[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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