Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] stat: drop %C support when printing file system details

[Eric Blake]

On 10/05/2010 09:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> * src/stat.c (print_statfs, usage): Drop %C, since it applies to
> files, not file systems.
> (out_file_context): Match style of other out_* functions.
> (print_stat): Update caller.
> * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Document %C.
> * NEWS: Document the change.

Oops - hit send before 'git commit --amend'.  Squash this in:

diff --git i/NEWS w/NEWS
index 719ac9c..22f257b 100644
--- i/NEWS
+++ w/NEWS
@@ -76,10 +76,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS 
  -*- outline -*-
   stat no longer accepts the --context (-Z) option.  Initially it was
   merely accepted and ignored, for compatibility.  Starting two years
   ago, with coreutils-7.0, its use evoked a warning.  Printing the
-  SELinux context can be done with the %C format directive, and the
-  default output when no format is specified now automatically
+  SELinux context of a file can be done with the %C format directive,
+  and the default output when no format is specified now automatically
   includes %C when context information is available.

+  stat no longer accepts the %C directive when the --file-system
+  option is in effect, since security context is a file attribute
+  rather than a file system attribute.
+
   stat now outputs the full sub-second resolution for the atime,
   mtime, and ctime values since the Epoch, when using the %X, %Y, and
   %Z directives of the --format option.  This matches the fact that

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