On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:39PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Hi Karel,
>
> su has not been "merged from latest coreutils".
hmmm... it seems that Ludwig has used code from suse rather than the
latest upstream.
> If you look at su.c's history in the coreutils tree, then there are
> 25 changes before it has been removed from the project:
>
> $ git log --oneline v6.1-64-gd8049d7..v8.17-16-g928dd73 -- src/su.c
> 928dd73 su: remove program (util-linux is now the best source for it)
> d787845 maint: use single copyright year range
> a517386 maint: src/*.c: change remaining quotes (without embedded spaces)
> 101d120 maint: use new emit_try_help in place of equivalent fprintf
> 5111aa4 maint: update all copyright year number ranges
> 71b7ddc port to GNU hosts, where getuid and friends can fail
> 9d6231e maint: update all copyright year number ranges
> 1aa17dc maint: update all FSF copyright year lists to include 2010
> 1c59bb3 nice, nohup, su: detect write failure to stderr
> c690047 maint: let gnulib provide environ
> b6540b9 chroot, env, nice, su: use EXIT_CANCELED for internal failure
> 32f987a build: avoid compiler warnings on cygwin 1.5
> 5d4f09d doc: mention the texinfo documentation in --help
> 5e778f7 global: convert indentation-TABs to spaces
> 2232b4d maint: update all Copyright year lists to include 2009
> 9fdf584 maint: Clarify ambiguous refs to Linux kernels or GNU/Linux systems
> 22a2a43 build: add configure-time --enable-gcc-warnings option; avoid warnings
> 45e6718 remove redundant const directives
> 1463824 add "const" attribute, where possible
> 896b672 use gnulib's progname module
> 434258c declare program_name consistently
> 581b2e3 adjust copyright dates
> b69b4cc convert single-author programs to use proper_name
> 3575545 Use EXIT_FAILURE, not EXIT_FAIL, now that EXIT_FAILURE is always 1.
> 71aa3ea Update all copyright notices to use the newer form.
> 33342c1 Change "version 2" to "version 3" in all copyright notices.
> a0faff1 Help translators include translation team's web or email address.
>
>
> Many of the changes are minor ones regarding identation, internal error
yep
> code fixes, copyright year number changes etc. but at least the following
> seem to be worth including:
>
> 71b7ddc port to GNU hosts, where getuid and friends can fail
> 1c59bb3 nice, nohup, su: detect write failure to stderr
Fixed.
> and these would be nice:
>
> a517386 maint: src/*.c: change remaining quotes (without embedded spaces)
It seems that `foo' quotes is a generic problem in our code. Not sure
why this is so important.
> 9fdf584 maint: Clarify ambiguous refs to Linux kernels or GNU/Linux systems
no comment ;-)
Karel
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