals): A new function to initialize
        the signals array on the heap, to avoid a build failure on
        opensolaris, where SIGNUM_BOUND is not a constant.

2019-03-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: remove older ChangeLog items
        * Makefile.am: Update the oldest documented version
        to 8.22 which is now about 5 years old.

        build: revert recent change with distributed man page handling
        * man/local.mk: commit f114495e added an extra check to ensure
        a binary was working before using it to generate the man page.
        However this was not working for the false(1) command,
        and also one can generally specify that one should not
        be using generated commands on the current system by passing
        'cross_compiling=yes' to the configure invocation.

        env: add --list-signal-handling to output non default handling
        * src/env.c (main): Output blocked or ignored signals
        before a command is executed.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Add the option.
        * tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2019-03-04  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        env: new options --{default,ignore,block}-signal[=SIG]
        New options to set signal handlers for the command being executed.
        --block-signal suggested by Paul Eggert in http://bugs.gnu.org/34488#71
        --default-signal is useful to overcome the POSIX limitation that shell
        must not override inherited signal state, e.g. the second 'trap' here is
        a no-op:

           trap '' PIPE && sh -c 'trap - PIPE ; seq inf | head -n1'

        Instead use:

           trap '' PIPE && sh -c 'env --default-signal=PIPE seq inf | head -n1'

        Similarly, the following will prevent CTRL-C from terminating the
        program:

           env --ignore-signal=INT seq inf > /dev/null

        See https://bugs.gnu.org/34488#8

        * NEWS: Mention new options.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Document new options.
        * man/env.x: Add example of --default-signal=SIG usage.
        (SEE ALSO): Mention sigprocmask.
        * src/env.c (signals): New global variable.
        (longopts): Add new options.
        (usage): Print new options.
        (parse_signal_params): Parse comma-separated list of signals, store in
        signals variable.
        (reset_signal_handlers): Set each signal to SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
        (parse_block_signal_params): Parse command-line options.
        (set_signal_proc_mask): Call sigprocmask to block/unblock signals.
        (main): Process new options.
        * src/local.mk (src_env_SOURCES): Add operand2sig.c.
        * tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh: New test.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add new test.

2019-03-04  Martin Bukatovic  <martin.bukatovic@gmail.com>

        stat: print birth time on systems supporting statx
        * configure.ac: Check for statx(), available on glibc >= 2.28.
        * src/stat.c (get_birthtime): Call statx() when available.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2019-03-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        df: support different file system encodings when not using tty
        * src/df.c (replace_problematic_chars): A new wrapper to be
        more conservative in our replacement when not connected to a tty.
        * tests/df/problematic-chars.sh: Add a test case.

        maint: tidy up recent additions to NEWS
        * NEWS: Move date change to improvements and fix nohup grammar.

2019-02-27  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: further clarify 'yes' alternative in seq invocation
        * doc/coreutils.texi (node seq invocation): Clarify to use the tool
        'yes'; otherwise the reader may interpret the sentence as if one
        could pass 'yes' as the INCREMENT value.

2019-02-26  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        wc: treat non breaking space as a word separator
        * src/wc.c (iswnbspace): A new function to match
        characters in this class.
        (isnbspace): Likewise for single byte charsets.
        (main): Initialize posixly_correct from the environment,
        to allow disabling honoring NBSP in non C locales.
        (wc): Call is[w]nbspace() along with is[w]space.
        * bootstrap.conf: Ensure btowc is available.
        * tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: A new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

2019-02-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: more date +%F clarifications
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Date conversion specifiers):
        Plain %F is actually like %+4Y-%m-%d.
        (Padding and other flags): Mention POSIX restrictions.
        * src/date.c (usage): Document recent changes.

        doc: give date +%+F example
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Padding and other flags):
        Give example for + conversion specification.

        doc: fix typo in previous patch

        date: ‘+’ conversion specification flag
        The recent Gnulib update fixed Bug#34608; document and test this.
        * NEWS: Mention the change.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Padding and other flags):
        Update doc to cover new flag and other POSIX.1-2017 changes.
        * tests/misc/date.pl (date-century-plus): New test.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2019-02-24  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        all: detect --help and --version more consistently
        For select programs which accept only --help and --version options
        (in addition to non-option arguments), process these options before
        any other options.

        Before:

          $ dd bs=1 --help
          dd: unrecognized option '--help'
          Try 'dd --help' for more information.

          $ yes me --help
          me --help
          me --help
          ...

        After:
        Any occurrence of '--help' in the arguments (prior to '--') will
        show the help screen.

        Discussed in https://bugs.gnu.org/33468 .

        * NEWS: Mention change.
        * src/cksum.c, src/dd.c, src/hostid.c, src/hostname.c, src/link.c,
        src/logname.c, src/nohup.c, src/sleep.c, src/tsort.c, src/unlink.c,
        src/uptime.c, src/users.c, src/whoami.c, src/yes.c (main): Replace
        parse_long_options() + getopt_long() calls with
        parse_gnu_standard_options_only(); Remove <getopt.h> inclusion;
        Remove empty 'struct long_options' variable;
        * tests/misc/help-version-getopt.sh: Add test.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Reference it.

2019-02-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        gnulib: update to the latest
        update to a version with parse_gnu_standard_options_only()

2019-02-20  Martin Castillo  <castilma@uni-bremen.de>

        doc: fix join examples in texinfo
        * doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Fix various errors.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34583
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34584

2019-02-19  Daming Yang  <lion@aosc.io>

        ls: better align month abbreviations containing digits
        * src/ls.c (abmon_init): Align numeric abbreviations right.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2019-02-18  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        sort: clarify in --debug; only text comparisons affected
        * src/sort.c (main): Adjust the debug info regarding locales,
        to clarify that only textual comparisons are affected.
        * tests/misc/sort-debug-warn.sh: Adjust accordingly.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34490

2019-02-12  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        comm,join: ensure warnings are apparent upon exit
        * src/comm.c (main): Output a warning right before exit,
        in case previous errors have scrolled from view.
        * src/join.c (main): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/comm.pl: Addjust accordingly.
        * tests/misc/join.pl: Likewise.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34347

2019-02-12  Filipp Gunbin  <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>

        doc: fix typo referencing RFC 2822
        * doc/coreutils.texi (date invocation): s/822/2822/.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34438

2019-02-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        gnulib: update to use new strtold module
        * gnulib: Update to make the new strtold module available.
        * bootstrap.conf: strtod is now a dependency of c-strtod,
        which in turn is a dependency of cl-strtod.  This treats
        strtold and strtod similarly.
        * gl/lib/cl-strtod.c: Adjust to assume strtold is available.
        * tests/misc/sort-float.sh: Likewise.
        * src/sort.c: Likewise.
        (nan_compare): Adjust comment to indicate
        we still have to init padding bits as per
        https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13246

2019-02-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        seq: output decimal points consistently with invalid locales
        * src/seq.c (print_numbers): Only reset the locale if it
        was successfully set originally.
        * tests/misc/seq-locale.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.

        build: ensure sys/select.h is included
        bootstrap.conf: Explicitly depend on select, rather than transitively.
        * src/tail.c: Unconditionally include select.h as we use select()
        outside inotify contexts now.

        stat,tail: fix android build and support inotify
        * src/extract-magic: Treat android like linux,
        which fixes the build by ensuring the constants are defined.
        * src/stat.c: Support all constants on android, including
        the android specific "sdcardfs".
        * src/tail.c: Fix inclusion of statfs headers to be independent
        of inotify availability, as fremote() is used on linux even
        if inotify has been disabled.  Also enable fremote() on android.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvment.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34239

2019-01-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: add test for locale decimal processing
        * tests/misc/sleep.sh: Check locale processing of printf, sleep,
        and timeout, when the french locale data is available.

2019-01-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: fix recent build failure on systems without strtold
        Recently introduced in commit v8.30-50-geb73e23

        * gl/lib/cl-strtod.c: Fall back to strtod() on systems
        without strtold() (like we already do in sort).

2019-01-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix new syntax-check failure from recent change
        * cfg.mk: Exclude cl-strtold.c wrapper from requiring config.h

2019-01-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        printf,seq: remove c-strtod dependency
        * gl/modules/cl-strtold (Files): Add lib/cl-strtod.c, lib/cl-strtod.h.
        (Depends-on): Remove cl-strtod.
        (configure.ac): Redquire AC_C_RESTRICT.

        printf,seq: improve long double accuracy
        This fixes a thinko in the previous patch.
        * gl/lib/cl-strtod.c (STRTOD): New macro.
        (CL_STRTOD): Use it.

        printf,seq,sleep,tail,timeout: accept current-locale floats
        These commands now accept floating-point numbers in the
        current locale, as well as in the C locale.
        Compatibility problem reported by Robert Elz.
        * NEWS: Document this.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add cl-strtod, cl-strtold.
        Remove c-strtold.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Floating point, tail invocation)
        (printf invocation, timeout invocation, sleep invocation)
        (seq invocation): Document this.
        * gl/lib/cl-strtod.c, gl/lib/cl-strtod.h, gl/lib/cl-strtold.c:
        * gl/modules/cl-strtod, gl/modules/cl-strtold: New files.
        * src/printf.c, src/seq.c, src/sleep.c, src/tail.c, src/timeout.c:
        Include cl-strtod.h instead of c-strtod.
        * src/printf.c (vstrtold):
        * src/seq.c (scan_arg, print_numbers):
        * src/sleep.c (main):
        * src/tail.c (parse_options):
        * src/timeout.c (parse_duration):
        Use cl_strtold instead of c_strtold.

2019-01-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: update Goldberg URL
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Floating point): Update URL.

        sleep: improve doc
        Problem reported by Robert Elz.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (sleep invocation):
        Say that arguments must be non-negative, which means they cannot
        be arbitrary floating-point numbers.  Mention POSIX, not
        “historical implementations” that are no longer of practical
        interest.  List the extensions to POSIX.
        * src/sleep.c (usage): Omit needless words, removing dubious
        commentary about “most implementations” and incorrect commentary
        about “arbitrary”.  Details about exactly which numbers are
        allowed can be found in the documentation.

2019-01-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tail: fix handling of broken pipes with SIGPIPE ignored
        * init.cfg (trap_sigpipe_or_skip_): A new function refactored from...
        * tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh: ...here.
        * tests/misc/seq-epipe.sh. Likewise.
        * src/tail.c (die_pipe): Ensure we exit upon sending SIGPIPE.
        * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Ensure we exit even if SIGPIPE is ignored.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2019-01-20  Ayappan  <ayappap2@in.ibm.com>

        tail: fix recent ineffective AIX change
        * src/tail.c: Fix commit v8.30-40-gd5ab4cb which was ineffective.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/33946

2019-01-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: ensure VLAs are not used
        Fail developer builds if VLAs are used,
        as there are portability concerns to consider with them.

        * configure.ac: Enable -Wvla which is implicit in the full list added.
        * m4/jm-macros.m4: Define GNULIB_NO_VLA which disables use of
        VLAs within gnulib code.

2019-01-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        gnulib: update to the latest
        * gnulib: Update to a version supporting GNULIB_NO_VLA
        * bootstrap: Sync with latest

2019-01-16  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        build: use distributed man pages when running with --help fails
        When building against an incompatible GLIBC version compared to that
        on the build host, then running the just-built binary might fail
        although it is the same platform - thus CROSS_COMPILING is false.
        As a result, generating the man pages fails.

        * man/local.mk (.x.1): Add a check to verify that running the utility
        with --help succeeds, otherwise falling back to using 'dummy-man'.

2019-01-13  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        ls: with --group-directories-first, also group symlinked dirs
        * src/ls.c (is_linked_directory): A new function to
        also consider symlinked directories.
        (main): Rename check_symlink_color to check_symlink_mode,
        and enable that with --group-directories-first.
        (DIRFIRST_CHECK): Adjust to use is_linked_directory,
        rather than just is_directory.
        (gobble_file): Simplify to always update f->linkmode
        if the stat() succeeds.
        * tests/ls/group-dirs.sh: A new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
        Suggested by Amin Bandali in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-12/msg00017.html

        tail: don't exit immediately with filters on AIX
        * src/tail.c: Fix the check_output_available check on AIX.
        Note we don't use poll for all systems as the overhead
        of adding the gnulib poll module wouldn't be worth it
        just for this single use.
        * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Fix the test which always passed
        due to only the exit code of sleep being checked.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix and rearrange alphabetically.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/33946

2019-01-06  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        basenc: allocate buffers on heap
        Allocate the encoding/decoding buffers dynamically on the heap instead
        of using variable-length-array (VLA) on the stack.
        Discussed in https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-01/msg00004.html .

        * src/basenc.c (do_encode,do_decode): Allocate inbuf/outbuf using
        xmalloc, and free if using LINT.

