Fedora 12 Update: coreutils-7.6-7.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-12163
2009-11-25 13:37:18
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Name        : coreutils
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 7.6
Release     : 7.fc12
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Summary     : A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description :
These are the GNU core utilities.  This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

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Update Information:

- update /etc/DIR_COLORS* files  - ls -LR exits with status 2, not 0, when it
encounters    a cycle(#525402)  - ls: print "?", not "0" as inode of
dereferenced dangling    symlink(#525400)  - /bin/{true,false} - do not segfault
with abusive    execve() usage (#537684)  - tail -F no longer can fail to track
a file after    it's been rotated (#537664)  - du - do not fail on a submount
during traversal (#501848)  - call the install-info on .gz info files
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov 23 2009 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 7.6-7
- update /etc/DIR_COLORS* files
- ls -LR exits with status 2, not 0, when it encounters
  a cycle(#525402)
- ls: print "?", not "0" as inode of dereferenced dangling
  symlink(#525400)
- /bin/{true,false} - do not segfault with abusive
  execve() usage (#537684)
- tail -F no longer can fail to track a file after
  it's been rotated (#537664)
- du - do not fail on a submount during traversal (#501848)
- call the install-info on .gz info files
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #537664 - tail -F will sometimes stop working upon rotation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537664
  [ 2 ] Bug #537684 - [abrt] crash detected in coreutils-7.6-5.fc12
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537684
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