GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option
GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 14 September 2026 at 01:45 PM EDT. Add A Comment GNU Coreutils 9.12 released today with a mix of fixes, some new options, and various performance improvements to these widely-used set of core system utilities. First up, GNU Coreutils 9.12 addresses a long-standing bug where chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown, du, and ls would fail if traversing hierarchies with the recursive "-R" option and files were removed in parallel.
- ▪GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 14 September 2026 at 01:45 PM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment GNU Coreutils 9.12 released today with a mix of fixes, some new options, and various performance improvements to these widely-used set of core system utilities.
- ▪First up, GNU Coreutils 9.12 addresses a long-standing bug where chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown, du, and ls would fail if traversing hierarchies with the recursive "-R" option and files were removed in parallel.
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GNU Coreutils 9.12 Released With Performance Optimizations, New uname Option Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 14 September 2026 at 01:45 PM EDT. Add A Comment GNU Coreutils 9.12 released today with a mix of fixes, some new options, and various performance improvements to these widely-used set of core system utilities. First up, GNU Coreutils 9.12 addresses a long-standing bug where chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown, du, and ls would fail if traversing hierarchies with the recursive "-R" option and files were removed in parallel. With Coreutils 9.12, the stat and tail commands support the new FailFS and NULLFS file-system types. The uname command also adds "-A" and "--all-labeled" options to label all output and showing one item per line.
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