2019-01-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: adjust URLs in help to avoid wrapping
        * src/system.h: Adjust lines containing URLs so that
        they don't wrap on 80 column terminals.  One could also
        use .UR macros, but these aren't universally available.
        Note the adjustments here need to be compatible with
        the pattern matching done in help2man.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/33914

2019-01-01  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        maint: update all copyright year number ranges
        Run "make update-copyright" and then...

        * gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
        * tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.
        * tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.

2019-01-01  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: mention base32 in the title line of common basenc.c
        * src/basenc.c: Do the above, and remove a redundant comment.

2019-01-01  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        base64,base32: fix 'extra operand' error message
        In the following invocation, 'a' is the input file, and 'b' is the extra
        operand:

          $ base64 a b

        Report 'b' in the error message instead of 'a':

          $ base64 a b
          base64: extra operand 'b'

        Discussed in https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-12/msg00008.html .

        * src/basenc.c (main): If there is more than one non-option operand,
        report the second one (assuming the first is a the input file name).
        * tests/misc/base64.pl: Add tests.
        * tests/misc/basenc.pl: Adjust expectedc error message in tests.
        * NEWS: Mention bugfix.

2018-12-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: mention that more than 8 colors are supported by ls
        * src/dircolors.hin: Mention any codes supported by the terminal
        are allowed.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/33915

2018-12-28  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        basenc: A new program complementary to base64/base32
        Encodes/decodes data in various common formats:
        base64,base64url,base32,base32,base16,base2,z85.

        Discussed here:
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-11/msg00014.html
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-12/msg00019.html

        * AUTHORS: Add basenc.
        * README: Reference the new program.
        * NEWS: Mention the new program.
        * build-aux/gen-lists-of-programs.sh: Add basenc.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: (basenc invocation): Document the new command.
        * man/.gitignore: Ignore the generated man page.
        * man/basenc.x: A new template, with few examples.
        * man/local.mk: Reference the new man page.
        * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Allow basenc as program prefix.
        * src/.gitignore: Ignore the new binary.
        * src/basenc.c:
        (usage): Mention new options.
        (main): Handle new options.
        (isbase*, base*_length, base*_encode, base*_decode_ctx): Implement new
        encoding/decoding formats.
        * src/local.mk: Add new program.
        * tests/local.mk: Add new test.
        * tests/misc/basenc.pl: New tests.
        * tests/misc/help-version.sh (basenc_setup): use '--version' for default
        invocation (basenc errors with no parameters).

2018-12-21  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        maint: rename base64.c to basenc.c
        In preparation for adding 'basenc' program.
        Suggested in https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-11/msg00019.html .

        * src/base64.c: Rename to src/basenc.c.
        * src/local.mk: Update base*_SOURCES definitions.
        * po/POTFILEs.in: Rename base64 to basenc.

2018-12-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        shred,sort,split: add NEWS item

        shred,sort,split: fix ftruncate error reporting
        Problem reported for split by Scott Worley (Bug#33761):
        * src/shred.c (do_wipefd):
        Also report an error if ftruncate fails on a shared memory object.
        * src/sort.c (get_outstatus): New function.
        (stream_open, avoid_trashing_input): Use it.
        * src/sort.c (stream_open):
        * src/split.c (create):
        If ftruncate fails, do not report an error
        unless it is a regular file or a shared memory object.

2018-11-07  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        sync: add NEWS and test for the fix in the previous commit
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix in commit 94d364f157f0.
        While at it, remove duplicate "Changes in behavior" heading.
        * tests/misc/sync.sh: Add a test with a write-only file for the fix.

2018-11-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        sync: fix open fallback bug
        Problem caught by Coverity Analysis
        and reported by Kamil Dudka (Bug#33287).
        * src/sync.c (sync_arg): Fix typo in fallback code.

2018-10-28  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ln: use linkat and symlinkat
        Open a target directory and use its file descriptor in linkat,
        symlinkat, etc. syscalls, instead of constructing long file names
        by concatenating the target directory name to a basename.
        This avoids O(N²) behavior with ‘ln F1 F2 ... Fn DIR’ when DIR is
        a long file name with many slashes.  It also avoids some races if
        DIR is renamed while ln is running.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add openat-safer.
        * src/ln.c: Include fcntl-safer.h.
        (O_PATHSEARCH): New constant.
        (errno_nonexisting, target_directory_operand): Remove; no longer used.
        (atomic_link, do_link): New arg DESTDIR_FD.  All uses changed.
        (do_link): New arg DEST_BASE.  All uses changed.
        (main): Open target directory and use its file descriptor
        as DESTDIR_FD.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal):
        * src/cp.c (do_copy):
        * src/ln.c (do_link):
        Adjust to Gnulib API change.

2018-10-27  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        tests: provide 100% coverage for echo
        *  src/echo.c (usage): Assert that STATUS is always EXIT_SUCCESS.
        * tests/misc/echo.sh: Add further tests for all hex and escape and
        escape characters.

        To get coverage statistics, run:
          make coverage -j 4 TESTS=tests/misc/echo.sh SUBDIRS=.
          xdg-open doc/coverage/src/echo.c.gcov.frameset.html

2018-10-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        echo: always process escapes when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
        * src/echo.c (main): Always enable backslash processing if
        POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
        * tests/misc/echo.sh: Add (the first) test for the echo command.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * tests/misc/printf.sh: Update a stale comment.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (echo invocation). Mention that POSIXLY_CORRECT
        now always enables backslash processing.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/32703
        Issue identified by Eric Blake.

2018-10-26  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        test: add -N unary operator
        Bash knows 'test -N FILE'.  Add it to GNU 'test' as well.

        * src/test.c (unary_operator): Add a case for 'N'.
        (usage): Document it.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (node File characteristic tests): Likewise.
        * NEWS (New features): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/test-N.sh: Add a test.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Reference it.

2018-10-26  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        test: simplify redundant code
        Remove the function 'test_unop', as the cases therein are redundant to
        those handled by 'unary_operator'; exception: the cases 'o' and 'N':
        they had been present in test_unop and handling the commands
          test -N STR
          test -o STR
        and
          test x = x -a -N STR
          test x = x -a -o STR
        which ran into an error later on anyway.
        With this commit, the error diagnostic will change from ...
          $ /usr/bin/test -N STR
          /usr/bin/test: extra argument '-N'
          $ /usr/bin/test -o STR
          /usr/bin/test: extra argument '-o'
        ... to ...
          $ src/test -N STR
          src/test: '-N': unary operator expected
          $ src/test -o STR
          src/test: '-o': unary operator expected

        * src/test.c (test_unop): Remove.
        (unary_operator): Fail with test_syntax_error in the default case.
        (term): Directly call unary_operator.
        (two_arguments): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/test-diag.pl: Adjust error diagnostic.

2018-10-26  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        test: remove support for the ambigous -a unary operator
        * src/test.c (unary_operator): Remove case 'a'.
        (test_unop): Likewise.
        * NEWS (Changes in behavior): Document the change.

        Discussed at https://bugs.gnu.org/33097

2018-10-21  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        test: avoid FP in chroot-credentials.sh for different group list order
        On my openSUSE:Tumbleweed system, I get a false positive test failure
        in the above 'check-root' test because the group lists inside and
        outside the chroot have a different order:

          ++ chroot --userspec=berny / id -G
          ++ id -G berny
          + test '100 454 457 480 492' = '100 480 492 457 454'
          + fail=1

        * tests/misc/chroot-credentials.sh (num_sort): Add function to sort
        group lists, and use it in the test cases which test multiple groups.

2018-10-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: tidy up setuid commentary
        * doc/perm.texi (Mode Structure): Improve wording.
        (Numeric Modes): Don’t say “on execution” (Bug#9594).

2018-10-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ln: avoid directory hard-link races
        Previously, 'ln A B' did 'stat("B"), lstat("A"), link("A","B")'
        where the stat and lstat were necessary to avoid hard-linking
        directories on systems that can hard-link directories.
        Now, in situations that prohibit hard links to directories,
        'ln A B' merely does 'link("A","B")'.  The new behavior
        avoids some races and should be more efficient.
        This patch was inspired by Bug#10020, which was about 'ln'.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add unlinkdir.
        * src/force-link.c (force_linkat, force_symlinkat): New arg for
        error number of previous try.  Return error number, 0, or -1 if
        error, success, or success after removal.  All callers changed.
        * src/ln.c: Include priv-set.h, unlinkdir.h.
        (beware_hard_dir_link): New static var.
        (errnoize, atomic_link): New functions.
        (target_directory_operand): Use errnoize for simplicity.
        (do_link): New arg for error number of previous try.  All callers
        changed.  Do each link atomically if possible.
        (main): Do -r check earlier.  Remove linkdir privileges so we can
        use a single linkat/symlinkat instead of a racy substitute for the
        common case of 'ln A B' and 'ln -s A B'.  Set beware_hard_dir_link
        to disable this optimization.

        cp: 'cp -il A B' no longer fails if user OKs it
        * NEWS: Mention the change.
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Replace the link if the
        user has okayed it.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gl/modules/tempname.diff: Update to match Gnulib.

2018-10-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: add chmod examples
        Discussed in https://bugs.gnu.org/11043 .

        * doc/coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Add examples.

2018-10-02  Bjarni Ingi Gislason  <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>

        doc: fix minor mistakes in "env.x"
        * man/env.x (OPTIONS): Fix a spelling mistake.  Protect a period at the
        beginning of a line.

2018-09-30  Achilles Gaikwad  <agaikwad@redhat.com>

        id: support multiple specified users
          $ id root nobody
          uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
          uid=99(nobody) gid=99(nobody) groups=99(nobody)

        * src/id.c (main): Make variables opt_zero, just_group_list,
        just_group, use_real, just_user global to be used in a new
        function.
        (print_stuff): New function that will print user and group
        information for the specified USER.
        When using -G option delimit each record with two NULs.
        Restructure the code in the file to have global variables
        followed by functions.
        * tests/id/zero.sh: Add test cases to check the usage
        of -z option with multiple users.
        * tests/id/uid.sh: Add a test case to ensure all users
        are queried in the presence of errors.
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Document the interface changes.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2018-09-25  Stéphane Campinas  <stephane.campinas@gmail.com>

        doc: csplit: clarify handling of regexps with negative offsets
        * doc/coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Detail the behavior
        with regexp patterns and negative offsets, which differs from
        line number patterns, to avoid looping on the input.  For example:
          $ seq 50 | csplit -s - /15/-5 /12/
          csplit: ‘/12/’: match not found

2018-09-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: csplit: clarify input may not be reproducible from output
        * doc/coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Clarify that
        portions of the input may be skipped and thus the input
        may not be reproducible by just concatenating the output files.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/32317

2018-07-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        df: omit redundant comparison
        Trivial inefficiency reported by Bruno Haible in:
        http://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2018-07/msg00109.html
        * src/df.c (hide_problematic_chars): Omit redundant test.

        df: tune slightly
        * src/df.c (get_header, get_dev):
        Avoid calling mbswidth twice when once will do.

        df: avoid multibyte character corruption on macOS
        This improves on the earlier fix for the problem reported by
        Chih-Hsuan Yen (Bug#32236), by also looking for other control
        characters and for encoding errors.
        * src/df.c: Include wchar.h and wctype.h instead of c-ctype.h.
        (hide_problematic_chars): Process the string as multibyte.
        Use iswcntrl, not c_iscntrl.

2018-07-26  Chih-Hsuan Yen  <yan12125@gmail.com>

        df: avoid multibyte character corruption on macOS
        * src/df.c (hide_problematic_chars): Use c_iscntrl() as
        passing 8 bit characters to iscntrl() is not supported on macOS.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/32236

2018-07-22  Wodry  <coreutils3422@runbox.com>  (tiny change)

        doc: improve documentation of binary prefixes
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Common options):
        * src/dd.c, src/head.c, src/od.c, src/stdbuf.c, src/tail.c (usage):
        * src/system.h (emit_size_note):
        Mention binary prefixes (Bug#32242).

2018-07-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid false failure on sparc 32 bit
        * tests/rm/rm-readdir-fail.sh: Skip the test entirely on 32 bit,
        so we avoid conflating the 32bit and 64 bit types, as that
        triggers alignment issues (SIGBUS) on Gentoo sparc.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29886

2018-07-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * bootstrap.conf, src/copy.c, src/mv.c, src/shred.c:
        Adjust to renaming of renameat2 to renameatu.

2018-07-05  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix skipping in some tests
        * tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh: Use 'skip_' rather than the probably
        undefined 'skip'.
        * tests/du/2g.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/install/install-Z-selinux.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/chcon.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/selinux.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh: Likewise.
        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit-skip): A new syntax check to catch the issue.

