From b2bb19b4b32506debf65f03c8e44b66374550597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:24:31 +0200 Subject: doc: mention cp's dir-permissions fix * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention yesterday's dir-permissions fix. --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a4e7e9e33..291ce1339 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- I.E. for skipped files, the original ownership is output, not the new one. [bug introduced in sh-utils-2.0g] + cp -r could mistakenly change the permissions of an existing destination + directory. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.8] + cp -u -p would fail to preserve one hard link for each up-to-date copy of a src-hard-linked name in the destination tree. I.e., if s/a and s/b are hard-linked and dst/s/a is up to date, "cp -up s dst" would copy s/b -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2