On 29/12/10 21:12, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a bug report from Sergey Vlasov about split(1) regression
> in coreutils v8.8: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/24841
> 
> In short, the default suffix length is not 2 as it shall be according to POSIX.
> Looks like the regression is due to commit v8.7-25-gbe10739.
> For more details and the test case, please have a look at the bug report.

Cringe :(

The frustrating this is that I noticed this
but dropped the fixup code when I was moving
local git branches around.

The attached should fix it.

I'll log a fedora rawhide bug also.

cheers,
Pádraig.