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Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] sort: fix some --compress reaper bugs
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] sort: fix some --compress reaper bugs |
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Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:23:53 -0800 |
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Come to think of it the bug fix should probably be in NEWS,
so I also pushed this.
>From 6600f34d0985865df72004229cec3874d5125c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:21:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] sort: document --compress reaper fixes
* NEWS: Document the --compress reaper fixes installed yesterday.
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NEWS | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b0a11b1..e98b815 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*-
outline -*-
sort with at least two threads no longer segfaults due to use of pointers
into the stack of an expired thread. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
+ sort --compress no longer mishandles subprocesses' exit statuses.
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** New features
split accepts the --number option to generate a specific number of files.
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1.7.2