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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-01-21 11:16:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-01-21 11:16:43 +0000 |
| commit | af1885b91f4798514fa28a79d9ea1dd6d1f71a54 (patch) | |
| tree | 65c0f3afa94149eeca4942aed3ab0701f1a28ea9 | |
| parent | 4393cb56ca9b54c0b8e8ad0c782d8a9a2635b522 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-af1885b91f4798514fa28a79d9ea1dd6d1f71a54.tar.xz | |
Mention fts-related improvements and bug fixes.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
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@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- rm's core is now reentrant: rm --recursive (-r) now processes hierarchies without changing the working directory at all. + fts no longer changes the current working directory, so its clients + (chmod, chown, chgrp, du) no longer malfunction under extreme conditions. + ** Changes in behavior df now considers "none" and "proc" file systems to be dummies and @@ -73,6 +76,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + fts-using tools (chmod, chown, chgrp, du) no longer fail due to + a double-free bug -- it could be triggered by making a directory + inaccessible while e.g., du is traversing the hierarchy under it. + + fts-using tools (chmod, chown, chgrp, du) no longer misinterpret + a very long symlink chain as a dangling symlink. Before, such a + misinterpretation would cause these tools not to diagnose an ELOOP error. + rm (on systems with openat) can no longer exit before processing all command-line arguments. |