diffutils-3.8

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

[Bruce Dubbs]

Noteworthy changes in release 3.8 (2021-08-01) [stable]

• Incompatible changes

diff no longer treats a closed stdin as representing an absent file in usage like 'diff --new-file - foo <&-'. This feature was rarely if ever used and was not portable to POSIX platforms that reopen stdin on exec, such as SELinux if the process underwent an AT_SECURE transition, or HP-UX even if not setuid.

• Bug fixes

diff and related programs no longer get confused if stdin, stdout, or stderr are closed. Previously, they sometimes opened files into file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 and then mistakenly did I/O with them that was intended for stdin, stdout, or stderr.

cmp, diff and sdiff no longer treat negative command-line option-arguments as if they were large positive numbers.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 9c7598cc15b7ec877b0350fbdc9d1d1fe466405b

Package updates.
    Update to glibc-2.34.
    Update to diffutils-3.8.
    Update to libcap-2.52.