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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-07-04 13:01:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-07-04 13:32:24 +0200 |
| commit | cc322ddd16607c0c8e978e5003008344e2710ec9 (patch) | |
| tree | eceb3dd878d732733986ed1359654c9b110c6cb2 /NEWS | |
| parent | 74427c76d7be2a5522a8d24e29bfa63c299dbbce (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-cc322ddd16607c0c8e978e5003008344e2710ec9.tar.xz | |
date: fails to diagnose invalid input
date -d "$(printf '\xb0')" would print 00:00:00 with today's date
rather than diagnosing the invalid input. Now it reports this:
date: invalid date '\260'
* gnulib: Update submodule to latest for fixed parse-datetime.y.
* tests/misc/date [invalid-high-bit-set]: New test.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
* bootstrap, tests/init.sh: Also update to latest.
Reported by Peter Evans in http://bugs.gnu.org/11843
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- processes will not intersperse their output. [the bug dates back to the initial implementation] + date -d "$(printf '\xb0')" would print 00:00:00 with today's date + rather than diagnosing the invalid input. Now it reports this: + date: invalid date '\260' + [This bug was present in "the beginning".] + head --lines=-N (-n-N) now resets the read pointer of a seekable input file. This means that "head -n-3" no longer consumes all of its input, and lines not output by head may be processed by other programs. For example, this |