From 54e862641b456ee67947757d01cc65c63f6156f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:52:32 +0000 Subject: Document today's changes to "sort". --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a6eaded25..2718526d5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -119,8 +119,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- for some types of errors (e.g., read-only file system, I/O error) when first encountering the directory. - "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard - output; POSIX requires this. + "sort" fixes: + + "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard + output; POSIX requires this. + + An unlikely race condition has been fixed where "sort" could have + mistakenly removed a temporary file belonging to some other process. + + "sort" no longer has O(N**2) behavior when it creates many temporary files. tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's /proc/modules. Before, it would produce no output for such a file. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf