GNU Coreutils 9.2 - Now Avoids cp/mv Allocating Too Much Memory

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Coreutils 9.2 - Now Avoids cp/mv Allocating Too Much memory

GNU Coreutils 9.2 is out today as the newest feature update to this widely relied upon collection of cure utilities commonly found on Linux systems as well as other platforms...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.2

[Beherit]

There is an alternative I switched to a while back: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

[Apteryx]

cure utilities? :-)

[acobar]

The best thing about long-running stable projects is that, on them, developers have a chance to polish things, instead of reinventing the wheel. Of course, this is not possible, or even desirable, for all projects, just for reasonably well written code bases.

Long life to GNU Project.

[PAUL007]

have u heard about our lord n savior rust

[cb88]

The best thing about long-running stable projects is that, on them, developers have a chance to polish things, instead of reinventing the wheel. Of course, this is not possible, or even desirable, for all projects, just for reasonably well written code bases.

Long life to GNU Project.

Polished turds don't taste any better I hear though.

[Volta]

Polished turds don't taste any better I hear though.

It's a state of an art, turd.

[geearf]

is GNU cp still slower than wcp?

[ultimA]

There is an alternative I switched to a while back: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

1) Oh yeah, and what actual benefits did you experience in practice? Oh right, none. And no don't mention "safety", because Coreutils is not ridden with vulnerabilities. It only had about 10 CVEs in total in the past 20 years (see). And most of them weren't even memory safety bugs and thus would not have benefited from Rust anyway.

2) The article and thus this thread is about the new version and the new capabilities of Coreutils 9.2. Does your alternative already support the same features? If not why are you hijacking this thread to advertise a different project that's not even superior at this point?

Rust is such a cool language, but burdened by its fanatical and non-sensical fanbase.

[evasb]

uutils only exists because they are MIT licensed. That's it.