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@@ -29,12 +29,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "Too many levels of symbolic links" diagnostic. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] + seq now handles arbitrarily long non-negative whole numbers when the + increment is 1 and when no format-changing option is specified. + Before, this would infloop: + b=100000000000000000000; seq $b $b + [the bug dates back to the initial implementation] + ** Changes in behavior nproc now diagnoses with an error, non option command line parameters. ** Improvements + seq is now up to 70 times faster than it was in coreutils-8.19 and prior, + but only with non-negative whole numbers, an increment of 1, and no + format-changing options. + stat and tail work better with ZFS and VZFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify for files on those file systems, rather than the default (for unknown file system |