doc: document env fix

* NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Document recent change.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 97cb4bd64706475aa62d1b2c93e8184cbd915755..802f4b4275598bb84ade2c9cfe9a048eea31e0be 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   heavily changed during the run.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.25]
 
+  env -S no longer crashes when given unusual whitespace characters
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.30]
+
   expr no longer mishandles unmatched \(...\) in regular expressions.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
 

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index ac0b4467d84e0308d209d0e15a401f5f95419be1..06ecdd74cce95e9e7598b70e403bc9d4a34f8291 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -17592,6 +17592,8 @@ hello
 
 Running @command{env -Sstring} splits the @var{string} into
 arguments based on unquoted spaces or tab characters.
+(Newlines, carriage returns, vertical tabs and form feeds are treated
+like spaces and tabs.)
 
 In the following contrived example the @command{awk} variable
 @samp{OFS} will be @code{<space>xyz<space>} as these spaces are inside