Subject: Re: bug#33761: Allow split to write into FIFOs

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:44:07 -0800

I forgot to add a NEWS item for this, which I fixed by installing the attached.
>From c8161ff3e4b50882fde7dc4533004b130a170339 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:42:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] shred,sort,split: add NEWS item

---
 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8c1283549..47eb1ddcc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   df no longer corrupts displayed multibyte characters on macOS.
   [bug introduced with coreutils-8.18]
 
+  shred, sort, and split no longer falsely report ftruncate errors
+  when outputting to less-common file types.  For example, the shell
+  command 'sort /dev/null -o /dev/stdout | cat' no longer fails with
+  an "error truncating" diagnostic.
+  [bug was introduced with coreutils-8.18 for sort and split, and
+   (for shared memory objects only) with fileutils-4.1 for shred]
+
   sync no longer fails for write-only file arguments.
   [bug introduced with argument support to sync in coreutils-8.24]
 
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2.17.1