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@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
causing name look-up errors. Also look-ups are first done outside the chroot,
in case the look-up within the chroot fails due to library conflicts etc.
+ split avoids unnecessary input buffering, immediately writing input to output
+ which is significant with --filter or when writing to fifos or stdout etc.
+
stat and tail work better with HFS+ and HFSX. stat -f --format=%T now reports
the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify for files, rather than the
default of issuing a warning and reverting to polling.