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@@ -3,11 +3,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
+ `cp -d' now works as required even on systems like OSF V5.1 that
+ declare stat and lstat as `static inline' functions.
+
time stamps output by stat now include actual fractional seconds,
when available -- or .0000000 for files without that information.
- seq no longer suffers integer overflow when printing 2^32 or more numbers.
- For reference, seq `echo 2^32|bc` > /dev/null takes about two hours
+ seq no longer infloops when printing 2^31 or more numbers.
+ For reference, seq `echo 2^31|bc` > /dev/null takes about one hour
on a 1.6 GHz Athlon 2000 XP. Now it can output 2^53-1 numbers before
misbehaving.