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-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--src/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--src/dired.c3
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 03ec5405803..2ac4b187381 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
* Changes in Emacs 24.2
+** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
+name, group names known to the system (where possible).
+
** If your Emacs was built from a bzr checkout, the new variable
`emacs-bzr-version' contains information about which bzr revision was used.
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index bcb2edee96f..8c0dcc9c044 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-04-17 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+ * dired.c (Fsystem_users): Doc fix.
+
2012-04-17 Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
* dired.c (Fsystem_users, Fsystem_groups): New functions. (Bug#7900)
diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c
index 2c634b9ca6f..eeae59d2801 100644
--- a/src/dired.c
+++ b/src/dired.c
@@ -1018,7 +1018,8 @@ Comparison is in lexicographic order and case is significant. */)
DEFUN ("system-users", Fsystem_users, Ssystem_users, 0, 0, 0,
doc: /* Return a list of user names currently registered in the system.
-The value may be nil if not supported on this platform. */)
+If we don't know how to determine that on this platform, just
+return a list with one element, taken from `user-real-login-name'. */)
(void)
{
Lisp_Object users = Qnil;