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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-11-17 09:39:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-11-17 09:39:42 +0100 |
| commit | a03811f5196aec86fd8eb682bd55bdff266f1451 (patch) | |
| tree | c59e0b896fa1fbb619f6603aa7b58f5c8c0c19dd /NEWS | |
| parent | 6076d0ae2fdae2ebaac6d5a6c793539615471742 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a03811f5196aec86fd8eb682bd55bdff266f1451.tar.xz | |
"seq .1 .1" would mistakenly generate no output on some systems
* NEWS: Say this.
* src/seq.c (print_numbers): Handle another floating point corner case.
This avoids failure of seq's eq-wid-7 test on FreeBSD 6.1.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- seq would mistakenly reject some valid format strings containing %%, and would mistakenly accept some invalid ones. e.g., %g%% and %%g, resp. + "seq .1 .1" would mistakenly generate no output on some systems + Obsolete sort usage with an invalid ordering-option character, e.g., "env _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 sort +1x" no longer makes sort free an invalid pointer [introduced in coreutils-6.5] |