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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-06-19 12:11:00 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2014-06-24 14:39:34 +0100
commitb7bb499496ff306d87a07ffd68c034f29b97bc37 (patch)
treee6621e0f9e4bcef9413c9fed54d9c82087456d00 /NEWS
parent6635f0b0f71f68ab4e9108091bc6049ddb143648 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b7bb499496ff306d87a07ffd68c034f29b97bc37.tar.xz
du: ignore directory cycles due to bind mounts
* src/du.c (process_file): Treat cycles due to bind mounts like cycles due to following symlinks. * tests/du/bind-mount-dir-cycle.sh: Adjust accordingly. * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior. Reported at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/836557
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@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
display the correct device name for directories mounted multiple times.
[These bugs were present in "the beginning".]
+ du now silently ignores directory cycles introduced with bind mounts.
+ Previously it would issue a warning and exit with a failure status.
+
head --bytes=-N and --lines=-N now handles devices more
consistently, not ignoring data from virtual devices like /dev/zero,
or on BSD systems data from tty devices.