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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-06-16 23:46:27 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-06-16 23:46:27 +0000
commit4df24112903cb00012e164657f14f2d08ec9efca (patch)
treeaa0dd4d77591341403a64741b5a806e54951636e /NEWS
parent0812004419be11386ad11e51603cc3ef085662e9 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-4df24112903cb00012e164657f14f2d08ec9efca.tar.xz
* src/hostid.c (main): Don't print fewer than 8 digits, or spurious leading "f".
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@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Improved portability
+ hostid now prints exactly 8 hexadecimal digits, possibly with leading zeros,
+ and without any spurious leading "fff..." on 64-bit hosts.
+
nice now works on Darwin 7.7.0 in spite of its invalid definition of NZERO.
`rm -r' can remove all entries in a directory even when it is on a