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A bug in tail.c

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Message #10 received at 22489-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lei Wang <wangcppclei <at> gmail.com>, 22489-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22489: A bug in tail.c
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:29:57 -0800

On 01/29/2016 04:38 AM, Lei Wang wrote:
> There is one condition can lead to program
> overflow, thus argc==2 and argv[1] has only one character, for example
> ./tail x , will access the next character after x, this maybe a bug

I don't see a bug there. The next character is a null byte, and ISDIGIT 
('\0') is false so the code should do the right thing. I don't think 
there is a test case that illustrates wrong behavior, but if I'm wrong 
please reply with a test case (a shell command invoking 'tail') and I'll 
reopen the bug report.

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