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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-12-02 07:50:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2001-12-02 07:50:04 +0000 |
| commit | 73711e47bbed29ee8242282a70a4b063fcc25349 (patch) | |
| tree | 34d034cc6af39b7d36b908486fb11849e3fe0b0e /old/fileutils | |
| parent | e03be48b10c3bba49fc692223362d743f1e1aaa4 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-73711e47bbed29ee8242282a70a4b063fcc25349.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog index aabd14271..099b86360 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ -2001-11-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> +2001-12-02 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> * Version 4.1.3. + Don't emulate dd's skip=N for *all* character devices; lseek works + just fine on non-tape character devices like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. + * src/dd.c (buggy_lseek_support) [__linux__]: Emulate `skip=N' + behavior using reads, not lseek for Linux tape devices (major == 9). + Kernel lseek support for tapes is broken, up to and including + linux-2.4.16. Reported by Herbert Xu. + +2001-11-27 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> + * tests/ls/rt-1: Compare all lines of output. Update code to use `trap' and more up to date infrastructure. @@ -2506,7 +2515,7 @@ 2000-08-24 Jim Meyering <meyering@lucent.com> - Put back the kluge. It's necessary after all. + Put back the kludge. It's necessary after all. * src/dd.c (buggy_lseek_support): New function. (skip): Use it. Frank Adler reported that although _llseek returns 0, lseek |