1 User-visible changes in release 3.13:
2 * rename touch long option name --file to --reference.
3 `touch --file' will continue to work a little longer.
4 * df fails if the same file system type is both selected and excluded.
5 * df works around SunOS statfs brokenness wrt filesystems larger than 2GB
6 * df better handles inconsistent mtab entries
7 * `ls -lDR dir dir2' works
8 * `ls -c' does what it's supposed to
9 * all programs include program name in --version output
10 * `ls --quote-name' works
11 * mv properly determines whether src and dest are the same file
12 Before, it could (though with very low probability) fail to do the move,
13 reporting that distinct source and destination are the same file.
14 * du --dereference (-L) works with directory symlinks
15 * du works on SunOS 4 systems even when accounting is enabled
16 * many programs that convert strings to integers now use strtol or strtoul
18 User-visible changes in release 3.12:
20 User-visible changes in release 3.11:
22 User-visible changes in release 3.10:
23 * mkdir -p now ignores arguments that are existing directories. Before,
24 (contrary to POSIX spec) it would attempt to change ownership and/or
25 protections of existing directories listed on the command line. And
26 it would fail when such a directory was owned by another user.
27 * Fix bug in cp that made the commands `mkdir dir; touch foo; cp -P foo dir'
28 incorrectly change the permissions on directory, dir.
29 * df accepts a new option, --no-sync, that inhibits the default invocation
30 of the sync system call. FIXME.
31 * ls accepts a new option, --dired, that makes emacs' dired mode more efficient
32 * skeletal texinfo documentation (mainly just the `invoking' nodes)
33 * ln accepts a new option: --no-dereference (-n). With this option,
34 if the destination command line argument is a symlink to a directory,
35 use that as the destination instead of the file in the directory.
36 * `ln -i no-such-file existing-file' gives a diagnostic and fails.
37 Before, if you responded `yes' to the prompt it would both remove
38 `existing-file' and fail to make a link.
39 * du no longer requires read access to all of the directory components
40 of the current working directory on systems with fchdir.
41 * touch -d 'date' is no longer off by one hour.
43 * Fix bug in cp that made the commands `ln -s . s; cp -rd s r' incorrectly
44 create `r' as a symlink instead of as a regular file.
45 * du's -S and -c options now work when used together.
46 Before, the grand total was always reported to be zero.
48 Major changes in release 3.9:
49 * --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the
50 correspondence between short and long-named options.
51 * work around systems with BROKEN_STAT_MACROS
52 * work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
53 ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
54 and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
55 * GNU chmod treats symlinks the same way other vendor's versions do.
56 Now symlinks listed on the command line are processed (they were
57 ignored before); the permissions of the dereferenced files are
58 changed. Symlinks encountered in recursive traversals are still
59 ignored. This makes GNU chmod act more like e.g. Sun's.
60 * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
61 some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
62 * ls and cp can handle mount points on more systems
63 * cp, mkdir, and rmdir long option --path renamed to --parents; --path
64 will still work for a while
65 * cp, ln, and mv convert `cp A B/' to cp A B/A when A is not a directory.
66 This change affects only the two-argument form of the commands. It makes
67 such commands fail when the target has a trailing slash but is not a
68 directory or symlink to a directory and the source is not a directory.
69 They used to succeed, ignoring the implicitly contradictory trailing slash.
71 Major changes in release 3.8:
72 * install isn't as likely to produce spurious errors
73 * avoid redundant compilations for `dir' and `vdir';
74 * configure properly defines STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE on a Pyramid MIServer
77 Major changes in release 3.7:
79 Major changes in release 3.6:
80 * `ln -s dir_pathname .' works when the pathname has a trailing slash
81 * with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately
82 * GNU ls -f works like Unix ls -f
83 * mktime replacement works
85 Major changes in release 3.5:
86 * adds support for DEC Alpha under OSF/1
87 * configuring with gcc uses CFLAGS='-g -O' by default
88 * all programs accept --help and --version options
89 * long-named options must be introduced with `--'; `+' is no longer
90 accepted since it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard
91 * chmod accepts long-named options
92 * dd conv=unblock doesn't hang
93 * new df option --exclude=fstype
94 * new ls option --full-time
96 Major changes in release 3.4:
97 * cp -p and mv preserve setuid and setgid bits
98 * chown works on systems where sizeof(uid_t) != sizeof(int)
99 or sizeof(uid) != sizeof(gid)
100 * catch errors from spurious slashes at ends of arguments
102 Major changes in release 3.3:
103 * df sped up by not calling sync for every filesystem
104 * df ported to AIX (RS/6000 and PS/2), and SVR2 port fixed
105 * df -i now also prints the total number of inodes per filesystem
106 * ls sped up by not reading symlink contents unnecessarily
107 * du doesn't die on POSIX systems when the root filesystem is NFS mounted
108 * cp and mv report chown Permission denied errors when run by root