2018-07-02  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: init.cfg: fix a minor test-related quoting bug
        * init.cfg (require_membership_in_two_groups_): This fixes a bug
        introduced by me in v8.15-8-gdd0e4c562.  Luckily, the consequence
        of low-probability triggering the bug was the mere added backslash
        in the diagnostic: "...but running id -G\ either...".  It would be
        triggered in a test failure for one who is a member of only one or
        fewer groups.

2018-07-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 8.30
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2018-07-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: standardize perl usage in tests
        * tests/cp/fiemap-FMR.sh: Ensure perl is parameterized to $PERL,
        and ensure require_perl_ is used, so tests are skipped appropriately.
        * tests/cp/preserve-gid.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/du/long-from-unreadable.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/env-S-script.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/sort-benchmark-random.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/deep-2.sh: Likewise.

        maint: copy: avoid new static analyzer warnings
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Use the lint protected src_mode,
        rather than accessing the src_sb again.  Also unconditionally
        populate src_sb when !x->move_mode and in lint mode.
        Reported by Kamil Dudka with coverity and clang analyzer.

        maint: fix recent stale comments and spelling mistakes
        * doc/coreutils.texi: s/seperator/separator/.
        * tests/misc/env-S.pl: Likewise.
        * src/env.c: Fix stale comment.

2018-06-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: disable overly agressive sc_gitignore_redundant
        * cfg.mk (sc_gitignore_redundant): Disabled for now as too
        aggressive flagging entries like /lib/arg-nonnull.h in
        a newly checked out repo.

        env: adjust diagnostics provided for shebang usage
        * src/env.c (main): Don't process '-' specially since
        that causes an issue on the openbsd getopt implementation
        where a lone '-' is now processed as an option, and anyway
        it doesn't particuarly help diagnosing common shebang
        usage issues.  Also don't restrict the extra diagnostics
        for shebang usage to the case with 3 arguments, as
        further arguments can be passed to a script.
        * tests/misc/env-S.pl: Adjust accordingly.

2018-06-27  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        tests: accept getopt errors without single-quotes
        On OpenBSD 6.2, invalid single options produce error messages
        without single quotes:

            $ ./src/chroot -/
            chroot: unknown option -- /

        As opposed to other systems:

            ./src/chroot: invalid option -- '/'

        Modify the grep search to accept this.

        * tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh (checkprg): Change the grep pattern
        to accomodate no-single-quotes cases.

2018-06-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix false failures when perl not available
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the stub that skips perl tests,
        with the correct path.

        tests: fix false failure with limited shebang lines
        * tests/misc/env-S-script.sh: Provide a wrapper to
        emulate shebang processing, but without length limits,
        which are 127 on Linux for example.

        maint: update gnulib to latest
        * gnulib: Update to latest, which incorporates
        a thread linking fix from Bruno Haible,
        which was seen on newer Ubuntu systems.

2018-06-27  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        tests: remove unused Data::Dumper perl module
        The module is not needed anymore (was used during development).
        Despite being a Perl core module, platforms like CentOS don't install
        it by default.  Reported by Bruno Haible at
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-06/msg00093.html.

        * tests/misc/csplit-suppress-matched.pl: Remove Data::Dumper.

2018-06-25  Carlos Santos  <casantos@datacom.com.br>

        maint: fix -Werror=suggest-attribute=malloc in expr.c
        Add attribute 'malloc' to mpz_get_str to prevent
        the following on GCC 8.1.1

          src/expr.c:117:1: error: function might be candidate for attribute
            'malloc' if it is known to return normally
              [-Werror=suggest-attribute=malloc]
           mpz_get_str (char const *str, int base, mpz_t z)
           ^~~~~~~~~~~
          cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

        * src/expr.c (mpz_get_str): Add _GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC.

2018-06-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: update gnulib to latest
        * gnulib: Update to latest.
        * .gitignore: Add new entries.
        * bootstrap.conf: Enable wchar-single, which will enable more
        efficient replacements of wcwidth and mbrtowc, as we indicate
        that the charset will no change between invocations of these functions.

        maint: sync longlong.h from gmp repo
        * src/longlong.h: Sync changes.  No functional change.

        maint: avoid false positive in src/fs-magic-compare
        * src/local.mk (fs_normalize_perl_subst): `make src/fs-magic-compare`
        was reporting incorrectly that AFS was not being handled.
        Add a mapping to our KAFS identifier.
        * .gitignore: Add intermediate files from `make src/fs-magic-compare`

2018-06-23  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        tests: initialize fail=0 to avoid "unary operator expected" errors
        With an uninitialized variable 'fail', the unquoted use like
          test $fail = 1
        lead to the shell error
          "unary operator expected".

        The uninitialized 'fail' variable was a side effect of
          https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=e91c0d4f9
        which was pulled into coreutils-v8.26 with
          https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=ef9650170
        Coreutils test code relied and relies on 'fail' to be initialized,
        so initialize that variable here.

        * tests/local.mk (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Initialize fail=0.

2018-06-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: do not depend directly on gnulib's now-unused ftello module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove ftello, since it is
        no longer used directly, since v8.9-11-geab97b307.

2018-06-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: provide an option to relax the need for gdb
        * tests/rm/r-root.sh: gdb provides extra protection,
        but is not strictly necessary.  So provide an option
        for maintainers to relax the requirements.

        rm: add --preserve-root=all to protect mounts
        * src/remove.c (rm_fts): With the --preserve-root=all extension,
        reject command line arguments that are mount points.
        * src/remove.h (rm_options): Add preserve_all_root to store config.
        * src/mv.c (rm_option_init): Init preserve_all_root to false.
        * src/rm.c (main): Init preserve_all_root as per option.
        (usage): Describe the new option.
        * src/remove.c (rm_fts): Lookup the parent device id,
        and reject the cli argument if a separate file system.
        * tests/rm/one-file-system.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2018-06-21  Adam Borowski  <kilobyte@angband.pl>

        cp: add --reflink=never to force standard copy mode
        This mode is currently the default, but most if not all users of
        reflink-capable filesystems want --reflink=auto, which is often
        encapsulated into an alias.  Adding --reflink=never allows overriding
        such an alias.

        * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Describe the new option.
        * src/cp.c: Support --reflink=never.
        * tests/cp/reflink-auto.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2018-06-21  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        env: add -S/--split-string option
        Adopted from FreeBSD's env(1), useful for specifing multiple
        parameters on a shebang (#!) script line, e.g:

           #!/usr/bin/env -S perl -w -T

        Discussed in https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-04/msg00011.html

        * src/env.c (valid_escape_sequence,escape_char,scan_varname,
          extract_varname,validate_split_str,build_argv,
          parse_split_string): New functions.
          (main): Process new option and call parse_split_string.
          (usage): Mention new option.
        * tests/misc/env-S.pl: Test new option from the command line.
        * tests/misc/env-S-script.sh: Test new option from shebang scripts.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add new tests.
        * man/env.x (OPTIONS): Show a brief example of -S usage and point to
        the full documentation for more information.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Detail usage of -S/--split-string
        option.
        * NEWS: Mention new option.

2018-06-21  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        env: add -v/--debug option
        Prints verbose information about each step:

          $ env -v -uFOO  -C /tmp BAR=BAZ date -u
          env: unset:    FOO
          env: setenv:   BAR=BAZ
          env: chdir:    '/tmp'
          env: executing: date
          env:    arg[0]= ‘date’
          env:    arg[1]= ‘-u’
          Sun Apr 22 08:52:30 UTC 2018

        Inspired by FreeBSD's env(1).

        * src/env.c (usage): Mention new option.
          (main): Print debug information if requested.
        * NEWS: Mention new option.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Mention -v/--debug.

2018-06-21  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        maint: refactor unsetenv call in env
        Keep unset envvars (-uFOO) in an array for later deletion,
        instead of reiterating over argv.  Done in preparation for
        '-S string' feature. Related to '-u' discussion in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-04/msg00013.html

        * src/env.c (append_unset_var,unset_envvars): New functions.
         (main): Use new functions.

2018-06-21  Kaxandra Labat  <kaxandra.labat@gmail.com>

        ls: ignore case when coloring file extensions
        * src/ls.c (get_color_indicator): s/STREQ_LEN/c_strncasecmp/
        * src/dircolors.hin: Remove a now redundant entry.
        * tests/ls/color-ext.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

2018-06-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: support -z,--zero option
        * doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Describe the new option,
        and how it's not supported by --check, and how it disables escaping.
        * src/md5sum.c (delim): A new global to parmeterize the out delimiter.
        (main): Don't enable file name escaping with -z, and output '\0'.
        * tests/misc/md5sum-newline.pl: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2018-06-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        wc: optimize processing of ASCII in multi byte locales
        ===== Benchmark setup (on GNU/Linux) ====
        $ yes áááááááááááááááááááá | head -n100000 > mbc.txt
        $ yes 12345678901234567890 | head -n100000 > num.txt

        ===== Before ====
        $ time src/wc -Lm < mbc.txt
        real    0m0.186s
        $ time src/wc -m < mbc.txt
        real    0m0.186s
        $ time src/wc -Lm < num.txt
        real    0m0.055s
        $ time src/wc -m < num.txt
        real    0m0.056s

        ==== After ====
        $ time src/wc -Lm < mbc.txt
        real    0m0.196s
        $ time src/wc -m < mbc.txt
        real    0m0.173s
        $ time src/wc -Lm < num.txt
        real    0m0.031s
        $ time src/wc -m < num.txt
        real    0m0.028s

        * src/wc.c (wc): Only call wide variant functions like
        iswprint() and wcwidth() for non is_basic() characters.
        I.E. non ISO C "basic character set" characters.
        This is especially significant on OSX where wcwidth()
        is very expensive (about 10x in tests).
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        Suggested by Eric Fischer.

2018-06-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: port test.1 to doclifter
        * man/test.x: Use \& instead of quoting (Bug#31803).

        doc: port man pages to doclifter
        Problem reported by Eric S. Raymond (Bug#31803).
        * man/test.x: Add SYNOPSIS section, since help2man
        understandably gets confused by the square brackets.
        * src/ln.c (usage): Omit parenthetical "(Nth form)" in usage,
        as it confuses doclifter.

2018-06-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cp: preserve existing permissions with --no-preserve=mode
        This issue was introduced in commit v8.19-145-g24ebca6

        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): With --no-preserve=mode,
        only reset permissions for newly created files.
        (copy_reg): Likewise.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        * tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh: Add a test case.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/31675

2018-05-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix periodic false failure in month alignment
        * tests/ls/abmon-align.sh: Base relative month adjustment
        from the middle of the month, to avoid failures due
        to months being repeated.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/31644

2018-05-26  Bjarni Ingi Gislason  <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>

        doc: formatting fixes in "du.x" and "rm.x"
        Avoid warnings from: groff -b -e -mandoc -T utf8 -rF0 -t -w w -z

        * man/du.x: Change ".BR" to ".B" if there is only one argument.
        Protect an end-of-sentence indicator (.?!) with '\&'
        if it does not mean an end of a sentence.
        Change '--' to '\-\-' if it indicates an option.
        * man/rm.x: Change '\=' to '='.

2018-05-18  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cp: with --force; replace self referential symlinks
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Don't fail immediately upon
        getting ELOOP when running stat() on the destination,
        rather proceeding if -f specified, allowing the link
        to be removed.  If the loop is not in the final component
        of the destination path, we still fail but at the
        subsequent unlink() stage.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Adjust wording to say
        that --force doesn't work with dangling links, rather than
        all links that can't be traversed.
        * tests/cp/thru-dangling.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
        Discussed in https://bugs.gnu.org/31335

2018-05-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cp: fix symlink checks when overwriting files
        Ensure this _does_ recreate the symlink
          Given "path1" and "path2" are on different devices.
          $ touch "path1/file"
          $ cd path2/; ln -s path1/file
          $ cp -dsf path1/file .

        Ensure this does _not_ overwrite file
          $ touch file
          $ ln -s file l1
          $ cp -sf l1 file

        * src/copy.c (same_file_ok): Remove device ids from consideration,
        instead deferring to future EXDEV with --link or allowing
        the first case above to work.
        Also ensure that we do not exist this function too early,
        when the destination file is not a symlink, which protects
        against the second case.
        * tests/cp/cross-dev-symlink.sh: Add a test for the first case.
        * tests/cp/same-file.sh: Add a test for the second case above.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fixes.
        * THANKS.in: Mention the reporters who also analyzed the code.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/31364

2018-05-15  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cp: ensure --remove-destination doesn't traverse symlinks
        * src/cp.c (target_directory_operand): Allow through inaccessible
        arguments with -f or --remove.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Clarify that -f doesn't directly
        impact the removal of non-traversable symlinks.
        * tests/cp/dir-rm-dest.sh: Test the new behavior.
        * tests/cp/thru-dangling.sh: Enforce -f behavior wrt symlinks.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/31335

        maint: make chmod/chgrp/chown leak free under valgrind
        * src/chmod.c: Deallocate the mode change array in dev mode.
        * src/chown.c: Make chopt_free() actually deallocate, but
        only call in dev mode.
        * src/chgrp.c: Likewise.

        doc: improve formatting of nl --help
        * src/nl.c (usage): Better delineate the information.

