From 65b50c6cdd4a140a2974907423a1df1692b6d3ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:24:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: mention the du-exclude--vs--cycle-dir fix

* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the du-exclude--vs--cycle-dir fix.
Reported by Graham Cobb in http://bugs.debian.org/598438,
that bug was fixed by the 2010-07-24 commit, 77428214f,
"du: tune, and fix some -L bugs with dangling or cyclic symlinks"
---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 898ee09..11a8b74 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   du -H and -L now consistently count pointed-to files instead of
   symbolic links, and correctly diagnose dangling symlinks.
 
+  du --ignore=D now ignores directory D even when that directory is
+  found to be part of a directory cycle.  Before, du would issue a
+  "NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER" diagnostic and fail.
+
   tac would perform a double-free when given an input line longer than 16KiB.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.3]
 
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