#voreutils

Drop-in Policy-compatible coreutils replacement, at the very least.

This probably wants a better blurb.

GNU coreutils provide the following 105 binaries, according to dpkg -L coreutils | grep bin/:

• ☐ /bin/cat
• ☐ /bin/chgrp
• ☐ /bin/chmod
• ☐ /bin/chown
• ☐ /bin/cp
• ☐ /bin/date
• ☑ /bin/dd
• ☑ /bin/df
• ☐ /bin/dir
• ☑ /bin/echo – -n only
• ☑ /bin/false
• ☐ /bin/ln
• ☐ /bin/ls
• ☑ /bin/mkdir
• ☑ /bin/mknod
• ☐ /bin/mktemp
• ☐ /bin/mv
• ☐ /bin/pwd
• ☐ /bin/readlink
• ☐ /bin/rm
• ☐ /bin/rmdir
• ☑ /bin/sleep
• ☐ /bin/stty
• ☑ /bin/sync
• ☐ /bin/touch
• ☑ /bin/true
• ☑ /bin/uname
• ☐ /bin/vdir
• ☐ /usr/bin/[
• ☑ /usr/bin/arch
• ☑ /usr/bin/b2sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/base32
• ☑ /usr/bin/base64
• ☑ /usr/bin/basename
• ☐ /usr/bin/chcon
• ☑ /usr/bin/cksum
• ☐ /usr/bin/comm
• ☐ /usr/bin/csplit
• ☐ /usr/bin/cut
• ☐ /usr/bin/dircolors
• ☑ /usr/bin/dirname
• ☐ /usr/bin/du
• ☑ /usr/bin/env – some parsing restrixions might be too strict (-0 in particular), but they match GNU env
• ☑ /usr/bin/expand
• ☐ /usr/bin/expr
• ☑ /usr/bin/factor – only u64 (for now?); could also use -hx from NetBSD? also should maybe include primes(6)
• ☐ /usr/bin/fmt
• ☐ /usr/bin/fold
• ☑ /usr/bin/groups
• ☐ /usr/bin/head
• ☑ /usr/bin/hostid
• ☑ /usr/bin/id
• ☐ /usr/bin/install
• ☐ /usr/bin/join
• ☑ /usr/bin/link
• ☑ /usr/bin/logname
• ☑ /usr/bin/md5sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/mkfifo – https://bugs.debian.org/990962 lole
• ☑ /usr/bin/nice
• ☐ /usr/bin/nl
• ☑ /usr/bin/nohup – GNU nohup resets umask (for no discernible reason?), returns 125 instead of 127 for processing/no-nohup.out (which is wrong!)
• ☑ /usr/bin/nproc
• ☐ /usr/bin/numfmt
• ☐ /usr/bin/od
• ☑ /usr/bin/paste
• ☐ /usr/bin/pathchk
• ☐ /usr/bin/pinky
• ☐ /usr/bin/pr
• ☑ /usr/bin/printenv
• ☐ /usr/bin/printf
• ☐ /usr/bin/ptx
• ☐ /usr/bin/realpath
• ☐ /usr/bin/runcon
• ☐ /usr/bin/seq
• ☑ /usr/bin/sha1sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/sha224sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/sha256sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/sha384sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/sha512sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/shred – a perfunctory novote
• ☑ /usr/bin/shuf
• ☐ /usr/bin/sort
• ☐ /usr/bin/split
• ☐ /usr/bin/stat
• ☑ /usr/bin/stdbuf
• ☑ /usr/bin/sum
• ☑ /usr/bin/tac
• ☐ /usr/bin/tail
• ☐ /usr/bin/tee
• ☐ /usr/bin/test
• ☑ /usr/bin/timeout
• ☑ /usr/bin/tr – implements -C as -c and [=e=] as e: this matches 4.4BSD and GNU tr, but is nevertheless a missing POSIX feature; could also stand to do buffering lower than fgetc/fputc, as I imagine the overhead of calling those for each byte is noninsignificant
• ☑ /usr/bin/truncate
• ☑ /usr/bin/tsort – GNU tsort is turbofucked, and returns 1 for loops
• ☑ /usr/bin/tty
• ☑ /usr/bin/unexpand – flag handling is mildly (very?) different, and matches NetBSD; the tests are (should be) representative and all pass, but i've had the worst time of my life writing it, so it's entirely possible (if unlikely) it's not 100% bug-compatible
• ☐ /usr/bin/uniq
• ☑ /usr/bin/unlink
• ☐ /usr/bin/users
• ☐ /usr/bin/wc
• ☐ /usr/bin/who
• ☑ /usr/bin/whoami
• ☑ /usr/bin/yes
• ☑ /usr/sbin/chroot
• ☑ /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils

TODO: multicalls should default to something rather than abort when appropriate like netbsd id(1) maybe?

TODO: should posix_fadvise(sequential) where appropriate maybe?

TODO: should fread_unlocked(sequential) where appropriate maybe?

TODO: support SMACK in addition to SELinux

TODO: filesize.js-style (include/vore-human) sizing might be a bit suboptimal for this (df) sort of display?

#Building

You'll need a non-ancient C[++] toolchain, a POSIX AWK, GNU make, and mandoc (optional, which may change, confer nomandoc target).

libb2 and libcrypto are required (searched with pkg-config if available). It'd be just libcrypto if the implementation correctly used the result size in EVP_MD.

libselinux-dev and pkg-config will provide SELinux support

Run GNU make. See the head of the Makefile for tunables, notably VOREUTILS_{VERSION,DATE}, which are derived from git HEAD by default, OUTDIR (and {CMD,MAN,HTMLMAN}DIR) where artifacts land, and OBJDIR where intermediate objects land; these can all be set independently, SYMLINK, if set to "y", will link binary altnames together symbolically. VOREUTILS_LIB_PREFIX (/usr/lib/voreutils/) is the location of libstdbuf.

#Organisation

Who knows yet!

A .note.version section is included in every output file, and includes the full version and date string.

#Compatibility

Free UNIXes, hopefully. Debian, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD are on CI, as normal, bare, and fucked baselines, respectively. I also test on NetBSD (and TODO: some Illumos distro) before release.

#Contributing

Send a patch inline, as an attachment, or a git link and a ref to pull from to the list (~nabijaczleweli/voreutils@lists.sr.ht) or me directly. I'm not picky, just please include the repo name in the subject prefix.

#Discussion

Please use the tracker, the list, or Twitter.

#Licences

Except where noted otherwise (e.g. in the headers of files from NetBSD), all contents of this repository are subject to the 0-clause BSD licence.

#Special thanks

To all who support further development on Patreon, in particular:

• ThePhD
• Embark Studios