* NEWS: Mention this bug fix.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
        diagnostic from the expected output when using native fdopendir.
        * tests/chmod/no-x: Likewise.
        * tests/du/no-x: Likewise.
+       * NEWS: Mention this bug fix.
 
        * Makefile.maint (sc_cast_of_x_alloc_return_value): Add an exclusion
        for xalloc.h itself.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 * Major changes in release 6.5-cvs (2006-??-??)
 
+** Bug fixes
+
+  du (and the other fts clients: chmod, chgrp, chown) would exit early
+  when encountering an inaccessible directory on a system with native
+  openat support (i.e., linux-2.6.16 or newer along with glibc-2.4
+  or newer).  This bug was introduced with the switch to gnulib's
+  openat-based variant of fts, for coreutils-6.0.
+
 ** New features
 
   rm accepts a new option: --one-file-system