GNU bug report logs - #37877
Fix 'shuf -n 0x' and similar problems

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 22:07:02 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: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 37877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37877: Fix 'shuf -n 0x' and similar problems
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:06:18 -0700

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I installed into GNU coreutils the attached series of patches, to fix 
problems like 'shuf -n 0x' where shuf did not diagnose the trailing 'x', 
along with some other stuff I noticed while looking into the problem.

[0001-build-re-enable-type-limits-checking.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0002-build-don-t-worry-about-logical-op-checking.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0003-shuf-improve-randperm-overflow-checking.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0004-stdbuf-improve-size-checking.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0005-all-improve-parsing-of-numeric-arguments.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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