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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-10 20:42:52 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-10 20:42:52 +0000
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
- md5sum --check now accepts the output of the BSD md5sum program, e.g.,
MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
- date -d DATE can now parse a DATE string like May-23-2003
+- chown: `.' is no longer recognized as a separator in the OWNER:GROUP
+ specifier on POSIX 1003.1-2001 systems. If chown *was not* compiled
+ on such a system, then it still accepts `.', by default. If chown
+ was compiled on a POSIX 1003.1-2001 system, then you may enable the
+ old behavior by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment.
** Bug fixes
- chown --dereference no longer leaks a file descriptor per symlink processed