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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2012-12-08 12:04:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2012-12-09 15:08:36 -0800 |
| commit | 4f62d2fe28abe9d7b59b2fc50b59db4d8f2a3853 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ccbf5868b80faff05a465cf559aa2fe94a85936 /NEWS | |
| parent | 62543570d72b756a3b04ca9d1ebec6f4dd2eea4b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4f62d2fe28abe9d7b59b2fc50b59db4d8f2a3853.tar.xz | |
tests: add test case and note that last week's cut change is a bug fix
* tests/misc/cut-huge-to-eol-range.sh: New test, showing that
the change in v8.20-51-g7d03466 is a bug fix after all.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add it.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- cp --no-preserve=mode now no longer exits non-zero. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.20] + cut with a range like "N-" no longer allocates N/8 bytes. That buffer + would never be used, and allocation failure could cause cut to fail. + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.10] + cut no longer accepts the invalid range 0-, which made it print empty lines. Instead, cut now fails and emits an appropriate diagnostic. [This bug was present in "the beginning".] |