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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-04-22 08:45:27 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-04-23 21:03:14 +0200
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downloadcoreutils-25eb4c69097ca4f5665b050cfa4247a19ffd8c55.tar.xz
sort -m: don't segfault when output file is also an input file
* src/sort.c (avoid_trashing_input): Fix an off-by-one error and guard the use of memmove. * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it. * tests/misc/sort: Add tests to exercise the offending code. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Otavio Salvador in http://bugs.debian.org/525048.
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GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
-* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+* Noteworthy changes in release 7.3 (????-??-??) [?]
** Bug fixes
+ sort -m no longer segfaults when its output file is also an input file.
+ E.g., with this, touch 1; sort -m -o 1 1, sort would segfault.
+ [introduced in coreutils-7.2]
+
ls now aligns output correctly in the presence of abbreviated month
names from the locale database that have differing widths.