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@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
-2004-03-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+2004-03-06  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
 	* Version 5.2.1.
 
+	cp --sparse=always sparse-image-file.img /dev/hda1 could
+	produce an invalid copy on the destination device.
+
+	* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Even with --sparse=always, try to
+	make `holes' only if the destination is a regular file.
+	Reported by Szakacsits Szabolcs.
+
 2004-03-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
 
 	* src/nohup.c (main): Don't invoke set_cloexec_flag with
@@ -15,7 +22,7 @@
 2004-03-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
 
 	* configure.ac: Include <signal.h> when checking for strsignal,
-	sys_siglist, and friends.  Problem reported by Toney Leneis in
+	sys_siglist, and friends.  Problem reported by Tony Leneis in
 	<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00136.html>.
 
 2004-02-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

NEWS

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  `cp --sparse=always F /dev/hdx' no longer tries to use lseek to create
+  holes in the destination.
+
   nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for its copy of the stderr file
   descriptor.  This avoids some nohup-induced hangs.  For example, before
   this change, if you ran `ssh localhost', then `nohup sleep 600 </dev/null &',