2018-05-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        who: simplify port to GCC 8
        * src/who.c (make_id_equals_comment): Use simpler workaround
        for GCC bug 85602.  Suggested by Martin Sebor in:
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85602#c3

2018-05-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: make GCC 8 adjustments more portable
        * src/chown-core.h (chopt_free): Just define away this noop.
        * src/chown-core.c (chopt_free): Remove the empty implementation.

2018-05-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2018-05-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: port to GCC 8
        * src/chown-core.h (chopt_free, gid_to_name, uid_to_name):
        No longer const.
        * src/make-prime-list.c (xalloc): Add malloc attribute.
        * src/who.c (make_id_equals_comment): Work around GCC bug 85602
        by using mempcpy rather than strncat.  Although the old code
        was correct, strncat raises so many hackles that it’s not
        worth maintaining its use here.

        maint: remove strpbrk module
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Remove obsolete module strpbrk.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2018-04-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: retroactively adjust info about tail and closed output
        * NEWS: Expand on the 8.28 description of how tail more
        responsively reacts to closed output, and move from "Improvements"
        to "Changed behavior".
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/31225

2018-04-19  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: timeout --help: mention 0 DURATION disables timeout
        * src/timeout.c (usage): Mention that a duration of 0 disables
        the associated timeout, which is both concise info and useful
        functionality as timeouts are frequently configured.

2018-04-06  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>

        doc: retroactively document -e/-u addition in NEWS
        Prompted by https://bugs.gnu.org/31045

        * NEWS: Update 8.8 blurb to mention other split additions.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate.

2018-04-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        doc: Clarify octal bits in permissions
        * doc/perm.texi (Numeric Modes): Briefly explain octal.
        Reorder description to make it more intuitive (Bug#29069).

2018-03-28  Tobias Stoeckmann  <tobias@stoeckmann.org>

        cut: improve large file support on 32 bit
        Increase max range from SIZE_MAX to UINTMAX_MAX, which will
        allow cut to support line lengths up to the max file size
        on all systems. The inherent SIZE_MAX limitation in cut was
        removed with the enhancements in https://bugs.gnu.org/13127.
        Also numfmt gets similarly increased --field ranges due to
        shared code.

        * src/cut.c: s/size_t/uintmax_t/.
        * src/numfmt.c: Likewise.
        * src/set-fields.c: Likewise.
        * src/set-fields.h: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh: Adjust accordingly.
        * tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Likewise.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2018-03-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid a recent syntax-check failure
        * tests/ls/a-option.sh: s/framework_failure/&_/.

2018-03-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ls: -A now overrides -a
        Problem reported by Karl Berry (Bug#30963).
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * src/ls.c (decode_switches): Implement this.
        * tests/ls/a-option.sh: New file.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.

2018-03-24  Roland Hieber  <rohieb@rohieb.name>

        doc: fix two typos in github templates
        * .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.txt: Fix typo "coreitils" in the URL to the bug
        tracker.
        * .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.txt: Likewise.

2018-03-16  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        ls: increase the allowed abmon width from 5 to 12
        This will impact relatively few languages,
        and will make Arabic or Catalan etc.
        output unambiguous abbreviated month names.

        * src/ls.c (MAX_MON_WIDTH): Increase from 5 to 12.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        * tests/ls/abmon-align.sh: Augment to check for ambiguous output.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/30814

2018-03-14  Brent Petit  <brent.petit@hpe.com>

        stat,tail: add support for the EXFS file system
        Enhanced XFS (EXFS) is a version of XFS maintained by HPE.
        EXFS uses a unique magic number to allow the use of community
        XFS, and EXFS filesystems at the same time.

        * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add file system ID definition,
        and use "exfs" as the name.
        * NEWS: Mention the Improvement.

2018-03-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2018-03-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        stat: work around IBM xlC bug
        Problem reported by John Wiersba (Bug#30718)
        * src/stat.c (human_time): Avoid giving an integer constant
        expression a name, as it runs afoul of a bug in IBM XL C/C++ for
        AIX 12.01.0000.0002.

2018-03-04  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: adjust email address of Keith Thompson in THANKS.in
        * THANKS.in (Keith Thompson): Update email address as requested by
        himself at https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2018-03/msg00004.html

2018-02-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        cp: set appropriate default permissions for special files
        This issue was introduced in commit v8.19-145-g24ebca6

        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): When setting default permissions
        to use with --no-preserve=mode, only set executable bits for
        directories or sockets.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        * tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh: Add a test case.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/30534

2018-01-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: use consistent example format in manual
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Use @example consistently
        as we don't need the smaller or fixed width representation.
        This is especially true for the synopsis of commands.
        @smallexample is rendered left aligned for HTML
        which is awkward to read with the center aligned main content.

2018-01-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        mv: clarify ‘mv -n A A’ change

        mv: fewer syscalls for ‘mv a b’
        This builds on a previous patch for mv atomicity (Bug#29961).
        It merely improves performance; it does not fix bugs.
        * src/copy.h (struct cp_options): New members last_file, rename_errno.
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Support new rename_errno member
        for the copy options.  Avoid calling stat when new members
        suggest it’s not needed.
        (cp_options_default): Initialize new members.
        * src/mv.c: Include renameat2.h.
        (main): With two arguments, first call ‘renamat2 (AT_FDCWD, "a",
        AT_FDCWD, "b", RENAME_NOREPLACE)’.  Use its results to skip
        remaining processing if possible; for example, if it succeeds
        there is no need to stat either "a" or "b".  Also, set
        x.last_file when it is the last file to rename.

        mv: improve -n atomicity
        Problem reported by Kamil Dudka (Bug#29961).
        * NEWS: Mention this.
        * src/copy.c: Include renameat2.h.
        (copy_internal): If mv, try renameat2 first thing, with
        RENAME_NOREPLACE.  If this works, skip most of the remaining code.
        Also, fail quickly if it fails with EEXIST, and we are using -n.

2018-01-10  Michael Orlitzky  <michael@orlitzky.com>

        doc: warn about following symlinks recursively in chown/chgrp
        In both chown and chgrp (which shares its code with chown), operating
        on symlinks recursively has a window of vulnerability where the
        destination user or group can change the target of the operation.
        Warn about combining the --dereference, --recursive, and -L flags.

        * doc/coreutils.texi (warnOptDerefWithRec): Add macro.
        (node chown invocation): Add it to --dereference and -L.
        (node chgrp invocation): Likewise.

        See also: CVE-2017-18018

2018-01-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        cp: remove ASSIGN_BASENAME_STRDUPA
        * src/cp.c (do_copy): Just use ASSIGN_STRDUPA, as this simplifies
        the code and uses less memory.

2018-01-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        mv: -n overrides -u
        * NEWS: Mention these fixes.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation, mv invocation):
        Mention that -n is silent, and that it overrides -u.
        * src/cp.c, src/mv.c (main): -n overrides -u.

2018-01-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        tr: add -A, for compatibility with AIX tr
        Problem reported by Michael (Bug#29946).
        * src/tr.c (main): Add undocumented -A option.

2018-01-03  Michael Orlitzky  <michael@orlitzky.com>

        doc: clarify chown/chgrp --dereference defaults
        * doc/coreutils.texi: the documentation for the --dereference
          flag of chown/chgrp states that it is the default mode of
          operation. Document that this is only the case when operating
          non-recursively.

2018-01-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid false failure with xargs on AIX
        * tests/misc/shred-remove.sh: AIX xargs defaults to using
        '_' to indicate end of input, thus ignoring it.
        Rather than specifying -E to avoid this behavior, simplify
        by removing sed and xargs usage.

2018-01-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: update all copyright year number ranges
        Run "make update-copyright" and then...

        * gnulib: Update to latest with copyright year adjusted.
        * tests/init.sh: Sync with gnulib to pick up copyright year.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.
        * tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.

2017-12-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 8.29
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2017-12-23  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid false failure on AIX 7.2
        * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Close stdout in a subshell
        to ensure the current shell isn't impacted.  Subsequent
        piped commands like `echo foo | blah` were seen to fail
        due to the previous closing of stdout.
        Reported by Assaf Gordon.

        doc: describe recent build checks for 32 bit time_t
        * README: Document the new handling of 32 bit time_t,
        with examples of how to build in 64 bit mode on AIX.
        Also mention that GNU make is desired on AIX
        due to its mishandling of the "[" target.
        Suggested by Assaf Gordon.

2017-12-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix recent portability issues on solaris 10
        * tests/misc/ptx.pl: Escape the '^' character which is
        otherwise considered as a line continuation character.
        * tests/misc/shred-remove.sh: sed doesn't support \n.

        maint: remove reference to excluded changelog item
        * build-aux/git-log-fix: Remove old entry.

2017-12-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: add doc/coverage to .gitignore
        * .gitignore: Ignore the generated coverage report.

        doc: remove older ChangeLog items
        * Makefile.am: Update the oldest documented version
        to 8.20 which is now about 5 years old.

2017-12-18  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: mention which privileges are needed to chmod
        POSIX specification for chmod(1):
        https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/chmod.html

        * doc/coreutils.texi (chmod invocation): Add a sentence about who can
        change the file mode bits of a file - (almost) a copy from what POSIX
        requires.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29207.

2017-12-16  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix recent regressions with dash
        * tests/misc/timeout.sh: dash outputs the "Killed"
        message to stderr rather than the terminal.
        * tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh: dash doesn't yet
        support the POSIX proposed $'...' shell quoting syntax.

        build: avoid a signed overflow warning in ptx
        * src/ptx.c (fix_output_parameters): GCC 6.3.1 with
        ./configure --enable-single-binary would give:
          error: assuming signed overflow does not occur
          when simplifying conditional to constant [-Werror=strict-overflow]
            if (file_index > 0)
        So change the type of file_index to signed (size_t).

2017-12-11  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: adjust for the renamed nstrfime gnulib module
        * bootstrap.conf: s/strftime/nstrfrime/.

2017-12-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gnulib: Update with various build/test fixes.

        tests: fix false failure in new dd/nocache_eof test
        * test/dd/nocache_eof.sh: Also handle fadvise64_64 which is
        used on 32 bit x86.  Note strace internally maps fadvise64_64
        to {arm,xtensa}_fadvise64_64.

        tail: fix tailing non seekable files on certain systems
        * src/tail.c (tail_bytes): On systems were blksize_t is unsigned
        and the same size or wider than off_t (android for example),
        our initialized (off_t) -1 would be promoted to unsigned before
        comparison, and thus fail to follow the appropriate path.
        * tests/tail-2/tail-c.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        This issue was introduced in commit v8.23-47-g2662702
        Reported at https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/233

        build: avoid build failure without sys/mtio.h
        * m4/jm-macros.m4: Check for the header.
        * src/dd.c: Avoid the workaround where the header
        is not available (on non glibc systems).
        * src/shred.c: Likewise.

        doc: reorganize ls -k and --time-style help
        * src/ls.c (usage): Clarify -k only applies to -s usage
        and directory 'total' lines.  Move the description
        of TIME_STYLE out of the option section as it was awkward
        to read and write there within 80 columns.

2017-12-10  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: clarify numeric setuid handling in chmod man page
        * man/chmod.x: Update the information to state one can
        clear the setuid and setgid bits for directories numerically
        using an additional leading '0' or a leading '='.
        That has been supported since v8.15-64-g8931cdb.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29390

        doc: shred: change 'truncate' to the more descriptive 'deallocate'
        * doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation): s/truncate/deallocate/.
        * src/shred.c (usage): Likewise.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29317

        doc: clarify that cp --force may recreate files
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): The language used
        to describe recreating the file was a little confusing
        as it mentioned opening a removed file.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29315

2017-12-04  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        doc: fix default QUOTING_STYLE for %N format of stat(1)
        * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): The default value
        of QUOTING_STYLE for the %N format of 'stat --printf' is
        'shell-escape-always'.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29563
        Reported by Christian Groessler at
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1520399#c3

2017-12-02  Jean Delvare  <jdelvare@suse.de>

        tests: make ls/block-size more readable
        * tests/ls/block-size.sh: The output of the test was hard to read. Add
        comments saying what we are testing to make it easier to understand.

2017-11-29  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
            Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: verify usage vs. getopt
        Verify that all options mentioned in usage are actually recognized
        by the program.

        * tests/misc/usage_vs_getopt.sh: Add test.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Reference it.

2017-11-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        readlink: remove superfluous comma from usage output
        * src/readlink.c (usage): Remove ',' after --quiet option.

