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@@ -16,15 +16,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- when the color of a more specific type is disabled. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.90] -** Changes in behavior +** Portability - canonicalize -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the - last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created, - since mkdir will succeed in that case. + On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as + file. Now, even on such a system, path resolution obeys the POSIX + rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceeding name is a + directory or a symlink to a directory. + +** Changes in behavior id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set. + readlink -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the + last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created, + since mkdir will succeed in that case. + ** Improvements rm: rewrite to use gnulib's fts |