From 5845664c8c61faf004eb3ef9979e770f794108c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:15:59 +0100 Subject: yes: handle short writes * src/yes.c (main): Loop over the write buffer to handle the case where write may write less than requested. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. Reported by Paul Eggert. --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 71b5c24ed..b6c5c06ef 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- seq now immediately exits upon write errors. [This bug was present in "the beginning".] + yes now handles short writes, rather than assuming all writes complete. + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] + ** Changes in behavior seq no longer accepts 0 value as increment, and now also rejects NaN -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2