`cp --link --no-dereference' now works also on systems where the

link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 051df6d68c20121e5badeb5a0fdef5447a24ac68..32062e07684c78e5cc351ce7233998afe0f9cd79 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   basename and dirname now treat // as different from / on platforms
   where the two are distinct.
 
+  `cp --link --no-dereference' now works also on systems where the
+  link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link.
+  This change has no effect on systems with a Linux-based kernel.
+
   csplit and nl now use POSIX syntax for regular expressions, not
   Emacs syntax.  As a result, character classes like [[:print:]] and
   interval expressions like A\{1,9\} now have their usual meaning,