From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 03:41:50 +0000 (+0000) Subject: *** empty log message *** X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_12~26 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3093d28d903b6f5447522b38f592225e05a9dcb;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git *** empty log message *** --- diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS index bc3d598ec0..c10f82035d 100644 --- a/old/textutils/NEWS +++ b/old/textutils/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ Changes in release 2.1 +[2.0.12] +* sort has improved memory management +* sort is no longer susceptible to certain denial of service attacks +* sort no longer suffers from a race condition whereby an interrupt received + during cleanup could cause it to fail to remove temporary files. + This problem could arise only on hosts without sigaction. [2.0.11] * sort accepts new -S SIZE option, to specify main-memory usage. [2.0.10]