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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -8,15 +8,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Even then, chcon may still be useful. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0] - stat -f recognizes more file system types: afs, cifs, anon-inode FS, - btrfs, cgroupfs, cramfs-wend, debugfs, futexfs, hfs, inotifyfs, minux3, - nilfs, securityfs, selinux, xenfs - md5sum now prints checksums atomically so that concurrent processes will not intersperse their output. This also affected sum, sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum. [the bug dates back to the initial implementation] + stat -f recognizes more file system types: afs, cifs, anon-inode FS, + btrfs, cgroupfs, cramfs-wend, debugfs, futexfs, hfs, inotifyfs, minux3, + nilfs, securityfs, selinux, xenfs + + tail -f (inotify-enabled) now avoids a race condition. + Before, any data appended in the tiny interval between the initial + read-to-EOF and the inotify watch initialization would be ignored + initially (until more data was appended), or forever, if the file + were first renamed or unlinked or never modified. + [The race was introduced in coreutils-7.5] + ** New features md5sum --check now also accepts openssl-style checksums. |