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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Changes for better compliance with POSIX + dd changes: + + On a QUIT or PIPE signal, dd now exits without printing statistics. + + On hosts lacking the INFO signal, dd no longer treats the USR1 + signal as if it were INFO when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. + nohup changes: nohup now ignores the umask when creating nohup.out. @@ -28,7 +35,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- dd now computes statistics using a realtime clock (if available) rather than the time-of-day clock, to avoid glitches if the - time-of-day is changed while dd is running. + time-of-day is changed while dd is running. Also, it avoids + using unsafe code in signal handlers; this fixes some core dumps. expr now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers, rather than silently wrapping around. |