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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-12-30 01:36:59 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2010-12-30 16:26:20 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-44dbcae6b98700617d4d3cb8d799ce83d538e3e7.tar.xz
split: fix the suffix length calculation
* src/split.c (set_suffix_length): Only auto-calculate the suffix length when the number of files is specified. * tests/misc/split-a: Add a case to trigger the bug, and exercise the suffix length auto-calculation. * NEWS: Mention the fix. Reported by Dmitry V. Levin and Sergey Vlasov at https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24841
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@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Bug fixes
+
+ split no longer creates files with a suffix length that
+ is dependent on the number of bytes or lines per file.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8]
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.8 (2010-12-22) [stable]