GNU bug report logs - #18621
[BUG] wc -c incorrectly counts bytes in /sys

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 15:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 18621-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, Pádraig Brady
 <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Cc: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>, 18621-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18621: [BUG] wc -c incorrectly counts bytes in /sys
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:51:47 -0700

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Paul Eggert wrote:

> The attached patch still needs a changelog entry and test cases.

I wrote those up and pushed the attached patch; this should fix the bug so I'm 
closing the bug report.


[0001-wc-don-t-miscount-sys-and-similar-file-systems.patch (text/plain, attachment)]
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