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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-03 07:56:00 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-03-03 07:56:00 +0000
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@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
The `|' and `&' operators now use short-circuit evaluation, e.g.,
`expr 1 \| 1 / 0' no longer reports a division by zero.
+** New features
+
+ `chown user.group file' now has its traditional meaning even when
+ conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, so long as no user has a name
+ containing `.' that happens to equal `user.group'.
+
* Major changes in release 5.2.0 (2004-02-19) [stable]