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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-07-24 09:59:14 +0200
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-07-24 09:59:14 +0200
commitc12bf5fb7ff8a40884a99332fb20abc9c53be75c (patch)
treed7f11b42e22fff9770aa7b937334438c86093e3b /NEWS
parent9d8e077ca1f4402b608d1464794e390bc7fc5b81 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-c12bf5fb7ff8a40884a99332fb20abc9c53be75c.tar.xz
sort: add a test to exercise the affected code.
* tests/sort/Test.pm (realloc-buf): Exercise the code that changed yesterday. No other test in all of "make check" does this. * NEWS: Mention the fix.
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@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
seq no longer mishandles obvious cases like "seq 0 0.000001 0.000003",
so workarounds like "seq 0 0.000001 0.0000031" are no longer needed.
+ sorting very long lines (relative to the amount of available memory)
+ no longer provokes unaligned memory access
+
split --line-bytes=N (-C N) no longer creates an empty file
[this bug is present at least as far back as textutils-1.22 (Jan, 1997)]