From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:57:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: .
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1fa955d9e7..b56f898201 100644
--- a/NEWS
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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  `cp --sparse=always F /dev/hdx' no longer tries to use lseek to create
+  holes in the destination.
+
   nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for its copy of the stderr file
   descriptor.  This avoids some nohup-induced hangs.  For example, before
   this change, if you ran `ssh localhost', then `nohup sleep 600 </dev/null &',