From 0aeaa506ad9dd09479a298e4febe79b55c10a0e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:56:44 +0200 Subject: doc: NEWS: the cp bug affects mv and install, too * NEWS (Bug fixes): Note that the copy-induced corruption but affects mv (sometimes) and install, too. Pointed out by Bernhard Voelker. --- NEWS | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0fc2a94d1..bbd8f595b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- cp could read from freed memory and could even make corrupt copies. This could happen with a very fragmented and sparse input file, on GNU/Linux file systems supporting fiemap extent scanning. + This bug also affects mv when it resorts to copying, and install. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.11] cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer preserves the original file's -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2