From c7eda8c16f0578f4725b6fc74fe17c0c676689cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:51:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that dd no longer treats QUIT or PIPE specially, and when conforming to POSIX no longer treats USR1 specially. Document that dd no longer dumps core when handling signals. --- NEWS | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 862aeabee7..ed4b2b939e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Changes for better compliance with POSIX + dd changes: + + On a QUIT or PIPE signal, dd now exits without printing statistics. + + On hosts lacking the INFO signal, dd no longer treats the USR1 + signal as if it were INFO when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. + nohup changes: nohup now ignores the umask when creating nohup.out. @@ -28,7 +35,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- dd now computes statistics using a realtime clock (if available) rather than the time-of-day clock, to avoid glitches if the - time-of-day is changed while dd is running. + time-of-day is changed while dd is running. Also, it avoids + using unsafe code in signal handlers; this fixes some core dumps. expr now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers, rather than silently wrapping around. -- 2.47.3