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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-09-04 18:26:25 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2012-09-07 11:04:41 +0200
commit65672bf109a22748114bc3283aa499612c61a8c3 (patch)
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downloadcoreutils-65672bf109a22748114bc3283aa499612c61a8c3.tar.xz
factor: NEWS and tests
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. * tests/misc/factor.pl: Add five of Torbjörn's tests.
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@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
it detects this precise type of cycle, diagnoses it as such and
eventually exits nonzero.
+ factor (when using gmp) would mistakenly declare some composite numbers
+ to be prime, e.g., 465658903, 2242724851, 6635692801 and many more.
+ The fix makes factor somewhat slower (~25%) for ranges of consecutive
+ numbers, and up to 8 times slower for some worst-case individual numbers.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0, with GNU MP support]
+
rm -i -d now prompts the user then removes an empty directory, rather
than ignoring the -d option and failing with an 'Is a directory' error.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.19, with the addition of --dir (-d)]