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