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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-12-01 22:45:56 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-12-01 22:46:05 +0100
commitbb5c20212fa3c1e4b678978487424ceab7de7191 (patch)
tree4f90a1b4ee988ec8ae2e98a806388050124d3730
parent065db950f0e43314c23a0ec9fa81a58e9fcfe73c (diff)
downloadcoreutils-bb5c20212fa3c1e4b678978487424ceab7de7191.tar.xz
NEWS: Remove the now-untrue statement about cp vs. dangling symlinks
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog2
-rw-r--r--NEWS18
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3d0f9af8a..cd3047ac8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
2007-12-01 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+ * NEWS: Remove the now-untrue statement about cp vs. dangling symlinks
+
Change release procedure: tag *before* running e.g., "make stable".
* Makefile.maint (vc-dist): Don't tag. Now, you must apply the tag
before running "make beta", "make stable", etc.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8df1b870a..dee4a6573 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -101,16 +101,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
reports stat.st_size == 0, while "cat /proc/cpuinfo > c" would "work",
and create a nonempty one. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
- cp no longer fails to write through a dangling symlink
- [bug introduced in coreutils-6.7]. cp --parents no
- longer mishandles symlinks to directories in file name
- components in the source, e.g., "cp --parents symlink/a/b
- d" no longer fails. Also, 'cp' no longer considers a
- destination symlink to be the same as the referenced file when
- copying links or making backups. For example, if SYM is a symlink
- to FILE, "cp -l FILE SYM" now reports an error instead of silently
- doing nothing. The behavior of 'cp' is now better documented when
- the destination is a symlink.
+ cp --parents no longer mishandles symlinks to directories in file
+ name components in the source, e.g., "cp --parents symlink/a/b d"
+ no longer fails. Also, 'cp' no longer considers a destination
+ symlink to be the same as the referenced file when copying links
+ or making backups. For example, if SYM is a symlink to FILE,
+ "cp -l FILE SYM" now reports an error instead of silently doing
+ nothing. The behavior of 'cp' is now better documented when the
+ destination is a symlink.
"cp -i --update older newer" no longer prompts; same for mv