From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:24:42 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: maint: mention the du-exclude--vs--cycle-dir fix
X-Git-Tag: v8.6~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=65b50c6cdd4a140a2974907423a1df1692b6d3ae;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: mention the du-exclude--vs--cycle-dir fix

* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the du-exclude--vs--cycle-dir fix.
Reported by Graham Cobb in http://bugs.debian.org/598438,
that bug was fixed by the 2010-07-24 commit, 77428214f,
"du: tune, and fix some -L bugs with dangling or cyclic symlinks"
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 898ee09421..11a8b74fdc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   du -H and -L now consistently count pointed-to files instead of
   symbolic links, and correctly diagnose dangling symlinks.
 
+  du --ignore=D now ignores directory D even when that directory is
+  found to be part of a directory cycle.  Before, du would issue a
+  "NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER" diagnostic and fail.
+
   tac would perform a double-free when given an input line longer than 16KiB.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.3]