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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-09-21 22:00:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-09-21 22:00:27 +0000 |
| commit | d243dee60af680588ef404cf1ac0353663710f69 (patch) | |
| tree | d045fe279b852b7088fe8c3219fb7f46308d5e11 /NEWS | |
| parent | d11d06abfa74b711f681e34ed1c391bc27fbc1b4 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-d243dee60af680588ef404cf1ac0353663710f69.tar.xz | |
The following commands now reject unknown options:
basename dirname factor hostname link nohup sync unlink yes
Also, pathchk no longer accepts trailing options.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- It now consistently adjusts out-of-range nice values to the closest values in range; formerly it sometimes reported an error. + pathchk no longer accepts trailing options, e.g., "pathchk -p foo -b" + now treats -b as a file name to check, not as an invalid option. + printf has several changes: It now uses 'intmax_t' (not 'long int') to format integers, so it @@ -114,6 +117,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- who now prints user names in full instead of truncating them after 8 bytes. + The following commands now reject unknown options instead of + accepting them as operands, so that users are properly warned that + options may be added later. Formerly they accepted unknown options + as operands; e.g., "basename -a a" acted like "basename -- -a a". + + basename dirname factor hostname link nohup sync unlink yes + ** New features For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file |