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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-07-13 18:56:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2010-07-13 19:05:31 +0100 |
| commit | 4332538dbb97f0db3daa877ca19db0fc24f3b835 (patch) | |
| tree | 134f37d589a6d208f171e847cb599073e11ac067 /NEWS | |
| parent | f8574063d566bbf08dbf2dc469f055f13684e525 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4332538dbb97f0db3daa877ca19db0fc24f3b835.tar.xz | |
maint: reorganize latest NEWS
* NEWS: Add another blank line before the previous version.
(Bug fixes): Move to the start.
(Changes in behavior): Add the item about the du mem usage change
from the "New features" section.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Bug fixes + + du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose + link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by + following symlinks or via multiple arguments. + ** New features cp now accepts the --attributes-only option to not copy file data, @@ -10,15 +16,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- du recognizes -d N as equivalent to --max-depth=N, for compatibility with FreeBSD. - du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees - with many hard-linked files. With --count-links (-l), or when - operating on trees with no hard-linked files, there is no change. - sort now accepts the --debug option, to highlight the part of the line significant in the sort, and warn about questionable options. ** Changes in behavior + du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees + with many hard-linked files. With --count-links (-l), or when + operating on trees with no hard-linked files, there is no change. + ls -l now uses the traditional three field time style rather than the wider two field numeric ISO style, in locales where a style has not been specified. The new approach has nicer behavior in some @@ -47,11 +53,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Also errors are no longer suppressed for unsupported file types, and relative sizes are restricted to supported file types. -** Bug fixes - - du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose - link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by - following symlinks or via multiple arguments. * Noteworthy changes in release 8.5 (2010-04-23) [stable] |