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@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +2007-07-28 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + Attempt to copy a regular file, even if stat says it is empty. + * NEWS: Document this bug fix. + * src/copy.c (copy_reg): Read from a regular file, even if it + appears (stat.st_size == 0) to be empty. This reverts an + optimization introduced on 2005-11-23 for coreutils-6.0. + Otherwise, "cp /proc/cpuinfo /tmp" creates an empty file, + on e.g., linux-2.6.20. + * tests/cp/proc-zero-len: New file. Test for the above. + * tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-zero-len. + Reported by Dan Berrangé. + 2007-07-26 Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> sort: Improve sort --random-sort test. |