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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-01-10 18:07:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2005-01-10 18:07:42 +0000 |
| commit | 183dd5f707f10e49533cc950a50e7bc88fa7a0ff (patch) | |
| tree | a6dd7f5f4c7e99fff0731bbee61d5a16d8be5e74 /NEWS | |
| parent | 2318511e2d7438a7f043f0780a521d6ee6bc9024 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-183dd5f707f10e49533cc950a50e7bc88fa7a0ff.tar.xz | |
Document changes responding to POSIX interpretations about pathchk -p
dated 2005-01-06.
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@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- +* Major changes in release 5.3.1 (2005-??-??) [unstable] + + pathchk changes: + + It now rejects the empty name in the normal case. That is, + "pathchk -p ''" now fails, and "pathchk ''" fails unless the + current host (contra POSIX) allows empty file names. + + The new -P option checks whether a file name component has leading "-", + as suggested in interpretation "Austin-039:XCU:pathchk:pathchk -p" + <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/interps/doc.tpl?gdid=6232>. + It also rejects the empty name even if the current host accepts it; see + <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/interps/doc.tpl?gdid=6233>. + + The --portability option is now equivalent to -p -P. + * Major changes in release 5.3.0 (2005-01-08) [unstable] ** Bug fixes |