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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
diagnostic from the expected output when using native fdopendir.
* tests/chmod/no-x: Likewise.
* tests/du/no-x: Likewise.
+ * NEWS: Mention this bug fix.
* Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Add an exclusion
for xalloc.h itself.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Major changes in release 6.5-cvs (2006-??-??)
+** Bug fixes
+
+ du (and the other fts clients: chmod, chgrp, chown) would exit early
+ when encountering an inaccessible directory on a system with native
+ openat support (i.e., linux-2.6.16 or newer along with glibc-2.4
+ or newer). This bug was introduced with the switch to gnulib's
+ openat-based variant of fts, for coreutils-6.0.
+
** New features
rm accepts a new option: --one-file-system