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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-11-13 00:52:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-11-13 00:52:32 +0000 |
| commit | 54e862641b456ee67947757d01cc65c63f6156f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 547754d1068184a2f8fd381dc57b8379c7d873af /NEWS | |
| parent | 8aed6ea305f6e55aad18e42340f8706d2dadcdc4 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-54e862641b456ee67947757d01cc65c63f6156f3.tar.xz | |
Document today's changes to "sort".
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -119,8 +119,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- for some types of errors (e.g., read-only file system, I/O error) when first encountering the directory. - "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard - output; POSIX requires this. + "sort" fixes: + + "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard + output; POSIX requires this. + + An unlikely race condition has been fixed where "sort" could have + mistakenly removed a temporary file belonging to some other process. + + "sort" no longer has O(N**2) behavior when it creates many temporary files. tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's /proc/modules. Before, it would produce no output for such a file. |