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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-11-22 10:14:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-11-22 10:14:15 +0100 |
| commit | b076de8551fb4923b17633be9825cc7be3639d64 (patch) | |
| tree | 4bd4cd1a33a4324c80cfd00da8c4bb917e858a9a /NEWS | |
| parent | 7719e67e363a0e9d87812ca2b1abdbf650177c6f (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-b076de8551fb4923b17633be9825cc7be3639d64.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: Mention the three noteworthy changes, all fixed via gnulib.
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@@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release 6.6-pre (????-??-??) +** Bug fixes + + ls would segfault (dereference a NULL pointer) for a file with a + nameless group or owner. This bug was introduced in coreutils-6.5. + + A bug in the latest official m4/gettext.m4 (from gettext-0.15) + made configure fail to detect gettext support, due to the unusual + way in which coreutils uses AM_GNU_GETTEXT. + +** Improved robustness + + Now, du (and the other fts clients: chmod, chgrp, chown) honor a + trailing slash in the name of a symlink-to-directory even on + Solaris 9, by working around its buggy fstatat implementation. + * Major changes in release 6.5 (2006-11-19) [stable] |