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 <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:21:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] sort: document --compress reaper fixes * NEWS: Document the --compress reaper fixes installed yesterday. --- 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. + ** New features split accepts the --number option to generate a specific number of files. -- 1.7.2
