From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:42:18 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: shred,sort,split: add NEWS item
X-Git-Tag: v8.31~59
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69df9e20e2f521add066c7ab616f90afcd39bf57;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

shred,sort,split: add NEWS item
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8c12835499..47eb1ddccc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   df no longer corrupts displayed multibyte characters on macOS.
   [bug introduced with coreutils-8.18]
 
+  shred, sort, and split no longer falsely report ftruncate errors
+  when outputting to less-common file types.  For example, the shell
+  command 'sort /dev/null -o /dev/stdout | cat' no longer fails with
+  an "error truncating" diagnostic.
+  [bug was introduced with coreutils-8.18 for sort and split, and
+   (for shared memory objects only) with fileutils-4.1 for shred]
+
   sync no longer fails for write-only file arguments.
   [bug introduced with argument support to sync in coreutils-8.24]