From 9f6b2d2548b31e724d258d851126e8a4b6d807e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:34:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] nohup diagnostics are now more precise, and nohup now redirects stderr to nohup.out if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty. --- NEWS | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 29c8089c8f..60ec3a3db9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,12 +26,18 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- if your locale settings appear to be messed up. This change attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds. - rm --interactive now takes an optional argument, although the - default of using no argument still acts like -i. - mkfifo and mknod no longer set special mode bits (setuid, setgid, and sticky) with the -m option. + nohup's usual diagnostic now more precisely specifies the I/O + redirections, e.g., "ignoring input and appending output to + nohup.out". Also, nohup now redirects stderr to nohup.out (or + $HOME/nohup.out) if stdout is closed and stderr is a tty; this is in + response to Open Group XCU ERN 71. + + rm --interactive now takes an optional argument, although the + default of using no argument still acts like -i. + sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than silently ignoring one of them. -- 2.47.2