From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:04:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tail -c 2 FILE now operates as POSIX 1002.1-2001 requires.
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~1439
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18eb295ec4bf60364c4e818f2168156db8139ed3;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tail -c 2 FILE now operates as POSIX 1002.1-2001 requires.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index db1814ec55..6693894bb2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   tac now works when stdin is a tty, even on non-Linux systems
 
+  "tail -c 2 FILE" now operates as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires, even
+  when "tail" is conforming to older POSIX standards, as the
+  newly-mandated behavior is upward-compatible with the old.
+
 ** Build-related bug fixes
 
   installing .mo files would fail