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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS
index b1e698e19bb2019e609b4e2b8a1a8434aa1b9858..389724ec769af64ff1dae561fce197fbd5e527a4 100644 (file)
--- a/old/fileutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Changes in release 4.01:
 [4.0.33]
 * dd now accepts skip=nB and seek=nB, to advance past some number of bytes, n,
     that need not be a multiple of the block size.
-* dd (without conv=notrunc) now uses ftruncate only on regular files
+* dd (without conv=notrunc) now complains only when ftruncate fails on a
+    regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object -- not when it fails
+    to truncate other types of files, like /dev/fd0.
 * chmod --changes (-c) once again issues diagnostics only for the files
     with changed permissions
 * mkdir now gives one diagnostic (rather than two) for certain failures