X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:03:12 -0700 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.93-2 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090508020603010100050904" Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com --------------090508020603010100050904 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.93-2, is available for use, replacing 5.3.0-9. NEWS: ===== This is a new, stable upstream release. This release was previously available as a test version, but now that cygwin-1.5.19-2 is out, I have moved it to current. Upstream news since 5.3.0 is attached; see also /usr/share/doc/coreutils-5.93/. This version also has a new cygwin-specific --append-exe option to ls(1) (and dir, vdir) and stat(1); if a command-line argument does not have .exe, but the file on the system does, then using this option will make the listing show the .exe. I found this addition to my ~/.bashrc useful to use the new options (the spacing is chosen so that bash doesn't treat the next word on the command line as an alias): ls --append-exe -d . >/dev/null 2>&1 && append_exe=' --append-exe' alias ls="ls {your favorite options here}$append_exe" alias stat="stat$append_exe" unset append_exe Note that su(1) is UNSUPPORTED; for more details, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC42. However, I am working on a patch that will allow su to work for privileged accounts (note that in a default Windows installation, even Administrators don't have enough privileges; only SYSTEM does), with an appropriate error message for non-privileged accounts. DESCRIPTION: ============ GNU coreutils provides a collection of commonly used utilities essential to a standard POSIX environment. It comprises the former textutils, sh-utils, and fileutils packages. The following executables are included: [ basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold gkill groups head hostid hostname id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir seq sha1sum shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who whoami yes UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions, then look for 'coreutils' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDzOsP84KuGfSFAYARAtxBAJ9LgWgh9NaE95cp1DHPpDTiXsA4SQCeMSiR ddRL4zEwOHkVT4ioMVNlxS8= =AjZg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------090508020603010100050904 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" * Major changes in release 5.93 (2005-11-06) [stable] ** Bug fixes dircolors no longer segfaults upon an attempt to use the new STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE (OWT) attribute du no longer overflows a counter when processing a file larger than 2^31-1 on some 32-bit systems (at least some AIX 5.1 configurations). md5sum once again defaults to using the ` ' non-binary marker (rather than the `*' binary marker) by default on Unix-like systems. mkdir -p and install -d no longer exit nonzero when asked to create a directory like `nonexistent/.' rm emits a better diagnostic when (without -r) it fails to remove a directory on e.g., Solaris 9/10 systems. tac now works when stdin is a tty, even on non-Linux systems "tail -c 2 FILE" and "touch 0101000000" now operate as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires, even when coreutils is conforming to older POSIX standards, as the newly-required behavior is upward-compatible with the old. ** Build-related bug fixes installing .mo files would fail * Major changes in release 5.92 (2005-10-22) [stable] ** Bug fixes chmod now diagnoses an invalid mode string starting with an octal digit dircolors now properly quotes single-quote characters * Major changes in release 5.91 (2005-10-17) [stable candidate] ** Bug fixes "mkdir -p /a/b/c" no longer fails merely because a leading prefix directory (e.g., /a or /a/b) exists on a read-only file system. ** Removed options tail's --allow-missing option has been removed. Use --retry instead. stat's --link and -l options have been removed. Use --dereference (-L) instead. ** Deprecated options Using ls, du, or df with the --kilobytes option now evokes a warning that the long-named option is deprecated. Use `-k' instead. du's long-named --megabytes option now evokes a warning. Use -m instead. * Major changes in release 5.90 (2005-09-29) [unstable] ** Bring back support for `head -NUM', `tail -NUM', etc. even when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. The following changes apply only when conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001; there is no effect when conforming to older POSIX versions. The following usages now behave just as when conforming to older POSIX: date -I expand -TAB1[,TAB2,...] fold -WIDTH head -NUM join -j FIELD join -j1 FIELD join -j2 FIELD join -o FIELD_NAME1 FIELD_NAME2... nice -NUM od -w pr -S split -NUM tail -[NUM][bcl][f] [FILE] The following usages no longer work, due to the above changes: date -I TIMESPEC (use `date -ITIMESPEC' instead) od -w WIDTH (use `od -wWIDTH' instead) pr -S STRING (use `pr -SSTRING' instead) A few usages still have behavior that depends on which POSIX standard is being conformed to, and portable applications should beware these problematic usages. These include: Problematic Standard-conforming replacement, depending on usage whether you prefer the behavior of: POSIX 1003.2-1992 POSIX 1003.1-2001 sort +4 sort -k 5 sort ./+4 tail +4 tail -n +4 tail ./+4 tail - f tail f [see (*) below] tail -c 4 tail -c 10 ./4 tail -c4 touch 12312359 f touch -t 12312359 f touch ./12312359 f uniq +4 uniq -s 4 uniq ./+4 (*) "tail - f" does not conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001; to read standard input and then "f", use the command "tail -- - f". These changes are in response to decisions taken in the January 2005 Austin Group standardization meeting. For more details, please see "Utility Syntax Guidelines" in the Minutes of the January 2005 Meeting . ** Binary input and output are now implemented more consistently. These changes affect only platforms like MS-DOS that distinguish between binary and text files. The following programs now always use text input/output: expand unexpand The following programs now always use binary input/output to copy data: cp install mv shred The following programs now always