On 22/07/2025 20:17, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for reporting that inaccurate diagnostic. Sorry about the tricky
> code; it's a tricky situation. Looks like Collin's patch is not quite right.
> 
> I installed the attached patches into Gnulib. The first one fixes the
> two cases you mentioned, the second an unlikely bug I discovered in the
> neighborhood. Please give the patches a try. As they fix the bugs for me
> I am boldly closing the Coreutils bug report; we can reopen it if I'm wrong.

Seems to work with the attached coreutils patch
to add NEWS and a test.

thanks!
Padraig