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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-02-03 20:02:48 +0100
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-02-03 20:02:48 +0100
commitd2823705664b838ca91017d6703b54d42f128bed (patch)
treee5717cd32cfbd0357abcba5a2e6b914684c10205 /NEWS
parentb28a8851ed22dbf0cd123974a0c97ae0b82bec2b (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d2823705664b838ca91017d6703b54d42f128bed.tar.xz
Test for today's gnulib/lib/getcwd.c fix affecting pwd and readlink
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * tests/misc/pwd-unreadable-parent: New file. * tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Ad pwd-unreadable-parent.
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@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
a reasonable diagnostic. Before, it would print this:
"mv: cannot remove `/etc/passwd': Not a directory".
+ pwd and "readlink -e ." no longer fail unnecessarily when a parent
+ directory is unreadable.
+
"rm -rf /etc/passwd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic.
Before it would print nothing.