From 31fc497b9a96d6bec4a342f74c753d47929ae30f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:19:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- ChangeLog | 1 + NEWS | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0fe92145b4..4b35b36af5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ (show_date): Use new fprintftime function rather than xanstrftime. Correct comment: this function no longer handles a NULL format string. * src/du.c: Likewise. + * NEWS: Mention this. * tests/misc/date (subfmt-up1): Test the combination of the to-upper-case modifier (^) and a conversion specifier that diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 52e1d28afb..b5d9987c4d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- "pr -D FORMAT" now accepts the same formats that "date +FORMAT" does. +** Improved robustness + + Date no longer needs to allocate virtual memory to do its job, + so it can no longer fail due to an out-of-memory condition, + no matter how large the result. + ** Improved portability hostid now prints exactly 8 hexadecimal digits, possibly with leading zeros, -- 2.47.3