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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 0f69eb965..71b083457 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ [4.1.3] * ls -R once again outputs a blank line between per-directory groups of files. This was broken by the cycle-detection change in 4.1.1. +* dd once again uses `lseek' on character devices like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. + On systems with the linux kernel (at least up to 2.4.16), dd must still + resort to emulating `skip=N' behavior using reads on tape devices, because + lseek has no effect, yet appears to succeed. This may be a kernel bug. [4.1.2] * cp no longer fails when two or more source files are the same; now it just gives a warning and doesn't copy the file the second time. |