From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:03:12 +0000 (+0000) Subject: mention tac bug fix X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~122 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3fd921063718a54f446b1dccad7c2e6fd843a37;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git mention tac bug fix --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 76147bc540..202dc1f8c2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- tac can now handle regular, nonseekable files like Linux's /proc/modules. Before, it would produce no output for such a file. + tac would exit immediately upon I/O or temp-file creation failure. + Now it continues on, processing any remaining command line arguments. + "tail -f" no longer mishandles pipes and fifos. With no operands, tail now ignores -f if standard input is a pipe, as POSIX requires. When conforming to POSIX 1003.2-1992, tail now supports the SUSv2 b