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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
I.E. for skipped files, the original ownership is output, not the new one.
[bug introduced in sh-utils-2.0g]
+ cp -r could mistakenly change the permissions of an existing destination
+ directory. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.8]
+
cp -u -p would fail to preserve one hard link for each up-to-date copy
of a src-hard-linked name in the destination tree. I.e., if s/a and s/b
are hard-linked and dst/s/a is up to date, "cp -up s dst" would copy s/b