From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:17:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix.
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NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-01-07  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Mention the cp bug fix.
+
 2008-01-07  Jan Blunck  <jblunck@suse.de>
 
 	cp --parents: don't use uninitialized memory when restoring permissions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  cp --parents no longer uses uninitialized memory when restoring the
+  permissions of a just-created destination directory.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.90]
+
   tr's case conversion would fail in a locale with differing numbers
   of lower case and upper case characters.  E.g., this would fail:
   env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'