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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-01-10 23:30:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-01-10 23:30:56 +0000 |
| commit | 7b99d77bc68c2c9f742756f858771161042a3b5c (patch) | |
| tree | 797983fc5cdd675f0adece41c3ceab4a5eb6ca06 /old/fileutils/NEWS | |
| parent | 1a79f349963e8feb606c9d76cb346cda8dce6d21 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-7b99d77bc68c2c9f742756f858771161042a3b5c.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index b1e698e19..389724ec7 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Changes in release 4.01: [4.0.33] * dd now accepts skip=nB and seek=nB, to advance past some number of bytes, n, that need not be a multiple of the block size. -* dd (without conv=notrunc) now uses ftruncate only on regular files +* dd (without conv=notrunc) now complains only when ftruncate fails on a + regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object -- not when it fails + to truncate other types of files, like /dev/fd0. * chmod --changes (-c) once again issues diagnostics only for the files with changed permissions * mkdir now gives one diagnostic (rather than two) for certain failures |