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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 9 |
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@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- to dst/s/b rather than simply linking dst/s/b to dst/s/a. [This bug appears to have been present in "the beginning".] + fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory + proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process. + Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of memory. + Now, it uses less than 30GB, no matter how many entries there are. + [this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was + introduced in coreutils-8.0. The prior implementation of rm did not use + as much memory. du, chmod, chgrp and chown started using fts in 6.0. + chcon was added in coreutils-6.9.91 with fts support. ] + printf '%d' '"' no longer accesses out-of-bounds memory in the diagnostic. [bug introduced in sh-utils-1.16] |