X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fb444f605db19ac29a991902ac56a06eb56ec98f;hb=aeb5222a6d7f7e9be5b737e2dbaf71185a9946db;hp=d58df26fcef9751dd22416586c4f548e7efd0a30;hpb=18839ad9c17c3f8fe42210e17c707bfc12fd4b1b;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fcoreutils.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d58df26..fb444f6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- split --number l/... no longer creates extraneous files in certain cases. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8] + timeout now sends signals to commands that create their own process group. + timeout is no longer confused when starting off with a child process. + [bugs introduced in coreutils-7.0] + + unexpand -a now aligns correctly when there are spaces spanning a tabstop, + followed by a tab. In that case a space was dropped, causing misalignment. + We also now ensure that a space never precedes a tab. + [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3.0] + ** Changes in behavior chmod, chown and chgrp now output the original attributes in messages, @@ -21,6 +30,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** New features + md5sum accepts the new --strict option. With --check, it makes the + tool exit non-zero for any invalid input line, rather than just warning. + This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum. + split accepts a new --filter=CMD option. With it, split filters output through CMD. CMD may use the $FILE environment variable, which is set to the nominal output file name for each invocation of CMD. For example, to @@ -29,13 +42,24 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Note the use of single quotes, not double quotes. That creates files named xaa.xz, xab.xz and xac.xz. + timeout accepts a new --foreground option, to support commands not started + directly from a shell prompt, where the command is interactive or needs to + receive signals initiated from the terminal. + ** Improvements + cp and ls now support HP-UX 11.11's ACLs, thanks to improved support + in gnulib. + + df now supports disk partitions larger than 4 TiB on MacOS X 10.5 + or newer and on AIX 5.2 or newer. + shuf outputs small subsets of large permutations much more efficiently. For example `shuf -i1-$((2**32-1)) -n2` no longer exhausts memory. - cp and ls now support HP-UX 11.11's ACLs, thanks to improved support - in gnulib. + stat -f now recognizes the GPFS, MQUEUE and PSTOREFS file system types. + + timeout now supports sub-second timeouts. ** Build-related