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- User-visible changes in release 3.12:
- * None.
- User-visible changes in release 3.11:
- * None.
- User-visible changes in release 3.10:
- * mkdir -p now ignores arguments that are existing directories. Before,
- (contrary to POSIX spec) it would attempt to change ownership and/or
- protections of existing directories. And it would fail when such a
- directory was owned by another user.
- * Fix bug in cp that made the commands `mkdir dir; touch foo; cp -P foo dir'
- incorrectly change the permissions on directory, dir.
- * df accepts a new option, --sync, that may ensure it reports more up to
- date usage information. df used to always call sync, but the value of so
- doing is not apparent, and the drawback (it makes df very slow sometimes)
- is glaring.
- * ls accepts a new option, --dired, that makes emacs' dired mode more efficient
- * skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
- * ln accepts a new option: --no-dereference (-n). With this option,
- if the destination command line argument is a symlink to a directory,
- use that as the destination instead of the file in the directory.
- * `ln -i no-such-file existing-file' gives a diagnostic and fails.
- Before, if you responded `yes' to the prompt it would both remove
- `existing-file' and fail to make a link.
- * du no longer requires read access to all of the directory components
- of the current working directory on systems with fchdir.
- * touch -d 'date' is no longer off by one hour.
- * New program: sync.
- * Fix bug in cp that made the commands `ln -s . s; cp -rd s r' incorrectly
- create `r' as a symlink instead of as a regular file.
- * du's -S and -c options now work when used together.
- Before, the grand total was always reported to be zero.
-
- Major changes in release 3.9:
- * --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the
- correspondence between short and long-named options.
- * work around systems with BROKEN_STAT_MACROS
- * work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
- ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
- and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
- * GNU chmod treats symlinks the same way other vendor's versions do.
- Now symlinks listed on the command line are processed (they were
- ignored before); the permissions of the dereferenced files are
- changed. Symlinks encountered in recursive traversals are still
- ignored. This makes GNU chmod act more like e.g. Sun's.
- * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
- some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
- * ls and cp can handle mount points on more systems
- * cp, mkdir, and rmdir long option --path renamed to --parents; --path
- will still work for a while
- * cp, ln, and mv convert `cp A B/' to cp A B/A when A is not a directory.
- This change affects only the two-argument form of the commands. It makes
- such commands fail when the target has a trailing slash but is not a
- directory or symlink to a directory and the source is not a directory.
- They used to succeed, ignoring the implicitly contradictory trailing slash.
-
- Major changes in release 3.8:
- * install isn't as likely to produce spurious errors
- * avoid redundant compilations for `dir' and `vdir';
- * configure properly defines STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE on a Pyramid MIServer
- running OSx 5.1
-
- Major changes in release 3.7:
- * none
- Major changes in release 3.6:
- * `ln -s dir_pathname .' works when the pathname has a trailing slash
- * with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately
- * GNU ls -f works like Unix ls -f
- * mktime replacement works
-
- Major changes in release 3.5:
- * adds support for DEC Alpha under OSF/1
- * configuring with gcc uses CFLAGS='-g -O' by default
- * all programs accept --help and --version options
- * long-named options must be introduced with `--'; `+' is no longer
- accepted since it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard
- * chmod accepts long-named options
- * dd conv=unblock doesn't hang
- * new df option --exclude=fstype
- * new ls option --full-time
-
- Major changes in release 3.4:
- * cp -p and mv preserve setuid and setgid bits
- * chown works on systems where sizeof(uid_t) != sizeof(int)
- or sizeof(uid) != sizeof(gid)
- * catch errors from spurious slashes at ends of arguments
-
- Major changes in release 3.3:
- * df sped up by not calling sync for every filesystem
- * df ported to AIX (RS/6000 and PS/2), and SVR2 port fixed
- * df -i now also prints the total number of inodes per filesystem
- * ls sped up by not reading symlink contents unnecessarily
- * du doesn't die on POSIX systems when the root filesystem is NFS mounted
- * cp and mv report chown Permission denied errors when run by root
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