From e190228997c9f33137977ed945d55bd37c1058d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:57:21 +0000 Subject: Document dd's new 'directory' and 'nolinks' flags. --- NEWS | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8f2288015..143c95754 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -71,9 +71,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - dd's new iflag=noatime option causes it to read a file without - updating its access time, on hosts that support this (currently only - Linux kernels, version 2.6.8 and later). + New dd iflag= and oflag= flags: + + 'directory' causes dd to fail unless the file is a directory, on + hosts that support this (e.g., Linux kernels, version 2.1.126 and + later). This has limited utility but is present for completeness. + + 'noatime' causes dd to read a file without updating its access + time, on hosts that support this (e.g., Linux kernels, version + 2.6.8 and later). + + 'nolinks' causes dd to fail if the file has multiple hard links, + on hosts that support this (e.g., Solaris 10 and later). rm now accepts the -I (--interactive=once) option. This new option prompts once if rm is invoked recursively or if more than three -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2