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[PATCH] NEWS: mention recent improvements in rm
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
[PATCH] NEWS: mention recent improvements in rm |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:14:02 +0200 |
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[This entry is for 7.7 but currently resides in the block for 7.6.
Obviously, it will be moved "up" right after release. ]
>From be4517a4c8cc8797251ad7c2703984bfbb11b983 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:11:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: mention recent improvements in rm
---
NEWS | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 50c40be..f8e4824 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*-
outline -*-
because ls must stat every file in order to obtain a guaranteed-valid
inode number. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
+** Improved robustness
+
+ rm has been rewritten to use gnulib's fts
+ This makes it significantly faster (400-500%) in some pathological
+ cases, and slightly slower (20%) in at least one pathological case.
+ Unrelated to its use of fts, rm -r is now slightly more standards-
+ conformant when operating on write-protected relative file names
+ longer than 8KiB.
+
** New features
cp --reflink accepts a new "auto" parameter which falls back to
--
1.6.4.2.395.ge3d52
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