Hi Jim, > That's already covered by this test, from tests/tr/Tests.pm: > > ['bs-055', q|'a\055b' def|, "a\055b", 'def', 0],
Ah, cool! > FYI, that bug was fixed in July of 2004. The fix appeared in > coreutils-5.3.0, released over two years ago. People really shouldn't > be using such an old version of coreutils these days. That's true from your perspective. But a distributor's perspective is more like this: coreutils-5.3.0 is not on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/. In this directory, version 5.2.1 is the newest stable release before the start of the 5.9X series, that had its first "stable" release (6.3) just 4 months ago. Many Linux distributions have a release frequency of 1 / year or 2 / year, therefore if they stick only to the stable releases that you put on ftp.gnu.org, they will continue to distribute coreutils-5.2.1 until this summer or fall. Bruno _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
