From 7b99d77bc68c2c9f742756f858771161042a3b5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:30:56 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- old/fileutils/NEWS | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'old/fileutils/NEWS') diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index b1e698e19..389724ec7 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Changes in release 4.01: [4.0.33] * dd now accepts skip=nB and seek=nB, to advance past some number of bytes, n, that need not be a multiple of the block size. -* dd (without conv=notrunc) now uses ftruncate only on regular files +* dd (without conv=notrunc) now complains only when ftruncate fails on a + regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object -- not when it fails + to truncate other types of files, like /dev/fd0. * chmod --changes (-c) once again issues diagnostics only for the files with changed permissions * mkdir now gives one diagnostic (rather than two) for certain failures -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf