The stable version of the GNU Coreutils basic system utility suite 9.10 has been released, which includes programs such as sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln, and ls.
Key innovations:
- The man pages and prompts output when using the “—help” option now feature bold type for commands and options, and hyperlinks have been added for commands to link to online manuals on gnu.org in terminal emulators that support this feature.
- The behavior of the timeout utility has been modified; it now intercepts the handling of all process termination signals (SIGPIPE, SIGALRM, SIGHUP, etc.) and redirects them to the controlled process, preventing the scenario where the timeout utility can be forcibly terminated while the controlled process continues to execute.
- The paste utility now supports specifying multi-byte characters in the “—delimiters” option.
- A regression in the cp utility that could cause infinite looping in some situations has been fixed.
- The size of the executable file has been reduced by 3.2% with a unified build, which provides one common executable file "coreutils" for all commands, and separate commands are created through symbolically linking to it. The option “—enable-single-binary=hardlinks” has been added to use hard links to the single executable file instead of symbolic links.
- Support for the filesystem type "guest-memfd" has been added to the ‘stat’ and ‘tail’ utilities, which is displayed in the output of “stat -f -c%T” and leads to polling in “tail -f”.
- An option “—debug” has been added to the ‘tail’ utility.
- A short variant of the option “—apparent-size” — “-A” has been added to the ‘du’ utility for compatibility with FreeBSD.
- In the ‘du’ utility, the processing of directories with 10,000 elements has been accelerated by up to 9 times in Lustre FS sections.
- The default build of the ‘kill’ and ‘uptime’ utilities has been stopped; they are now built only when the script configure option “—enable-install-program=kill,uptime” is specified.
Source: opennet.ru
