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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-06 17:41:00 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-06 17:41:00 +0000
commit0c6b3dffc5fec0cb45ddcadea9cf5b3cd4158445 (patch)
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -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>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1fa955d9e..b56f89820 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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 &',