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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-05-14 07:34:16 +0000
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* man/pwd.x, man/echo.x, man/printf.x: Fix typo:
s/supercede/supersede/ reported by Andrew Fabbro.
+2004-05-13 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ Improve performance of `sort -m' on large files, at the cost of
+ making some contrived examples unsafe. POSIX allows this
+ optimization. Performance problem reported by Jonathan Baker in
+ <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-05/msg00071.html>.
+
+ * src/sort.c (first_same_file): Do not treat input pipes
+ differently from other files.
+ * doc/coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Document that "sort -m -o F"
+ might write F before reading all the input.
+ * NEWS: Likewise.
+
2004-05-12 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* src/od.c (print_ascii, dump_strings): Use e.g. '\a' rather than