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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-11-27 01:20:09 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-11-27 01:20:09 +0000
commit5c09e82b4f0227b957ba1a73695abe9b0a3fd78b (patch)
treed0e13ed2bdecb002e0a68857456fdd11b7df8601 /NEWS
parent286a401bc5d98e36c23824270d3410cd6fa8bc13 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-5c09e82b4f0227b957ba1a73695abe9b0a3fd78b.tar.xz
doc: add NEWS entries for recent changes
* NEWS: Mention in improvements about the workaround for the glibc issue with closed stdin, and the new supported file systems. * tests/misc/b2sum.sh: Spelling fix.
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@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
df now filters the system mount list more efficiently, with 20000
mount entries now being processed in about 1.1s compared to 1.7s.
+ du, shuf, sort, and uniq no longer fail to process a specified file
+ when their stdin is closed, which would have happened with glibc >= 2.14.
+
install -Z now also sets the default SELinux context for created directories.
ls is now fully responsive to signals until the first escape sequence is
@@ -102,11 +105,17 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
ls now aligns quoted items with non quoted items, which is easier to read,
and also better indicates that the quote is not part of the actual name.
- stat and tail now know about "prl_fs" (a parallels file system),
- "m1fs" (a Plexistor file system), "wslfs" (Windows Subsystem for Linux),
- and "smb2". stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and
- tail -f uses polling for "prl_fs" and "smb2", inotify for "m1fs",
- and attempts inotify for "wslfs".
+ stat and tail now know about these file systems:
+ "balloon-kvm-fs" KVM dynamic RAM allocation support,
+ "cgroup2" Linux Control Groups V2 support,
+ "daxfs" Optical media file system,
+ "m1fs" A Plexistor file system,
+ "prl_fs" A parallels file system,
+ "smb2" Samba for SMB protocol V2,
+ "wslfs" Windows Subsystem for Linux,
+ "zsmalloc" Linux compressed swap support,
+ stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and
+ tail -f uses polling for "prl_fs" and "smb2", and inotify for others.
stat --format=%N for quoting file names now honors the
same QUOTING_STYLE environment variable values as ls.