From 6293c4ae503c59411e8f2f66e91149a47829fbd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:04:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] `cp --link --no-dereference' now works also on systems where the link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 051df6d68c..32062e0768 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- basename and dirname now treat // as different from / on platforms where the two are distinct. + `cp --link --no-dereference' now works also on systems where the + link system call cannot create a hard link to a symbolic link. + This change has no effect on systems with a Linux-based kernel. + csplit and nl now use POSIX syntax for regular expressions, not Emacs syntax. As a result, character classes like [[:print:]] and interval expressions like A\{1,9\} now have their usual meaning, -- 2.47.3