I work for a company that uses busybox and am upgrading us to 1.17.3.
'seq' has been fixed since our old version so that 'seq <n> 0 <n+1>'
now returns an infinite sequence of <n> rather than exiting
immediately.  As a result, the following testcase in seq.tests now
fails:

testing "seq count by zero" "seq 4 0 8 | head -n 10" 
"4\n4\n4\n4\n4\n4\n4\n4\n4\n4\n" "" ""

The device is running an OMAP 3430 and linux 2.6.24.  When I build
from the same source tree and .config file for my Ubuntu
2.6.28-19-generic x86 laptop, the test case *passes*.  Running strace
against busybox's seq on the two systems doesn't show much difference;
certainly it doesn't tell me why seq keeps running on the device once
write(stdout,...) starts failing.

(Yes, I'm certain I'm not picking up coreutils' seq by mistake! :-)

Should I file a bug about this?

Thanks,

--Eric
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