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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 |
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@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + Mistakenly renaming a file onto itself, e.g., via `mv B b' when `B' is + the same directory entry as `b' no longer destroys the directory entry + referenced by both `b' and `B'. Note that this would happen only on + file systems like VFAT where two different names may refer to the same + directory entry, usually due to lower->upper case mapping of file names. + Now, the above can happen only on file systems that perform name mapping and + 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. + stat no longer overruns a buffer for format strings ending in `%' fold -s -wN would infloop for N < 8 with TABs in the input. |