* NEWS: Mention Paul's fix (to gnulib's canon-host.c) for

the pinky segfault.

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@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2006-09-29  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
+       * NEWS: Mention Paul's fix (to gnulib's canon-host.c) for
+       the pinky segfault.
+
        * tests/seq/basic [neg-2, eq-wid-2]: Comment out tests that
        use .1 as the increment.  Actual output varies too much.
        [eq-wid-3]: New, commented out test.

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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Improved robustness
 
+  pinky no longer segfaults on Darwin 7.9.0 (MacOS X 10.3.9) due to a
+  buggy native getaddrinfo function.
+
   rm works around a bug in Darwin 7.9.0 (MacOS X 10.3.9) that would
   sometimes keep it from removing all entries in a directory on an HFS+
   or NFS-mounted partition.