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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-06 17:41:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-03-06 17:41:00 +0000 |
| commit | 0c6b3dffc5fec0cb45ddcadea9cf5b3cd4158445 (patch) | |
| tree | 166a6d840c8ace5aed00a1250db52fee08ed3601 | |
| parent | 0ede5ec7f9de3cf6d79c80184420feadddea9b4b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0c6b3dffc5fec0cb45ddcadea9cf5b3cd4158445.tar.xz | |
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@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ -2004-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> +2004-03-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * Version 5.2.1. + cp --sparse=always sparse-image-file.img /dev/hda1 could + produce an invalid copy on the destination device. + + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Even with --sparse=always, try to + make `holes' only if the destination is a regular file. + Reported by Szakacsits Szabolcs. + 2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * src/nohup.c (main): Don't invoke set_cloexec_flag with @@ -15,7 +22,7 @@ 2004-03-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * configure.ac: Include <signal.h> when checking for strsignal, - sys_siglist, and friends. Problem reported by Toney Leneis in + sys_siglist, and friends. Problem reported by Tony Leneis in <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00136.html>. 2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + `cp --sparse=always F /dev/hdx' no longer tries to use lseek to create + holes in the destination. + nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for its copy of the stderr file descriptor. This avoids some nohup-induced hangs. For example, before this change, if you ran `ssh localhost', then `nohup sleep 600 </dev/null &', |