Re: sed bug report - segmentation fault

Karl Berry <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:41:53 GMT
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
    > 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

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

No GNU (or other, as far as that goes) program should crash, regardless.
If the fix is to remove L, fine, but the bug should not be ignored.
(I reproduced it just as reported, BTW.)

Jose, are you there?  I know you're on the list, but maybe you're
filtering your mail, so will explicitly cc you :).

best,
k