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[5.0.1]
* date's %r format directive now honors locale settings
* md5sum --check now accepts the output of the BSD md5sum program, e.g.,
MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
* du no longer runs out of file descriptors unnecessarily
* date's `-' (no-pad) format flag now affects the space-padded-by-default
conversion specifiers, %e, %k, %l
* FEATURE: head now accepts --lines=-N (--bytes=-N) to print all but the
GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Major changes in release 5.0.1:
** New features:
- head now accepts --lines=-N (--bytes=-N) to print all but the
N lines (bytes) at the end of the file
* sleep now works on AIX systems that lack support for clock_gettime
* df and `readlink --canonicalize' no longer corrupt the heap on
- md5sum --check now accepts the output of the BSD md5sum program, e.g.,
MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
** Bug fixes
- tail -f is no longer subject to a race condition that could make it
delay displaying the last part of a file that had stopped growing. That
bug could also make tail -f give an unwarranted `file truncated' warning.
- du no longer runs out of file descriptors unnecessarily
- df and `readlink --canonicalize' no longer corrupt the heap on
non-glibc, non-solaris systems
* `env -u SOME_ALREADY_UNSET_VARIABLE' no longer dumps core on non-glibc systems
* fmt now diagnoses invalid obsolescent width specifications like `-72x'
* fmt now exits nonzero when unable to open an input file
* rm now works around Darwin6.5's broken readdir function; before `rm -rf DIR'
would fail to remove all files in DIR if there were more than 338.
* tail's byte and line counts are no longer limited to OFF_T_MAX.
Now the limit is UINTMAX_MAX (usually 2^64).
* tsort now fails when given an odd number of input tokens, as required by POSIX
Before, it would act as if the final token appeared one additional time.
* readlink's --canonicalize option now works on systems like Solaris that
- `env -u UNSET_VARIABLE' no longer dumps core on non-glibc systems
- readlink's --canonicalize option now works on systems like Solaris that
lack the canonicalize_file_name function but do have resolvepath.
* split can now handle --bytes=N and --lines=N with N=2^31 or more.
* `kill -t' now prints signal descriptions (rather than `?') on systems
like Tru64 with __sys_siglist but no strsignal function.
* stat.c now compiles on Ultrix systems
* mv now removes `a' in this example on all systems: touch a; ln a b; mv a b
- mv now removes `a' in this example on all systems: touch a; ln a b; mv a b
This behavior is contrary to POSIX (which requires that the mv command do
nothing and exit successfully), but I suspect POSIX will change.
- date's %r format directive now honors locale settings
- date's `-' (no-pad) format flag now affects the space-padded-by-default
conversion specifiers, %e, %k, %l
- fmt now diagnoses invalid obsolescent width specifications like `-72x'
- fmt now exits nonzero when unable to open an input file
- tsort now fails when given an odd number of input tokens,
as required by POSIX. Before, it would act as if the final token
appeared one additional time.
[5.0]
* false --help now exits nonzero
** Fewer arbitrary limitations
- tail's byte and line counts are no longer limited to OFF_T_MAX.
Now the limit is UINTMAX_MAX (usually 2^64).
- split can now handle --bytes=N and --lines=N with N=2^31 or more.
** Portability
- `kill -t' now prints signal descriptions (rather than `?') on systems
like Tru64 with __sys_siglist but no strsignal function.
- stat.c now compiles on Ultrix systems
- sleep now works on AIX systems that lack support for clock_gettime
- rm now works around Darwin6.5's broken readdir function
Before `rm -rf DIR' would fail to remove all files in DIR
if there were more than 338.
* Major changes in release 5.0:
- false --help now exits nonzero
[4.5.12]
* printf no longer treats \x specially when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set