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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ptx longer accepts the --copyright option. who no longer accepts -i or --idle. +** Improved robustness + + ln -f can no longer silently clobber a just-created hard link. + In some cases, ln could be seen as being responsible for data loss. + For example, given directories a, b, c, and files a/f and b/f, we + should be able to do this safely: ln -f a/f b/f c && rm -f a/f b/f + However, before this change, ln would succeed, and thus cause the + loss of the contents of a/f. + + stty no longer silently accepts certain invalid hex values + in its 35-colon commmand-line argument + ** Bug fixes cp attempts to read a regular file, even if stat says it is empty. @@ -130,11 +142,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- tr -c no longer aborts when translating with Set2 larger than the complement of Set1. [introduced with the original version, in 1992] -** Improved robustness - - stty no longer silently accepts certain invalid hex values - in its 35-colon commmand-line argument - * Noteworthy changes in release 6.9 (2007-03-22) [stable] |