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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2007-11-10 01:07:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-11-24 15:06:43 +0100 |
| commit | cbc06bb6390c1ad4a227723078ecd7f7689251cc (patch) | |
| tree | e15224e4c5e1cdbb6817b2ae74e22587b6882099 /NEWS | |
| parent | ad8fbe0dd2c77fe41457311f91bfcf49b0bf7616 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-cbc06bb6390c1ad4a227723078ecd7f7689251cc.tar.xz | |
"cp -p" tries to preserve GID even if preserving the UID fails.
* NEWS: Mention this new feature.
* src/copy.c (set_owner): Try to preserve just the GID,
when initial fchown/lchown fails.
* src/cp.c (re_protect): Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Add SELinux support (FIXME: add details here) + cp -p tries to preserve the GID of a file even if preserving the UID + is not possible. + uniq accepts a new option: --zero-terminated (-z). As with the sort option of the same name, this makes uniq consume and produce NUL-terminated lines rather than newline-terminated lines. |