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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-04-28 14:18:54 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-04-28 14:32:26 +0200
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misc: mention the df vs. automount change
* NEWS (Portability): Mention that df now accommodates the new behavior of some automounters.
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@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Portability
+ df now pre-mounts automountable directories even with automounters for
+ which stat-like syscalls no longer provoke mounting. Now, df uses open.
+
`id -G $USER` now works correctly even on Darwin and NetBSD. Previously it
would either truncate the group list to 10, or go into an infinite loop,
due to their non-standard getgroups implementations.