install: fix security race

* NEWS: Document this.
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Paul Eggert 2012-11-20 18:10:21 -08:00
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@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Instead, cut now fails and emits an appropriate diagnostic.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
install -m M SOURCE DEST no longer has a race condition where DEST's
permissions are temporarily derived from SOURCE instead of from M.
pr -n no longer crashes when passed values >= 32. Also line numbers are
consistently padded with spaces, rather than with zeros for certain widths.
[bug introduced in TEXTUTILS-1_22i]