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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1998-03-13 23:39:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1998-03-13 23:39:10 +0000 |
| commit | 6429ffabbb8e3058d435621dba353163227da3b2 (patch) | |
| tree | ec6bd9b63f84ea7fa06660293147e7a241ce4253 | |
| parent | e558629ce1cd131b6c2ff3f2eea9b23df5681313 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-6429ffabbb8e3058d435621dba353163227da3b2.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog index 4839b1f17..4a3172cc1 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,46 @@ -1998-02-25 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com> - - * Makefile.maint: Use -include, not `include' for aclocal-files. +1998-03-13 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com> + + * src/remove.c: Use `virtual memory exhausted' message, not + `Memory exhausted' to be consistent with the majority of other + such messages. + Say `removing all...', not `removing any...'. + * src/rmdir.c (remove_parents): Be consistent with documentation of + --verbose option and with remove.c in saying `removing...' before + the operation is attempted. + (main): Likewise. + Suggestions from Santiago Vila. + + * src/copy.c (copy_dir): Add new parameter, copy_into_self, and set it. + (copy_internal): Likewise. + (copy): Likewise. + Update all callers. + * src/cp.c (do_copy): Add unused arg in calls to copy. + * src/mv.c (do_move): Add ©_into_self arg in call to copy. + Don't remove source directory when copy_into_self is nonzero. + Reported by Arne Henrik Juul. + +1998-03-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com> + + * Running this command + mkdir j;touch k; ./mv j k j + (correctly) copies j into j/j and moves k to j/k, + but then it removes `j' and you're left with nothing. + Not nice, eh? + + The fix is simple in concept: don't remove a source directory + if it is a parent of (or the same as) the destination directory. + I don't think POSIX discusses this case. + +1998-02-28 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> + + * userspec.c (parse_user_spec) [__DJGPP__]: Make function know + about any arbitrary user and group by pretending to be the user + and to belong to the group specified in `spec_arg' argument. + + * idcache.c (getuidbyname) [__DJGPP__]: Make function know about + any arbitrary user name. + (getgidbyname) [__DJGPP__]: Make function know about any arbitrary + group name. 1998-02-24 Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com> |