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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ 2003-02-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + * Version 4.5.7. + + * NEWS: Add entries from old/*/NEWS + from fileutils-4.1 through 4.1.11 and + from sh-utils-2.0 through 2.0.15. Suggestion from Karl Berry. + * Version 4.5.6. * src/du.c (process_file): Don't return early for excluded files @@ -81,5 +81,222 @@ * du and ls now report sizes of symbolic links (before they'd always report 0) * uniq now obeys the LC_COLLATE locale, as per POSIX 1003.1-2001 TC1. +======================================================================== +Here are the NEWS entries made from fileutils-4.1 until the +point at which the packages merged to form the coreutils: + +[4.1.11] +* `rm symlink-to-unwritable' doesn't prompt [introduced in 4.1.10] +[4.1.10] +* rm once again gives a reasonable diagnostic when failing to remove a file + owned by someone else in a sticky directory [introduced in 4.1.9] +* df now rounds all quantities up, as per POSIX. +* New ls time style: long-iso, which generates YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM. +* Any time style can be preceded by "posix-"; this causes "ls" to + use traditional timestamp format when in the POSIX locale. +* The default time style is now posix-long-iso instead of posix-iso. + Set TIME_STYLE="posix-iso" to revert to the behavior of 4.1.1 thru 4.1.9. +* `rm dangling-symlink' doesn't prompt [introduced in 4.1.9] +* stat: remove support for --secure/-s option and related %S and %C format specs +* stat: rename --link/-l to --dereference/-L. + The old options will continue to work for a while. +[4.1.9] +* rm can now remove very deep hierarchies, in spite of any limit on stack size +* new programs: link, unlink, and stat +* New ls option: --author (for the Hurd). +* `touch -c no-such-file' no longer fails, per POSIX +[4.1.8] +* mv no longer mistakenly creates links to preexisting destination files + that aren't moved +[4.1.7] +* rm: close a hole that would allow a running rm process to be subverted +[4.1.6] +* New cp option: --copy-contents. +* cp -r is now equivalent to cp -R. Use cp -R -L --copy-contents to get the + traditional (and rarely desirable) cp -r behavior. +* ls now accepts --time-style=+FORMAT, where +FORMAT works like date's format +* The obsolete usage `touch [-acm] MMDDhhmm[YY] FILE...' is no longer + supported on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001. Use touch -t instead. +* cp and inter-partition mv no longer give a misleading diagnostic in some + unusual cases +[4.1.5] +* cp -r no longer preserves symlinks +* The block size notation is now compatible with SI and with IEC 60027-2. + For example, --block-size=1MB now means --block-size=1000000, + whereas --block-size=1MiB now means --block-size=1048576. + A missing `B' (e.g. `1M') has the same meaning as before. + A trailing `B' now means decimal, not binary; this is a silent change. + The nonstandard `D' suffix (e.g. `1MD') is now obsolescent. +* -H or --si now outputs the trailing 'B', for consistency with the above. +* Programs now output trailing 'K' (not 'k') to mean 1024, as per IEC 60027-2. +* New df, du short option -B is short for --block-size. +* You can omit an integer `1' before a block size suffix, + e.g. `df -BG' is equivalent to `df -B 1G' and to `df --block-size=1G'. +* The following options are now obsolescent, as their names are + incompatible with IEC 60027-2: + df, du: -m or --megabytes (use -BM or --block-size=1M) + df, du, ls: --kilobytes (use --block-size=1K) +[4.1.4] +* df --local no longer lists smbfs file systems whose name starts with // +* dd now detects the Linux/tape/lseek bug at run time and warns about it. +[4.1.3] +* ls -R once again outputs a blank line between per-directory groups of files. + This was broken by the cycle-detection change in 4.1.1. +* dd once again uses `lseek' on character devices like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. + On systems with the linux kernel (at least up to 2.4.16), dd must still + resort to emulating `skip=N' behavior using reads on tape devices, because + lseek has no effect, yet appears to succeed. This may be a kernel bug. +[4.1.2] +* cp no longer fails when two or more source files are the same; + now it just gives a warning and doesn't copy the file the second time. + E.g., cp a a d/ produces this: + cp: warning: source file `a' specified more than once +* chmod would set the wrong bit when given symbolic mode strings like + these: g=o, o=g, o=u. E.g., `chmod a=,o=w,ug=o f' would give a mode + of --w-r---w- rather than --w--w--w-. +[4.1.1] +* mv (likewise for cp), now fails rather than silently clobbering one of + the source files in the following example: + rm -rf a b c; mkdir a b c; touch a/f b/f; mv a/f b/f c +* ls -R detects directory cycles, per POSIX. It warns and doesn't infloop. +* cp's -P option now means the same as --no-dereference, per POSIX. + Use --parents to get the old meaning. +* When copying with the -H and -L options, cp can preserve logical + links between source files with --preserve=links +* cp accepts new options: + --preserve[={mode,ownership,timestamps,links,all}] + --no-preserve={mode,ownership,timestamps,links,all} +* cp's -p and --preserve options remain unchanged and are equivalent + to `--preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps' +* mv and cp accept a new option: --reply={yes,no,query}; provides a consistent + mechanism to control whether one is prompted about certain existing + destination files. Note that cp's and mv's -f options don't have the + same meaning: cp's -f option no longer merely turns off `-i'. +* remove portability limitations (e.g., PATH_MAX on the Hurd, fixes for + 64-bit systems) +* mv now prompts before overwriting an existing, unwritable destination file + when stdin is a tty, unless --force (-f) is specified, as per POSIX. +* mv: fix the bug whereby `mv -uf source dest' would delete source, + even though it's older than dest. +* chown's --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP option now works +* cp now ensures that