Re: sed bug report - segmentation fault

[email protected] Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:05:06 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
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Steven Cook scripsit:

> I've found that sed gets a segfault when running the following command
> on any text file with greater than one line.
> sed -e 1L32768 test.txt

> I don't know what this command is meant to do, I found the bug while
> playing with american fuzzy lop.
> http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

The L command is documented as broken and to be removed in a future
release.  It is not Posix.

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