misc: mention the df vs. automount change

* NEWS (Portability): Mention that df now accommodates the new
behavior of some automounters.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 82cf9c5d8ceb0e34bd6259a8e225d5cb2a067a9d..58b98cf89d1c9e13a10975f4797a8bc4e455a403 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Portability
 
+  df now pre-mounts automountable directories even with automounters for
+  which stat-like syscalls no longer provoke mounting.  Now, df uses open.
+
   `id -G $USER` now works correctly even on Darwin and NetBSD. Previously it
   would either truncate the group list to 10, or go into an infinite loop,
   due to their non-standard getgroups implementations.