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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-04 18:26:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-09-07 11:04:41 +0200 |
| commit | 65672bf109a22748114bc3283aa499612c61a8c3 (patch) | |
| tree | bc7284e5430ecb85c2754bd60ff98b2f71de88f7 /NEWS | |
| parent | 6c13e72c797771b4a37ffbea3e03f60b57f33a68 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-65672bf109a22748114bc3283aa499612c61a8c3.tar.xz | |
factor: NEWS and tests
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* tests/misc/factor.pl: Add five of Torbjörn's tests.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- it detects this precise type of cycle, diagnoses it as such and eventually exits nonzero. + factor (when using gmp) would mistakenly declare some composite numbers + to be prime, e.g., 465658903, 2242724851, 6635692801 and many more. + The fix makes factor somewhat slower (~25%) for ranges of consecutive + numbers, and up to 8 times slower for some worst-case individual numbers. + [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0, with GNU MP support] + rm -i -d now prompts the user then removes an empty directory, rather than ignoring the -d option and failing with an 'Is a directory' error. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.19, with the addition of --dir (-d)] |