From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:07:50 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: maint: summarize gnulib changes
X-Git-Tag: v8.0~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82124c3c06e46f349b5d8bae84b4890dd8025a72;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: summarize gnulib changes

* NEWS: Provide a blurb about recent gnulib improvements.  Fix typo
in readlink blurb.
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 35c4966223..1571c9c0d3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -16,15 +16,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   when the color of a more specific type is disabled.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-5.90]
 
-** Changes in behavior
+** Portability
 
-  canonicalize -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the
-  last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created,
-  since mkdir will succeed in that case.
+  On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as
+  file.  Now, even on such a system, path resolution obeys the POSIX
+  rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceeding name is a
+  directory or a symlink to a directory.
+
+** Changes in behavior
 
   id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT
   environment variable is set.
 
+  readlink -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the
+  last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created,
+  since mkdir will succeed in that case.
+
 ** Improvements
 
   rm: rewrite to use gnulib's fts