From ef9650170f795be41223c8887258a1c596ecc162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:58:41 +0100 Subject: all: update gnulib submodule and tests/init.sh to latest * gnulib: Update to latest. * NEWS: Specifically mention the fts readdir() fix and reindent to standard indentation. * tests/init.sh: Update from gnulib. --- NEWS | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b6c5c06ef..bfaf2399e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,46 +4,52 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes - cp, mv, and install no longer run into undefined behavior when - handling ACLs on Cygwin and Solaris platforms. [bug introduced in - coreutils-8.24] + cp, mv, and install no longer run into undefined behavior when + handling ACLs on Cygwin and Solaris platforms. [bug introduced in + coreutils-8.24] - date, du, ls, and pr no longer mishandle time zone abbreviations on - System V style platforms where this information is available only - in the global variable 'tzname'. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] + chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown, du, and rm, or specifically utilities + using the FTS interface, now diagnose failures returned by readdir(). + [this bug was inherent in the use of fts: thus, for rm the bug was + introduced in coreutils-8.0. du, chmod, chgrp and chown started using + fts in 6.0. chcon was added in coreutils-6.9.91 with fts support. ] - nl now resets numbering for each page section rather than just for each page. - [This bug was present in "the beginning".] + date, du, ls, and pr no longer mishandle time zone abbreviations on + System V style platforms where this information is available only + in the global variable 'tzname'. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] - stty --help no longer outputs extraneous gettext header lines - for translated languages. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] + nl now resets numbering for each page section rather than just for each page. + [This bug was present in "the beginning".] - seq now immediately exits upon write errors. - [This bug was present in "the beginning".] + stty --help no longer outputs extraneous gettext header lines + for translated languages. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] - yes now handles short writes, rather than assuming all writes complete. - [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] + seq now immediately exits upon write errors. + [This bug was present in "the beginning".] + + yes now handles short writes, rather than assuming all writes complete. + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] ** Changes in behavior - seq no longer accepts 0 value as increment, and now also rejects NaN - values for any argument. + seq no longer accepts 0 value as increment, and now also rejects NaN + values for any argument. - stat now outputs nanosecond information for time stamps even if - they are out of localtime range. + stat now outputs nanosecond information for time stamps even if + they are out of localtime range. - sort, tail, and uniq now support traditional usage like 'sort +2' - and 'tail +10' on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2008 and later. - The 2008 edition of POSIX dropped the requirement that arguments - like '+2' must be treated as file names. + sort, tail, and uniq now support traditional usage like 'sort +2' + and 'tail +10' on systems conforming to POSIX 1003.1-2008 and later. + The 2008 edition of POSIX dropped the requirement that arguments + like '+2' must be treated as file names. ** Improvements - stat and tail now know about "prl_fs" (a parallels file system), - "m1fs" (a Plexistor file system), "wslfs" (Windows Subsystem for Linux), - and "smb2". stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and - tail -f uses polling for "prl_fs" and "smb2", inotify for "m1fs", - and attempts inotify for "wslfs". + stat and tail now know about "prl_fs" (a parallels file system), + "m1fs" (a Plexistor file system), "wslfs" (Windows Subsystem for Linux), + and "smb2". stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and + tail -f uses polling for "prl_fs" and "smb2", inotify for "m1fs", + and attempts inotify for "wslfs". * Noteworthy changes in release 8.25 (2016-01-20) [stable] -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf