Daniel Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply on the ptx bug.
>
> We have found another minor bug (non-crashing) in seq. An example problem
> input
> is:
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:src$ ./seq -f %0 1
> ./seq: memory exhausted
> --
>
> The problem is in seq.c:213 (in 6.10 source),
> if (! strchr ("efgaEFGA", fmt[i]))
> which I believe should be
> if (!fmt[i] || ! strchr ("efgaEFGA", fmt[i]))
Thanks for the report.
However that particular problem was fixed a few weeks ago:
"seq -f % 1" would issue the erroneous diagnostic "seq: memory exhausted"
rather than reporting the invalid string format.
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
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