From 18eb295ec4bf60364c4e818f2168156db8139ed3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:04:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tail -c 2 FILE now operates as POSIX 1002.1-2001 requires.

---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index db1814ec5..6693894bb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   tac now works when stdin is a tty, even on non-Linux systems
 
+  "tail -c 2 FILE" now operates as POSIX 1003.1-2001 requires, even
+  when "tail" is conforming to older POSIX standards, as the
+  newly-mandated behavior is upward-compatible with the old.
+
 ** Build-related bug fixes
 
   installing .mo files would fail