* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Bug fixes
+
+ du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose
+ link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by
+ following symlinks or via multiple arguments.
+
** New features
cp now accepts the --attributes-only option to not copy file data,
du recognizes -d N as equivalent to --max-depth=N, for compatibility
with FreeBSD.
- du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees
- with many hard-linked files. With --count-links (-l), or when
- operating on trees with no hard-linked files, there is no change.
-
sort now accepts the --debug option, to highlight the part of the
line significant in the sort, and warn about questionable options.
** Changes in behavior
+ du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees
+ with many hard-linked files. With --count-links (-l), or when
+ operating on trees with no hard-linked files, there is no change.
+
ls -l now uses the traditional three field time style rather than
the wider two field numeric ISO style, in locales where a style has
not been specified. The new approach has nicer behavior in some
Also errors are no longer suppressed for unsupported file types, and
relative sizes are restricted to supported file types.
-** Bug fixes
-
- du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose
- link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by
- following symlinks or via multiple arguments.
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.5 (2010-04-23) [stable]