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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-05-07 09:32:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-05-08 18:32:58 +0200 |
| commit | a6f94fcebc1645b401eedacbffb5e2ebdedf0f95 (patch) | |
| tree | f53d31b2f1d8555e5d3fad86782e592aa71a0c33 /NEWS | |
| parent | 30071b2f5cb8135154cbc7bb0ec76c5926d2b983 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a6f94fcebc1645b401eedacbffb5e2ebdedf0f95.tar.xz | |
split: avoid apparent infloop when splitting /dev/zero w/-n on the Hurd
* src/split.c (main): Use stat.st_size only for regular files.
Samuel Thibault reported in http://bugs.gnu.org/11424 that the
/dev/zero-splitting tests would appear to infloop on GNU/Hurd,
because /dev/zero's st_size is LONG_MAX. It was only a problem
when using the --number (-n) option.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
This bug was introduced with the --number option, via
commit v8.7-25-gbe10739
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- was particularly easy to trigger, since there, the removal of D could precede the initial stat. [This bug was present in "the beginning".] + split --number=C /dev/null no longer appears to infloop on GNU/Hurd + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8] + ** New features fmt now accepts the --goal=WIDTH (-g) option. |