-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-09-12
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-09-13
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Tar now checks for inconsistencies caused when a file system is
modified while tar is creating an archive. In the new approach, tar
maintains a cache of file descriptors to directories, so it uses more
-file descriptors before, but it gracefully adjusts to system limits on
+file descriptors than before, but it adjusts to system limits on
the number of file descriptors. The new checks are implemented via
the openat, dirfd, fdopendir, fstatat, and readlinkat calls
standardized by POSIX.1-2008. On an older system where these calls do