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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-09-22 15:03:02 -0600
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-09-23 08:45:08 +0200
commit8a1edc971f6439c51027873a345378ec52954c9d (patch)
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parent70253e9179d25ab666807d29c32b91cbf0797d72 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-8a1edc971f6439c51027873a345378ec52954c9d.tar.xz
readlink: pick up gnulib changes to readlink -f
* bootstrap.conf (obsolete_gnulib_modules): Move rename... (gnulib_modules): ...here. Add symlink. * NEWS: Document the change in readlink. * doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Likewise. * tests/readlink/can-f: Update test to new semantics, and add test of loop.
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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Changes in behavior
+ canonicalize -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the
+ last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created,
+ since mkdir will succeed in that case.
+
id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT
environment variable is set.