From 71453277f05856bd8eeeda7109b4b9b7c384d208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:59:16 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- NEWS | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3208cb211..b2d5b223a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features - chmod can now process hierarchies of virtually unlimited depth + chgrp, chmod, and chown can now process (with -R) hierarchies of virtually + unlimited depth. Before, they would fail to operate on any file they + encountered with a relative name of length PATH_MAX (often 4096) or longer. + chmod accepts new options: --preserve-root, --no-preserve-root - chown and chgrp can now process hierarchies of virtually unlimited depth - chown and chgrp now accept POSIX-mandated -L, -H, and -P options + chgrp and chown now accept POSIX-mandated -L, -H, and -P options du can now process hierarchies of virtually unlimited depth. Before, du was limited by the user's stack size and it would get a -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf