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

[Gaetan Bisson]

[2011-04-14 11:59:53 +1000] Allan McRae:
> 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.

-- 
Gaetan