the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits are cleared for + the destination file when when copying and not preserving permissions. +* `ln -f --backup k k' gives a clearer diagnostic +* ls no longer truncates user names or group names that are longer + than 8 characters. +* ls's new --dereference-command-line option causes it to dereference + symbolic links on the command-line only. It is the default unless + one of the -d, -F, or -l options are given. +* ls -H now means the same as ls --dereference-command-line, as per POSIX. +* ls -g now acts like ls -l, except it does not display owner, as per POSIX. +* ls -n now implies -l, as per POSIX. +* ls can now display dates and times in one of four time styles: + + - The `full-iso' time style gives full ISO-style time stamps like + `2001-05-14 23:45:56.477817180 -0700'. + - The 'iso' time style gives ISO-style time stamps like '2001-05-14 ' + and '05-14 23:45'. + - The 'locale' time style gives locale-dependent time stamps like + 'touko 14 2001' and 'touko 14 23:45' (in a Finnish locale). + - The 'posix-iso' time style gives traditional POSIX-locale + time stamps like 'May 14 2001' and 'May 14 23:45' unless the user + specifies a non-POSIX locale, in which case it uses ISO-style dates. + This is the default. + + You can specify a time style with an option like --time-style='iso' + or with an environment variable like TIME_STYLE='iso'. GNU Emacs 21 + and later can parse ISO dates, but older Emacs versions cannot, so + if you are using an older version of Emacs outside the default POSIX + locale, you may need to set TIME_STYLE="locale". + +* --full-time is now an alias for "-l --time-style=full-iso". + + +======================================================================== +Here are the NEWS entries made from sh-utils-2.0 until the +point at which the packages merged to form the coreutils: + + [2.0.15] +* date no longer accepts e.g., September 31 in the MMDDhhmm syntax +* fix a bug in this package's .m4 files and in configure.ac + [2.0.14] +* nohup's behavior is changed as follows, to conform to POSIX 1003.1-2001: + - nohup no longer adjusts scheduling priority; use "nice" for that. + - nohup now redirects stderr to stdout, if stderr is not a terminal. + - nohup exit status is now 126 if command was found but not invoked, + 127 if nohup failed or if command was not found. + [2.0.13] +* uname and uptime work better on *BSD systems +* pathchk now exits nonzero for a path with a directory component + that specifies a non-directory + [2.0.12] +* kill: new program +* who accepts new options: --all (-a), --boot (-b), --dead (-d), --login, + --process (-p), --runlevel (-r), --short (-s), --time (-t), --users (-u). + The -u option now produces POSIX-specified results and is the same as + the long option `--users'. --idle is no longer the same as -u. +* The following changes apply on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2001, + and are required by the new POSIX standard: + - `date -I' is no longer supported. Instead, use `date --iso-8601'. + - `nice -NUM' is no longer supported. Instead, use `nice -n NUM'. +* New 'uname' options -i or --hardware-platform, and -o or --operating-system. + 'uname -a' now outputs -i and -o information at the end. + New uname option --kernel-version is an alias for -v. + Uname option --release has been renamed to --kernel-release, + and --sysname has been renamed to --kernel-name; + the old options will work for a while, but are no longer documented. +* 'expr' now uses the LC_COLLATE locale for string comparison, as per POSIX. +* 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote' to quote tokens; + this removes an incompatibility with POSIX. +* date -d 'last friday' would print a date/time that was one hour off + (e.g., 23:00 on *thursday* rather than 00:00 of the preceding friday) + when run such that the current time and the target date/time fall on + opposite sides of a daylight savings time transition. + This problem arose only with relative date strings like `last monday'. + It was not a problem with strings that include absolute dates. +* factor is twice as fast, for large numbers + [2.0.11] +* setting the date now works properly, even when using -u +* `date -f - < /dev/null' no longer dumps core +* some DOS/Windows portability changes + [2.0j] +* `date -d DATE' now parses certain relative DATEs correctly + [2.0i] +* fixed a bug introduced in 2.0h that made many programs fail with a + `write error' when invoked with the --version option + [2.0h] +* all programs fail when printing --help or --version output to a full device +* printf exits nonzero upon write failure +* yes now detects and terminates upon write failure +* date --rfc-822 now always emits day and month names from the `C' locale +* portability tweaks for Solaris8, Ultrix, and DOS + [2.0g] +* date now handles two-digit years with leading zeros correctly. +* printf interprets unicode, \uNNNN \UNNNNNNNN, on systems with the + required support; from Bruno Haible. +* stty's rprnt attribute now works on HPUX 10.20 +* seq's --equal-width option works more portably + [2.0f] +* fix build problems with ut_name vs. ut_user + [2.0e] +* stty: fix long-standing bug that caused test failures on at least HPUX + systems when COLUMNS was set to zero +* still more portability fixes +* unified lib/: now that directory and most of the configuration framework + is common between fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils + [2.0d] +* fix portability problem with sleep vs lib/strtod.c's requirement for -lm + [2.0c] +* fix portability problems with nanosleep.c and with the new code in sleep.c + [2.0b] +* Regenerate lib/Makefile.in so that nanosleep.c is distributed. + [2.0a] +* sleep accepts floating point arguments on command line +* sleep's clock continues counting down when sleep is suspended +* when a suspended sleep process is resumed, it continues sleeping if + there is any time remaining +* who once again prints whatever host information it has, even without --lookup + + This package began as the union of the following: textutils-2.1, fileutils-4.1.11, sh-utils-2.0.15. |