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@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
were first renamed or unlinked or never modified.
[The race was introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ chroot, env, nice, and su fail with status 125, rather than 1, on
+ internal error such as failure to parse command line arguments; this
+ is for consistency with stdbuf and timeout, and avoids ambiguity
+ with the invoked command failing with status 1.
+
** New features
md5sum --check now also accepts openssl-style checksums.