[arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.11-1

Stéphane Gaudreault stephane at archlinux.org
Thu Apr 14 14:37:08 EDT 2011


Le 13 avril 2011 21:59:53, Allan McRae a écrit :
> Upstream update:
> 
> NEWS
> 
> * Noteworthy changes in release 8.11 (2011-04-13) [stable]
> 
> ** 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.
> 
>    dd now warns that 'iflag=fullblock' should be used,
>    in various cases where partial reads can cause issues.
> 
> ** Changes in behavior
> 
>    cp now avoids syncing files when possible, when doing a FIEMAP copy.
>    The sync is 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.
> 
>    install now rejects its long-deprecated --preserve_context option.
>    Use --preserve-context instead.
> 
>    test now accepts "==" as a synonym for "="
> 
> 
> Signoff both,
> Allan

Signoff x86_64

Stéphane


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