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
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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:
** Description changed:
Hi,
The utility uniq allows all types of files as input. Allowing block
devices or character devices as input can lead to unwanted behavior such
as the utility executes indefinitely when device '/dev/urandom' is
passed as an input. Please refer this for more
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Importance: Undecided => Low
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The attachment "Patch for detecting and handling character and block
device as input" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the
"patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are
a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.
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Here's the patch for the same
** Patch added: "Patch for detecting and handling character and block device as
input"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1808095/+attachment/5221556/+files/uniq.patch
** Description changed:
Hi,
The utility uniq allows all types
