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| -rw-r--r-- | old/fileutils/NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index b1e698e19..389724ec7 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Changes in release 4.01: [4.0.33] * dd now accepts skip=nB and seek=nB, to advance past some number of bytes, n, that need not be a multiple of the block size. -* dd (without conv=notrunc) now uses ftruncate only on regular files +* dd (without conv=notrunc) now complains only when ftruncate fails on a + regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object -- not when it fails + to truncate other types of files, like /dev/fd0. * chmod --changes (-c) once again issues diagnostics only for the files with changed permissions * mkdir now gives one diagnostic (rather than two) for certain failures |