Re: csplit: memory exhausted

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
...
> While the 5.1.2 test release fixed my problem, I've been having a
> disturbing problem that until today I could ignore.  Specifically, if
> csplit is fed a lot of input (800kb) from stdin, it would sometimes
> corrupt a tiny amount of the output.
>
> E.g. one line was output as:
> address@hidden@ch patterns particularly archaic?'<P>
> instead of:
> her speech patterns particularly archaic?'<P>
> (showing the odd characters as nvi displays them).
...

Thanks for the report.
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Would you please see if you can reproduce the problem using
the latest stable release: coreutils-5.2.1?

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2

If you can still reproduce it, would you point me to a copy
of the input file that provokes the bug?