Re: coreutils-6.11.104-00a30 test results

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Test results on MacOS X 10.5.2 and MacOS X 10.3.9:
>
> - On MacOS X 10.5.2: All coreutils tests pass, and all gnulib tests pass!
> On this platform, perl 5.8.8 is used.
>
> This is an improvement over version 6.11. Why not mention it in NEWS:
> "On MacOS X 10.5, 'cp -p some-fifo some-file' failed while trying to copy
> the permissions from the some-fifo argument."

Thanks for the testing and suggested NEWS addition.
Here's what I've pushed:

Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: mention that cp -p copies permissions more portably

Based on wording suggested by Bruno Haible.
---
 NEWS |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8cee7f5..833112a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-

   chcon, runcon: --help output now includes the bug-reporting address

+  cp -p copies permissions more portably.  For example, on MacOS X 10.5,
+  "cp -p some-fifo some-file" no longer fails while trying to copy the
+  permissions from the some-fifo argument.
+
   id with no options now prints the SELinux context only when invoked
   with no USERNAME argument.

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