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@@ -3,8 +3,27 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features + du can now process hierarchies of virtually unlimited depth. + Before, du was limited by the user's stack size and it would get a + stack overflow error (often a segmentation fault) when applied to + a hierarchy of depth around 30,000. + + du works even when run from an inaccessible directory + + du -D now dereferences all symlinks specified on the command line, + not just the ones that reference directories + FIXME: confirm this, and add a test + + du now accepts -P (--no-dereference), for compatibility with du + of NetBSD and for consistency with e.g., chown and chgrp + + du's -H option will soon have the meaning required by POSIX + (--dereference-args, aka -D) rather then the current meaning of --si. + Now, using -H elicits a warning to that effect. + ** Bug fixes + csplit would mistakenly exhaust virtual memory in some cases * Major changes in release 5.0.91: |