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2006-03-08Document dd's new 'directory' and 'nolinks' flags.Paul Eggert
2006-02-27mention new program: base64Jim Meyering
2006-02-20New option for rm: --interactive=once (-I).Jim Meyering
Document it, along with change to rm --interactive.
2006-02-11Bug fix:Jim Meyering
rm -r must remove an empty directory, even if it is inaccessible.
2006-02-06Mention the `cp -RL' bug fix.Jim Meyering
2006-01-24tail -f once again works on a file with the append-onlyJim Meyering
attribute (affects at least Linux ext2, ext3, xfs file systems)
2006-01-21Mention fts-related improvements and bug fixes.Jim Meyering
2006-01-02Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits.Paul Eggert
2005-12-15stat: revert behavior of --format=FMT (-c)Jim Meyering
stat: add new option: --printf=FMT
2005-12-15*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-12-14sort now reports incompatible options.Paul Eggert
2005-12-10Mention sort's new options.Jim Meyering
2005-12-07Mention dd's new noatime flag.Paul Eggert
2005-11-26df updates for "none", "proc", inaccessible file systems.Paul Eggert
2005-11-22*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-11-22Rewrite. Now, this module is reentrant on systemsJim Meyering
that provide openat (Solaris), and on systems like Linux+procfs where our openat emulation code is reentrant. This also fixes a few low-probability leaks and eliminates some code that could, in very unusual circumstances, cause rm() (via a callee) to exit.
2005-11-16Improve quality of ln's diagnostics.Paul Eggert
2005-11-15*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-11-15*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-11-15*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-11-14*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-11-14(sort): Mention consequences of today's mkstemp-safer.c fix.Jim Meyering
2005-11-11Mention `readlink -f' bug fix in 5.3.0 news.Jim Meyering
Mention new readlink options in `New features' section.
2005-11-08Merge in changes from b5_9x branch.Jim Meyering
2005-11-08ls now defaults to --time-style='locale'.Paul Eggert
2005-11-04mention the du bug fixJim Meyering
2005-11-02Mention that rm -d and maybe ln -d are scheduled forPaul Eggert
removal in 2006.
2005-11-02*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-11-01"touch 0101000000" now operates as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires.Paul Eggert
2005-11-01tail -c 2 FILE now operates as POSIX 1002.1-2001 requires.Paul Eggert
2005-10-27*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-10-25*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-10-23*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-10-23*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-10-23*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-10-22*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-10-20Mention this chmod fix as well as the dircolors one.Jim Meyering
2005-10-17*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-10-16now it's the 17thJim Meyering
2005-10-16remove -cvs suffixJim Meyering
2005-10-16Mention the `mkdir -p' bug fix.Jim Meyering
2005-10-15.Jim Meyering
2005-10-13Document dircolors change of 2005-09-05.Jim Meyering
2005-10-01*** empty log message ***Jim Meyering
2005-09-30Use 5.91-cvs as the version string.Jim Meyering
2005-09-30Clarify "tail - f" example.Paul Eggert
2005-09-29Version 5.90.Jim Meyering
Add today's date.
2005-09-29mention stat bug fixJim Meyering
2005-09-28Use 5.90-cvs as the version string.Jim Meyering
2005-09-25"touch -" now touches standard output.Paul Eggert