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 <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> 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] -- 2.17.1
