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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-27 20:45:55 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-27 20:45:55 +0000 |
commit | 446a751f638c330bb7229fadeb95543fd454cc9d (patch) | |
tree | ae283ada9409ffabb13088f0f410eb7613df3c7e /NEWS | |
parent | 79047d4850cbc07ab1deaf7130404bbc3b39d07a (diff) | |
download | coreutils-446a751f638c330bb7229fadeb95543fd454cc9d.tar.xz |
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -24,25 +24,28 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes - `sort --version' and `sort --help' fail, as they should - when their output is redirected to /dev/full. - - `su --version > /dev/full' now fails, as it should. - - uniq -c now uses a SPACE, not a TAB between the count and the - corresponding line, as required by POSIX. - kill no longer tries to operate on argv[0] (introduced in 5.0.1) Why wasn't this noticed? Although many tests use kill, none of them made an effort to avoid using the shell's built-in kill. `[' invoked with no arguments no longer evokes a segfault + rm without --recursive (aka -r or -R) no longer prompts regarding + unwritable directories, as required by POSIX. + + uniq -c now uses a SPACE, not a TAB between the count and the + corresponding line, as required by POSIX. + expr now exits with status 2 if the expression is syntactically valid, and with status 3 if an error occurred. POSIX requires this. expr now reports trouble if string comparison fails due to a collation error. + `sort --version' and `sort --help' fail, as they should + when their output is redirected to /dev/full. + + `su --version > /dev/full' now fails, as it should. + ** Fewer arbitrary limitations cut requires 97% less memory when very large field numbers or |