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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-01-02 07:28:08 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-01-02 07:28:08 +0000
commit70efb5ac20b17bbf7efe5289423606aeaa1552ac (patch)
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downloadcoreutils-70efb5ac20b17bbf7efe5289423606aeaa1552ac.tar.xz
Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits.
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
if your locale settings appear to be messed up. This change
attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
+ mkfifo and mknod no longer set special mode bits (setuid, setgid,
+ and sticky) with the -m option.
+
sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than
silently ignoring one of them.