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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2012-10-21 11:56:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2012-10-21 14:52:50 +0200 |
| commit | 0aeaa506ad9dd09479a298e4febe79b55c10a0e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f0ceb08fc78359bd31a531118cfff68a9139e9b | |
| parent | 3131cd9c5a30ae818d8beef15ece2d02f022f3c4 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0aeaa506ad9dd09479a298e4febe79b55c10a0e2.tar.xz | |
doc: NEWS: the cp bug affects mv and install, too
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Note that the copy-induced corruption but affects
mv (sometimes) and install, too. Pointed out by Bernhard Voelker.
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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- cp could read from freed memory and could even make corrupt copies. This could happen with a very fragmented and sparse input file, on GNU/Linux file systems supporting fiemap extent scanning. + This bug also affects mv when it resorts to copying, and install. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.11] cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer preserves the original file's |