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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-04-28 16:39:32 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-04-28 16:39:32 +0000
commit142d83fcd69e311a237fbd3d5bac87a16140b822 (patch)
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downloadcoreutils-142d83fcd69e311a237fbd3d5bac87a16140b822.tar.xz
Document recent modechange fixes.
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@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
+ chmod, mkdir, mkfifo, and mknod formerly mishandled rarely-used symbolic
+ permissions like =xX and =u, and did not properly diagnose some invalid
+ strings like g+gr and ug,+x. These bugs have been fixed.
+
dd now computes statistics using a realtime clock (if available)
rather than the time-of-day clock, to avoid glitches if the
time-of-day is changed while dd is running. Also, it avoids