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* NEWS: Record release date.

* tests/misc/test-N.sh: The subsecond values for atime and mtime
were potentially seen to differ on newlyl created files.
So we include the subsecond portion when comparing stat values.

* tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: Add gating checks for all characters,
as there are disparate classifications on various systems:
SunOS 5.10 treats \u202F, \u2060 as !iswprint()
SunOS 5.10 treats \u00A0, \u2007 as iswspace()
AIX 7.2, Darwin 17.4.0, NetBSD 7.1 treat \u2060 as !iswprint()

* tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Check closing stdout with >&-
is effective, which avoids a false failure on NetBSD 7.1
Reported by Assaf Gordon

* tests/misc/tac-2-nonseekable.sh: Add a timeout to both
protect and check whether we can close stdin correctly.

* tests/id/zero.sh: sed on OSX will output a \n even
if the input doesn't have a \n on the last "line".
So ensure we always have a trailing '\n' to avoid the disparity.

Testing by Assaf Gordon on OSX showed the atime wasn't
being updated when explicitly set back in time.
Also Debian 8.11 / mips64 was seen to not update the
mtime when truncating an empty file.

* tests/misc/test-N.sh: Isolate from different timestamping
behaviors of various (file) systems, by correlating
the timestamps with stat(1) before using `test -N`.

Very old makeinfo-4.13 fails with:
  ./doc/coreutils.texi:2286: Unknown command `hashchar'.
  ./doc/coreutils.texi:2286: Misplaced {.
  ./doc/coreutils.texi:2286: Misplaced }.

Reported Bernhard Voelker in
https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2019-03/msg00016.html .

* doc/coreutils.texi (basenc invocation): Replace @hashchar{} with
actual hash character.  The special syntax is only required
when referring to #line directives.

* src/stat.c (get_birthtime): Check also for STATX_BTIME define,
as a different statx is available on AIX 7.2.

* tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: FreeBSD and OS X don't
treat non breaking space as printable characters.
So use wc -L to determine printability before
testing non breaking space functionality.

* src/env.c (initialize_signals): A new function to initialize
the signals array on the heap, to avoid a build failure on
opensolaris, where SIGNUM_BOUND is not a constant.

* Makefile.am: Update the oldest documented version
to 8.22 which is now about 5 years old.

* man/local.mk: commit f114495e added an extra check to ensure
a binary was working before using it to generate the man page.
However this was not working for the false(1) command,
and also one can generally specify that one should not
be using generated commands on the current system by passing
'cross_compiling=yes' to the configure invocation.

* src/env.c (main): Output blocked or ignored signals
before a command is executed.
* doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Add the option.
* tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.

New options to set signal handlers for the command being executed.
--block-signal suggested by Paul Eggert in http://bugs.gnu.org/34488#71
--default-signal is useful to overcome the POSIX limitation that shell
must not override inherited signal state, e.g. the second 'trap' here is
a no-op:

   trap '' PIPE && sh -c 'trap - PIPE ; seq inf | head -n1'

Instead use:

   trap '' PIPE && sh -c 'env --default-signal=PIPE seq inf | head -n1'

Similarly, the following will prevent CTRL-C from terminating the
program:

   env --ignore-signal=INT seq inf > /dev/null

See https://bugs.gnu.org/34488#8

* NEWS: Mention new options.
* doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Document new options.
* man/env.x: Add example of --default-signal=SIG usage.
(SEE ALSO): Mention sigprocmask.
* src/env.c (signals): New global variable.
(longopts): Add new options.
(usage): Print new options.
(parse_signal_params): Parse comma-separated list of signals, store in
signals variable.
(reset_signal_handlers): Set each signal to SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
(parse_block_signal_params): Parse command-line options.
(set_signal_proc_mask): Call sigprocmask to block/unblock signals.
(main): Process new options.
* src/local.mk (src_env_SOURCES): Add operand2sig.c.
* tests/misc/env-signal-handler.sh: New test.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add new test.

* configure.ac: Check for statx(), available on glibc >= 2.28.
* src/stat.c (get_birthtime): Call statx() when available.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.

* src/df.c (replace_problematic_chars): A new wrapper to be
more conservative in our replacement when not connected to a tty.
* tests/df/problematic-chars.sh: Add a test case.

* NEWS: Move date change to improvements and fix nohup grammar.

