From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:38:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New environment var BLOCKSIZE.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1940
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=103a7608b72bbefe374bf918855487d9a1096c39;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

New environment var BLOCKSIZE.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 842f676d3c..e299f66b7b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 * Major changes in release 5.3.0 (2004-03-17) [unstable]
 
-** Bug fixes
-
 ** New features
 
+   'df', 'du', and 'ls' now take the default block size from the
+   BLOCKSIZE environment variable if the BLOCK_SIZE, DF_BLOCK_SIZE,
+   DU_BLOCK_SIZE, and LS_BLOCK_SIZE environment variables are not set.
+   Unlike the other variables, though, BLOCKSIZE does not affect
+   values like 'ls -l' sizes that are normally displayed as bytes.
+   This new behavior is for compatibility with BSD.
+
   du accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, where FILE contains a
   list of NUL-terminated file names.
 
@@ -19,6 +24,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   `date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs
   nanosecond-resolution time stamps.
 
+** Bug fixes
+
 
 * Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable]