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: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1807295 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1807797 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808092 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808095 They deal with sort, split, fmt, and uniq, respectively, and provide tentative patches. I would like to re-direct the reporters to upstream (i.e., you folks), but I feel it would be nice to do the redirect with a small blurb of what upstream thinks about that. Thank you, ..C.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1807797 Title: Split doesn't check for filetype Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello! I noticed that Split doesn't check for filetypes before it starts splitting the file. As a result, it's possible to eat up CPU and Disk memory by passing in a character device as input. I wanted to make Split more robust by adding a patch to check for file type. This patch do break some of the tests for Split. The tests that are checking Split's ability to "elide empty files" by using /dev/null as input fail with this patch, since /dev/null is a character device. I would love to modify those tests to use a regular empty file, upon the approval of this patch. Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1807797/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
