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- Major changes in release 3.9:
- * --help gives a one-line description of each option and shows the
- correspondence between short and long-named options.
- * work around systems with BROKEN_STAT_MACROS
- * work around problem where $(srcdir)/config.h was used instead of
- ../config.h -- this happened only when building in a subdirectory
- and when config.h remained in $(srcdir) from a previous ./configure.
- * GNU chmod treats symlinks the same way other vendor's versions do.
- Now symlinks listed on the command line are processed (they were
- ignored before); the permissions of the dereferenced files are
- changed. Symlinks encountered in recursive traversals are still
- ignored. This makes GNU chmod act more like e.g. Sun's.
- * configure uses config.h, so DEFS won't exceed preprocessor limits of
- some compilers on the number of symbols defined via -D.
- * ls and cp can handle mount points on more systems
- * cp, mkdir, and rmdir long option --path renamed to --parents; --path
- will still work for a while
- * cp, ln, and mv convert `cp A B/' to cp A B/A when A is not a directory.
- This change affects only the two-argument form of the commands. It makes
- such commands fail when the target has a trailing slash but is not a
- directory or symlink to a directory and the source is not a directory.
- They used to succeed, ignoring the implicitly contradictory trailing slash.
-
- Major changes in release 3.8:
- * install isn't as likely to produce spurious errors
- * avoid redundant compilations for `dir' and `vdir';
- * configure properly defines STAT_STATFS2_BSIZE on a Pyramid MIServer
- running OSx 5.1
-
- Major changes in release 3.7:
- * none
- Major changes in release 3.6:
- * `ln -s dir_pathname .' works when the pathname has a trailing slash
- * with the --version option programs print the version and exit immediately
- * GNU ls -f works like Unix ls -f
- * mktime replacement works
-
- Major changes in release 3.5:
- * adds support for DEC Alpha under OSF/1
- * configuring with gcc uses CFLAGS='-g -O' by default
- * all programs accept --help and --version options
- * long-named options must be introduced with `--'; `+' is no longer
- accepted since it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard
- * chmod accepts long-named options
- * dd conv=unblock doesn't hang
- * new df option --exclude=fstype
- * new ls option --full-time
-
- Major changes in release 3.4:
- * cp -p and mv preserve setuid and setgid bits
- * chown works on systems where sizeof(uid_t) != sizeof(int)
- or sizeof(uid) != sizeof(gid)
- * catch errors from spurious slashes at ends of arguments
-
- Major changes in release 3.3:
- * df sped up by not calling sync for every filesystem
- * df ported to AIX (RS/6000 and PS/2), and SVR2 port fixed
- * df -i now also prints the total number of inodes per filesystem
- * ls sped up by not reading symlink contents unnecessarily
- * du doesn't die on POSIX systems when the root filesystem is NFS mounted
- * cp and mv report chown Permission denied errors when run by root
-