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| author | Bo Borgerson <gigabo@gmail.com> | 2008-04-05 13:33:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-06-17 22:36:51 +0200 |
| commit | 20905b0cdcb960c9949763c606f15e7e09d02e00 (patch) | |
| tree | 4857729dfcb9dfa816027a106567c166e8260271 /NEWS | |
| parent | 322c6f2e5cd3d09ed31d9d8dea2310d70f47842a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-20905b0cdcb960c9949763c606f15e7e09d02e00.tar.xz | |
sort: accept new option --batch-size=NMERGE
* src/sort.c: (static unsigned int nmerge) Replace constant NMERGE.
(specify_nmerge) Validate and apply new option.
(mergefps) Replace some arrays with pointers to xnmalloc'd storage.
* tests/misc/sort-merge: Test new option.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Describe new option.
* NEWS: Advertise new option.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- instead of filenames passed on the command-line to avoid problems with maximum command-line (argv) length. + sort accepts a new option --batch-size=NMERGE, where NMERGE + represents the maximum number of inputs that will be merged at once. + When processing more than NMERGE inputs, sort uses temporary files. + ** Bug fixes chcon --verbose now prints a newline after each message |