Eric Blake wrote: > Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: >> due to their running on a kernel older than what was implied by headers >> and libraries tested at configure time. > > This part of NEWS describes a fix to a regression in 7.5. > >> >> + dd now returns non-zero status if it encountered a write error while >> + printing a summary to stderr. >> + > > I've traced this to a regression introduced in 6.11: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436368 > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=381e69ea > >> For consistency with most of the shell code in coreutils, >> please elide double quotes in simple shell variable assignments: >> >> p=$abs_top_builddir >> >> Hmm... I see that close-stdout did it the same way. >> You're welcome to adjust that one, too. > > OK, here's my updated series.
Thanks for adding the dates in NEWS. Added comments in dd.c are an improvement. copy.c is improved, too. Thanks!
