From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:00:37 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: doc: document env fix
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doc: document env fix

* NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi (env invocation): Document recent change.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 97cb4bd647..802f4b4275 100644
--- 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 ac0b4467d8..06ecdd74cc 100644
--- 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