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@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
that support hard links (stat.st_nlink > 1). This mitigates the problem
in two ways: few file systems appear to be affected (hpfs and ntfs are),
when the bug is triggered, mv no longer removes the last hard link to a file.
+ *** ATTENTION ***: if you know how to distinguish the following two cases
+ without writing to the file system in question, please let me know:
+ 1) B and b refer to the same directory entry on a file system like NTFS
+ (B may well have a link count larger than 1)
+ 2) B and b are hard links to the same file
stat no longer overruns a buffer for format strings ending in `%'
@@ -52,7 +57,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
seq's default step is 1, even if LAST < FIRST.
- paste no longer mistakenly outputs 0xff bytes for a nonempty input file
+ paste no longer mistakenly outputs 0xFF bytes for a nonempty input file
without a trailing newline.
`tail -n0 -f FILE' and `tail -c0 -f FILE' no longer perform what amounted