From 0d34887fe9912b65c1223cfefcaa9bf71c89b40c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:11:15 +0200
Subject: * NEWS: Note the dd bug fix.  The bug was introduced over 8 years
 ago:

9fca49f67c16c8b42c32e185808fe187cedb0fa7
---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e1349066a..dfe2cb588 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   configure --enable-no-install-program=groups now works.
 
+  dd once again works with unnecessary options like if=/dev/stdin and
+  of=/dev/stdout.  [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0h]
+
   id now uses getgrouplist, when possible.  This results in
   much better performance when there are many users and/or groups.
 
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