doc: mention cp's dir-permissions fix

* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention yesterday's dir-permissions fix.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a4e7e9e..291ce13 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   I.E. for skipped files, the original ownership is output, not the new one.
   [bug introduced in sh-utils-2.0g]
 
+  cp -r could mistakenly change the permissions of an existing destination
+  directory.  [bug introduced in coreutils-6.8]
+
   cp -u -p would fail to preserve one hard link for each up-to-date copy
   of a src-hard-linked name in the destination tree.  I.e., if s/a and s/b
   are hard-linked and dst/s/a is up to date, "cp -up s dst" would copy s/b