Issues

• mknod: MAJOR/MINOR rejects hex values

  uutils/coreutils#15146 · Filter by author virbr0 opened on Oct 7, 2026

• timeout: re-raising the child's signal dumps core in timeout itself (GNU disables core dumps first)

  uutils/coreutils#15144 · Filter by author neocody opened on Oct 7, 2026

• tail -f panics when a followed file is rotated after a write

  U - tail
  uutils/coreutils#15136 · Filter by author SichenLiang opened on Oct 6, 2026
  2

• sort: a replaced temporary directory makes sort read and delete files elsewhere

  U - sort
  uutils/coreutils#15134 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026

• tee: panics when an output fails part-way

  U - tee
  uutils/coreutils#15119 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026
  3

• date: %p and %P ignore the locale's AM/PM markers

  U - date
  uutils/coreutils#15117 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026

• chown, chgrp: -h with -R -H/-L doesn't descend into a symlinked directory operand

  U - chgrpU - chown
  uutils/coreutils#15116 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026

• chown -R -v: no failure line for entries below the operand

  U - chown
  uutils/coreutils#15115 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026

• chown, chgrp: a directory operand that can't be read is skipped silently

  U - chgrpU - chown
  uutils/coreutils#15114 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026

• mv: moving a directory with a socket or device node across filesystems fails

  U - mv
  uutils/coreutils#15113 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026

• ln, cp: replacing an entry in a write-only directory fails with EACCES

  U - cpU - ln
  uutils/coreutils#15112 · Filter by author abendrothj opened on Oct 6, 2026

• macOS CI jobs experience excessive queuing

  uutils/coreutils#15105 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 5, 2026
  3

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

  U - tail
  uutils/coreutils#15103 · Filter by author dandrei opened on Oct 5, 2026
  1

• 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

• 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 compile for AIX targets

  awaiting upstreamdependencies
  uutils/coreutils#15083 · Filter by author xtqqczze opened on Oct 5, 2026
  1

• 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

• 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
  1

  

• tail: tail -n1 FILE >> FILE never terminates when FILE is larger than 4096 bytes

  U - tail
  uutils/coreutils#15057 · Filter by author cboos opened on Oct 4, 2026
  11

• 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