Pushed to next: [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 <[email protected]> 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
