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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -119,8 +119,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- for some types of errors (e.g., read-only file system, I/O error) when first encountering the directory. - "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard - output; POSIX requires this. + "sort" fixes: + + "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard + output; POSIX requires this. + + An unlikely race condition has been fixed where "sort" could have + mistakenly removed a temporary file belonging to some other process. + + "sort" no longer has O(N**2) behavior when it creates many temporary files. tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's /proc/modules. Before, it would produce no output for such a file. |