-2004-03-02 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+2004-03-06 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* Version 5.2.1.
+ cp --sparse=always sparse-image-file.img /dev/hda1 could
+ produce an invalid copy on the destination device.
+
+ * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Even with --sparse=always, try to
+ make `holes' only if the destination is a regular file.
+ Reported by Szakacsits Szabolcs.
+
2004-03-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* src/nohup.c (main): Don't invoke set_cloexec_flag with
2004-03-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
* configure.ac: Include <signal.h> when checking for strsignal,
- sys_siglist, and friends. Problem reported by Toney Leneis in
+ sys_siglist, and friends. Problem reported by Tony Leneis in
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00136.html>.
2004-02-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
** Bug fixes
+ `cp --sparse=always F /dev/hdx' no longer tries to use lseek to create
+ holes in the destination.
+
nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for its copy of the stderr file
descriptor. This avoids some nohup-induced hangs. For example, before
this change, if you ran `ssh localhost', then `nohup sleep 600 </dev/null &',