1. Introduction
    1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
         GNU coreutils 8.5

    1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
         Author:  John.Sonnenschein@Sun.COM

    1.3  Date of This Document:
         13th May, 2010


4. Technical Description

   Update GNU coreutils to 8.5


1.  Summary

        This fasttrack is a direct follow-on to:

            PSARC/2007/048 Include GNU coreutils 6.7
            and
            PSARC/2009/355  GNU coreutils 7.4

        It increments the version of GNU coreutils in OpenSolaris to 8.5.

        Patch release binding is requested.


2.  Discussion

        GNU coreutils--the combination of GNU fileutils, GNU shellutils, and
        GUN textutils--provide implementations of many common Unix utilities
        as well as various enhancements and additional related utilities.

        The version proposed here is the latest stable version available
        and will replace version 7.4, which is currently in OpenSolaris.


3.  Interfaces

        PSARC/2009/355 section 3 describe the interface details
        for the GNU coreutils 7.4 commands.  The changes between 7.4 and 8.5
        are described in the Coreutils.8.5.txt file in the case materials
        directory. Each command retains the same stability level.

        Between 7.4 and 8.5, the following new command was introduced:

        /usr/bin/
                nproc
                stdbuf
                       Location                     Uncommitted
                       Invocation                   Uncommitted
                       Human-readable output        Not an Interface

       See the various man pages in the case materials directory for 
       more details.


4. Reference Documents (located in case materials directory)

       Coreutils.8.5.changes.txt - (from project NEWS file).

       <command>.1.txt manual pages for the following commands:

       base64      basename    cat         chcon       chgrp
       chmod       chown       chroot      cksum       comm
       cp          csplit      cut         date        dd
       df          dir         dircolors   dirname     du
       echo        env         expand      expr        factor
       false       fmt         fold        groups      head
       hostid      id          install     join        kill
       link        ln          logname     ls          md5sum
       mkdir       mkfifo      mknod       mktemp      mv
       nice        nl          nproc       nohup       od
       paste       pathchk     pinky       pr          printenv
       printf      ptx         pwd         readlink    rm
       rmdir       runcon      seq         sha1sum     sha224sum
       sha256sum   sha384sum   sha512sum   shred       shuf
       sleep       sort        split       stat        stdbuf       stty
       sum         sync        tac         tail        tee
       test        timeout     touch       tr          true
       truncate    tsort       tty         uname       unexpand
       uniq        unlink      uptime      users       vdir
       wc          who         whoami      yes


6. Resources and Schedule
    6.4. Steering Committee requested information
           6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
                SFW

    6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack

    6.6. ARC Exposure: open

7. Prototype Availability:

   7.1. Prototype Availability:

        June 2009.

   7.2. Prototype Cost:

        2 weeks.