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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-06-03 09:04:05 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-06-03 09:04:05 +0000
commit6293c4ae503c59411e8f2f66e91149a47829fbd9 (patch)
treef570e7aead16d52b0e3e7c05efb47bbd63ab8174 /NEWS
parent09024704ab00a40dc45f6f69454f688feb079700 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-6293c4ae503c59411e8f2f66e91149a47829fbd9.tar.xz
`cp --link --no-dereference' now works also on systems where the
link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link.
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@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
basename and dirname now treat // as different from / on platforms
where the two are distinct.
+ `cp --link --no-dereference' now works also on systems where the
+ link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link.
+ This change has no effect on systems with a Linux-based kernel.
+
csplit and nl now use POSIX syntax for regular expressions, not
Emacs syntax. As a result, character classes like [[:print:]] and
interval expressions like A\{1,9\} now have their usual meaning,