Bug#501960: Generates broken output on ia64 when input is piped vs. shell redirection

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Lamb
reassign 501960 linux-image-2.6.26-1-mckinley 2.6.26-5 thanks Manoj Srivastava wrote: I have no idea what changed between 2.6.24-1-mckinley and 2.6.26-1-mckinley on IA64, but arguably this is a kernel regression. Mm, I agree. Hi kernel team. This seems to be a rather odd issue but

Bug#501960: Generates broken output on ia64 when input is piped vs. shell redirection

2008-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Sun, Oct 12 2008, Bradley Smith wrote: After some investigation of this issue it seems that this does not occur on 2.6.24-1-mckinley, yet does occur on 2.6.26-1-mckinley, and so is easily reproducible on merkel and merulo, regardless of the flex version. All I can say is that

Bug#501960: Generates broken output on ia64 when input is piped vs. shell redirection

2008-10-12 Thread Bradley Smith
After some investigation of this issue it seems that this does not occur on 2.6.24-1-mckinley, yet does occur on 2.6.26-1-mckinley, and so is easily reproducible on merkel and merulo, regardless of the flex version. Regards, Bradley Smith -- Bradley Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#501960: Generates broken output on ia64 when input is piped vs. shell redirection

2008-10-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: flex Version: 2.5.35-2 Severity: normal On ia64, flex appears to generate a completely different (and broken) output depending on whether the input file is specified using shell redirection or via a pipe. For example, compare: merulo% flex -t input.txt | head #line 3 stdout