From 82124c3c06e46f349b5d8bae84b4890dd8025a72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:07:50 -0600 Subject: maint: summarize gnulib changes * NEWS: Provide a blurb about recent gnulib improvements. Fix typo in readlink blurb. --- NEWS | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 35c496622..1571c9c0d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,15 +16,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- when the color of a more specific type is disabled. [bug introduced in coreutils-5.90] -** Changes in behavior +** Portability - canonicalize -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the - last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created, - since mkdir will succeed in that case. + On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as + file. Now, even on such a system, path resolution obeys the POSIX + rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceeding name is a + directory or a symlink to a directory. + +** Changes in behavior id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set. + readlink -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the + last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created, + since mkdir will succeed in that case. + ** Improvements rm: rewrite to use gnulib's fts -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf