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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-07-20 18:42:23 +0200
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-07-20 18:42:23 +0200
commit366aaf59dcde9d3700346a94562151db6afb3be4 (patch)
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parent0cf61819479ad43533b6e24d769a8e85c7a17f11 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-366aaf59dcde9d3700346a94562151db6afb3be4.tar.xz
Document and add a test for today's sort bug fix.
* NEWS: Describe the bug fix. * tests/sort/Test.pm (obs-inval): Add a test for today's fix.
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@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Using pr -m -s (i.e. merging files, with TAB as the output separator)
no longer inserts extraneous spaces between output columns.
+ Obsolete sort usage with an invalid ordering-option character, e.g.,
+ "env _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 sort +1x" no longer makes sort free an
+ invalid pointer [introduced in coreutils-6.5]
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.8 (2007-02-24) [not-unstable]