[arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.10-1

[Allan McRae]

Upstream update.

Signoff both,
Allan


NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 8.10 (2011-02-04) [stable]

** Bug fixes

   du would abort with a failed assertion when two conditions are met:
   part of the hierarchy being traversed is moved to a higher level in the
   directory tree, and there is at least one more command line directory
   argument following the one containing the moved sub-tree.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]

   join --header now skips the ordering check for the first line
   even if the other file is empty.  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.5]

   rm -f no longer fails for EINVAL or EILSEQ on file systems that
   reject file names invalid for that file system.

   uniq -f NUM no longer tries to process fields after end of line.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]

** New features

   cp now copies sparse files efficiently on file systems with FIEMAP
   support (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ocfs2).  Before, it had to read 220 bytes
   when copying a 1MiB sparse file.  Now, it copies bytes only for the
   non-sparse sections of a file.  Similarly, to induce a hole in the
   output file, it had to detect a long sequence of zero bytes.  Now,
   it knows precisely where each hole in an input file is, and can
   reproduce them efficiently in the output file.  mv also benefits
   when it resorts to copying, e.g., between file systems.

   join now supports -o 'auto' which will automatically infer the
   output format from the first line in each file, to ensure
   the same number of fields are output for each line.

** Changes in behavior

   join no longer reports disorder when one of the files is empty.
   This allows one to use join as a field extractor like:
   join -a1 -o 1.3,1.1 - /dev/null