coreutils snapshot

[Jim Meyering]

FYI, I've made a snapshot of the coreutils trunk:

  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz.sig

Here are most of the intervening ChangeLog entries:
[ For full details, see http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git ]

2007-04-16  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/cut.c (usage): Adjust synopsis to show that an OPTION is required.
        Reported by Rudolf Kastl.
        * THANKS: Add Rudolf Kastl.

2007-04-11  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        split --line-bytes=N (-C N): don't create an empty file.
        * src/split.c (line_bytes_split): Don't create an empty line
        afterwards if the last buffer happens to be exactly full.
        * tests/misc/split-fail: Add a test case for this.
        * NEWS: mention this.

2007-04-10  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        ls: don't form or compute the length of strings that won't be used.
        * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Form and compute length of strings for
        block size, owner, group, author, major+minor numbers and file size
        only if they'll actually be used.  I.e., don't form most of them
        when not producing long format output.

2007-04-07  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        Add a test for, and document, today's fix.
        * NEWS: Mention today's ls --color fix.
        * tests/ls-2/tests (sl-target): Add a test for today's fix.
        * THANKS: Add Kirk Kelsey.

2007-04-07  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>

        Fix a bug in how the LS_COLORS ln=target attribute is handled.
        * src/ls.c (gobble_file): Use "stat" (not lstat) also when the
        ln=target attribute applies.  Reported by Kirk Kelsey.

2007-04-02  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Initialize local "con", before calling
        getfscreatecon, in case that function (or its inline stub) does
        not set it.

2007-04-01  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * src/ls.c (print_horizontal): Fix bug reported by Mike Frysinger:
        ls -x DIR would sometimes output the wrong string in place of the
        first entry.
        * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
        * tests/ls/x-option: New file.
        * tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add x-option.

        gnulib moved md5 and sha1 modules into a new crypt/ directory; adapt
        * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Adjust to gnulib's renaming of
        md5 to crypt/md5 and sha1 to crypt/sha1.