From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:04:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: `cp --link --no-dereference' now works also on systems where the
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~332
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6293c4ae503c59411e8f2f66e91149a47829fbd9;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

`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 051df6d68c..32062e0768 100644
--- 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,