From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:41:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention the AIX-strndup-bug vs. dircolors workaround. X-Git-Tag: v6.0~314 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d9f0cce0f493db842bdb5a59fb1f26921fc89d21;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git Mention the AIX-strndup-bug vs. dircolors workaround. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index fac5fa614e..0377cc6026 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2006-06-10 Jim Meyering + * NEWS: Mention the AIX-strndup-bug vs. dircolors workaround. + Require a "Version N.M" line at the top of the ChangeLog file only when making the actual release, not when running "make distcheck". diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fdca45225c..a6b170c431 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- report the number of used blocks as being "total - available" (a negative number) rather than as garbage. - rm's core is now reentrant: rm --recursive (-r) now processes - hierarchies without changing the working directory at all. + dircolors: a new autoconf run-test for AIX's buggy strndup function + prevents malfunction on that system; may also affect cut, expand, + and unexpand. fts no longer changes the current working directory, so its clients (chmod, chown, chgrp, du) no longer malfunction under extreme conditions. @@ -17,6 +18,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- pwd and other programs using lib/getcwd.c work even on file systems where dirent.d_ino values are inconsistent with those from stat.st_ino. + rm's core is now reentrant: rm --recursive (-r) now processes + hierarchies without changing the working directory at all. + ** Changes in behavior basename and dirname now treat // as different from / on platforms