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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-12-01 22:45:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-12-01 22:46:05 +0100 |
| commit | bb5c20212fa3c1e4b678978487424ceab7de7191 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f90a1b4ee988ec8ae2e98a806388050124d3730 /NEWS | |
| parent | 065db950f0e43314c23a0ec9fa81a58e9fcfe73c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-bb5c20212fa3c1e4b678978487424ceab7de7191.tar.xz | |
NEWS: Remove the now-untrue statement about cp vs. dangling symlinks
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -101,16 +101,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- reports stat.st_size == 0, while "cat /proc/cpuinfo > c" would "work", and create a nonempty one. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0] - cp no longer fails to write through a dangling symlink - [bug introduced in coreutils-6.7]. cp --parents no - longer mishandles symlinks to directories in file name - components in the source, e.g., "cp --parents symlink/a/b - d" no longer fails. Also, 'cp' no longer considers a - destination symlink to be the same as the referenced file when - copying links or making backups. For example, if SYM is a symlink - to FILE, "cp -l FILE SYM" now reports an error instead of silently - doing nothing. The behavior of 'cp' is now better documented when - the destination is a symlink. + cp --parents no longer mishandles symlinks to directories in file + name components in the source, e.g., "cp --parents symlink/a/b d" + no longer fails. Also, 'cp' no longer considers a destination + symlink to be the same as the referenced file when copying links + or making backups. For example, if SYM is a symlink to FILE, + "cp -l FILE SYM" now reports an error instead of silently doing + nothing. The behavior of 'cp' is now better documented when the + destination is a symlink. "cp -i --update older newer" no longer prompts; same for mv |