Re: gawk 3.1.2 fatal bug

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:08:11AM -0700, John H. DuBois III wrote:
>     BEGIN { RS = ""; "/bin/echo -n x" | getline }
> fails in exactly the same way under SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a using gawk 3.1.2

FWIIW, I have also experienced problems with gawk-3.1.2 and RS="".
random records appeared (not starting by the prefix which was actually
common to all record).  RS="\n\n" seemed to fix the problem, but I rather
went back to 3.1.1 (3.1.1i, wink wink) to be sure.

I cannot distill it to a self contained example right now, sorry.

I had to fininsh that work overnight, so I wasn't able to hunt for the
bug.  I will be out this week, so I'll read all my on Apr 21 (maybe even
later).
I'll be happy to test any patches which will appear during that time.
If nothing appears, I'll try to make a self-contained example or even
a patch.

Have a nice week,
        Stepan Kasal