Hi Padraig,

You say "quite a while".

This issue was found in: coreutils-8.23_1

Installed on OS X using brew.

Pulling the current source I can see there have been several releases since then, but a git diff / log doesn't seem to produce any relevant changes, i.e.:

git diff v8.23.. -- src/seq.c

Are you *sure* that this range in particular doesn't reproduce in the latest?

I'm happy to investigate further myself, but I need to get set up to build coreutils first.

Thanks

Thad

On 23 October 2014 14:54, Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:

tag 18807 notabug
close 18807
stop

On 10/23/2014 02:12 PM, Thaddaeus Frogley wrote:
> seq 2305843009213693952 2305843009213693954
>
>
> Should produce
>
>
> 2305843009213693952
> 2305843009213693953
> 2305843009213693954
>
>
> But actually produces (repeating for ever):
>
>
> 2.30584e+18
> ...

That's been fixed for quite a while,
with the latest versions just manipulating text
for simple integers like this, and so can work
for any length strings.

thanks,
Pádraig.