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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 60dd2f778d..03330d4132 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if necessary, flockfile and funlockfile. + * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you + read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another + process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect + (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This + corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect + programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal. + (Bug #1190.) + * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely |