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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
+ `cp --sparse=always F /dev/hdx' no longer tries to use lseek to create
+ holes in the destination.
+
nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for its copy of the stderr file
descriptor. This avoids some nohup-induced hangs. For example, before
this change, if you ran `ssh localhost', then `nohup sleep 600 </dev/null &',