Issues

• tail -f /proc/<pid>/fd/N prints nothing on a regular file that is still being written (GNU tail follows it)

  uutils/coreutils#15103 · Filter by author dandrei opened on Oct 5, 2026

• test_tail::test_output_appended_to_input_file_terminates is failing in CI

  S - In progress
  uutils/coreutils#15100 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 5, 2026

• install: -Z gives new files and directories a different SELinux type than GNU

  U - install
  uutils/coreutils#15091 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 5, 2026

• tail -n prints nothing for a file whose size is an exact multiple of 64 KiB

  S - In progressU - tail
  uutils/coreutils#15089 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 5, 2026

• cp -l changes the mode of the source file

  S - In progressU - cp
  uutils/coreutils#15087 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 5, 2026

• cp: after a write error, the next file copied can contain data from the failed one

  S - In progressU - cp
  uutils/coreutils#15085 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 5, 2026

• nix dependency fails to build for AIX targets

  dependencies
  uutils/coreutils#15083 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 5, 2026

• mv: no warning when the destination file system doesn't support xattrs (GNU cp-mv-enotsup-xattr, 9.12)

  S - In progressU - mv
  uutils/coreutils#15079 · Filter by author Cassian433 opened on Oct 5, 2026

• cp: --parents gives created parent directories the default mode and rewrites existing ones with -a

  S - In progressU - cp
  uutils/coreutils#15073 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 5, 2026

• md5sum and cksum reject GNU-compatible whitespace in untagged checksum lines

  U - cksumU - md5sum
  uutils/coreutils#15072 · Filter by author SichenLiang opened on Oct 5, 2026

• md5sum and cksum reject GNU-compatible spacing in tagged checksum lines

  U - cksumU - md5sum
  uutils/coreutils#15061 · Filter by author SichenLiang opened on Oct 4, 2026

• Remove duplicate itertools dependency

  awaiting upstreamB - low prioritydependencies
  uutils/coreutils#15060 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 4, 2026

• Remove duplicate unicode-width v0.1.13 dependency

  awaiting upstreamB - low prioritydependencies
  uutils/coreutils#15059 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 4, 2026
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• ls, seq: "Broken pipe" error on Windows when the reader exits early

  P - WindowsU - lsU - seq
  uutils/coreutils#15056 · Filter by author cm4ker opened on Oct 4, 2026

• comm: per-line get_flag lookups and allocation in the main loop

  U - comm
  uutils/coreutils#15046 · Filter by author romainhedouin opened on Oct 3, 2026

• paste & od: one write(2) per output line

  U - odU - paste
  uutils/coreutils#15045 · Filter by author romainhedouin opened on Oct 3, 2026

• uucore: localization keeps the first utility's strings when one process runs several utilities

  U - All (uucore)
  uutils/coreutils#15040 · Filter by author aakarshitv opened on Oct 3, 2026

• uucore: safe_traversal is not built on AIX and Hurd

  B - low priorityU - All (uucore)
  uutils/coreutils#15028 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 2, 2026
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• chown: --from can change a file that doesn't have the given owner

  U - chown
  uutils/coreutils#15027 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 2, 2026

• CI: jobs on ubuntu-26.04 run with the runner's rust-coreutils as the system coreutils

  uutils/coreutils#15023 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 2, 2026

• touch: "setting times of" instead of "cannot touch" for an existing file the user cannot write

  U - touch
  uutils/coreutils#15021 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 1, 2026

• uucore: EPERM errors are printed as "Permission denied"

  U - All (uucore)
  uutils/coreutils#15020 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 1, 2026

• touch: -d now fails on a writable file owned by someone else

  U - touch
  uutils/coreutils#15019 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 1, 2026

• Replace winapi dependency with windows-sys

  awaiting upstreamB - low prioritydependencies
  uutils/coreutils#15014 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 1, 2026
  

• Remove duplicate thiserror-impl v1 dependency

  awaiting upstreamB - low prioritydependencies
  uutils/coreutils#15013 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 1, 2026