found a bug in head

Tamagucci <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
the bug I found is very simple to explain:
edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -08
head: 08: number of lines is so large that it is not representable
edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -07

edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -n 08
head: 08: number of lines is so large that it is not representable
edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -n 8

edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -n 9

edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -n 09
head: 09: number of lines is so large that it is not representable
edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -n 000000000007

edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -n 000000000009
head: 000000000009: number of lines is so large that it is not representable
edward@localhost:~$ echo|head -n 000000000008
head: 000000000008: number of lines is so large that it is not representable

I'm using a debian woody, but I found that this bug
is present even in the 2.0 original source code.

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	Tamagucci
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