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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2010-12-03 09:55:48 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2010-12-03 09:56:32 -0800
commitb5a25a996da0ed80025e6ed94ca7fe4347704864 (patch)
tree25032ccca7daf27bd57b49b3bd04d77f48f52034
parent038fcfcf1bb86e942c2fa4add2dc9ce03eacc8ae (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b5a25a996da0ed80025e6ed94ca7fe4347704864.tar.xz
cp: fix bug with fine-grained src to nearby coarse-grained dest
The actual fix is in gnulib's lib/utimecmp.c. * NEWS: Document fix.
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
+ cp -u no longer does unnecessary copying merely because the source
+ has finer-grained time stamps than the destination.
+
od now prints floating-point numbers without losing information, and
it no longer omits spaces between floating-point columns in some cases.