From 71c993963fe95683f06e042b4986ee5d007c169c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:29:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: document -rf change * NEWS: Document the ZFS fix. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 64fb6fa..95e9a89 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ GNU gzip NEWS -*- outline -*- For example, now "(printf x|gzip; echo y)|gzip -dcf" prints "xy\n", while before it would print "xy\n". + gzip -rf no longer compresses files more than once (e.g., replacing + FOO with FOO.gz.gz) on file systems such as ZFS where a readdir + loop that unlinks and creates files can revisit output files. + * Noteworthy changes in release 1.4 (2010-01-20) [stable] -- 2.47.2