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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 |
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@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@ -2006-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> +2006-03-10 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> * Version 6.0-cvs. + Fix a bug whereby a user with write access to a directory being removed + could cause the removal of that directory to fail with an erroneous + diagnostic about a directory cycle. Reported by Vineet Chadha. + + * NEWS: Mention this. + * src/remove.c (AD_pop_and_chdir): If the directory we're about to + leave (and try to rmdir) is the one whose dev_ino is being used to + detect a cycle, reset cycle_check_state.dev_ino to that of the parent. + +2006-03-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + * NEWS: Document dd's new 'directory' and 'nolinks' flags. * src/dd.c (set_fd_flags): Handle file-creation flags on file descriptors, rather than ignoring them. @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- rm -r no longer fails to remove an inaccessible and empty directory rm -r's cycle detection code can no longer be tricked into reporting - a false positive. + a false positive (introduced in fileutils-4.1.9). sort would fail for large inputs (~50MB) on systems with a buggy mkstemp function. sort and tac now use the replacement mkstemp |