[Coreutils-announce] fileutils-4.1.4 released

[Jim Meyering]

Although I posted a patch for the ext3 vs. auto-`/' problem,

  http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2001-December/002194.html

I won't be applying it.  The fix belongs elsewhere.

Thanks to Paul Eggert for the suggestion on how to work around
the dd problem relatively cleanly.

Jim
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  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.4.tar.gz   (2.3 MB)
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.4.tar.bz2  (1.5 MB)
  http://fetish.sf.net/fileutils-4.1.4.tar.gz   (2.3 MB)
  http://fetish.sf.net/fileutils-4.1.4.tar.bz2  (1.5 MB)

And here are xdelta-style diffs

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.3-4.1.4.xdelta   (148 kB)
  http://fetish.sf.net/fileutils-4.1.3-4.1.4.xdelta   (148 kB)

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:

f8df4aa3a4adf0c922802331511baaaa  fileutils-4.1.4.tar.gz
dd03e7f9cdfcbd3198a1f7916f92a93e  fileutils-4.1.4.tar.bz2
eff549d0682680cdf575250dfe9c6437  fileutils-4.1.3-4.1.4.xdelta
8d03f419973e7932fe649e755760218bb447c135  fileutils-4.1.4.tar.gz
b7a033ff68e98480bad0ffc5ed9396daaa588013  fileutils-4.1.4.tar.bz2
8e9980d973e9c31d036e98f544ee0b67e1e75066  fileutils-4.1.3-4.1.4.xdelta

NEWS:
* df --local no longer lists smbfs file systems whose name starts with //
* dd now detects the Linux/tape/lseek bug at run time and warns about it.

ChangeLog entries:

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ChangeLog       2001/12/15 09:29:14     1.1437
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2001-12-15  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * Version 4.1.4.

        * tests/touch/fail-diag: Also accept SunOS4's `Not owner' diagnostic.
        Reported by Volker Borchert.

        * tests/help-version: Fail also if ./$i --version fails.
        Run each --help and --version test with a few different settings
        of LC_MESSAGES.  Prompted by a report from Nelson Beebe.

2001-12-11  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        Include the word `fail' in some diagnostics to make it clearer
        that they indicate a failure.
        * src/chgrp.c (main): s/getting attributes/failed to get attributes/.
        * src/chmod.c (change_file_mode, main): Likewise.
        * src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Likewise.
        * src/chown.c (main): Likewise.
        * src/cp.c (re_protect): Likewise.
        * src/touch.c (touch, main):Likewise.
        Suggestion from Karl Berry.

2001-12-10  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * src/dd.c (buggy_lseek_support): Remove function.
        (skip_via_lseek) [__linux__]: New function.
        (skip): Use skip_via_lseek, not buggy_lseek_support.
        Based on an outline from Paul Eggert.

2001-12-09  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * configure.in (ALL_LINGUAS): Add Estonian (et).

2001-12-08  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * Makefile.cfg (wget_files): Remove ansi2knr.c, since it's
        no longer available at that location.

2001-12-04  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * tests/chgrp/basic: Don't use diff's -u option.  It's not portable.
        Besides, with GNU diff one can use the DIFF_OPTIONS envvar.
        * tests/ls/no-arg: Likewise.
        * tests/ls/recursive: Likewise.
        * tests/ls/rt-1: Likewise.


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lib/ChangeLog   2001/12/15 16:59:00     1.321
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2001-12-15  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * regex.h (__restrict_arr): Update from libc.

        * mountlist.h (ME_REMOTE): Recognize file systems of type smbfs
        as `remote' if the name starts with `//'.  Suggested by Michael Stone.
        (STREQ): Define.

2001-12-10  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * linebuffer.c: Remove explicit declarations of xmalloc and xrealloc,
        Instead, include "xalloc.h".
        (initbuffer): Don't cast xmalloc return value to char*.
        (readline): Reword comment.
        Don't cast xrealloc return value to char*
        Return NULL, not 0.

2001-12-09  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * modechange.c (mode_compile): Add cast to avoid pedantic warning about
        `signed and unsigned type in conditional expression'.
        * posixtm.c (posix_time_parse): Likewise.

        * xreadlink.c (xreadlink): Add cast to avoid a pedantic warning.

        * readtokens.c (readtoken): Declare an index to be of type unsigned
        to avoid a pedantic warning.

        * getstr.c: Don't include assert.h.
        (getstr): Remove warning-evoking assertions.
        Return -1 if offset parameter is out of bounds.
        Change the type of a local from int to size_t.

        * strftime.c (my_strftime_localtime_r): Include this function
        definition in the `#if ! HAVE_TM_GMTOFF' block.

        * xgethostname.c: Remove declarations of xmalloc and xrealloc.
        Include xalloc.h instead.


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m4/ChangeLog    2001/12/14 11:21:13     1.375
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2001-12-14  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * jm-macros.m4 (jm_MACROS): Check for iswspace.
        Suggestion from Bruno Haible.