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@@ -2,15 +2,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Major changes in release 6.3-cvs (2006-??-??) [stable] +** Improved robustness + + sort would fail to handle very large input (around 40GB) on systems with a + mkstemp function that returns a file descriptor limited to 32-bit offsets. + ** Bug fixes chmod would fail unnecessarily in an unusual case: when an initially- inaccessible argument is rendered accessible by chmod's action on a preceding command line argument. This bug also affects chgrp, but - it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown. + it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown. The bug was + introduced with the switch from explicit recursion to the use of fts + in coreutils-5.1.0 (2003-10-15). - cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or - move action was bound to fail. + cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or move + action was bound to fail. This bug dates back to before fileutils-4.0. * Major changes in release 6.2 (2006-09-18) [stable candidate] |