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@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
ln=target attribute) would mistakenly output the string "target"
before the name of each symlink. [introduced in coreutils-6.0]
+ od's --skip (-j) option now works even when the kernel says that a
+ nonempty regular file has stat.st_size = 0. This happens at least
+ with files in /proc and linux-2.6.22.
+
"od -j L FILE" had a bug: when the number of bytes to skip, L, is exactly
the same as the length of FILE, od would skip *no* bytes. When the number
of bytes to skip is exactly the sum of the lengths of the first N files,