* doc/coreutils.texi (node seq invocation): Clarify to use the tool
'yes'; otherwise the reader may interpret the sentence as if one
could pass 'yes' as the INCREMENT value.

* src/wc.c (iswnbspace): A new function to match
characters in this class.
(isnbspace): Likewise for single byte charsets.
(main): Initialize posixly_correct from the environment,
to allow disabling honoring NBSP in non C locales.
(wc): Call is[w]nbspace() along with is[w]space.
* bootstrap.conf: Ensure btowc is available.
* tests/misc/wc-nbsp.sh: A new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.

* doc/coreutils.texi (Date conversion specifiers):
Plain %F is actually like %+4Y-%m-%d.
(Padding and other flags): Mention POSIX restrictions.
* src/date.c (usage): Document recent changes.

* doc/coreutils.texi (Padding and other flags):
Give example for + conversion specification.

The recent Gnulib update fixed Bug#34608; document and test this.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
* doc/coreutils.texi (Padding and other flags):
Update doc to cover new flag and other POSIX.1-2017 changes.
* tests/misc/date.pl (date-century-plus): New test.

For select programs which accept only --help and --version options
(in addition to non-option arguments), process these options before
any other options.

Before:

  $ dd bs=1 --help
  dd: unrecognized option '--help'
  Try 'dd --help' for more information.

  $ yes me --help
  me --help
  me --help
  ...

After:
Any occurrence of '--help' in the arguments (prior to '--') will
show the help screen.

Discussed in https://bugs.gnu.org/33468 .

* NEWS: Mention change.
* src/cksum.c, src/dd.c, src/hostid.c, src/hostname.c, src/link.c,
src/logname.c, src/nohup.c, src/sleep.c, src/tsort.c, src/unlink.c,
src/uptime.c, src/users.c, src/whoami.c, src/yes.c (main): Replace
parse_long_options() + getopt_long() calls with
parse_gnu_standard_options_only(); Remove <getopt.h> inclusion;
Remove empty 'struct long_options' variable;
* tests/misc/help-version-getopt.sh: Add test.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Reference it.

update to a version with parse_gnu_standard_options_only()

* doc/coreutils.texi (join invocation): Fix various errors.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34583
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34584

* src/ls.c (abmon_init): Align numeric abbreviations right.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.

* src/sort.c (main): Adjust the debug info regarding locales,
to clarify that only textual comparisons are affected.
* tests/misc/sort-debug-warn.sh: Adjust accordingly.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34490

* src/comm.c (main): Output a warning right before exit,
in case previous errors have scrolled from view.
* src/join.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/misc/comm.pl: Addjust accordingly.
* tests/misc/join.pl: Likewise.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34347

* doc/coreutils.texi (date invocation): s/822/2822/.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34438

* gnulib: Update to make the new strtold module available.
* bootstrap.conf: strtod is now a dependency of c-strtod,
which in turn is a dependency of cl-strtod.  This treats
strtold and strtod similarly.
* gl/lib/cl-strtod.c: Adjust to assume strtold is available.
* tests/misc/sort-float.sh: Likewise.
* src/sort.c: Likewise.
(nan_compare): Adjust comment to indicate
we still have to init padding bits as per
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13246

* src/seq.c (print_numbers): Only reset the locale if it
was successfully set originally.
* tests/misc/seq-locale.sh: Add a new test.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.

bootstrap.conf: Explicitly depend on select, rather than transitively.
* src/tail.c: Unconditionally include select.h as we use select()
outside inotify contexts now.

* src/extract-magic: Treat android like linux,
which fixes the build by ensuring the constants are defined.
* src/stat.c: Support all constants on android, including
the android specific "sdcardfs".
* src/tail.c: Fix inclusion of statfs headers to be independent
of inotify availability, as fremote() is used on linux even
if inotify has been disabled.  Also enable fremote() on android.
* NEWS: Mention the improvment.
Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/34239

* tests/misc/sleep.sh: Check locale processing of printf, sleep,
and timeout, when the french locale data is available.

Recently introduced in commit v8.30-50-geb73e23f

* gl/lib/cl-strtod.c: Fall back to strtod() on systems
without strtold() (like we already do in sort).

* cfg.mk: Exclude cl-strtold.c wrapper from requiring config.h

* gl/modules/cl-strtold (Files): Add lib/cl-strtod.c, lib/cl-strtod.h.
(Depends-on): Remove cl-strtod.
(configure.ac): Redquire AC_C_RESTRICT.