From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:57:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document dd's new 'directory' and 'nolinks' flags.
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Document dd's new 'directory' and 'nolinks' flags.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8f22880154..143c957541 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -71,9 +71,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** New features
 
-  dd's new iflag=noatime option causes it to read a file without
-  updating its access time, on hosts that support this (currently only
-  Linux kernels, version 2.6.8 and later).
+  New dd iflag= and oflag= flags:
+
+    'directory' causes dd to fail unless the file is a directory, on
+    hosts that support this (e.g., Linux kernels, version 2.1.126 and
+    later).  This has limited utility but is present for completeness.
+
+    'noatime' causes dd to read a file without updating its access
+    time, on hosts that support this (e.g., Linux kernels, version
+    2.6.8 and later).
+
+    'nolinks' causes dd to fail if the file has multiple hard links,
+    on hosts that support this (e.g., Solaris 10 and later).
 
   rm now accepts the -I (--interactive=once) option.  This new option
   prompts once if rm is invoked recursively or if more than three