From 5923469a3c5c728dba30c969ecc4913a06558892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 04:22:43 +0000
Subject: dd seek=N now conforms to POSIX if the output isn't seekable.

---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6d82047ae..32b47547e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
     On hosts lacking the INFO signal, dd no longer treats the USR1
     signal as if it were INFO when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
 
+    If the file F is non-seekable and contains fewer than N blocks,
+    then before copying "dd seek=N of=F" now extends F with zeroed
+    blocks until F contains N blocks.
+
   fold changes:
 
     When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, "fold file -3" is now equivalent to
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