From f1126d26393c6d5be46a9a1412c94f0537dca364 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:15:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention `readlink -f' bug fix in 5.3.0 news. Mention new readlink options in `New features' section. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ffeda52d2c..abfaf6b98c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- mv (when moving between partitions) no longer fails when operating on too many command-line-specified nonempty directories. + "readlink -f" is more compatible with prior implementations + rm (without -f) no longer hangs when attempting to remove a symlink to a file on an off-line NFS-mounted partition. @@ -620,6 +622,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- rather than two-byte int. This makes a difference only on hosts like Cray systems where the C short int type requires more than two bytes. + readlink accepts new options: --canonicalize-existing (-e) + and --canonicalize-missing (-m). + The stat option --filesystem has been renamed to --file-system, for consistency with POSIX "file system" and with cp and du --one-file-system. -- 2.47.3