new snapshot available: coreutils-6.12.208-2441

[Jim Meyering]

Here's a snapshot of the latest sources from coreutils
and the parts of gnulib that it uses.  Please beat it up ;-)
If things work out, I may even make a test release by Wednesday.

coreutils snapshot:
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz        9.0 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma      3.8 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.gz.sig
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.lzma.sig
aka
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.gz
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.12.208-2441.tar.lzma

Changes since 6.12.70-4f470:

Andreas Schwab (1):
      mknod: correct misplaced -Z description in --help output

Benno Schulenberg (34):
      doc: correct and normalize --help output of several tools
      who: Gettextize two forgotten strings
      cp: move a newline to make second message identical to others
      doc: put the exitstatus paragraph in a better place
      printenv: say what it does when variables are specified
      date: remove confusing and unneeded sentence from --help
      doc: remove stray word from date's field width description
      dd: clarify meaning of multiplication factors; put xM in order
      echo: gettextize the alternative option description too
      factor: remove duplicate docstring; use the more detailed one
      doc: the quote operator for expr is '+', not 'quote'
      echo: correct description of \c
      fmt: remove the 'no file' sentence; the standard phrase is given below
      id: gettextize a few missed tiny strings
      id: remove superfluous condition test; it is caught at -Z above
      groups: let synopsis show that the command allows multiple usernames
      kill: micro grammar nit in description of SIGNAL
      mkfifo, mknod --help: put -Z option in its alphabetical position
      od --help: avoid concatening two messages without a newline
      nohup, remove, tr: also gettextize the alternative messages
      od: ungettextize debugging messages
      pr --help: elide arguments after short options that allow a space
      remove.c: move comment to right before string, so gettext will pick it up
      rmdir --help: use lower case in option description; adjust indentation
      sort --help: sort the options better alphabetically
      stty --help: correct the alignment of an entry
      shred --help: lowercase a stray capital
      tail --help: move the --retry entry into alphabetical order
      tail: gettextize the string, "standard input"
      tr --help: gettextize a single paragraph as a single string
      uptime --help: put together message parts that belong together
      who --help: add a general description
      doc: alphabetize 'who's option descriptions
      pinky: gettextize two missed strings

Bruce Korb (1):
      sort: new option, --sort=version, for version number ordering

Bruno Haible (1):
      doc: clarify wc -L documentation

Eric Blake (4):
      sort: improve usage wording
      .gitattributes: generalize
      .gitignore: ignore more files
      ls: adjust to gnulib change

James Youngman (6):
      factor arbitrarily large numbers
      factor: credit Torbjörn Granlund
      Document uptime.
      document the supported baud rates beyond 38400
      doc: mv,cp: undocument the --reply option
      expr: support arbitrary-precision arithmetic

Jerry Snitselaar (1):
      env, groups: remove duplicate inclusion of <getopt.h>

