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@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
which could be triggered especially when tail was suspended and resumed.
[bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
+ timeout no longer has a race that may terminate the wrong process.
+ The race is unlikely, as timeout(1) needs to receive a signal right
+ after the command being monitored finishes. Also the system needs
+ to have reallocated that command's pid in that short time window.
+ [bug introduced when timeout was added in coreutils-7.0]
+
wc --bytes --files0-from now correctly reports byte counts.
Previously it may have returned values that were too large,
depending on the size of the first file processed.