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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-08-27 09:30:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-08-27 09:30:11 +0000 |
| commit | 739185ba7427cb9cfd656b3771b69f44cb8de60d (patch) | |
| tree | 8f9b46e56f73e44a255e3c2d0a228d4427053813 /old/fileutils/ChangeLog | |
| parent | 6bf3479c9f21791b1deecb82390c45a0afae8bc8 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-739185ba7427cb9cfd656b3771b69f44cb8de60d.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog index ec784bf98..e5c86defe 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,22 @@ 2000-08-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): New parameters: X and NEW_DST. + Remove the SPARSE_MODE parameter. Update caller. + Perform POSIX-mandated (for cp) open-with-O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC when + the regular destination file exists; upon failure, unlink + that existing file, then open again, but with O_WRONLY|O_CREAT. + (copy_internal): `force' in not related to interactive; remove + the conjunct. + Remove the entire `else if (x->force)' block; justifying + removal of the non-directory part is easy: POSIX requires we try + to open an existing regular file, so we can't unlink it beforehand. + The part that changes the mode on a directory to allow overwriting + isn't necessary. + + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Rename two goto labels. + (copy_internal): Set `new_dst' when the move_mode rename fails, + since we then unlink the destination file. + * src/cp.c (usage): --force is independent of --interactive. 2000-08-24 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> |