From caf82de4ba310f3fda3ffc0f1010324c67767665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:10:36 +0000
Subject: `tac /proc/modules' would print nothing

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

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1f62e60f8..1e8509e03 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard
   output; POSIX requires this.
 
+  tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's
+  /proc/modules.  Before, it would produce no output for such a file.
+
   "tail -f" no longer mishandles pipes and fifos.  With no operands,
   tail now ignores -f if standard input is a pipe, as POSIX requires.
   When conforming to POSIX 1003.2-1992, tail now supports the SUSv2 b
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