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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-09-16 08:19:00 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2005-09-16 08:19:00 +0000
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@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
"pr -D FORMAT" now accepts the same formats that "date +FORMAT" does.
+** Improved robustness
+
+ Date no longer needs to allocate virtual memory to do its job,
+ so it can no longer fail due to an out-of-memory condition,
+ no matter how large the result.
+
** Improved portability
hostid now prints exactly 8 hexadecimal digits, possibly with leading zeros,