From 3260d507f5bb51de1b831ed316964659f3b47f19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:41:18 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- old/fileutils/NEWS | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'old/fileutils/NEWS') diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 82831300e..cd5b7b632 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Changes in release 4.01: [4.0z] * mv's --force (-f) option now controls solely whether mv prompts (per POSIX) * `cp -f' now first attempts to open an existing destination file, and only - if that fails does it resort to unlinking the file and retrying the open + if that fails does it resort to unlinking the file and retrying the open. + Before, it would unlink the file before trying to open it. +* cp accepts a new option, --remove-destination, that provides the old behavior +* cp's -f option no longer cancels the effect of --interactive (-i) (per POSIX) * when ls sorts directory entries, it now honors the current locale settings * dd's `skip=BLOCKS' operator once again works on systems with a buggy lseek function (Linux, at least on SCSI tape devices) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2