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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-05-05 00:07:08 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-05-05 13:15:32 +0200
commitd701f6abb73e36721de5df083df4769786a14528 (patch)
tree59a55d0b47021f52683d2ef97de03ff2258baecb /NEWS
parenta892af0d48b47a445fda12a1e889f1a7f3cd5907 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d701f6abb73e36721de5df083df4769786a14528.tar.xz
tac: avoid segfault for e.g., "echo > x; tac -r x x"
* src/tac.c (tac_seekable): Move local "regs" declaration out to file scope, so its values aren't clobbered between calls. Discovered by Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar and Dawson Engler, reported in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13501 * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add misc/tac. * tests/misc/tac: New file. Test for the above.
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@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Printing of such large-numbered, kernel-only (not in /etc/group) group-IDs
was suppressed in 6.11 due to ignorance that they are useful.
+ tac: avoid segfault with --regex (-r) and multiple files, e.g.,
+ "echo > x; tac -r x x". [bug present at least in textutils-1.8b, from 1992]
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.11 (2008-04-19) [stable]