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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-09-22 15:07:50 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-09-23 06:45:07 -0600 |
| commit | 82124c3c06e46f349b5d8bae84b4890dd8025a72 (patch) | |
| tree | 43f0503da7bc4bbd53d0b05cc2ed3c240e9438fa /NEWS | |
| parent | 38f1c2006eb975f28567a7495faac07e7c44de02 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-82124c3c06e46f349b5d8bae84b4890dd8025a72.tar.xz | |
maint: summarize gnulib changes
* NEWS: Provide a blurb about recent gnulib improvements. Fix typo
in readlink blurb.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -16,15 +16,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- when the color of a more specific type is disabled. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.90] -** Changes in behavior +** Portability - canonicalize -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the - last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created, - since mkdir will succeed in that case. + On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as + file. Now, even on such a system, path resolution obeys the POSIX + rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceeding name is a + directory or a symlink to a directory. + +** Changes in behavior id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set. + readlink -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the + last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created, + since mkdir will succeed in that case. + ** Improvements rm: rewrite to use gnulib's fts |