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doc: NEWS: mention that sort --compress=script needs a shebang
authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:17:31 +0000 (14:17 +0000)
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:21:16 +0000 (14:21 +0000)
* NEWS: Mention that we don't fall-back to executing /bin/sh <script>
for malformed scripts that don't start with #!..., or any executable
that returns ENOEXEC in general.

NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0cc760aeedae31ed2216553d49263ff638046f4d..7a21ffce3b95151b46bfcfef64c478ffb867cb03 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Changes in behavior
 
-  'sort' will continue without compressing temporary files if the
-  program specified by --compress-program cannot be executed.
+  'sort --compress-program' will continue without compressing temporary files
+  if the specified program cannot be executed.  Also malformed shell scripts
+  without a "shebang line" will no longer be executed.
 
 ** New Features