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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 26 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -9,14 +9,24 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - stty now provides support (iutf8) for setting UTF-8 input mode. - - 'df', 'du', and 'ls' now take the default block size from the - BLOCKSIZE environment variable if the BLOCK_SIZE, DF_BLOCK_SIZE, - DU_BLOCK_SIZE, and LS_BLOCK_SIZE environment variables are not set. - Unlike the other variables, though, BLOCKSIZE does not affect - values like 'ls -l' sizes that are normally displayed as bytes. - This new behavior is for compatibility with BSD. + dd has new conversions for the conv= option: + + nocreat do not create the output file + excl fail if the output file already exists + fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing + fsync likewise, but also write metadata + + dd has new iflag= and oflag= options with the following flags: + + append append mode (makes sense for output file only) + direct use direct I/O for data + dsync use synchronized I/O for data + sync likewise, but also for metadata + nonblock use non-blocking I/O + nofollow do not follow symlinks + noctty do not assign controlling terminal from file + + stty now provides support (iutf8) for setting UTF-8 input mode. With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline terminated. If you want a newline at the end of your output, append `\n' to the format |