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* NEWS: Mention the improvement to sort.

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2006-09-24 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* NEWS: Mention the improvement to sort.
* tests/tail-2/proc-ksyms: Require that /proc/ksyms be readable
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* Major changes in release 6.3-cvs (2006-??-??) [stable]
** Improved robustness
sort would fail to handle very large input (around 40GB) on systems with a
mkstemp function that returns a file descriptor limited to 32-bit offsets.
** Bug fixes
chmod would fail unnecessarily in an unusual case: when an initially-
inaccessible argument is rendered accessible by chmod's action on a
preceding command line argument. This bug also affects chgrp, but
it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown.
it is harder to demonstrate. It does not affect chown. The bug was
introduced with the switch from explicit recursion to the use of fts
in coreutils-5.1.0 (2003-10-15).
cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or
move action was bound to fail.
cp -i and mv -i occasionally neglected to prompt when the copy or move
action was bound to fail. This bug dates back to before fileutils-4.0.
* Major changes in release 6.2 (2006-09-18) [stable candidate]