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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-07-24 22:52:34 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-07-24 22:58:36 +0200
commitc29cb31b7ff536d2367dad1dcb19c554a8752233 (patch)
treecfb7a783effd8071835749e837f8e3aa1bd99568 /NEWS
parent339613b6bdd8d4a51435cba9e903b8b5bb082da4 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-c29cb31b7ff536d2367dad1dcb19c554a8752233.tar.xz
df: support partitions larger than 4 TiB on MacOS >= 10.5 & AIX >=5.2
This change derives from improvements to gnulib's fsusage module. * NEWS (Improvements): df now supports disk partitions larger than 4 TiB on MacOS X 10.5 or newer and on AIX 5.2 or newer. Alphabetize entries. * gnulib: Update to latest.
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@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
+ md5sum accepts the new --strict option. With --check, it makes the
+ tool exit non-zero for any invalid input line, rather than just warning.
+ This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
+
split accepts a new --filter=CMD option. With it, split filters output
through CMD. CMD may use the $FILE environment variable, which is set to
the nominal output file name for each invocation of CMD. For example, to
@@ -38,22 +42,21 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Note the use of single quotes, not double quotes.
That creates files named xaa.xz, xab.xz and xac.xz.
- md5sum accepts the new --strict option. With --check, it makes the
- tool exit non-zero for any invalid input line, rather than just warning.
- This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
-
timeout accepts a new --foreground option, to support commands not started
directly from a shell prompt, where the command is interactive or needs to
receive signals initiated from the terminal.
** Improvements
- shuf outputs small subsets of large permutations much more efficiently.
- For example `shuf -i1-$((2**32-1)) -n2` no longer exhausts memory.
-
cp and ls now support HP-UX 11.11's ACLs, thanks to improved support
in gnulib.
+ df now supports disk partitions larger than 4 TiB on MacOS X 10.5
+ or newer and on AIX 5.2 or newer.
+
+ shuf outputs small subsets of large permutations much more efficiently.
+ For example `shuf -i1-$((2**32-1)) -n2` no longer exhausts memory.
+
stat -f now recognizes the GPFS, MQUEUE and PSTOREFS file system types.
** Build-related