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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-01-13 11:28:45 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-01-13 11:28:45 +0000
commit7ebc4d84c27de8bf2a1d76b6fd1b014af97af132 (patch)
tree532e1ebf89ae98f741371184e840bb8a8dc3a9ae /NEWS
parent6ceb7ef87fdf138f0553f32a95567920cc51ae1a (diff)
downloadcoreutils-7ebc4d84c27de8bf2a1d76b6fd1b014af97af132.tar.xz
maint: fix old spelling mistakes in NEWS
* NEWS: s/descendent/descendant/; s/indiscriminite/indiscriminate/. * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update via `make update-NEWS-hash`.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5dbf941d6..b42da0a46 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
cp -a, mv, and install --preserve-context, once again set the correct SELinux
context for existing directories in the destination. Previously they set
- the context of an existing directory to that of its last copied descendent.
+ the context of an existing directory to that of its last copied descendant.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.22]
cp -a, mv, and install --preserve-context, no longer seg fault when running
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
du recognizes -t SIZE as equivalent, for compatibility with FreeBSD.
timeout now accepts the --preserve-status option to always propagate the exit
- status, useful for commands that can run for an indeterminite amount of time.
+ status, useful for commands that can run for an indeterminate amount of time.
** Bug fixes