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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-11-15 18:03:26 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-11-15 18:03:26 +0000
commit12fc258f9fb3b6e059102b66a789475b09cab9d1 (patch)
tree5c6ffe04a8dff0eb484339883ad8e21973285739
parent087fd33c3249adfd1fb30a5751cec2e651a76380 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-12fc258f9fb3b6e059102b66a789475b09cab9d1.tar.xz
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** Bug fixes
- sort and tac now use the replacement mkstemp function, and hence
- are no longer subject to limitations (of 26 or 32, on the maximum
- number of files from a given template) on HP-UX 10.20, SunOS 4.1.4,
- Solaris 2.5.1 and OSF1/Tru64 V4.0F&V5.1.
+ sort would fail for large inputs (~50MB) on systems with a buggy
+ mkstemp function. sort and tac now use the replacement mkstemp
+ function, and hence are no longer subject to limitations (of 26 or 32,
+ on the maximum number of files from a given template) on HP-UX 10.20,
+ SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.5.1 and OSF1/Tru64 V4.0F&V5.1.
* Major changes in release 5.93 (2005-11-06) [stable]