GNU bug report logs - #18186
cat.c needs fixing since 1998

Previous Next

Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "James Simmons" <james <at> pcug.us>

Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 20:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #8 received at 18186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: James Simmons <james <at> pcug.us>, 18186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18186: cat.c needs fixing since 1998
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 13:42:49 -0700

James Simmons wrote:
> When will the cat.c code be updated to function as it did in original Unix?

It already does that, as far as I can tell.  If not, please supply a 
simple test case illustrating the problem, using the most recent version 
of coreutils.
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 215 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.