Jim Meyering (68):
      truncate: handle the case in which off_t != intmax_t
      bootstrap.conf: don't list "open" specifically
      * HACKING: use shorter "-1" (over HEAD~1) with git format-patch
      shred: also ignore EISDIR upon failed fsync/fdatasync on HP-UX
      * TODO: Add item: remove uses of imaxtostr.
      tests: fix make distcheck failure due to TODO change
      tests: adjust c99-to-c89 patch as well as the code to generate it
      factor out time_t-to-string conversion idiom
      base64: don't rely on feof returning 0/1
      avoid a -Wsign-compare warning
      uniq: remove redundant test
      mkfifo: correct misplaced -Z description in --help output
      doc: add "..." to Usage, to indicate there may be multiple OPTIONs
      * README-hacking: Update the section on LZMA.
      install with just-built ./ginstall only when not cross-compiling
      who -r: don't print "last=" when the corresponding byte is unprintable
      * bootstrap: Remove $bt and $bt2 also when not using gettext.
      make check: accommodate stricter POSIX-conforming shells
      fix two bugs in ptx
      * HACKING: describe how to find a misplaced change-set
      dircolors.hin: add Ogg/Theora-related extensions
      * THANKS: Update, now that I have a name for jemm4jemm.
      tests: ensure "make check" w/tainted build dir no longer impacts $HOME
      tests: do not run chmod on a prefix of space-embedded tmpdir
      dd: adjust --help output so help2man formats the man page properly
      dd: minor fullblock changes
      shuf: honor --zero-terminated option even with --input-range=LO-HI
      * NEWS: Move shuf --zero-terminated item into bug-fixes section.
      bootstrap: work also when there are no .po files in po/
      * timeout.c: Fix grammar in a comment. Normalize comment syntax.
      doc: make it clear we're talking about the Linux kernel
      false: mark "false" description for translation
      * tests/misc/expr: Add tests of the new GMP-based code.
      expr: avoid compiler warnings
      * coreutils.texi (factor invocation, expr invocation): Adjust wording.
      dd.c: reduce duplication in new O_FULLBLOCK-defining code
      * .gitattributes: Better diff output for texinfo sources.
      sort: don't print uninitialized in diagnostic
      sort: avoid erroneous cast
      sort: remove unnecessary declaration of strtod
      mktemp, sort, tac: don't use undefined after mkstemp failure
      "expr --bignum 1" now fails when expr is built without libgmp
      set envvars via "env" to avoid spurious set -x output from bad shells
      adjust
      bootstrap: preserve permissions of more copied files
      use new global, "Version", rather than macro, VERSION
      generate version.c and version.h
      TODO: add an item for a chmod optimization
      tests: don't fail due to built-in sleep from Solaris 11's /bin/sh
      tests: don't let rounding-to-1KB blocks provoke a failure
      tests: work around Solaris 11 bug
      tests: move input-tty into a test-lib.sh function
      tests: use "Exit $fail", not (exit $fail); exit $fail
      tests: don't use "local" in bourne shell scripts
      doc: mention which commands may be built-in functions
      tweak wording and check to avoid failure
      tests: temporarily disable part of "make distcheck"
      tests: reenable disabled test, now that automake can handle it
      stat: remove obsolete and undocumented option, --filesystem
      doc: coreutils.texi (csplit invocation): Add an example.
      cp.c: adjust a comment to make it consistent with documentation
      maint: avoid using find -name Makefile.am; could get false positives
      maint: relax a check so "make distcheck" succeeds again
      seq -0.1 0.1 2: print final number when locale's decimal point is ","
      maint: allow more C99 constructs; stop maintaining c99-to-c89 patch set
      * maint.mk (my-distcheck): remove duplicate c99-related test code
      remove.c: don't use xmalloc; don't let obstack call exit on failure
      rm -r: avoid O(n^2) performance for a directory with very many entries

John David Anglin (1):
      ls: ignore spurious getfilecon failure due to lack of SELinux support

Kamil Dudka (5):
      dd: new option: iflag=fullblock to accumulate full input blocks
      ls -U1 now uses constant memory
      ls: --color now highlights files with capabilities, too
      df: new option: --total to print grand totals
      install: new option: --strip-program,

Mikael Magnusson (1):
      shuf: correctly document --head-count

Ondřej Vašík (1):
      doc: describe who's -p, -r, and -t options

Peter O'Gorman (1):
      tests: accommodate difference in an AIX 5.3 diagnostic

Pádraig Brady (5):
      truncate: Fix integer portability issues
      truncate: silence -Wsign-compare warnings
      timeout: fix invalid argument tests
      truncate: ignore whitespace in --size parameters
      tests: expand: test for lines starting with both spaces and tabs

Ralf Wildenhues (7):
      tests: again, do not change the mode of all directories below $HOME
      * bootstrap: Fix unportable expr usage.
      tests: fix build-aux/check.mk for non-GNU make
      fix minor shell issues in test suite
      simplify installation rules, using new Automake
      various VPATH-related fixes
      fix installation with ./ginstall in src

Reuben Thomas (1):
      doc: add example .bashrc code for a ~/.dircolors file