From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:11:15 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: * NEWS: Note the dd bug fix.  The bug was introduced over 8 years ago:
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* NEWS: Note the dd bug fix.  The bug was introduced over 8 years ago:

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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e1349066a5..dfe2cb5886 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   configure --enable-no-install-program=groups now works.
 
+  dd once again works with unnecessary options like if=/dev/stdin and
+  of=/dev/stdout.  [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0h]
+
   id now uses getgrouplist, when possible.  This results in
   much better performance when there are many users and/or groups.