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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -46,11 +46,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- cp --reflink accepts a new "auto" parameter which falls back to a standard copy if creating a copy-on-write clone is not possible. -** POSIX conformance +** Changes in behavior - tail -f now ignores "-" when stdin is a pipe or FIFO, per POSIX. - Now, :|tail -f terminates immediately. Before, it would block indefinitely. - [the old behavior dates back to the original implementation] + tail -f now ignores "-" when stdin is a pipe or FIFO. + tail-with-no-args now ignores -f unconditionally when stdin is a pipe or FIFO. + Before, it would ignore -f only when no file argument was specified, + and then only when POSIXLY_CORRECT was set. Now, :|tail -f - terminates + immediately. Before, it would block indefinitely. * Noteworthy changes in release 7.5 (2009-08-20) [stable] |