From 142d83fcd69e311a237fbd3d5bac87a16140b822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:39:32 +0000
Subject: Document recent modechange fixes.

---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 614df6d3f..ed0fffe57 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  chmod, mkdir, mkfifo, and mknod formerly mishandled rarely-used symbolic
+  permissions like =xX and =u, and did not properly diagnose some invalid
+  strings like g+gr and ug,+x.  These bugs have been fixed.
+
   dd now computes statistics using a realtime clock (if available)
   rather than the time-of-day clock, to avoid glitches if the
   time-of-day is changed while dd is running.  Also, it avoids
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