our regression tests had a similar test case
so this may have changed or been clarified since the
original implementation I got from Doug McIlroy 1995-12-01

fixed in the next beta release -- due within 12 hours
finishing up regression tests on the build farm now

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:14:12 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
> Below is an issue with ast-open.2010-07-01 "sed" which _may_ be a
> bug... could you please have a look at it ?

> ----

> Bye,
> Roland

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Need testcases for "sed" bug... / was: Re:
> [illumos-Developer] Need short help with testing { sed, tr, pax }
> replacement binaries on i386 ...
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

> Roland Mainz <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joerg Schilling
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Roland Mainz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've uploaded a first _test_ version of the { /usr/bin/sed,
> > >> /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tr and /usr/bin pax } replacement binaries
> > >> for i386 to 
> > >> http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/solaris/illumos/posixcore20100701_i386_001.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > ast-sed has the same bug as the FreeBSD did have last year: incorrect 
> > > backslash
> > >        handling. We cannot replace programs in a way that cause existing 
> > > scripts
> > >        to fail.
> >
> > Grumpf...
> > ... erm... Joerg... this is the 3rd try and email in three days I'm
> > sending to you with the request to get a testcase:
> > We need one or more testcases to "see" this bug and fix it, please. We
> > can't fix what we can't "see".

> I posted the test case to the mailing list on July 29th. Olga did even reply 
> to
> the mail where I mentioned the test case. As she quoted the test case in the
> mail she send on July 30th, it is obvious that you know about the case. You 
> had
> a chance to silently fix the problem before presenting a test binary
> last friday.

> Let me repeat it for you:

> sed 'y%ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, /\\()"%abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,------%'

> sed: warning: redundant map: y%ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,
> /\\()"%abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,------%
> sed: string lengths differ: y%ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,
> /\\()"%abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,------%

> Both messages are of course wrong.

> and btw: this is the first time you ask....

> Jörg

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