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-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/stat.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- specifiers, and no longer prints fields that resulted entirely from padding the input out to the least common multiple width. +** Changes in behavior + + stat's --context (-Z) option has always been a no-op. + Now it evokes a warning that it is obsolete and will be removed. + + * Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (2008-05-31) [stable] ** Bug fixes diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c index 0b07dab7f..0124c545e 100644 --- a/src/stat.c +++ b/src/stat.c @@ -1039,9 +1039,13 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) terse = true; break; - case 'Z': /* FIXME: remove in 2010, warn in mid 2008 */ - /* Ignored, for compatibility with distributions - that implemented this before upstream. */ + case 'Z': /* FIXME: remove in 2010 */ + /* Ignore, for compatibility with distributions + that implemented this before upstream. + But warn of impending removal. */ + error (0, 0, + _("the --context (-Z) option is obsolete and will be removed\n" + "in a future release")); break; case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR; |