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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-04-20 03:51:17 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-04-20 03:51:17 +0000
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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
Fri Apr 19 00:06:02 1996 Jim Meyering (meyering@na-net.ornl.gov)
+ * df.c: No longer call sync by default.
+
* cp.c (copy_reg): Rearrange arithmetic in conditional to avoid
integer overflow with large files.
diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS
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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
Changes in release 3.13:
+* df no longer invokes the sync system call by default.
+ Use --sync to invoke sync before getting file system sizes.
* internationalized diagnostic messages
* mkdir accepts new option: --verbose
* cp has been fixed so that the full file name it uses for the destination
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ User-visible changes in release 3.10:
* Fix bug in cp that made the commands `mkdir dir; touch foo; cp -P foo dir'
incorrectly change the permissions on directory, dir.
* df accepts a new option, --no-sync, that inhibits the default invocation
- of the sync system call. FIXME.
+ of the sync system call.
* ls accepts a new option, --dired, that makes emacs' dired mode more efficient
* skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
* ln accepts a new option: --no-dereference (-n). With this option,