new snapshot available: coreutils-8.22.151-37b36

[Pádraig Brady]

We plan to release coreutils-8.23 next week, so any testing
you can do on various different systems between now and Thursday
would be most welcome.

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You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.3 MB) from:
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz

And verify it using:
  http://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  MD5 (coreutils-8.22.151-37b36.tar.xz) = dbc0571a26bb91fd8a8f2fbd6dfff851

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To test follow this standard procedure:

  tar -xf $downloaded_file
  cd coreutils-8.22.151-37b36
  ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes

Failures are reported and details are in tests/test-suite.log

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Changes in coreutils since v8.22 are summarized at
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS
and all commits grouped by author are as follows:

Aleksej Serdjukov (1):
      doc: fix typo in texinfo docs

Alex Deymo (2):
      maint: fix context_t init warning on systems without selinux
      build: support building all tools in a single binary

Assaf Gordon (3):
      tests: skip chown/separator with conflicting group IDs
      doc: clarify meaning of stat's mtime and ctime formats
      build: avoid bootstrap error with gettext 0.18.3.1

Ben Walton (2):
      build: be more specific about .git repo before enabling warnings
      maint: avoid compiler warnings with some assert() implementations

Benno Schulenberg (1):
      doc: improve remove prompt translator comment

Bernhard Voelker (15):
      build: update gnulib submodule, bootstrap and tests/init.sh to latest
      maint: prevent update-copyright from updating files from gnulib
      maint: update all copyright year number ranges
      maint: fix copyright holder and year in selinux sources
      tests: avoid FP failure when cp fails for /proc/cpuinfo
      tests: improve test for a working setfacl
      doc: add dd example for failing disks
      shuf: convert error diagnostic to lowercase
      maint: fix typo in comment in fadvise.c
      basename: mention that the -s option implies -a in usage
      ptx: avoid --format long option falling through into --help
      maint: df: avoid sizeof(char**) static analysis warning
      tests: improve new ascii test of dd
      install: allow options -D and -t to be used together
      maint: simplify parsing df's output in shell scripts

Chengwei Yang (1):
      doc: clarify SMACK related --help and documentation

David Michael (1):
      dircolors: add hurd and mach-gnu-color terminal types

Dylan Simon (1):
      chmod: fix erroneous warnings with -R --changes

Edgars Irmejs (1):
      maint: remove trailing comma from enum to make gl/ c89 compat

Edward Welbourne (1):
      doc: avoid regex ambiguity in chmod mode description

Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz (1):
      ls: don't output colors with unknown TERM env variable

Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
      tests: initial SMACK tests

Jim Meyering (12):
      scripts: autotools-install: update
      maint: avoid "attribute-const"-suggesting warning from gcc
      ln: with -sr, don't segfault for a TARGET of ''
      maint: don't let envvar setting break ChangeLog generation
      maint: autotools-install: update tool version numbers to latest
      shred: don't infloop upon negative size
      cat,cp,split: use a larger buffer for copying
      build: libstdbuf.so: avoid new OS X link failure
      build: uname: avoid shadowing warning
      tests: adapt tests to change in pwd's default
      tests: use "env builtin" in place of "$abs_top_builddir/src/builtin"
      build: adjust new rule not to depend on bash-4.x

John (1):
      dircolors: add a new entry to colorize 'm4a' files

Namhyung Kim (2):
      chcon: use security_check_context() for context validation
      chcon: avoid redundant context allocations

Nicolas Iooss (1):
      copy: fix a segfault in SELinux context copying code

Niels Möller (1):
      od: add an --endian option to control byte swapping

Paul Eggert (17):
      doc: fix problems with @w and @kbd (Bug#16802)
      shuf: with -r, don't dump core if the input is empty
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      cp: copy files by inode
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      cp: copy files by inode only if that facility is available
      stat: port birthtime to Solaris 11
      cp: improve quality of overwrite prompt
      cp: simplify overwrite logic
      head: fix bug with head -c-N when stdin is not at start
      head: port to Darwin and use simpler seeks
      shred: port to GNU/Linux behavior with tape drives
      shred: shred one block even for empty files
      cp: don't reserve a device number
      dd: fix conv=ascii, conv=ebcdic, conv=ibm to match POSIX
      shred: fix overflow checking of command-line options
      doc: use nicer quotes

