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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2024-04-07 13:50:13 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2024-04-07 13:51:31 +0100
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doc: NEWS: mention sort being more efficient with /proc files
* NEWS: Mention the improvement in commit v9.5-6-g8ff390328
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
have exited with a "Function not implemented" error.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.28]
+** Improvements
+
+ sort operates more efficiently when used on pseudo files with
+ an apparent size of 0, like those in /proc.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.5 (2024-03-28) [stable]