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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-11-01 23:04:37 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-11-01 23:04:37 +0000
commit18eb295ec4bf60364c4e818f2168156db8139ed3 (patch)
treecc2b42d80ce25eda1f668d5f86c91e15b46579a0 /NEWS
parenta53513f142e68d1c5e4dd9367378e74f25eadce5 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-18eb295ec4bf60364c4e818f2168156db8139ed3.tar.xz
tail -c 2 FILE now operates as POSIX 1002.1-2001 requires.
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@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
tac now works when stdin is a tty, even on non-Linux systems
+ "tail -c 2 FILE" now operates as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires, even
+ when "tail" is conforming to older POSIX standards, as the
+ newly-mandated behavior is upward-compatible with the old.
+
** Build-related bug fixes
installing .mo files would fail