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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2007-01-02 07:27:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-01-02 07:27:22 +0100 |
| commit | f0b5e513d901871a3994349322785ac1882eb873 (patch) | |
| tree | 18f86e0fdff06e92f38e7992d88bae76fd5b66ef /NEWS | |
| parent | 3b8560a63764595791245892cc8bd5877e0af508 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f0b5e513d901871a3994349322785ac1882eb873.tar.xz | |
Now, "ls -FRL" always follows symbolic links on Linux.
* NEWS: Mention this bug fix.
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Fix bug reported by
Nobuyuki Tsuchimura in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-12/msg00152.html
where "ls -FRL" didn't follow a symbolic link in some cases on Linux.
* tests/ls/follow-slink: Add a test for this case.
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- dd bs= operands now silently override any later ibs= and obs= operands, as POSIX and tradition require. + "ls -FRL" always follows symbolic links on Linux. Introduced in + coreutils-6.0. + A cross-partition "mv /etc/passwd ~" (by non-root) now prints a reasonable diagnostic. Before, it would print this: "mv: cannot remove `/etc/passwd': Not a directory". @@ -24,6 +27,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "rm -rf /etc/passwd" (run by non-root) now prints a diagnostic. Before it would print nothing. + * Noteworthy changes in release 6.7 (2006-12-08) [stable] ** Bug fixes |