2017-11-29  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        all: use consistent diagnostics for unknown long options
        Previously, e.g. cksum failed to output the offending unknown long
        option:
          $ cksum --unknown-opt
          cksum: invalid option -- '-'
          Try 'cksum --help' for more information.
        i.e., it tried to diagnose '-' as short option.
        Instead, it should diagnose the unknown long option:
          $ cksum --unknown-opt
          cksum: unrecognized option '--unknown-opt'
          Try 'cksum --help' for more information.

        * src/cksum.c (long_options): Add struct with null entry only.
        (main): Use it in the getopt_long call.
        * src/dd.c: Likewise.
        * src/hostid.c: Likewise.
        * src/hostname.c: Likewise.
        * src/link.c: Likewise.
        * src/logname.c: Likewise.
        * src/nohup.c: Likewise.
        * src/sleep.c: Likewise.
        * src/tsort.c: Likewise.
        * src/unlink.c: Likewise.
        * src/uptime.c: Likewise.
        * src/users.c: Likewise.
        * src/whoami.c: Likewise.
        * src/yes.c: Likewise.
        * NEWS (Improvements): Mention the fix.

2017-11-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        test: fix issues with tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh
        * tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh: This was the only use of awk,
        which may not be available on the system resulting
        in an ineffective test.  Also the permissions bits for
        directories were not being checked at all.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gnulib: Update with various build/test fixes.

2017-11-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gnulib: Update including various build fixes.

2017-11-27  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        timeout: also support short -v option
        * src/timeout.c (main): Add short option character 'v' to getopt_long
        call.
        * tests/misc/timeout.sh: Run the test both for the long and the short
        option.

2017-11-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        dd: support iflag=direct with arbitrary sized files
        * src/dd.c (iread): Handle read error with a non-aligned
        file offset in the O_DIRECT case.  This is not an issue
        on XFS at least, but on EXT4 the final read will return
        EINVAL rather than the expected 0 to indicate EOF.
        * tests/dd/direct.sh: Test the iflag=direct case also.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2017-11-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        timeout: add --verbose to diagnose timeouts
        This is useful as handling in shell is complicated
        with the varying exit status in the --kill-after case.

        * src/timeout.c (main): Handle '-v' and store
        COMMAND for the diagnostic.
        (cleanup): Diagnose the signal name before sending.
        (usage): Document -v, --verbose.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (timeout invocation): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/timeout.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/21760

2017-11-19  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tail: seek to the end of block devices
        * src/tail.c (tail_bytes): Try lseek(..., SEEK_END) when
        we can't determine the file size.
        * tests/tail-2/end-of-device.sh: Add a new root only test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        Paul Eggert suggested using lseek() (rather than ioctl(BLKGETSIZE64)).
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29259

2017-11-14  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: include the module year2038 from gnulib
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add 'year2038' to ensure that time_t
        is 64-bit (and thus works after 2038).

        Suggested by Bruno Haible in
        https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2017-11/msg00022.html

2017-11-14  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        maint: update gnulib to latest
        * gnulib: Update - mainly for the recent year2038 changes.
        * tests/init.sh: Update from gnulib/tests/init.sh.

2017-11-09  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        doc: add github issue/pull-request templates
        These templates instruct contributors not to use github, and instead
        use the upstream GNU development resources. Discussed in
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-11/msg00007.html .

        * .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.txt,
          .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.txt: New files.

2017-11-08  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: make hook script reject "/archive/html" in lists.gnu.org URLS
        * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Require the abbreviated "/r/"
        form in any log message URL.

        maint: shorten https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/... links
        Each /archive/html/ part can be replace with /r/.
        Run this to induce the change:
        git grep -l archive/html|xargs perl -pi -e 's,/archive/html/,/r/,g'
        * TODO: Perform that substitution.
        * bootstrap: Likewise.
        * src/sort.c (sequential_sort): Likewise.
        * src/tail.c (tail_file): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/sort-merge-fdlimit.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/stty-row-col.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/unexpand.pl: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/readdir-bug.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh: Likewise.

2017-11-07  Thomas Deutschmann  <whissi@gentoo.org>

        tests: avoid false failure with inaccessible mount points
        * tests/ls/readdir-mountpoint-inode.sh: Skip the test
        if any mount points are inaccessible by the current user.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29167
        Reported at: https://bugs.gentoo.org/353164

2017-11-06  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        doc: fix "Up" field of realpath usage examples
        Older versions of 'makeinfo' choke on a missing reference:

          ./doc/coreutils.texi:14177: `Realpath usage examples' has no Up field\
          (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
          makeinfo: Removing output file `doc/coreutils.info' due to errors; \
          use --force to preserve.

        * doc/coreutils.texi (realpath invocation): Add a menu referencing
        the usage examples - introduced in v8.27-91-g7449f0d.

2017-11-06  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: ensure https:// URLs are used in --help and man pages
        * configure.ac(AC_INIT): Specify the URL explicitly, so we're
        not dependent on unreleased autoconf.

2017-10-31  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        stat: output default formats for --terse in usage
        Suggested by L A Walsh in https://bugs.gnu.org/28763 .

        * src/stat.c (fmt_terse_fs): Define format for --terse -f here.
        (fmt_terse_regular): Define format for --terse here.
        (fmt_terse_selinux): Likewise for when SELinux is enabled.
        (default_format): Use the above constants.
        (usage): Output the formats for the terse modes.

2017-10-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        df: fix hang with fifo argument
        * src/df.c (main): stat() before open(), and avoid
        the optional open when given a fifo argument.
        * tests/df/unreadable.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/29038

2017-10-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        build: ls.c: apply _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE to more functions
        * src/ls.c (DEFINE_SORT_FUNCTIONS): Apply _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE
        to each strcmp-derived function definition, since GCC8 with
        -Wsuggest-attribute=pure now warns it is needed.

2017-10-26  Vincent Lefevre  <vincent@vinc17.net>

        doc: reference statfs(2) in the stat(1) man page
        * man/stat.x (SEE ALSO): Mention statfs(2) in addition to stat(2).
        Note statfs() is generally used rather than statvfs(),
        so we'll defer that reference to the SEE ALSO section of statfs(2).
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28989

2017-10-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid false failure when O_DIRECT isn't supported
        * tests/dd/nocache_eof.sh: Only run the O_DIRECT tests
        when 512 byte alignment is supported.  Otherwise with older
        XFS on systems with > 1MiB pages, or on file systems not
        supporting O_DIRECT, there would have been false failures.
        * tests/dd/direct.sh: Clarify the skip message.

2017-10-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        dd: fix nocache regions passed to posix_fadvise()
        Previously with oflag=direct the call to invalidate_cache()
        was not passed to the kernel, as it was less than a page size,
        and a subsequent call was not made to invalidate the pending space.
        Similarly with oflag=nocache the pending space at EOF was
        not invalidated.  Even though these amount to only a single page
        in the page cache it can be significant.  For example on
        XFS before kernel patch v4.9-rc1-4-g0ee7a3f, O_DIRECT files
        would have been read inefficiently if any pages were cached,
        even if they were already synced to storage.

        * src/dd.c (i_nocache_eof, o_nocache_eof): New bools used
        to control when we want invalidate_cache(,0) to clear to EOF.
        (cache_round): Use IO_BUFSIZE (currently 132KiB) to minimize
        calls to the relatively expensive advise function, rather
        than page_size.  This also makes it clear that while the
        kernel function operates on pages, this size is chosen for
        performance reasons.
        (invalidate_cache): Refactor to share more code between
        input and output paths. Use i_nocache_eof and o_nocache_eof
        rather than proxying off max_records.  Ensure we
        invalidate full pages when clearing to EOF as the kernel
        will ignore any non complete pages.  Fix the offset used
        for the output path.
        (dd_copy): Invalidate the cache of the input after the
        offset is updated, for consistency and so we don't try to
        invalidate before the start of the file.  When we read
        EOF on input, set flags so that we invalidate to EOF.
        (main): Invalidate to EOF in more cases, by depending
        on the i_nocache_eof and o_nocache_eof flags.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Clarify the alignment
        and persisted caveats on the example applying "nocache"
        to part of a file.
        * tests/dd/nocache_eof.sh: A new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Issue reported by Eric Bergen.

2017-10-24  Michael Stone  <mstone@debian.org>

        doc: mention QUOTING_STYLE env var in ls man page
        * src/ls.c (usage): Mention QUOTING_STYLE with the --quoting-style
        option, and indicate it has lower precedence than that option.

2017-10-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: apply suggested cleanup to recent stty.c change
        This should have been part of commit v8.28-17-gf926f7c
        * src/stty.c (check_argument): Align line continuation chars,
        and ensure the function macro is immune to usage with if/else.
        Suggested by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

        b2sum: fix crash with --check and truncated input
        * src/md5sum.c (split_3): Ensure we don't walk off
        the end of the string.
        * tests/misc/b2sum.sh: Add test cases.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28860

2017-10-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        stty: fix processing of options when -F is specified
        This was a latent issue that became significant with
        the addition of the -F option in FILEUTILS-3_16n-56-ge46a424

        * src/stty.c (apply_settings): Refactor argument checking
        to a function macro.  Augment the argument check to ignore
        NULLed out arguments (already processed -F).
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        * tests/misc/stty-invalid.sh: Add a test case.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28859

2017-10-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        timeout: fix a small race that would ignore command exit
        This fixes a regression from commit v8.26-39-g2f69dba

        * src/timeout.c (block_cleanup_and_chld): Rename from block_cleanup
        to indicate we also block SIGCHLD to avoid the race where SIGCHLD
        fires between waitpid() polling and sigsuspend() waiting for a signal.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.

2017-10-24  Thomas Jarosch  <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>

        timeout: fix regression when invoked with blocked SIGCHLD
        We inherit the signal mask from our parent process,
        therefore ensure SIGCHLD is not blocked.

        If SIGCHLD is blocked, sigsuspend() won't be interrupted
        when the child process exits and we hang until the timeout (SIGALRM).

        This fixes a regression from commit v8.26-39-g2f69dba

        * src/timeout.c (install_sigchld): Ensure SIGCHLD is unblocked.
        * NEWS: Mention the issue.

2017-10-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: reinstate distribution of man pages
        man pages change little between systems,
        so falling back to distributed pages make sense
        when cross compiling or lacking perl.

        * man/local.mk: Add all man pages to EXTRA_DIST
        so that they're distributed in the generated tarball.
        Use the dummy-man page generator if cross compiling.
        Set TZ to avoid a distcheck failure where man pages
        used a diffent month than those rebuilt (with a .timestamp).
        * man/dummy-man: Only fall back to generating a stub
        if copying an existing man page fails.
        * man/help2man: Sync portable TZ=UTC0 specification
        from upstream help2man.
        * NEWS: Mention the build-related change.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28574

2017-10-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: remove a duplicate entry from THANKS
        * .mailmap: Prefer Colin Watson's last used email address.

2017-09-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        copy: revert recent patch for vulnerable dirs
        I plan to propose a better patch to catch vulnerable parent
        directories.
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (Target directory): Document this.
        * src/cp.c, src/install.c, src/ln.c, src/mv.c:
        Do not include targetdir.h.
        (target_directory_operand): Remove test for vulnerable parents.
        * src/cp.c (stat_target_operand): Remove.  All uses removed.
        * src/local.mk (noinst_HEADERS): Remove src/targetdir.h.
        (src_ginstall_SOURCES, src_cp_SOURCES, src_ln_SOURCES)
        (src_mv_SOURCES): Remove src/targetdir.c.
        * src/targetdir.c, src/targetdir.h: Remove.
        * tests/mv/vulnerable-target.sh: Remove.
        * tests/local.mk (all_root_tests): Remove it.

2017-09-24  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix test hang on case insenitive file systems
        * tests/split/filter.sh: Due to an invalid 'FILE = zero.in'
        construct trying to initialize a FILE variable, it would
        instead try to run the FILE command which is present on
        macOS 10.13 with APFS.
        We also remove a redundant duplicate test clause introduced
        during a rebase, and simplify the piped timeout command,
        to avoid requiring a subshell and associated quoting.
        * THANKS.in: Add the reporter Jack Howarth.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28506

2017-09-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid a false failure in expr test with UTF8
        * tests/misc/expr.pl: Skip the quote varying tests in
        the multi-byte locales as these tests aren't that interesting
        in those locales.  Also ERR_SUBST is already defined for
        some tests so awkward to redefine to munge UTF8 quotes to ASCII.

2017-09-20  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        expr: add detailed syntax error messages
        Show offending argument instead of a generic 'syntax error' message.
        Suggested by Bernhard Voelker in https://bugs.gnu.org/28461#13 .

