From 4bc50727f0198999936276b8df9f4abdbd5d8b0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:48:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?utf8?q?mv:=20clarify=20=E2=80=98mv=20-n=20A=20A?= =?utf8?q?=E2=80=99=20change?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- NEWS | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b7ec20085f..8a9e09eb4f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- 'mv -n A B' no longer suffers from a race condition that can overwrite a simultaneously-created B. This bug fix requires platform support for the renameat2 or renameatx_np syscalls, found - in recent Linux and macOS kernels. + in recent Linux and macOS kernels. As a side effect, ‘mv -n A A’ + now silently does nothing if A exists. [bug introduced with coreutils-7.1] 'cp -n -u' and 'mv -n -u' now consistently ignore the -u option. -- 2.47.2