From 278109b9f4b8a9ea962f28f8da2da948da337b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:11:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: mention recent improvements in rm --- NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cb01227860..c0d7517826 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- because ls must stat every file in order to obtain a guaranteed-valid inode number. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0] +** Improved robustness + + rm has been rewritten to use gnulib's fts + This makes it significantly faster (400-500%) in some pathological + cases, and slightly slower (20%) in at least one pathological case. + Unrelated to its use of fts, rm -r is now slightly more standards- + conformant when operating on write-protected relative file names + longer than 8KiB. + ** New features cp --reflink accepts a new "auto" parameter which falls back to -- 2.47.3