hello i could not find any official documentation but based on this sentence: "`seq' prints the numbers from FIRST to LAST by INCREMENT." i would say that is what to espect. Since bb tries to emulate the behavior of the original and seq (coreutils) does the same it looks like a bug closed.
re, wh [email protected] schrieb: > 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 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
