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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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 18621 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: bug#18621: [BUG] wc -c incorrectly counts bytes in /sys
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:36:30 +0100

On 10/08/2014 12:51 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

I was just going through the patch as it happens, and I found no issues.
I see the tac changes should also avoid erroneous errors if a file was truncated while reading for example.
I pushed a follow up to avoid some new syntax check errors.

thanks!
Pádraig.
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