Re: sort dumps core

Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
"Col. G. L. Sicherman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On RedHat 7.2, GNU sort dumps core if you specify -m and any file
> argument but the last is empty.
>
> Example:
>
> 	$ sort -m /dev/null /etc/passwd
> 	Segmentation fault
> 	$

Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in 2.0.20 and in the latest test release.
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.21.tar.gz
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