Subject: Re: bug#6586: [PATCH] du: tune, and fix some -L bugs with dangling or cyclic symlinks

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:55:45 -0700

On 07/24/10 18:13, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> That probably deserves a NEWS entry

Thanks, I pushed this:

>From 01ca128807be89f7a2709e7a12e2cd1498f3d96b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:53:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] du: add NEWS entry for recent du -L fixes

---
 NEWS |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 124ca5a..b19294b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by
   following symlinks or via multiple arguments.

+  du -H and -L now consistently count pointed-to files instead of
+  symbolic links, and correctly diagnose dangling symlinks.
+
 ** New features

   cp now accepts the --attributes-only option to not copy file data,
--
1.7.1