From 10f3e12a0d36ab00e5c402e54466382b47a519e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:34:11 +0000 Subject: doc: shred: Correct docs on default number of overwrites. * NEWS: Mention the change to the default number of passes. * doc/Makefile.am: Update constants.texi with the default number of passes shred uses, so that the documentation will automatically reflect any future changes. * doc/coreutils.texi (shred invocation): Update the description of the --iterations option to have the correct default number, while still conveying that there are 25 internal patterns that may be useful. --- NEWS | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f1b383e39..83b8ed9a1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- du: -H (initially equivalent to --si) is now equivalent to --dereference-args, and thus works as POSIX requires + shred: now does 3 overwrite passes by default rather than 25. + ls -l now marks SELinux-only files with the less obtrusive '.', rather than '+'. A file with any other combination of MAC and ACL is still marked with a '+'. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf