On 14/06/2026 04:09, Collin Funk wrote:
Hi Pádraig,Regarding the 'od -j' quoting, I am leaning towards considering it as a bug since coreutils-8.25 had the following news entry: All utilities now quote user supplied arguments in error strings, which avoids confusing error messages in the presence of '\r' chars etc. What do you think? The other programs added listed in the proposed NEWS entry in the attached patch are from this: $ git grep -l -E 'xstrtol_(error|fatal)' -- '*.[ch]' | \ sed -E 's|^src/||; s|\.c$||' | sort -u df du ls od pr sort I also only added a test for 'od -j', since it didn't seem very beneficial to duplicate it for the other cases.
Since the original change in 8.25 was presented as an improvement, I'd also class this change as an improvement rather than a bug fix. Otherwise is reads as if there was an issue introduced in 8.25. Otherwise this looks good. thanks! Padraig
