From e1e5963a9df8f1e9184f87c64db796fd63586090 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 21:52:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: adjust 7.2 "cat,cp,install,mv,split speed-up" NEWS item * NEWS: Reword an entry from 7.2 and change "linux" to "GNU/Linux". The latter was requested by Richard Stallman. * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Regenerate. --- NEWS | 6 +++--- cfg.mk | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7fdbd08cf..7c507efa2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Changes in behavior - cp,mv,install,cat,split: now read and write a minimum of 32KiB - at a time. This was seen to increase throughput. Up to 2 times - when reading cached files on linux for example. + cat,cp,install,mv,split: these programs now read and write a minimum + of 32KiB at a time. This was seen to double throughput when reading + cached files on GNU/Linux-based systems. cp -a now tries to preserve extended attributes (xattr), but does not diagnose xattr-preservation failure. However, cp --preserve=all still does. diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index 1828484c5..1be468565 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ gnulib_dir = /gnulib # Now that we have better (check.mk) tests, make this the default. export VERBOSE = yes -old_NEWS_hash = 323729e8ee5a0a21816811bc6ef87c9a +old_NEWS_hash = 167c472319bf789462b664f47d4c18f6 # Ensure that the list of O_ symbols used to compute O_FULLBLOCK is complete. dd = $(srcdir)/src/dd.c -- 2.11.4.GIT