From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:21:49 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: sort: document --compress reaper fixes
X-Git-Tag: v8.8~23
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8f40ed634c9e6696a6bf05a4924dd6f8b7c834f6;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

sort: document --compress reaper fixes

* NEWS: Document the --compress reaper fixes installed yesterday.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b0a11b1102..e98b815bc6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   sort with at least two threads no longer segfaults due to use of pointers
   into the stack of an expired thread. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
 
+  sort --compress no longer mishandles subprocesses' exit statuses.
+
 ** New features
 
   split accepts the --number option to generate a specific number of files.