From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:30:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: *** empty log message ***
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_0_36~34
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b99d77bc68c2c9f742756f858771161042a3b5c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS
index b1e698e19b..389724ec76 100644
--- 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