Hello,
On the 2013-03-22 05:42, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to release diffutils-3.3, primarily to make it so
> the latest release is not susceptible to CVE-2012-3386.
>
> Here's the current state of NEWS:
>
> ** New features
>
> --new-file (-N) and --unidirectional-new-file now allow comparisons to "-".
> A standard input that's closed acts like a nonexistent file.
>
> A file name containing spaces, double quotes, backslashes or control
> characters is now encoded in a diff header as a double-quoted C string
> literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v and
> \ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are used.
Please mention the new --no-dereference option, for which i also suggest to
add a shortopt('K'). Thanks.
See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2009-03/msg00070.html
Regards,
Denis Excoffier.
