rm now performs run-time test to work around buggy readdir implementations

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5273f4a45a0527fc587f5639bba75e6379c6bc2b..9a7b12cc2cff5129005cb373f1ed1c4e86d7349a 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   nice now works on Darwin 7.7.0 in spite of its invalid definition of NZERO.
 
+  `rm -r' can remove all entries in a directory even when it is on a
+  file system for which readdir is buggy and that was not checked by
+  coreutils' old configure-time run-test.
+
   sleep no longer fails when resumed after being suspended on linux-2.6.8.1,
   in spite of that kernel's buggy nanosleep implementation.