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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-08-18 07:26:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-08-18 08:03:55 +0200 |
| commit | 46444af9e485b95f7ddf24c7fd9ed2586209286c (patch) | |
| tree | 0670bbfd7fac30341236cdc488c0d582aed61955 /NEWS | |
| parent | b8104e47ca23cb7ba57e0c06451df093e6b02593 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-46444af9e485b95f7ddf24c7fd9ed2586209286c.tar.xz | |
tests: trigger the sort -u free-memory-read bug
* tests/misc/sort-u-FMR: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* tests/misc/sort: Add the test here, too.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- (yes 7 | head -11; echo 1) | sort --p=1 -S32b -u [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] + sort -u could read freed memory. + For example, this evokes a read from freed memory: + perl -le 'print "a\n"."0"x900'|valgrind sort --p=1 -S32b -u>/dev/null + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6] + ** New features rm now accepts the --dir (-d) option which makes it remove empty directories. |