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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-09-07 10:37:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-09-07 10:45:22 +0200 |
| commit | 500eccdbe4d55b0cbf48cf264aa4232abd7c23df (patch) | |
| tree | 5a08a351c3b6615f77d39c9946e99d7583106215 /NEWS | |
| parent | e70487cda746cc0800a02003c93f74621640e201 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-500eccdbe4d55b0cbf48cf264aa4232abd7c23df.tar.xz | |
chmod: don't ignore a dangling symlink
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* src/chmod.c (process_file): Handle the case of FTS_SLNONE,
i.e., give a diagnostic saying we cannot operate on such a file.
* tests/chmod/thru-dangling: Compare new stderr output with expected.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + chmod no longer ignores a dangling symlink. Now, chmod fails + with a diagnostic saying that it cannot operate on such a file. + [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0] + cp attempts to read a regular file, even if stat says it is empty. Before, "cp /proc/cpuinfo c" would create an empty file when the kernel reports stat.st_size == 0, while "cat /proc/cpuinfo > c" would "work", |