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author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-12-01 18:05:53 +0100 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-12-01 18:48:43 +0100 |
commit | ab73462d4b281d4e2cec8fb5952a0329c3f2ce2f (patch) | |
tree | 6a5e841047cc0b50859cd1f8f417211bd4127639 /NEWS | |
parent | e7c03171d1f17f17e34c489b91267e53fc9a54d7 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-ab73462d4b281d4e2cec8fb5952a0329c3f2ce2f.tar.xz |
* NEWS: Mention some of the SELinux changes.
Record release date and new version number.
* src/stat.c (main): Adjust a comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- -* Noteworthy changes in release 6.9+ (????-??-??) [stable] +* Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.90 (2007-12-01) [beta] ** New programs arch: equivalent to uname -m, not installed by default But don't install this program on Solaris systems. + chcon: change the SELinux security context of a file + mktemp: create a temporary file or directory (or names) + runcon: run a program in a different SELinux security context + ** Programs no longer installed by default hostname, su @@ -27,7 +31,17 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - Add SELinux support (FIXME: add details here) + Add SELinux support, based on the patch from Fedora: + * cp accepts new --preserve=context option. + * "cp -a" works with SELinux: + Now, cp -a attempts to preserve context, but failure to do so does + not change cp's exit status. However "cp --preserve=context" is + similar, but failure *does* cause cp to exit with nonzero status. + * install accepts new "-Z, --context=C" option. + * id accepts new "-Z" option. + * stat honors the new %C format directive: SELinux security context string + * ls accepts a slightly modified -Z option. + * ls: contrary to Fedora version, does not accept --lcontext and --scontext cp -p tries to preserve the GID of a file even if preserving the UID is not possible. |