[arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.10-1

[Jan Steffens]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Upstream update.
>
> Signoff both,
> Allan
>
>
> NEWS
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> * Noteworthy changes in release 8.10 (2011-02-04) [stable]
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> ** Bug fixes
>
>  du would abort with a failed assertion when two conditions are met:
>  part of the hierarchy being traversed is moved to a higher level in the
>  directory tree, and there is at least one more command line directory
>  argument following the one containing the moved sub-tree.
>  [bug introduced in coreutils-5.1.0]
>
>  join --header now skips the ordering check for the first line
>  even if the other file is empty.  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.5]
>
>  rm -f no longer fails for EINVAL or EILSEQ on file systems that
>  reject file names invalid for that file system.
>
>  uniq -f NUM no longer tries to process fields after end of line.
>  [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]
>
> ** New features
>
>  cp now copies sparse files efficiently on file systems with FIEMAP
>  support (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ocfs2).  Before, it had to read 220 bytes
>  when copying a 1MiB sparse file.  Now, it copies bytes only for the
>  non-sparse sections of a file.  Similarly, to induce a hole in the
>  output file, it had to detect a long sequence of zero bytes.  Now,
>  it knows precisely where each hole in an input file is, and can
>  reproduce them efficiently in the output file.  mv also benefits
>  when it resorts to copying, e.g., between file systems.
>
>  join now supports -o 'auto' which will automatically infer the
>  output format from the first line in each file, to ensure
>  the same number of fields are output for each line.
>
> ** Changes in behavior
>
>  join no longer reports disorder when one of the files is empty.
>  This allows one to use join as a field extractor like:
>  join -a1 -o 1.3,1.1 - /dev/null
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Signoff both.