Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4a1d4139b71f8c2b0abbd31526108f231e81ffe9..ed2ff9643e745e0ede0ae5f0ca0cd1f8fb07198e 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   if your locale settings appear to be messed up.  This change
   attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
 
+  mkfifo and mknod no longer set special mode bits (setuid, setgid,
+  and sticky) with the -m option.
+
   sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than
   silently ignoring one of them.