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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-11-11 17:15:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-11-11 17:15:06 +0000 |
| commit | f1126d26393c6d5be46a9a1412c94f0537dca364 (patch) | |
| tree | 20196516f098b639a715b39b795b28461395eb71 /NEWS | |
| parent | 7fdc7d4df9cbb37cff820778635cae4e8b83cae8 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f1126d26393c6d5be46a9a1412c94f0537dca364.tar.xz | |
Mention `readlink -f' bug fix in 5.3.0 news.
Mention new readlink options in `New features' section.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
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@@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- mv (when moving between partitions) no longer fails when operating on too many command-line-specified nonempty directories. + "readlink -f" is more compatible with prior implementations + rm (without -f) no longer hangs when attempting to remove a symlink to a file on an off-line NFS-mounted partition. @@ -620,6 +622,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- rather than two-byte int. This makes a difference only on hosts like Cray systems where the C short int type requires more than two bytes. + readlink accepts new options: --canonicalize-existing (-e) + and --canonicalize-missing (-m). + The stat option --filesystem has been renamed to --file-system, for consistency with POSIX "file system" and with cp and du --one-file-system. |