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| author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2013-12-06 00:59:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2013-12-06 00:59:36 +0100 |
| commit | 34582a1aedae0d7002b76a64a14dc3143198ced0 (patch) | |
| tree | e8ce5af8bc7a2d7a3c01875e36c1a929fefdcfde /NEWS | |
| parent | 37e001d20930bacf188ab9725d063e205b195e34 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-34582a1aedae0d7002b76a64a14dc3143198ced0.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify that df now generally processes special files correctly
Since v8.21-172-g33660b4, df not only treats symbolic link arguments
differently, as stated there, but now generally processes special file
arguments in a non-canonicalized form correctly:
$ cd /dev && df-old sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1014572 48 1014524 1% /dev
$ cd /dev && df-new sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 10190136 6039532 3609932 63% /home
Document df's new behavior.
* doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): In the paragraph describing
df's behavior regarding special file arguments, relax the condition
for such special files from "... is an absolute name of ..." to
"... resolves to ...".
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the new behavior also here.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- mount points. Previously it may have failed to output some mount points. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.21] - df now processes symbolic links to disk device nodes correctly. Previously - df displayed the symlink's device rather than that for the device node. + df now processes symbolic links and relative paths to special files containing + a mounted file system correctly. Previously df displayed the statistics about + the file system the file is stored on rather than the one inside. [This bug was present in "the beginning".] df now processes disk device nodes correctly in the presence of bind mounts. |