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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-03-31 09:11:15 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-03-31 09:11:15 +0200
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* NEWS: Note the dd bug fix. The bug was introduced over 8 years ago:
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@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
configure --enable-no-install-program=groups now works.
+ dd once again works with unnecessary options like if=/dev/stdin and
+ of=/dev/stdout. [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0h]
+
id now uses getgrouplist, when possible. This results in
much better performance when there are many users and/or groups.