Bug in wc

2008-08-22 Thread Arnaldo Mandel
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Bug in wc (cont.)

2008-08-22 Thread Arnaldo Mandel
My earlier bug report lacked a pssibly relevant piece of info: The bug showed up with versions 6.10 and 5.97 of wc, on Linux 2.6.24 and 2.6.11, i686 and x86_64, LC_ALL=C. am -- Arnaldo Mandel Departamento de Ciência da Computação - Computer Science Department

Re: RFC: wc --max-line-length vs. TABs [Re: Bug in wc

2008-08-22 Thread Arnaldo Mandel
Bo Borgerson wrote (on Aug 22, 2008): Does it make sense to change the behavior for TAB, but not for wide characters? Relying on an undocumented tab length seems bad. However, on chars I suggest you just apply the bug-feature operator: document that line length is in chars, and explain