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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-11-11 23:21:13 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-11-11 23:21:50 -0800 |
| commit | 448718c123838891500afa7fbda06335e7258592 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c0bb1d206db461f72cd4a192e0a439d980466c9 /NEWS | |
| parent | 1d9fe527a0ff85ca757a74338c5f1b523473b377 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-448718c123838891500afa7fbda06335e7258592.tar.xz | |
ls: -k no longer affects -l's file sizes
This fixes an incompatibility with POSIX 2008 and with BSD.
Problem reported by Abdallah Clark (Bug#9939)
via Alan Curry (Bug#10016).
* NEWS: Document this.
* doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Document the
new -k behavior, and --kibibytes.
* src/ls.c (file_human_output_opts): New static var.
(long_options, usage): Add --kibibytes.
(decode_switches, gobble_file, print_long_format):
Implement the new -k behavior.
* tests/ls/block-size: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + ls's -k option no longer affects how ls -l outputs file sizes. + It now affects only the per-directory block counts written by -l, + and the sizes written by -s. This is for compatibility with BSD + and with POSIX 2008. Because -k is no longer equivalent to + --block-size=1KiB, a new long option --kibibyte stands for -k. + [bug introduced in coreutils-4.5.4] + rm -rf DIR would fail with "Device or resource busy" on Cygwin with NWFS and NcFsd file systems. This did not affect Unix/Linux-based kernels. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0, when rm began using fts] |