On 5/29/19 1:51 AM, jakub.ku...@oracle.com wrote:
somebody found this bug first at 8.16, but this might have been there for longer.

I looked into the revision history and it seems to have been introduced long ago. I installed the attached further patch.


>From e7461441325a6edca01b6d6b48a73a2445d9803b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 16:44:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] maint: fix version number in NEWS

---
 NEWS | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c9f2eff57..5db95b1c4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   cp now copies /dev/fd/N correctly on platforms like Solaris where
   it is a character-special file whose minor device number is N.
-  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.16]
+  [bug introduced in fileutils-4.1.6]
 
   df now correctly parses the /proc/self/mountinfo file for unusual entries
   like ones with '\r' in a field value ("mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /foo$'\r'bar"),
-- 
2.21.0

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