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ready for release of coreutils-8.11?
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
ready for release of coreutils-8.11? |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:26:14 +0200 |
We have a large array of fixes/changes so far. NEWS below.
Is there anything pending that others would like to see in 8.11?
** Bug fixes
cp -a --link would not create a hardlink to a symlink, instead
copying the symlink and then not preserving its timestamp.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.0]
cp now avoids FIEMAP issues with BTRFS before Linux 2.6.38,
which could result in corrupt copies of sparse files.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.10]
cut could segfault when invoked with a user-specified output
delimiter and an unbounded range like "-f1234567890-".
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
du would infloop when given --files0-from=DIR
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
sort no longer spawns 7 worker threads to sort 16 lines
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
touch built on Solaris 9 would segfault when run on Solaris 10
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.8]
wc would dereference a NULL pointer upon an early out-of-memory error
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]
** New features
dd now accepts the 'nocache' flag to the iflag and oflag options,
which will discard any cache associated with the files, or
processed portion thereof.
** Changes in behavior
cp now avoids syncing files when possible, when doing a FIEMAP copy.
The sync in only needed on Linux kernels before 2.6.39.
[The sync was introduced in coreutils-8.10]
cp now copies empty extents efficiently, when doing a FIEMAP copy.
It no longer reads the zero bytes from the input, and also can efficiently
create a hole in the output file when --sparse=always is specified.
df now aligns columns consistently, and no longer wraps entries
with longer device identifiers, over two lines.
test now accepts "==" as a synonym for "="
- ready for release of coreutils-8.11?,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Pádraig Brady, 2011/04/08
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Pádraig Brady, 2011/04/11
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Jim Meyering, 2011/04/11
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Pádraig Brady, 2011/04/12
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Jim Meyering, 2011/04/12
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Pádraig Brady, 2011/04/12
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Jim Meyering, 2011/04/12
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Pádraig Brady, 2011/04/12
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Eric Sandeen, 2011/04/12
- Re: ready for release of coreutils-8.11?, Pádraig Brady, 2011/04/12