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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-03-08 18:57:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-03-08 18:57:21 +0000 |
| commit | e190228997c9f33137977ed945d55bd37c1058d6 (patch) | |
| tree | b34984a4facbe7bdbb21fa4ea159c7ed9e203965 | |
| parent | c66e95f41fcbf53c0f9e29e0f54ed2ae9747ca6b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-e190228997c9f33137977ed945d55bd37c1058d6.tar.xz | |
Document dd's new 'directory' and 'nolinks' flags.
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@@ -71,9 +71,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - dd's new iflag=noatime option causes it to read a file without - updating its access time, on hosts that support this (currently only - Linux kernels, version 2.6.8 and later). + New dd iflag= and oflag= flags: + + 'directory' causes dd to fail unless the file is a directory, on + hosts that support this (e.g., Linux kernels, version 2.1.126 and + later). This has limited utility but is present for completeness. + + 'noatime' causes dd to read a file without updating its access + time, on hosts that support this (e.g., Linux kernels, version + 2.6.8 and later). + + 'nolinks' causes dd to fail if the file has multiple hard links, + on hosts that support this (e.g., Solaris 10 and later). rm now accepts the -I (--interactive=once) option. This new option prompts once if rm is invoked recursively or if more than three |