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@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
adjusted, working around a bug in current Linux kernels.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
+ wc now prints counts atomically so that concurrent
+ processes will not intersperse their output.
+ [the issue dates back to the initial implementation]
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* Noteworthy changes in release 8.2 (2009-12-11) [stable]