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[BUG] wc -c incorrectly counts bytes in /sys

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 18621 <18621 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#18621: [BUG] wc -c incorrectly counts bytes in /sys
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 12:51:28 +0100

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On 10/08/2014 02:12 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I pushed a patch to avoid a new failiure of the
> split/b-chunk.sh test on non-Linux.

The attached is needed to avoid a new warning on 32 bit.

thanks,
Pádraig.

[tac-i686-warning.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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