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This PR adds test coverage to improve alignment with GNU coreutils for ls, tee, and cat as part of addressing regressions tracked in #4627.

Summary of changes

  • ls: Add focused tests for TIME_STYLE behavior and precedence
    • TIME_STYLE from environment (e.g., TIME_STYLE=full-iso)
    • --time-style=iso formatting for recent vs older timestamps
    • Precedence and interaction between --full-time and --time-style (last one wins)
    • Behavior under LC_ALL=POSIX (posix-* fallbacks / locale-style formatting)
    • Sorting effects without -l when using time keys (-u/-c), to reflect GNU behavior
  • tee: Add tests for --output-error
    • Presence-only flag defaults to warn-nopipe
    • Broken-pipe robustness (no crash; exit status and stderr tolerant to platform differences)
    • Error reporting on invalid output targets
  • cat: Add broken pipe test
    • Verifies robustness in the face of SIGPIPE-like conditions without crashing
    • Removed an invalid test that used an unsupported -o flag

Issue linkage

  • Refs Regressions compared to GNU coreutils 9.2, 9.3 and 9.4 #4627
  • The added tests directly map to the remaining GNU test cases highlighted in the issue:
    • tests/misc/tee.sh
    • tests/misc/write-errors.sh (tee and cat broken pipe behavior)
    • tests/ls/ls-time.sh (TIME_STYLE, precedence, locale behavior, and time-sorting without -l)

Local validation

  • cargo test -p uu_ls -p uu_tee -p uu_cat --tests succeeds locally.
  • cargo fmt and targeted cargo clippy (uu_ls, uu_tee, uu_cat) pass locally.

Implementation notes

  • Tests are written to be robust across platforms. For broken pipe scenarios, assertions avoid brittle, platform-specific exit codes and focus on non-crash behavior and presence of diagnostics where applicable. Some tests are guarded with #[cfg(unix)] to reflect SIGPIPE semantics.
  • If CI reports failures, they may indicate platform differences or real implementation gaps. We’re happy to follow up with additional fixes in separate PRs where needed (e.g., refining tee’s --output-error behavior, ls TIME_STYLE edge cases, or cat’s SIGPIPE handling) to further close the gap with GNU coreutils.

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linux: gate SELinux code to Linux; fix cat broken pipe test
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- chcon, runcon: replace crate-level cfg with entrypoint guard and add a no-op main on non-Linux to avoid build failures.

- ls: enable SELinux support only when both feature="selinux" and target_os="linux"; default to false otherwise.

- tests(by-util/test_cat.rs): correctly drop the read_end handle to ensure writers see EPIPE (rename _read_end -> read_end and drop it).

Refs: uutils#4627
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tests(tee): skip broken-pipe early termination test on FreeBSD to avo…
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…id CI hangs (PR uutils#8684)\n\n- Guard test with #[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "freebsd")))]\n- Rationale: FreeBSD workflow repeatedly times out on this test in vmactions/freebsd-vm\n- Keeps coverage on other Unix platforms while unblocking FreeBSD CI
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test: address review feedback and harden GNU-compat tests; fix SELinu…
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…x gating for ls

- chcon/runcon: add rationale comments for item-level cfg with stub main() on non-Linux
  to keep binary targets present across platforms (fixes reviewer request)
- cat tests: remove top-of-file banner; add scoped comment and replace tautology
  with assert on process exit to ensure no hang/crash in broken pipe scenario
- tee tests: replace tautological assertion with explicit exit presence check
  in broken pipe scenario (Unix, non-FreeBSD)
- ls: gate SecurityContext lookup under all(feature=selinux, target_os=linux) to
  avoid unresolved symbols when building with all features; maintain String
  return path across cfg branches

These changes address @sylvestre’s comments and improve cross-platform stability
while preserving GNU-compat coverage for TIME_STYLE, broken pipes, and stdbuf.
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tests: address review feedback and stabilize GNU-compat coverage for PR
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uutils#8684

- cat: move broken pipe test below header; on Unix assert nonzero exit
- ls: add TZ=UTC to time-style tests; make sorting deterministic via touch -d (fallback to 2s sleep)
- tee: add Unix presence-only --output-error broken-pipe test (assert exit only; add TODO to tighten)
- stdbuf: add prominent TODO for GNU-like lib lookup order to fix brittle tests
- df: fix test_total parsing by using --output=size,used,avail --total to avoid non-numeric columns
- cspell wordlist: place EPIPE in alphabetical order and remove extra blank line

Also ran cargo fmt to satisfy formatting.
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sylvestre commented Sep 29, 2025

sorry for the latency
please split this PR into several

One PR = one class of change
you are mixing too many different kind of changes. thanks

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