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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-09-24 11:44:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-09-24 11:44:16 +0000 |
| commit | 200aa48e15dd85b8d158a294ba0591307178a028 (patch) | |
| tree | 5031487404c8f0c1a912fc3452517f0f0bc87739 /NEWS | |
| parent | 867251d7250ea87617d971faa3234a91c9d587e7 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-200aa48e15dd85b8d158a294ba0591307178a028.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: Mention the improvement to sort.
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 13 |
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@@ -2,15 +2,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Major changes in release 6.3-cvs (2006-??-??) [stable] +** Improved robustness + + sort would fail to handle very large input (around 40GB) on systems with a + mkstemp function that returns a file descriptor limited to 32-bit offsets. + ** Bug fixes chmod would fail unnecessarily in an unusual case: when an initially- inaccessible argument is rendered accessible by chmod's action on a preceding command line argument. This bug also affects chgrp, but - it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown. + it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown. The bug was + introduced with the switch from explicit recursion to the use of fts + in coreutils-5.1.0 (2003-10-15). - cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or - move action was bound to fail. + cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or move + action was bound to fail. This bug dates back to before fileutils-4.0. * Major changes in release 6.2 (2006-09-18) [stable candidate] |