        * src/expr.c (syntax_error): Remove.
        (required_more_args): New function.
        (eval7, main): Replace syntax_error call with detailed die message.
        * tests/misc/expr.pl: Add tests for new messages.

2017-09-20  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix new syntax-check failures from HTTPS adjustments
        * cfg.mk [old_NEWS_hash]: update with `make update-NEWS-hash`.
        [sc_long_lines]: Avoid flagging (long) URLs in NEWS.
        * src/sort.c: Tweak to a shorter line.
        * src/tail.c: Likewise.
        Introduced in v8.28-4-gbe87d61

        maint: fix new syntax check failures from copy restrictions
        * doc/coreutils.texi: Remove doubled word.
        * src/targetdir.c: Explicitly mark exported function.
        * tests/local.mk: This is not a root only test.
        * tests/mv/vulnerable-target.sh: Use returns_.
        Introduced in v8.28-3-g44ccd1c

        shred: reinstate --remove file name length obfuscation
        This was unintentionally removed in v8.27-60-g2ae1460
        * src/shred.c (wipename): Interate through all name lengths.
        * tests/misc/shred-remove.sh: Add test cases.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28507

2017-09-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        maint: copy bootstrap from Gnulib

        all: prefer HTTPS in URLs

        copy: check for vulnerable target dirs
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (Target directory): Document this.
        * src/cp.c, src/install.c, src/ln.c, src/mv.c: Include targetdir.h.
        (target_directory_operand): Use the new targetdir_operand_type
        function to check for vulnerable target directories.
        * src/cp.c (stat_target_operand): New function.
        (target_directory_operand, do_copy): Use it.
        * src/local.mk (noinst_HEADERS): Add src/targetdir.h.
        (src_ginstall_SOURCES, src_cp_SOURCES, src_ln_SOURCES)
        (src_mv_SOURCES): Add src/targetdir.c.
        * src/targetdir.c, src/targetdir.h: New files.
        * tests/mv/vulnerable-target.sh: New test.
        * tests/local.mk (all_root_tests): Add it.

2017-09-14  Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        ptx: avoid infloop due to zero-length matches with -S regex
        * src/ptx.c (find_occurs_in_text): Die with an appropriate error
        diagnostic when the given regular expression returns a match of
        length 0.
        * tests/misc/ptx.pl (S-infloop): Add a test.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.

        Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/28417 which was detected using
        Symbolic Execution techniques developed in the course of the
        SYMBIOSYS research project at COMSYS, RWTH Aachen University.

2017-09-02  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 8.28
        * NEWS: Record release date.

2017-09-01  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: fix false failure in recent ls --hyperlink test
        * tests/ls/hyperlink.sh: If the hostname or any part of
        the absolute path would be changed due to URL encoding,
        the test would fail.  Therefore simplify to remove
        these components of the URL from consideration.

        maint: avoid a syntax-check failure
        * .gitignore: Remove lines indicated by sc_gitignore_redundant
        in a freshly checked out repo.

2017-08-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: exclude the expensive gnulib fts-tests
        * gnulib: The only change in this gnulib update
        is the tagging of the fts-tests module as longrunning,
        which gnulib-tool currently implicitly excludes.
        This test was seen to take about 20s and 285MB.
        Reported by Assaf Gordon on space restricted VMs.

        tty: don't distinguish input errors
        * src/tty.c (main): Don't distinguish ENOTTY from other errors,
        because isatty() doesn't portably distinguish errors.
        Solaris returns ENOENT for all input errors for example.
        Musl also returns ENOENT, and ENODEV may be returned as disscussed at:
        http://openwall.com/lists/musl/2017/04/06/6
        * tests/misc/tty.sh: Adjust accordingly.

        tests: avoid printf '0*d' construct unsupported by ash
        * tests/ln/sf-1.sh: Generate specific length with space padding
        which is supported.
        Reported by Assaf Gordon on Alpine Linux.

2017-08-31  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: skip tests upon failure to set SELinux context
        On some setups the root:object_r:tmp_t context is invalid.
        This does indicate a limitation in the test framework,
        but for now we'll relax this to skipping the tests.
        The tests still run on a Fedora 25 system for example.

        * tests/cp/cp-a-selinux.sh: Upon chcon error, skip rather than ERROR.
        * tests/install/install-Z-selinux.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/chcon.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/runcon-no-reorder.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/selinux.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/mkdir/restorecon.sh: Likewise.

2017-08-30  Kamil Dudka  <kdudka@redhat.com>

        expr: fix a recently introduced memory leak
        * src/expr.c (eval6): Free memory allocated by mbs_logical_substr().

        Introduced in v8.27-47-ga9f2be5.  Detected by Coverity Analysis:

        Error: RESOURCE_LEAK:
        src/expr.c:851: leaked_storage: Variable "s" going out of scope
        leaks the storage it points to.
        849|             char *s = mbs_logical_substr (l->u.s, pos, len);
        850|             v = str_value (s);
        851|->         }
        852|         freev (l);
        853|         freev (i1);

2017-08-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: fix build of renameat2 on Alpine Linux
        * gnulib: The only change included in this update
        it the added check for the presence of <linux/fs.h>
        which is not present on Alpine Linux by default.

        tty: fix exit code with EINVAL
        * src/tty.c (main): All systems mention that isatty()
        man return EINVAL as well as (the POSIX compliant) ENOTTY.
        Also Centos 6 was seen to return EINVAL from ttyname().
        * tests/misc/tty.sh: Fix a test issue where we assume
        standard input is always a valid tty.
        Reported by Assaf Gordon on OpenSolaris 5.10 and 5.11,
        and Centos 6.5

2017-08-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        runcon: revert "disable use of the TIOCSTI ioctl"
        This reverts commit v8.27-97-g8cb06d4 because
        the setsid() fallback was not implemented correctly
        and disabling the ioctl was not a complete solution
        to the security issue of the child being passed
        the tty of the parent.

        Given runcon is not really a sandbox command,
        the advice is to use `runcon ... setsid ...`
        to avoid this particular issue.

2017-08-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        stat: fix determination of max name length on BSD systems
        We only use one of statfs or statvfs for `stat -f`
        and on the BSDs we use statfs which doesn't have the
        f_namelen member.  However on OpenBSD and later FreeBSD
        systems statfs does provide f_namemax, so use that.

        * NEWS: Mention the improvement for OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
        * m4/stat-prog.m4: Check for f_namemax in the statfs struct.
        * src/stat.c: Return '?' rather than '*' when we can't
        determine the max length of the file system.
        * tests/ln/sf-1.sh: This test was failing on all BSDs
        due to '*' being returned for the max length which
        caused the test to attempt to create 1Mi+1 names.
        The test now uses a short name when we can't determine
        the max name length to use.

        Reported by Assaf Gordon on various BSD based systems.

2017-08-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        stat,tail: support "AAFS" AppArmor file system
        * src/stat.c (human_fstype): This file system is used
        to manage AppArmor policy in the Linux kernel.

        all: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * bootstrap: Sync timestamp update.

2017-08-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        runcon: disable use of the TIOCSTI ioctl
        Similar to the issue with SELinux sandbox (CVE-2016-7545),
        children of runcon can inject arbitrary input to the terminal
        that would be run at the originating terminal privileges.

        The new libseccomp dependency is widely available and used
        on modern SELinux systems, but is not available by default
        on older systems like RHEL6 etc.

        * m4/jm-macros.m4: Check for libseccomp and
        warn if unavailable on selinux supporting systems.
        * src/local.mk: Link runcon with -lseccomp.
        * src/runcon.c (disable_tty_inject): A new function to
        disable use of the TIOCSTI using libseccomp, or with setsid()
        where libseccomp is unavailable.
        * tests/misc/runcon-no-inject.sh: A new test that uses
        python to make the TIOCSTI call, and ensure that doesn't succeed.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        Addresses http://bugs.gnu.org/24541

2017-08-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        ls: support --hyperlink to output file:// URIs
        Terminals such as iTerm2 and VTE based terminals
        (as of version 0.49.1), support hyperlinks when
        passed terminals codes as described at:
        https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda

        * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Allocate an absolute file name to output.
        (quote_name): Output the absolute name with the appropriate codes.
        (file_escape): A new function to encode file names as per rfc8089.
        (main): Handle the new option and call the file_escape_init() helper.
        Disable --dired when --hyperlink is specified.
        (print_dir): Get the absolute file name here too, so that the
        directory name can be linkified.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.
        * tests/ls/hyperlink.sh: Add a new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (ls invocation): Describe --hyperlink.

2017-08-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: remove older ChangeLog items
        This saves about 0.5MB uncompressed from the tarball.

        * Makefile.am: Following on from v8.26-34-g2c64bc8
        update the oldest documented version to 8.18 which
        is now about 5 years old.  Also remove older ChangeLogs
        that were previously thought to be for changes not
        in the git history, but are adequately recorded upon review.
        * build-aux/ChangeLog-2007: Remove file.
        * lib/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.
        * m4/ChangeLog-2007: Likewise.

2017-08-29  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@debian.org>

        env: add --chdir option
        This is useful when chaining with other commands that run commands in a
        different context, while avoiding using the shell to cd, and thus
        having to consider shell quoting the chained command.

        * NEWS (New features): Document the new option.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Likewise.
        * src/env.c (usage): Likewise.
        (main): Implement the new option.
        * tests/misc/env.sh: Test the new option.

2017-08-29  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: don't fail tests when failing to write files
        * tests/sample-test: Use framework_error_ rather than fail=1
        * tests/chown/deref.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/chown/preserve-root.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/cp/src-base-dot.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/dd/unblock-sync.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/du/2g.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/du/inacc-dest.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/du/one-file-system.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/fmt/goal-option.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/ln/hard-backup.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/ls/color-dtype-dir.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/ls/m-option.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/ls/stat-dtype.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/ls/time-style-diag.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/ls/x-option.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/chcon.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/nohup.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/od-N.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/sort-compress.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/tac-continue.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/misc/time-style.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/mv/backup-dir.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/mv/dir2dir.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/dir-no-w.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/dir-nonrecur.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/inaccessible.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/interactive-always.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/interactive-once.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/rm3.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/rm/v-slash.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/touch/relative.sh: Likewise.

2017-08-29  Josef Cejka  <jcejka@suse.com>
            Bernhard Voelker  <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>

        df: avoid stat() for dummy file systems with -l
        When systemd is configured to automount a remote file system - see
        'man systemd.automount(5)', then the mount point is initially
        mounted by systemd with the file system type "autofs".
        When the resource is used later on, then the wanted file system is
        mounted over that mount point on demand.
        'df -l' triggered systemd to mount the file system because it called
        stat() on the mount point.
        Instead of single-casing "autofs" targets, we can avoid stat()ing
        all dummy file systems (which includes "autofs"), because those are
        skipped later on in get_dev() anyway.

        *src/df.c (filter_mount_list): Also skip dummy file systems unless
        the -a option or a specific target are given.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.


        Fixes http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043059

2017-08-29  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        doc: add 'realpath usage examples' section
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Realpath usage examples): New section.

2017-08-29  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        doc: fix realpath index entry
        The 'readlink' node has '@findex realpath' in it. This results in
            info doc/coreutils.info realpath
        incorrectly jumping to the 'readlink' node (instead of the 'realpath'
        node). Change it to @cindex instead.

        * doc/coreutils.texi (readlink): Change '@findex realpath' to @cindex.

2017-08-29  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        realpath: improve usage description for --relative-{to,base}
        * src/realpath.c (usage): Explicitly say 'DIR' instead of 'FILE' for
        --relative-{to,base} parameters, to avoid giving the impression
        that regular files can be used as relative base.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (realpath): Same.

2017-08-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        ls: consistently quote symlink targets
        * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Disable the optimization to avoid quoting
        if the symlink target itself needs quoting.  This was introduced
        with the quoting alignment adjustments in v8.25-106-g01971c0
        * tests/ls/symlink-quote.sh: Add a test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the test.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.

2017-08-25  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tail: reinstate inotify use with FIFOs
        commit v8.27-44-g18f6b22 was too aggressive in
        only allowing inotify use with regular files. This will
        support responsive processing of `tail -f fifo | ...`

        * src/tail.c (any_non_regular): Adjust to allow FIFOs
        since inotify supports these well.
        * tests/tail-2/inotify-only-regular.sh: Adjust comment.

