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-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 1 | ||||
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@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ (show_date): Use new fprintftime function rather than xanstrftime. Correct comment: this function no longer handles a NULL format string. * src/du.c: Likewise. + * NEWS: Mention this. * tests/misc/date (subfmt-up1): Test the combination of the to-upper-case modifier (^) and a conversion specifier that @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "pr -D FORMAT" now accepts the same formats that "date +FORMAT" does. +** Improved robustness + + Date no longer needs to allocate virtual memory to do its job, + so it can no longer fail due to an out-of-memory condition, + no matter how large the result. + ** Improved portability hostid now prints exactly 8 hexadecimal digits, possibly with leading zeros, |