From 800ff60f6f68223e30e8dd347381a2934cdb4f1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 15:25:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention the recent rm improvement * NEWS: Mention the improvement re handling of directory errnos. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d1c400e67f..7f4eab921c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- date --debug now diagnoses if multiple --date or --set options are specified, as only the last specified is significant in that case. + rm outputs more accurate diagnostics in the presence of errors + when removing directories. For example EIO will be faithfully + diagnosed, rather than being conflated with ENOTEMPTY. + * Noteworthy changes in release 9.1 (2022-04-15) [stable] -- 2.47.2