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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-10-20 08:59:16 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-10-20 08:59:16 +0000
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@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
- chmod can now process hierarchies of virtually unlimited depth
+ chgrp, chmod, and chown can now process (with -R) hierarchies of virtually
+ unlimited depth. Before, they would fail to operate on any file they
+ encountered with a relative name of length PATH_MAX (often 4096) or longer.
+
chmod accepts new options: --preserve-root, --no-preserve-root
- chown and chgrp can now process hierarchies of virtually unlimited depth
- chown and chgrp now accept POSIX-mandated -L, -H, and -P options
+ chgrp and chown now accept POSIX-mandated -L, -H, and -P options
du can now process hierarchies of virtually unlimited depth.
Before, du was limited by the user's stack size and it would get a