maint: update all copyright year number ranges

[platform/upstream/coreutils.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index de3888d..32c8eab 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  du -x no longer counts root directories of other file systems.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
+
+  ls --color many-entry-directory was uninterruptible for too long
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-5.2.1]
+
   ls's -k option no longer affects how ls -l outputs file sizes.
   It now affects only the per-directory block counts written by -l,
   and the sizes written by -s.  This is for compatibility with BSD
@@ -19,12 +25,21 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   and NcFsd file systems.  This did not affect Unix/Linux-based kernels.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0, when rm began using fts]
 
+  stat -f now recognizes the FhGFS and PipeFS file system types.
+
   tac no longer fails to handle two or more non-seekable inputs
   [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0]
 
-  tail -f no longer tries to use inotify on GPFS file systems
+  tail -f no longer tries to use inotify on GPFS or FhGFS file systems
   [you might say this was introduced in coreutils-7.5, along with inotify
-   support, but the GPFS magic number wasn't in the usual places then.]
+   support, but the new magic numbers weren't in the usual places then.]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+  tail -f now uses polling (not inotify) when any of its file arguments
+  resides on a file system of unknown type.  In addition, for each such
+  argument, tail -f prints a warning with the FS type magic number and a
+  request to report it to the bug-reporting address.
 
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.14 (2011-10-12) [stable]
@@ -3438,7 +3453,7 @@ packages, see ./old/*/NEWS.
 
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-Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or