2017-08-19  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid a syntax check failure
        * src/sort.c: Don't include stdio--.h as fopen() is no longer used.

        tests: fix issues on alpine linux
        * tests/misc/seq-epipe.sh: Remove stale comment.
        * tests/misc/sort-debug-warn.sh: musl doesn't indicate a set_locale()
        failure with missing locales, so avoid a test portion in that case.
        * tests/misc/wc-files0.sh: Avoid a bug on older ash implementations.
        Addresses http://bugs.gnu.org/28054

2017-08-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        ptx: fix some integer overflow bugs
        Problem reported by Lukas Zachar at:
        http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1482445
        * src/ptx.c (line_width, gap_size, maximum_word_length)
        (reference_max_width, half_line_width, before_max_width)
        (keyafter_max_width, truncation_string_length, compare_words)
        (compare_occurs, search_table, find_occurs_in_text, print_spaces)
        (fix_output_parameters, define_all_fields):
        Use ptrdiff_t, not int, for object offsets and sizes.
        (WORD, OCCURS): Use ptrdiff_t, not short int.
        (WORD_TABLE, number_of_occurs, generate_all_output):
        Prefer ptrdiff_t to size_t where either will do.
        (total_line_count, file_line_count, OCCURS, fix_output_parameters)
        (define_all_fields):
        Use intmax_t, not int, for line counts.
        (DELTA): Remove.  All uses changed.
        (OCCURS, find_occurs_in_text, fix_output_parameters):
        Use int, not size_t, for file indexes.
        (tail_truncation, before_truncation, keyafter_truncation)
        (head_truncation, search_table, define_all_fields)
        (generate_all_output):
        Use bool for booleans.
        (digest_word_file, find_occurs_in_text):
        Use x2nrealloc instead of checking for overflow by hand.
        (find_occurs_in_text, fix_output_parameters, define_all_fields):
        Omit unnecessary cast.
        (fix_output_parameters): Don’t assume integers fit in 11 digits.
        (fix_output_parameters, define_all_fields):
        Use sprintf return value rather than calling strlen.
        (define_all_fields): Do not rely on sprintf to generate a string
        that may contain more than INT_MAX bytes.
        (main): Use xstrtoimax, not xstrtoul.
        Use xnmalloc to catch integer overflow.

        nohup: simplify by using fcntl
        * src/nohup.c: Do not include cloexec.h.
        (main): Use fcntl rather than dup + set_cloexec_flag.

        sort: use pthread_sigmask, not sigprocmask
        POSIX says sigprocmask has unspecified behavior in a multithreaded
        program like ‘sort’.
        * src/sort.c (pthread_sigmask) [GNULIB_defined_pthread_functions]:
        New macro, for use when ‘sort’ is not multithreaded.
        (cs_enter, cs_leave): Use it.  Pass address, not value, as
        this is typically a tad faster.  All callers changed.

        sort: minor cleanups
        * src/sort.c (move_fd): Rename from move_fd_or_die,
        since it no longer can die.

        sort: file descriptor discipline
        Use O_CLOEXEC when creating file descriptors, so that subsidiary
        processes do not inherit file descriptors that they do not need.
        This is helpful for ‘sort’, as it is a multithreaded program that
        forks and execs.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add mkostemp, open, pipe2.
        * src/sort.c (create_temp_file): Open temporary file with O_CLOEXEC.
        (stream_open): Open the stream with O_CLOEXEC.
        (pipe_fork): Create the pipe with O_CLOEXEC.
        (check_output): Open the output file with O_CLOEXEC.
        (main): Use xfopen/xfclose to handle --files0-from, so that
        O_CLOEXEC is used properly.  This is simpler anyway.
        * tests/misc/sort-files0-from.pl: Adjust to change in diagnostic
        wording.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2017-08-14  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        kill: fix signal number to name lookup on AIX
        * src/operand2sig.c (operand2sig): AIX uses a different bit pattern
        in the returned status from the wait() functions and from shells.
        Therefore hardcode the selection of the lower bits of the number.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.

        build: use the appropriate single file include option with xlc
        * configure.ac: Set USE_XLC_INCLUDE when __xlc__ is defined.
        * src/local.mk: Use it to select the appropriate include option.
        Reported by Michael Felt.

        tests: avoid false failures on AIX
        * tests/ln/sf-1.sh: Limit the symlink size to 1MiB
        to avoid memory exhaustion seen on NFS on AIX, giving:
          + printf '%0*d' 4294967296 0
          + ./tests/ln/sf-1.sh: line 38: printf: warning: 0: Result too large
        * tests/id/setgid.sh: Skip the test when the adjusted gid
        would equal 4294967295, as that's reserved on AIX.
        Reported by Michael Felt.

        sort: handle musl locale differences in --debug reporting
        * src/sort.c (main): Don't assume hard_LC_COLLATE implies
        a successful setting of the locale as musl defaults to
        UTF8 when failing to set the specified locale.
        * tests/misc/sort-debug-warn.sh: Adjust for the now
        separated locale debug info and map the musl specific
        message back to the common case.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/28054

        seq: produce consistent error messages upon write error
        * src/seq.c (io_error): Use the same error message as would
        be generated at exit time when closing the stdout stream.
        The inconsistency was added with commit v8.25-26-gc92585b.
        This was noticed due to an inconsistency in the expected
        error message generated by seq on musl libc.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/28054

        tests: fix false failure with large printf formats
        * tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh: With musl libc the
        large printf format does succeed, outputting data.
        To avoid SIGPIPE being generated we ignore that signal
        and then handle the subsequent EPIPE error.
        Addresses https://bugs.gnu.org/28054

2017-08-12  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        build: adjust warning options to work with latest GCC
        * configure.ac: Disable some new warnings to avoid false positives.
        Building with warnings enabled and latest gcc would evoke build
        failure without these changes.  Disable the following in coreutils
        proper: -Wformat-overflow=2 -Wformat-truncation=2, and
        disable these for gnulib: -Wformat-truncation=2 -Wduplicated-branches

        gnulib: update to latest and adjust gl/modules/tempname.diff
        * gnulib: Update to latest.
        * gl/modules/tempname.diff: This patch failed to apply.
        Adjust it to reflect removal of the secure_getenv dependency.

        chroot: fix typo in preceding change: didn't compile
        * src/chroot.c (usage): Add backslashes.

2017-08-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        doc: correct technicality in chroot's --help output
        * src/chroot.c (usage): Use correct quoting in descriptive diagnostic.
        We would run `"$SHELL" -i`, not `${SHELL} -i`.

2017-08-09  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        doc: fix join example
        * doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Fix incorrect output in example.
        Reported by Phlosioneer in https://bugs.gnu.org/28014 .

2017-08-04  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2017-08-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        copy: more-accurate warning about destruction
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal):
        * tests/cp/backup-is-src.sh, tests/mv/backup-is-src.sh:
        Say "might destroy", not "would destroy".

2017-08-03  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid a syntax-check failure
        * src/shred.c (wipename): As per the comment, the arguments
        to error() are sufficiently quoted, so split the call over
        multiple lines to avoid the syntax-check.

2017-08-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2017-08-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        copy: go back to failing 'cp --backup a~ a'
        Suggested by Kamil Dudka in:
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-07/msg00072.html
        * NEWS: Document the changed nature of the fix.
        * doc/coreutils.texi, tests/cp/backup-is-src.sh:
        * tests/mv/backup-is-src.sh: Revert previous change.
        * src/copy.c (source_is_dst_backup): New function.
        (copy_internal): Use it.  Fail instead of falling back on numbered
        backups when it looks like the backup will overwrite the source.
        Although this reintroduces a race, it's more compatible with
        previous behavior.

2017-07-31  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        copy: sanity-check --suffix
        * src/cp.c, src/install.c, src/ln.c, src/mv.c (main):
        Use set_simple_backup_suffix, to sanity-check the user-supplied
        backup suffix.

        copy: make backup files more reliably
        * NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (Backup options): Document the change.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add backup-rename.
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Silently switch to numbered backups
        if a simple backup might lose data.  Use backup_file_rename
        to avoid races with numbered backups.
        * tests/cp/backup-is-src.sh, tests/mv/backup-is-src.sh:
        Adjust to match new behavior.

        shred: avoid rename race
        Use renameat2 to avoid a rename race condition, on recent-enough
        GNU/Linux.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add renameat2.
        * src/shred.c: Include renameat2.h.
        (wipename): Use renameat2 instead of rename.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2017-07-25  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: fix grammar in a shred.c comment
        * src/shred.c: Remove spurious "to" in an old comment.

2017-07-23  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix recent syntax-check failures
        * .gitignore: Add /lib/utime.h from the recent gnulib update.
        * src/nproc.c (usage): Adjust spacing to placate help2man.

        shred: remove redundant zeroing of freed memory
        * src/shred.c (dopass): shred used to read the input file,
        and so needed to ensure internal memory was cleared.
        This is no longer the case since SH-UTILS-1_16f-260-gf381610
        so avoid this redundant clearing.
        (do_wipefd): Likewise.
        * NEWS: Remove the recent mention of this issue.

        maint: resync with blake2 upstream
        * src/blake2/blake2-impl.h: Don't use the equivalent explicit_bzero().

        tests: avoid a false failure on AIX
        * tests/misc/sync.sh: Normalize the error messages
        when syncing a non read/write directory, as AIX
        gives the "Is a directory" error.
        Also ensure that sync(1) returns an error for this
        case on all systems.

2017-07-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        shred: use explicit_bzero
        * NEWS: Document this.
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add explicit_bzero.
        * gl/lib/randint.c (randint_free):
        * gl/lib/randread.c (randread_free):
        * src/blake2/blake2-impl.h (secure_zero_memory):
        * src/shred.c (dopass, do_wipefd):
        Prefer explicit_bzero to memset when erasing secrets.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

2017-07-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

        nproc: fix indentation of usage output
        * src/nproc.c (usage): Align output.

2017-07-10  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        groups: do not exit early
        Most programs take care to operate on all command-line-specified
        operands before exiting.  That is an important feature that allows
        to identify all problems with the first run.  However, groups would
        exit upon the first problematic user name.
        Bug introduced via commit v6.10-56-g167b8025ac.
        * src/groups.c (main): Do not exit immediately upon error.
        * tests/misc/groups-process-all.sh: New file. Test for this.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention this.

2017-07-08  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>

        tests: groups-dash.sh: avoid false failure
        * tests/misc/groups-dash.sh: Avoid false failure on a system for which
        "none" is a valid user name.  The first invocation would succeed, and
        the second would fail with "groups: ‘--’: no such user".
        Use a user name that cannot exist.

        doc: tweak wording
        * NEWS (Bug fixes): Tweak wording of the mv/cp-vs-symlink-ownership
        entry and the one about df.

2017-06-28  Assaf Gordon  <assafgordon@gmail.com>

        expr: add multibyte support
        Discussed in https://bugs.gnu.org/26779 .

        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        * bootstrap.conf: Add gnulib modules mbslen,mbschr.
        * src/expr.c (mbs_logical_substr): New function to return a substring
        based on logical character positions (instead of bytes).
        (mbs_logical_cspn): Similar to strcspn/mbscspn, but returns number of
        logical characters instead of byte offset.
        (mbs_offset_to_chars): New function to return number of logical
        characters fitting in a given byte offset.
        (docolon): Report matched logical characters instead of bytes.
        (eval6): For length/substr/index operations, use logical characters
        instead of bytes by calling the above new functions.
        * tests/misc/expr.pl: Repeat all tests with non-C locale to detect any
        regressions.
        * tests/misc/expr-multibyte.pl: New tests with multibyte input.
        * tests/local.mk: Add new test file.

2017-06-21  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: avoid spurious "make distcheck" failure
        When the generated file, doc/constants.texi, happens to be older than
        doc/coreutils.info, it will not be updated until/unless its generated
        contents change.  This is due to way that rule is careful to update
        the file, to avoid provoking a pointless rerunning of makeinfo.

        Note that this does not happen when one first runs "make distclean",
        as recommended in README-release.  However, I sometimes run it as
        a more-rigorous "make check", and shouldn't have to manually run
        "make distclean" first, in that case.

        Before this change, one could reproduce the failure by running
        `touch -dyesterday doc/constants.texi && make distcheck`.  It would
        fail with "makeinfo: could not open ../../doc/coreutils.info-t
        for writing: Permission denied"
        * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Touch the two generated files, so that
        they cannot be out of date wrt doc/coreutils.texi.

2017-06-17  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: use C99 for loop initial declarations where possible
        This results in a net reduction of about 120 lines.

        tail: only use inotify with regular files
        * src/tail.c (any_non_regular): A new function to check passed files.
        (main): Use the above to skip inotify if any non regular files passed
        like /dev/tty or /dev/ttyUSB0 etc.
        * tests/tail-2/inotify-only-regular.sh: A new test.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/21265 and http://bugs.gnu.org/27368

        tail: with -f don't warn if doing a blocking read of a tty
        * src/tail.c: (main): Only issue the warning about -f being
        ineffective when we're not going into simple blocking mode.
        * tests/tail-2/follow-stdin.sh: Ensure the warning is output correctly.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/27368

2017-06-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tail: exit promptly when output no longer writable
        This will support use cases like:

          tail -f file.log | grep -q trigger &&
          process_immediately

        * src/tail.c (check_output_alive): A new function that
        uses select on fifos or pipes to detect if they're broken.
        (tail_forever): Call check_output_alive() periodically.
        (tail_forever_inotify): Merge the select() call from
        check_output_alive() into the select() originally present
        for the --pid case, and adjust accordingly.
        * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Add test cases.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.

