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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-10-29 22:10:36 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-10-29 22:10:36 +0000
commitcaf82de4ba310f3fda3ffc0f1010324c67767665 (patch)
treefad458f6ef21f1259e3742cd9ae8ac9e1aa743e1 /NEWS
parentdc3504e276bef73cee0437485798bce51d0cd7fc (diff)
downloadcoreutils-caf82de4ba310f3fda3ffc0f1010324c67767665.tar.xz
`tac /proc/modules' would print nothing
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@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
"sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard
output; POSIX requires this.
+ tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's
+ /proc/modules. Before, it would produce no output for such a file.
+
"tail -f" no longer mishandles pipes and fifos. With no operands,
tail now ignores -f if standard input is a pipe, as POSIX requires.
When conforming to POSIX 1003.2-1992, tail now supports the SUSv2 b