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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-03-23 23:34:22 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-03-23 23:34:22 +0000
commit9f6b2d2548b31e724d258d851126e8a4b6d807e9 (patch)
tree500c85a7940398766473c825d62dd72b415cd253
parent4de8dde3393ffa508557247d108edc7448d83c39 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-9f6b2d2548b31e724d258d851126e8a4b6d807e9.tar.xz
nohup diagnostics are now more precise, and nohup now
redirects stderr to nohup.out if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty.
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@@ -26,12 +26,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
if your locale settings appear to be messed up. This change
attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
- rm --interactive now takes an optional argument, although the
- default of using no argument still acts like -i.
-
mkfifo and mknod no longer set special mode bits (setuid, setgid,
and sticky) with the -m option.
+ nohup's usual diagnostic now more precisely specifies the I/O
+ redirections, e.g., "ignoring input and appending output to
+ nohup.out". Also, nohup now redirects stderr to nohup.out (or
+ $HOME/nohup.out) if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty; this is in
+ response to Open Group XCU ERN 71.
+
+ rm --interactive now takes an optional argument, although the
+ default of using no argument still acts like -i.
+
sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than
silently ignoring one of them.