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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-03-31 10:21:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2014-03-31 10:24:07 -0700 |
| commit | d08381bc261d95502a205f7214686f80383c9692 (patch) | |
| tree | 7cb9c052f70fe75fe4474233a6ca500afacc871b /tests/misc/head-c.sh | |
| parent | 2d8ae88a228ac82c725f22aaee24accde8a12dcf (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-d08381bc261d95502a205f7214686f80383c9692.tar.xz | |
head: fix bug with head -c-N when stdin is not at start
* src/head.c (elide_tail_bytes_file): Fix typo in lseek invocation.
* tests/misc/head-c.sh: Add test for this bug.
* NEWS: Document this.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/misc/head-c.sh')
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/misc/head-c.sh | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/head-c.sh b/tests/misc/head-c.sh index 00d5f6018..d6433d0dd 100755 --- a/tests/misc/head-c.sh +++ b/tests/misc/head-c.sh @@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ case "$(cat out)" in *) fail=1 ;; esac +# Test for a bug in coreutils 5.0.1 through 8.22. +printf 'abc\ndef\n' > in1 || framework_failure_ +(dd bs=1 skip=1 count=0 status=none && head -c-4) < in1 > out1 || fail=1 +case "$(cat out1)" in + bc) ;; + *) fail=1 ;; +esac + # Only allocate memory as needed. # Coreutils <= 8.21 would allocate memory up front # based on the value passed to -c |