From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 21:04:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: maint: document timeout --preserve-status in v8.21 NEWS
X-Git-Tag: v8.23~96
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2980924ac05bbee579bd71e551128f3b02327f1;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: document timeout --preserve-status in v8.21 NEWS

* NEWS: Add the omitted new feature.
* cfk.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Adjust accordingly.
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0a48456381..1d3ecf1adb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   with such a minimum SIZE (or a maximum SIZE if it is negative).
   du recognizes -t SIZE as equivalent, for compatibility with FreeBSD.
 
+  timeout now accepts the --preserve-status option to always propagate the exit
+  status, useful for commands that can run for an indeterminite amount of time.
+
 ** Bug fixes
 
   cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer exits non-zero.
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index c2ebb5dc33..b3c0f708b1 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export VERBOSE = yes
 # 4914152 9e
 export XZ_OPT = -8e
 
-old_NEWS_hash = 88cd502ce932ab23e636c63a73a48c29
+old_NEWS_hash = 68fc9b352e924d5e59e2f543f80f6a41
 
 # Add an exemption for sc_makefile_at_at_check.
 _makefile_at_at_check_exceptions = ' && !/^cu_install_program =/'