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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-06-23 14:15:59 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2016-06-24 01:13:33 +0100
commit5845664c8c61faf004eb3ef9979e770f794108c1 (patch)
tree98678dd3dae0f06cef11ae07b03b3471911e16d2 /NEWS
parentba5767c2b869dcbbae91f1d42b488dca31652a0a (diff)
downloadcoreutils-5845664c8c61faf004eb3ef9979e770f794108c1.tar.xz
yes: handle short writes
* src/yes.c (main): Loop over the write buffer to handle the case where write may write less than requested. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Reported by Paul Eggert.
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
seq now immediately exits upon write errors.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+ yes now handles short writes, rather than assuming all writes complete.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
+
** Changes in behavior
seq no longer accepts 0 value as increment, and now also rejects NaN