Document that dd no longer treats QUIT or PIPE specially,

and when conforming to POSIX no longer treats USR1 specially.
Document that dd no longer dumps core when handling signals.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 862aeabee7814913c2aca50c19a8ecbb0fe71a16..ed4b2b939ef334d988b72bc7bb2a1c146c61b3fb 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Changes for better compliance with POSIX
 
+  dd changes:
+
+    On a QUIT or PIPE signal, dd now exits without printing statistics.
+
+    On hosts lacking the INFO signal, dd no longer treats the USR1
+    signal as if it were INFO when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+
   nohup changes:
 
     nohup now ignores the umask when creating nohup.out.
@@ -28,7 +35,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   dd now computes statistics using a realtime clock (if available)
   rather than the time-of-day clock, to avoid glitches if the
-  time-of-day is changed while dd is running.
+  time-of-day is changed while dd is running.  Also, it avoids
+  using unsafe code in signal handlers; this fixes some core dumps.
 
   expr now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers,
   rather than silently wrapping around.