From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:05:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document "sort -o -" and "tee -" POSIX-conformance fixes.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~811
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Document "sort -o -" and "tee -" POSIX-conformance fixes.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3b4e4729f9..31f459bd70 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   rm no longer requires read access to the current directory.
 
+  "sort -o -" now writes to a file named "-" instead of to standard
+  output; POSIX requires this.
+
   tail -f no longer mishandles pipes and fifos.  With no operands,
   tail now ignores -f if standard input is a pipe, as POSIX requires.
 
@@ -70,6 +73,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   tee now exits when it gets a SIGPIPE signal, as POSIX requires.
   To get tee's old behavior, use the shell command "(trap '' PIPE; tee)".
+  Also, "tee -" now writes to standard output instead of to a file named "-".
 
   ls no longer segfaults on systems for which SIZE_MAX != (size_t) -1