use binary input/output to copy data, except for stdin and stdout when it is a terminal. head tac tail tee tr (cat behaves similarly, unless one of the options -bensAE is used.) cat's --binary or -B option has been removed. It existed only on MS-DOS-like platforms, and didn't work as documented there. md5sum and sha1sum now obey the -b or --binary option, even if standard input is a terminal, and they no longer report files to be binary if they actually read them in text mode. ** Changes for better conformance to POSIX cp, ln, mv, rm changes: Leading white space is now significant in responses to yes-or-no questions. For example, if "rm" asks "remove regular file `foo'?" and you respond with " y" (i.e., space before "y"), it counts as "no". dd changes: On a QUIT or PIPE signal, dd now exits without printing statistics. On hosts lacking the INFO signal, dd no longer treats the USR1 signal as if it were INFO when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. If the file F is non-seekable and contains fewer than N blocks, then before copying "dd seek=N of=F" now extends F with zeroed blocks until F contains N blocks. fold changes: When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, "fold file -3" is now equivalent to "fold file ./-3", not the obviously-erroneous "fold file ./-w3". ls changes: -p now marks only directories; it is equivalent to the new option --indicator-style=slash. Use --file-type or --indicator-style=file-type to get -p's old behavior. nice changes: Documentation and diagnostics now refer to "nicenesses" (commonly in the range -20...19) rather than "nice values" (commonly 0...39). nohup changes: nohup now ignores the umask when creating nohup.out. nohup now closes stderr if it is a terminal and stdout is closed. nohup now exits with status 127 (not 1) when given an invalid option. pathchk changes: It now rejects the empty name in the normal case. That is, "pathchk -p ''" now fails, and "pathchk ''" fails unless the current host (contra POSIX) allows empty file names. The new -P option checks whether a file name component has leading "-", as suggested in interpretation "Austin-039:XCU:pathchk:pathchk -p" . It also rejects the empty name even if the current host accepts it; see . The --portability option is now equivalent to -p -P. ** Bug fixes chmod, mkdir, mkfifo, and mknod formerly mishandled rarely-used symbolic permissions like =xX and =u, and did not properly diagnose some invalid strings like g+gr, ug,+x, and +1. These bugs have been fixed. csplit could produce corrupt output, given input lines longer than 8KB dd now computes statistics using a realtime clock (if available) rather than the time-of-day clock, to avoid glitches if the time-of-day is changed while dd is running. Also, it avoids using unsafe code in signal handlers; this fixes some core dumps. expr and test now correctly compare integers of unlimited magnitude. expr now detects integer overflow when converting strings to integers, rather than silently wrapping around. ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes, to foil potential denial-of-service attacks on hosts with very large stacks. "mkdir -m =+x dir" no longer ignores the umask when evaluating "+x", and similarly for mkfifo and mknod. "mkdir -p /tmp/a/b dir" no longer attempts to create the `.'-relative directory, dir (in /tmp/a), when, after creating /tmp/a/b, it is unable to return to its initial working directory. Similarly for "install -D file /tmp/a/b/file". "pr -D FORMAT" now accepts the same formats that "date +FORMAT" does. stat now exits nonzero if a file operand does not exist ** Improved robustness Date no longer needs to allocate virtual memory to do its job, so it can no longer fail due to an out-of-memory condition, no matter how large the result. ** Improved portability hostid now prints exactly 8 hexadecimal digits, possibly with leading zeros, and without any spurious leading "fff..." on 64-bit hosts. nice now works on Darwin 7.7.0 in spite of its invalid definition of NZERO. `rm -r' can remove all entries in a directory even when it is on a file system for which readdir is buggy and that was not checked by coreutils' old configure-time run-test. sleep no longer fails when resumed after being suspended on linux-2.6.8.1, in spite of that kernel's buggy nanosleep implementation. ** New features chmod -w now complains if its behavior differs from what chmod a-w would do, and similarly for chmod -r, chmod -x, etc. cp and mv: the --reply=X option is deprecated date accepts the new option --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC. The old --iso-8602 (-I) option is deprecated; it still works, but new applications should avoid it. date, du, ls, and pr's time formats now support new %:z, %::z, %:::z specifiers for numeric time zone offsets like -07:00, -07:00:00, and -07. dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text", which have an effect only on nonstandard platforms that distinguish text from binary I/O. dircolors now supports SETUID, SETGID, STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE, OTHER_WRITABLE, and STICKY, with ls providing default colors for these categories if not specified by dircolors. du accepts new options: --time[=TYPE] and --time-style=STYLE join now supports a NUL field separator, e.g., "join -t '\0'". join now detects and reports incompatible options, e.g., "join -t x -t y", ls no longer outputs an extra space between the mode and the link count when none of the listed files has an ACL. md5sum --check now accepts multiple input files, and similarly for sha1sum. If stdin is a terminal, nohup now redirects it from /dev/null to prevent the command from tying up an OpenSSH session after you logout. "rm -FOO" now suggests "rm ./-FOO" if the file "-FOO" exists and "-FOO" is not a valid option. stat -f -c %S outputs the fundamental block size (used for block counts). stat -f's default output format has been changed to output this size as well. stat -f recognizes file systems of type XFS and JFS "touch -" now touches standard output, not a file named "-". uname -a no longer generates the -p and -i outputs if they are unknown. --------------090508020603010100050904 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --------------090508020603010100050904--