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Re: sed bug report - segmentation fault
From: |
Jose E. Marchesi |
Subject: |
Re: sed bug report - segmentation fault |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:08:05 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I've found that sed gets a segfault when running the following command
> on any text file with greater than one line.
> sed -e 1L32768 test.txt
The L command is documented as broken and to be removed in a future
release. It is not Posix.
No GNU (or other, as far as that goes) program should crash, regardless.
If the fix is to remove L, fine, but the bug should not be ignored.
(I reproduced it just as reported, BTW.)
Agreed. Removing L is probably the best option, as it has been
documented as broken and obsolescent for a while now. Will push a patch
for that.