From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 08:52:17 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: mention copy_file_range data corruption avoidance
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doc: mention copy_file_range data corruption avoidance

* NEWS: Mention this important data corruption issue.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0b2be7116f..110e688b10 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Improvements
 
+  cp, install and mv now avoid possible data corruption on
+  glibc 2.41 and 2.42 systems when copy_file_range is used with ranges > 2GiB,
+  avoiding https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33245
+
   stty supports setting arbitrary baud rates on supported systems,
   like Hurd, Linux with glibc >= 2.42, and some BSDs.
   Also on other systems the full set of supported baud rates