First of all, I apologise for the delay.
Given what upstream, below, answered, I am closing this bug WONTFIX.
Please contact Coreutils upstream at coreut...@gnu.org for more details.
In general, changes to Coreutils code should be submitted upstream.
Distro-wise, we very rarely deviate from upstr
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Title:
Checking and handling various filetypes in fmt
Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu/GNU Coreutils
better. I have sent email to coreut...@gnu.org asking about this, and a
few other bugs relating to the same basic issue, and am waiting on
feedback from upstream:
Hello,
We have had some bugs reported recently at our BTS:
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Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Title:
Checking and handling various filetype
The attachment "fmt.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please
remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and
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Following is the patch to check different filetypes in fmt and then
raise error accordingly. It includes changes in the fmt.c file and
tests/fmt/base.pl files in coreutils.
** Patch added: "fmt.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1808092/+attachment/5221549/+files/f
** Description changed:
fmt doesn't check filetypes of the input arguments passed to it, it just
opens the file and reads from it without checking its st_mode. It only
throws an error if the file doesn't exist and can't handle the following
filetypes - S_IFCHR, S_IFBLK and S_IFBLK. Passing
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