bug#34524: wc: word count incorrect when words separated only by no-break space

2019-02-18 Thread vampyrebat
$ wc --version wc (GNU coreutils) 8.29 Packaged by Gentoo (8.29-r1 (p1.0)) The man page for wc states: "A word is a... sequence of characters delimited by white space." But its concept of white space only seems to include ASCII white space. U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE, for instance, is not

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, Thanks for all comments (on and off list). Attached an updated patch with documentation. The supported options are: --default-signal[=SIG] reset signal SIG to its default signal handler. without SIG, all known signals are included.

bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help

2019-02-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 2019-02-15 1:19 p.m., Eric Blake wrote: On 2/15/19 12:32 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: There is at least one change in behavior, not sure if this is bad enough to be a regression or doesn't really matter:   $ yes-OLD me -- --help | head -n1   me -- --help   $ yes-NEW me -- --help |

bug#34488: Add sort --limit, or document workarounds for sort|head error messages

2019-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 2/17/19 8:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 15/02/19 07:20, Eric Blake wrote: >> Except that POSIX has the nasty requirement that sh started with an >> inherited ignored SIGPIPE must silently ignore all attempts from within >> the shell to restore SIGPIPE handling to child processes of the