2017-06-11  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>

        maint: update to work with GCC7's -Werror=implicit-fallthrough=5
        * src/system.h (FALLTHROUGH): Define.
        * src/cp.c (main): Use new FALLTHROUGH macro in place of comments.
        * src/basename.c (main): Likewise.
        * src/dircolors.c (append_quoted): Likewise.
        * src/echo.c (main): Likewise.
        * src/fold.c (main): Likewise.
        * src/join.c (main): Likewise.
        * src/kill.c (main): Likewise.
        * src/ls.c (get_funky_string, gobble_file): Likewise.
        * src/sort.c (parse_field_count, main): Likewise.
        * src/stat.c (print_it): Likewise.
        * src/tail.c (parse_obsolete_option): Likewise.
        * src/test.c (posixtest): Likewise.
        * src/wc.c (wc): Likewise.
        * src/who.c (main): Likewise.

2017-06-07  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tail: with --pid, ensure all inotify events are processed
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        * src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): With --pid, avoid waiting
        for new events if there are still events to process.
        * tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh: Adjust to trigger.

        tests: fix issues with recently added tail test
        * tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh: Skip when
        inotify is not usable.  Also remove a bash specific &> construct.

2017-06-03  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        copy: don't fail when unable to chown symlinks
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Honor the x->require_preserve flag
        for symlinks as we do for ordinary files, so we don't exit with
        failure upon failure to chown a symbolic link.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2017-05-29  Sebastian Kisela  <skisela@redhat.com>

        doc: mention `setpriv --no-new-privs` feature in runcon info
        * doc/coreutils.texi (runcon invocation): Mention setpriv usage.
        Discussed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1360903

2017-05-18  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        mv: distinguish copy and rename operations with --verbose
        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): In x->move_mode distinguish
        whether we're copying, creating directory, or renaming.
        * tests/mv/backup-dir.sh: Adjust to new output.
        * tests/mv/mv-n.sh: Likewise.
        * tests/mv/mv-special-1.sh: Likewise.
        * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26971

2017-05-11  Prateek saxena  <prateeksaxena2@gmail.com>

        uptime: remove inconsistent AM/PM from current time
        * src/uptime.c (main): 00-23 was always used for the hour component
        of the current time, so remove the AM/PM output (which was only
        present in some locales anyway).  Also add seconds to the time
        to be more consistent with the usual procps-ng uptime implementation
        on GNU/Linux.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26783

2017-05-04  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix various typos in recent commits
        * NEWS: Grammar fixes.
        * HACKING: Likewise.

2017-05-04  Jaak Ristioja  <jaak.ristioja@cyber.ee>

        doc: Fixed typo in timeout man page
        * man/timeout.x: Correct spelling of "currently".
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26762

2017-04-30  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: update the instructions for generating a coverage report
        * HACKING: Change from explicit instructions to using gnulib
        provided coverage testing targets.  Also include instructions
        for adding root only tests to the report.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26709

2017-04-27  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        dd: simplify translator’s jobs
        * src/dd.c (print_xfer_stats): Format the SI units directly,
        without translating them, to simplify the translators’ jobs.
        See Bug#26621.

2017-04-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        date,touch: test and document large TZ security issue
        Add a test for CVE-2017-7476 which was fixed in gnulib at:
        http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=94e01571

        * tests/misc/date-tz.sh: Add a new test which overwrites enough
        of the heap to trigger a segfault, even without ASAN enabled.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2017-04-27  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * .gitignore: Add new entry as indicated by `make syntax-check`.

2017-04-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        dd: status=progress outputs "6 s", not "6.00001 s"
        Problem reported by Benno Schulenberg (Bug#26621).
        * NEWS: Document this.
        * src/dd.c (print_xfer_stats): With status=progress,
        format times with %.0f rather than %g.  Improve
        translator comments.

2017-04-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest

        maint: remove unused functions and constants
        These were found by clang.
        * gl/lib/rand-isaac.c (min):
        * gl/lib/randint.c (shift_right):
        * src/md5sum.c (algorithm):
        Remove; unused.

        date: adjust to gnulib parse-datetime changes
        * doc/coreutils.texi (Options for date): Capitalize a sentence.
        * tests/misc/date-debug.sh: Adjust --debug output to match
        recent changes to Gnulib’s parse-datetime module.

        build: update gnulib submodule to latest
        * gl/modules/tempname.diff: Update to match current Gnulib.

2017-04-18  Bogdan Drozdowski  <bogdandr@op.pl>

        shred: fix invalid pattern generation for certain sizes
        * src/shred.c (fillpattern): Fix the "off by one" issue when
        testing whether we have enough space to copy the already
        written portion of the buffer to the remainder of the buffer.
        Specifically for buffer sizes that are (3*(2^x))+1, i.e. 7,13,...
        we both use an uninitialized byte and invoke undefined
        behavior in memcpy() operation on overlapping memory regions.
        * tests/misc/shred-passes.sh: Add an invocation that will
        trigger either valgrind UMR, or ASAN like:
          ERROR: AddressSanitizer: memcpy-param-overlap: memory ranges
          #1 0x403065 in fillpattern src/shred.c:293
        A direct test is awkward due to the random writes surrounding
        the problematic pattern writes.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26545

2017-04-17  Bo Rydberg  <bolry@hotmail.com>

        doc: fix awk example for getting penultimate field
        * doc/coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Add required brackets.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26519

2017-04-06  Sebastian Kisela  <skisela@redhat.com>

        tail: revert to polling if a followed directory is replaced
        * src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Add the IN_DELETE_SELF flag when
        creating watch for the parent directory.  After the parent directory
        is removed, an event is caught and then we switch from inotify to
        polling mode.  Till now, inotify has always frozen because it waited for
        an event from a watched dir, which has been already deleted and was not
        added again.
        * tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh: Add a test case.
        * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26363
        Reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1283760

2017-04-06  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: fix syntax-check issues in previous tty commit
        * src/tty.c: Avoid EXIT_FAILURE to be more descriptive
        and to placate sc_some_programs_must_avoid_exit_failure.

2017-04-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        tty: handle misconfigured namespaces
        On some platforms, isatty succeeds but ttyname fails.
        POSIX does not seem to allow this, but there it is.
        Problem reported by Christian Brauner (Bug#26371).
        While we’re at it, check for errors more carefully and return a
        new exit status 4 if stdin is closed or a similar error occurs.
        * doc/coreutils.texi (tty invocation): Document new behavior.
        * init.cfg (stderr_fileno_):
        Don't assume have_input_tty is not in the environment.
        * src/tty.c (TTY_STDIN_ERROR): New constant.
        (main): Exit with nonzero status if there is a usage error,
        like other coreutils programs.
        Check for error in getting stdin type.
        * tests/misc/tty.sh: New file.
        * tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.

2017-04-03  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        doc: refactor and update expand and unexpand --help
        * src/expand-common.c (emit_tab_list_info): A new function to
        output the extended info on --tab=LIST, including the new
        '+' and '/' prefixes.
        * src/expand-common.h: Declare the above.
        * src/expand.c (usage:): Call emit_tab_list_info and
        match alignment with that used in unexpand --help.
        * src/unexpand.c (usage): Likewise.

2017-04-03  Jacob Keller  <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

        expand,unexpand: add support for incremental tab stops
        Support --tabs="1,+8" which is equivalent to --tabs="1,9,17,..."
        useful for viewing unified diff output with its 1 character
        gutter for example.

        * doc/coreutils.texi ({expand,unexpand} invocation): Document,
        using diff processing as the example.
        * src/expand-common.c (set_increment_size): Update the new
        increment_size global.
        (parse_tab_stops): Handle the new '+' prefix.
        (finalize_tab_stops): Verify both '+' and '/' prefixes
        are not used together.
        * tests/misc/expand.pl: Add test cases.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2017-03-30  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        sort: update comment
        * src/sort.c: Update identifiers in comment.

2017-03-30  Chris Davies  <chris@roaima.co.uk>

        doc: clarify in dd man page that bs= overrides [io]bs=
        * src/dd.c (usage): Add the extra info.
        Reported in https://bugs.debian.org/859021

2017-03-28  Ludovic Courtès  <ludo@gnu.org>

        tests: avoid false ulimit failure on some systems
        * tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh: On some systems returns_ may
        use more memory, so incorporate that in the determination
        of the ulimit value to use.  Noticed on ARMv7 with bash-4.4.12,
        and x86_64 with bash-4.2.37.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26253

2017-03-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid syntax check failure with wrapped returns_
        * cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_env_returns): Allow wrapped calls to
        return_ of the form: `wrapper_ returns_ ...` which is needed
        with the following commit.

2017-03-28  Michael Heimpold  <mhei@heimpold.de>

        split: add new --hex-suffixes option
        * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Document the new option.
        * src/split.c (usage): Likewise.
        (main): Process the new option much like --numeric-suffixes,
        but with an adjusted alphabet.
        * tests/split/numeric.sh: Refactor to support --hex mode.
        * NEWS: Mention the new feature.

2017-03-28  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: don't erroneously trigger BSD reversed mode
        * src/md5sum.c (split_3): Verify hex digits internally before
        triggering the global bsd_reversed mode flag.
        (bsd_split_3): Likewise.
        * tests/misc/md5sum-bsd.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26263

2017-03-27  Philipp Thomas  <pth@suse.de>

        df: avoid querying excluded file systems
        * src/df.c (filter_mount_list): Avoid stat() on
        explicitly excluded file systems, which is especially
        significant in cases like `-x nfs` which may hang.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2017-03-26  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        maint: avoid a static analysis warning in expand-common
        * src/expand-common.c (next_file): We're dependent on calling
        this function with NULL to initialize things appropriately.
        So enforce this with assert(), which avoids a warning from
        clang-anaylzer.

        split: process more efficiently when filters exit early
        * src/split.c (bytes_split): Don't write to an existing filter
        if it has exited.  When filters exit early, skip input data if
        possible.  Refactor out 2 redundant variables.
        * tests/split/filter.sh: Improve test coverage given the
        new more efficient processing.  Also use a 10TB file to
        expand the file systems tested on.

2017-03-26  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        split: ensure input is processed when filters exit early
        commit v8.25-4-g62e7af0 introduced the issue as it
        broke out of the processing loop irrespective of
        the value of new_file_flag which was used to indicate
        a finite number of filters or not.

        For example, this ran forever (as it should):
          $ yes | split --filter="head -c1 >/dev/null" -b 1000
        However this exited immediately due to EPIPE being propagated
        back through cwrite and the loop not considering new filters:
          $ yes | split --filter="head -c1 >/dev/null" -b 100000

        Similarly processing would exit early for a bounded number of
        output files, resulting in empty data sent to all but the first:
          $ truncate -s10T big.in
          $ split --filter='head -c1 >$FILE' -n 2 big.in
          $ echo $(stat -c%s x??)
          1 0

        I was alerted to this code by clang-analyzer,
        which indicated dead assigments, which is often
        an indication of code that hasn't considered all cases.

        * src/split.c (bytes_split): Change the last condition in
        the processing loop to also consider the number of files
        before breaking out of the processing loop.
        * tests/split/filter.sh: Add a test case.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.

2017-03-11  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        tests: avoid a false failure on OS X 10.5.8
        * tests/misc/sort-debug-keys.sh: Disparate LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES
        are not supported, with the result LC_MESSAGES=C is used throughout.
        Therefore just set LC_ALL in the test, and normalize the message
        variants with sed.
        Reported and tested by J Rogowsky.

        build: fix missing renameat() on OS X 10.5.8
        * bootstrap.conf: Depend on renameat.
        Reported and tested by J Rogowsky.
        Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26044

2017-03-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

        tests: port to tzdb-2017a
        Problem reported by Bernhard Voelker in:
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-03/msg00026.html
        * tests/misc/date-debug.sh: Port test to tzdb 2017a,
        and future-proof the America/Belize test.

2017-03-09  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigBrady.com>

        build: for factor use C in more cases for arm64 and ppc64
        * src/longlong.h: Sync from gmp repo incorporating:
        Use asm-free umul_ppmm() on arm64 and ppc64.

        doc: rearrange a recent bug entry to an improvement in NEWS
        * NEWS: The stat,tail change was an improvement, not a bug fix.
        * cfg.mk [old_NEWS_hash]: update with `make update-NEWS-hash`.

        maint: post-release administrivia
        * NEWS: Add header line for next release.
        * .prev-version: Record previous version.
        * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Auto-update.

        version 8.27
        * NEWS: Record release date.


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