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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 81468bae0..87ebbbd53 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ Major changes in release 3.9: +* GNU chmod treats symlinks the same way other vendor's versions do. + Now symlinks listed on the command line are processed (they were + ignored before); the permissions of the dereferenced files are + changed. Symlinks encountered in recursive traversals are still + ignored. This makes GNU chmod act more like e.g. Sun's. * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D. * ls and cp can handle mount points on more systems |