From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:44:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * NEWS: Mention the improvement to sort. X-Git-Tag: v6.3~33 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=200aa48e15dd85b8d158a294ba0591307178a028;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git * NEWS: Mention the improvement to sort. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index fcfde53d92..5b371a5f0b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2006-09-24 Jim Meyering + * NEWS: Mention the improvement to sort. + * tests/tail-2/proc-ksyms: Require that /proc/ksyms be readable as well as existing. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 62e5163167..0710236519 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,15 +2,22 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Major changes in release 6.3-cvs (2006-??-??) [stable] +** Improved robustness + + sort would fail to handle very large input (around 40GB) on systems with a + mkstemp function that returns a file descriptor limited to 32-bit offsets. + ** Bug fixes chmod would fail unnecessarily in an unusual case: when an initially- inaccessible argument is rendered accessible by chmod's action on a preceding command line argument. This bug also affects chgrp, but - it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown. + it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown. The bug was + introduced with the switch from explicit recursion to the use of fts + in coreutils-5.1.0 (2003-10-15). - cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or - move action was bound to fail. + cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or move + action was bound to fail. This bug dates back to before fileutils-4.0. * Major changes in release 6.2 (2006-09-18) [stable candidate]