GNU bug report logs - #9612
sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 9612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 9612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:41:53 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Who would have thought that including a few NaNs in the input to sort
> would make it infloop.
>
> The original failure arose only when sort was reading from a pipe:
>
>     yes -- -nan | head -156903 | sort -g > /dev/null
>
> But it's not always easy to reproduce.
...
> [ I'm about to file the glibc bug
...

I've done that:

  RFE: strtold: do not include uninitialized bytes when converting "NaN"
  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13246
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