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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-02-15 10:15:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-02-15 10:15:49 +0000 |
| commit | 1588508be246d7b4f5d1082654921e02b483c692 (patch) | |
| tree | 88fa958d09e8550397af06c0e8e7e0a88b737085 /NEWS | |
| parent | 2b62137426cc3d68ece807b3ffc22635aa5fef77 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-1588508be246d7b4f5d1082654921e02b483c692.tar.xz | |
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@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ +[4.5.8] +* du can now process arbitrarily deep hierarchies (subject to virtual memory). + Before, it would segfault on hierarchies deeper than 20,000-30,000 levels. +* test now works properly when invoked from a set user ID or set group ID + context and when testing access to files subject to alternate protection + mechanisms. For example, without this change, a set-UID program that invoked + `test -w F' (to see if F is writable) could mistakenly report that it *was* + writable, even though F was on a read-only file system, or F had an ACL + prohibiting write access, or F was marked as immutable. + [4.5.7] * du would fail with more than one DIR argument when any but the last did not contain a slash (due to a bug in ftw.c) + [4.5.6] * du no longer segfaults on Solaris systems (fixed heap-corrupting bug in ftw.c) * du --exclude=FILE works once again (this was broken by the rewrite for 4.5.5) @@ -9,6 +20,7 @@ * `who -r' no longer segfaults when using non-C-locale messages * df now displays a mount point (usually `/') for non-mounted character-special and block files + [4.5.5] * ls --dired produces correct byte offset for file names containing nonprintable characters in a multibyte locale |