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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog2
-rw-r--r--NEWS7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 295d3bab0..bbcc6bce1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
2007-10-21 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+ * NEWS: Mention the printf fix.
+
Reorder tests to run more basic ones earlier.
* tests/misc/Makefile.am (TESTS): Reorder.
* tests/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Reorder.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8fb3f50d9..0ccfc49fa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
of bytes to skip is exactly the sum of the lengths of the first N files,
od would skip only the first N-1 files. [introduced in textutils-2.0.9]
+ ./printf %.10000000f 1 could get an internal ENOMEM error and generate
+ no output, yet erroneously exit with status 0. Now it diagnoses the error
+ and exits with nonzero status. [present in initial implementation]
+
seq no longer mishandles obvious cases like "seq 0 0.000001 0.000003",
so workarounds like "seq 0 0.000001 0.0000031" are no longer needed.
@@ -146,9 +150,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
[this bug is present at least as far back as textutils-1.22 (Jan, 1997)]
tr -c no longer aborts when translating with Set2 larger than the
- complement of Set1. [introduced with the original version, in 1992]
+ complement of Set1. [present in the original version, in 1992]
tr no longer rejects an unmatched [:lower:] or [:upper:] in SET1.
+ [present in the original version]
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.9 (2007-03-22) [stable]