From d243dee60af680588ef404cf1ac0353663710f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:00:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The following commands now reject unknown options: basename dirname factor hostname link nohup sync unlink yes Also, pathchk no longer accepts trailing options. --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 662b99d..ab072c3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- It now consistently adjusts out-of-range nice values to the closest values in range; formerly it sometimes reported an error. + pathchk no longer accepts trailing options, e.g., "pathchk -p foo -b" + now treats -b as a file name to check, not as an invalid option. + printf has several changes: It now uses 'intmax_t' (not 'long int') to format integers, so it @@ -114,6 +117,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- who now prints user names in full instead of truncating them after 8 bytes. + The following commands now reject unknown options instead of + accepting them as operands, so that users are properly warned that + options may be added later. Formerly they accepted unknown options + as operands; e.g., "basename -a a" acted like "basename -- -a a". + + basename dirname factor hostname link nohup sync unlink yes + ** New features For efficiency, `sort -m' no longer copies input to a temporary file -- 2.7.4