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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-11-11 12:12:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1999-11-11 12:12:23 +0000 |
| commit | 101ae141c6174f4971a1533ef2eb298ebb1de44a (patch) | |
| tree | c15084a0c94321947f39237379e135feb104aa6c /old | |
| parent | 375c13c6797797ae13558e788c4418bd8720b8cc (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-101ae141c6174f4971a1533ef2eb298ebb1de44a.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog index cfc6e2670..d24974615 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +1999-11-11 Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com> + + * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Treat src and dest as the `same' in + `mv src symlink-to-src' when src and dest are on different partitions. + Otherwise, that `mv' command would silently remove `src'. + Reported by Michael Stone. + + * lib/makepath.c (make_path): Fix long-latent bug (note others + just like it were fixed in 1998-01-02). + A user (FIXME, who?) reported that using `install -d -g foo 1/2` + only sets the group on the intermediate directory, not the final + component. From Michael Stone. + 1999-11-07 Paul Eggert <eggert@set.twinsun.com> * human.c (default_block_size): New function. diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index acfccf23f..bded36efe 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ Changes in release 4.1: [4.0j] +* mv now refuses to move a file onto a symlink to itself when that symlink + is on a separate partition. Before, it would remove the file and leave + the symlink. +* `install -d -g foo 1/2' now sets the `group' of the final component as well + as that of the leading one. * under certain conditions, chgrp would fail to affect files referenced through symlinks. Now it does. * ln now makes hard links to symlinks on systems that support it. |