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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-05-13 08:16:53 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-05-13 08:16:53 +0000
commitfbb6084338a4fbbc041faf2e2b171ac7c474c8bd (patch)
treebe5a81bfaf61fca6cc1c16bef12c3eb0168bc59c /NEWS
parent79c068deb325870606acaecae2e81a9e7a58f0a5 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-fbb6084338a4fbbc041faf2e2b171ac7c474c8bd.tar.xz
rm now performs run-time test to work around buggy readdir implementations
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@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
nice now works on Darwin 7.7.0 in spite of its invalid definition of NZERO.
+ `rm -r' can remove all entries in a directory even when it is on a
+ file system for which readdir is buggy and that was not checked by
+ coreutils' old configure-time run-test.
+
sleep no longer fails when resumed after being suspended on linux-2.6.8.1,
in spite of that kernel's buggy nanosleep implementation.