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@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
seq no longer mishandles obvious cases like "seq 0 0.000001 0.000003",
so workarounds like "seq 0 0.000001 0.0000031" are no longer needed.
+ Obsolete sort usage with an invalid ordering-option character, e.g.,
+ "env _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 sort +1x" no longer makes sort free an
+ invalid pointer [introduced in coreutils-6.5]
+
sorting very long lines (relative to the amount of available memory)
no longer provokes unaligned memory access
@@ -118,10 +122,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Using pr -m -s (i.e. merging files, with TAB as the output separator)
no longer inserts extraneous spaces between output columns.
- Obsolete sort usage with an invalid ordering-option character, e.g.,
- "env _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 sort +1x" no longer makes sort free an
- invalid pointer [introduced in coreutils-6.5]
-
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.8 (2007-02-24) [not-unstable]
** Bug fixes