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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8a2fecef47..650b81a2e7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ Major new features: Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: +* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not + support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space + emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel + behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the + copy_file_range function will have to be run on kernels which implement + the copy_file_range system call. Support for most architectures was added + in version 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel. + * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime, clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the |