Re: Re2: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> ThMO <address@hidden> writes:
>> > * NEWS:
>> >   why is the above bug, which I reported, *not* listed within the
>> >   NEWS file, clearly stated as a fixed bug?
>>
>> NEWS reports only important user-visible fixes.  I don't know which
>> bug you meant by "the above bug".  If we forgot to put a bugfix in
>> NEWS and it's important please tell it what it was.
>
> I could not find a NEWS entry on this item either.  This is a
> significant enough item that I think it should have one.  After I
> responded to Tom and the list I posted this note as a followup to the
> bug-coreutils list only.  It seemed germane only to the coreutils
> developers on the list and so that is where I directed it.
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00178.html

Thanks.
I've added this:

  stat now exits nonzero if a file operand does not exist