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seq apparent bug

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Message #26 received at 23110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a <at> gmx.de>, 23110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23110: seq apparent bug
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 16:40:46 +0200

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reopen 23110
thanks

On 04/07/2016 11:46 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> I understand that this issue is not a bug. But it wouldn't be also not a 
> bug if coreutils would behave like BSD:
> 
> $ seq 1 0 10 ; echo $?
> seq: zero increment
> 1

Ah, okay: as there's prior art in the BSDs [0], the attached
proposes the same for GNU coreutils.

[0] http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-7/src/usr.bin/seq/seq.c

Have a nice day,
Berny

[0001-seq-do-not-allow-0-as-increment-value.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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