for some types of errors (e.g., read-only file system, I/O error)
when first encountering the directory.
- "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard
- output; POSIX requires this.
+ "sort" fixes:
+
+ "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard
+ output; POSIX requires this.
+
+ An unlikely race condition has been fixed where "sort" could have
+ mistakenly removed a temporary file belonging to some other process.
+
+ "sort" no longer has O(N**2) behavior when it creates many temporary files.
tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's
/proc/modules. Before, it would produce no output for such a file.