coreutils-9.7

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

[Xi Ruoyao]

Rebased i18n patch: ​https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/coreutils/coreutils-9.7-i18n-1.patch.

[Bruce Dubbs]

GNU coreutils

• Noteworthy changes in release 9.7 (2025-04-09) [stable]

• Bug fixes

'cat' would fail with "input file is output file" if input and output are the same terminal device and the output is append-only. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.6]

'cksum -a crc' misbehaved on aarch64 with 32-bit uint_fast32_t. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.6]

dd with the 'nocache' flag will now detect all failures to drop the cache for the whole file. Previously it may have erroneously succeeded. [bug introduced with the "nocache" feature in coreutils-8.11]

'ls -Z dir' would crash on all systems, and 'ls -l' could crash on systems like Android with SELinux but without xattr support. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.6]

ls -l could output spurious "Not supported" errors in certain cases, like with dangling symlinks on cygwin. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.6]

timeout would fail to timeout commands with infinitesimal timeouts. For example timeout 1e-5000 sleep inf would never timeout. [bug introduced with timeout in coreutils-7.0]

sleep, tail, and timeout would sometimes sleep for slightly less time than requested. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.0]

'who -m' now outputs entries for remote logins. Previously login entries prefixed with the service (like "sshd") were not matched. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.4]

Improvements

'logname' correctly returns the user who logged in the session, on more systems. Previously on musl or uclibc it would have merely output the LOGNAME environment variable.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit d470cdb21c.