From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:16:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: *** empty log message ***
X-Git-Tag: FILEUTILS-4_1_3~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=33c85ae85035f790f67acd07c248f3fb8f949fe2;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS
index 0f69eb9658..71b083457f 100644
--- a/old/fileutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 [4.1.3]
 * ls -R once again outputs a blank line between per-directory groups of files.
     This was broken by the cycle-detection change in 4.1.1.
+* dd once again uses `lseek' on character devices like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem.
+    On systems with the linux kernel (at least up to 2.4.16), dd must still
+    resort to emulating `skip=N' behavior using reads on tape devices, because
+    lseek has no effect, yet appears to succeed.  This may be a kernel bug.
 [4.1.2]
 * cp no longer fails when two or more source files are the same;
     now it just gives a warning and doesn't copy the file the second time.