From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 10:12:28 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: NEWS: mention the more defensive copy_file_range avoidance
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doc: NEWS: mention the more defensive copy_file_range avoidance

* NEWS: Mention the improvement in reinstating runtime avoidance
of copy_file_range(), that came with the last gnulib update,
picking up gnulib commit fb034b35.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3d19c3bad4..97f180ed1d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Improvements
 
+  cp, mv, and install now avoid copy_file_range on linux kernels before 5.3
+  irrespective of which kernel version coreutils is built against,
+  reinstating that behaviour from coreutils-9.0.
+
   split now uses more tuned access patterns for its potentially large input.
   This was seen to improve throughput by 5% when reading from SSD.