Petr Stodůlka (1):
      id: output the effective group for the process

Pádraig Brady (83):
      maint: post-release administrivia
      copy: fix SELinux context preservation for existing directories
      maint: tests: refactor gcc commands for building shared lib
      tests: restrict a recent SELinux test to SELinux systems
      ln: fix replacing symbolic links whose targets can't exist
      build: avoid unneeded spawn-pipe gnulib module
      build: remove no longer used spawn-pipe files from POTFILES.in
      build: suppress an erroneous warning --with-selinux=no
      stat,tail: improve support for HFS+ and HFSX
      head,tail: consistently diagnose write errors
      cp: with --link always use linkat() if available
      date: fix crash or infinite loop when parsing a malformed TZ=""
      doc: improve df --human and --si, help and man page
      tests: fix false failure in nohup.sh in non tty builds
      tests: avoid the :> construct which can hide errors
      doc: fix readpath typo in texinfo contents
      chroot: improve --userspec and --groups look-up
      chroot: always diagnose failure to set supplemental groups
      doc: clarify the operation of uniq -uD
      split: avoid unnecessary input buffering
      mv: fix issues with previous prompt adjustments
      shred: avoid a data pass on empty files
      shred: overwrite inode storage used by some file systems
      maint: various cleanups
      doc: clarify in --help that -Z doesn't take an argument
      maint: document timeout --preserve-status in v8.21 NEWS
      maint: avoid static analysis warnings in ln.c
      tests: fix false dd conv=sparse failure on newer XFS
      doc: disambiguate chmod man page reference to (a) users
      tests: make ls tests independent of COLORTERM env
      maint: make ChangeLog generation more robust
      ptx: fix whitespace trimming with multiple files
      doc: clarify the pr --page-width descriptions
      numfmt: support zero padding using --format="%010f"
      numfmt: improve processing throughput by 800%
      mv,cp: preserve symlink xattrs when copying across file systems
      tests: improve diagnostics when asserting empty files
      tests: fix spurious failure with leading spaces in file names
      df: also deduplicate virtual file systems
      df: fix handling of symlinks in mount list
      df: ignore non file system entries in /proc/mounts
      maint: avoid clang -Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare warning
      chroot: don't chdir() if not changing root
      chroot: with --userspec clear root's supplemental groups
      chroot: exit immediately upon failure
      chroot: make changing root check more robust
      tests: use chroot --user rather than internal setuidgid tool
      stdbuf: support compilers other than __GNUC__
      maint: enforce consistent width and case of file system constants
      stat,tail: improve support for LogFS and ConfigFS
      doc: clarify --zero-terminated option
      stdbuf: support OS X
      df: use the last device name provided by the system
      stat: avoid redundant stat() calls
      cut: restore special case handling of -f with -d$'\n'
      tests: consolidate tests for true and false
      build: update GCC warnings
      build: update gnulib submodule and tests/init.sh to latest
      tests: fix version printing for ginstall in one test
      maint: suppress a theoretical buffer overflow warning
      tail: fix --follow to use polling mode for VXFS
      seq: fix incorrect output with start or end of -0
      df: use all of the last device details provided
      doc: clarify chgrp restrictions
      doc: state in ls --help, that -h affects --size format
      du: ignore directory cycles due to bind mounts
      df: output placeholder values for inaccessible mount points
      df: look for accessible mount points for specified devices
      df: report correct device in presence of eclipsed mounts
      maint: mention when the du cycle warning bug was introduced
      tests: use predetermined NON_ROOT_GID
      pwd: assume -L mode by default, as per POSIX
      maint: fix const correctness warnings with security_context_t
      tests: avoid errors on systems without getmntent
      tests: avoid false failure with spaces in mount point paths
      pwd: revert default mode back to -P
      maint: avoid an inconsequential mem leak
      sort: avoid undefined operation with destroying locked mutex
      build: update gnulib submodule to latest
      maint: avoid clang -Wint-to-pointer-cast warning
      tests: avoid hang when files created with wrong permissions
      tests: fix portability issue in new dd/ascii test
      tests: fix portability issue in new od-endian test

Shayan Pooya (1):
      sort: fix two threading issues reported by valgrind

Алексей Шилин (1):
      head: fix --lines=-0 outputting nothing if no newline at EOF

thanks!
Pádraig.