I happened to run an old script today that uses sed(1) to extract the
system boot time from the kern.boottime sysctl MIB. On 11.0 this no longer
works as expected:
$ sysctl kern.boottime
kern.boottime: { sec = 1478380714, usec = 145351 } Sat Nov 5 16:18:34 2016
$ sysctl kern.boottime | sed -e 's/.*\([A-Z].*\)$/\1/'
v 5 16:18:34 2016
sed passes over 'S' and 'N' until it hits 'v', which it considers
uppercase apparently. This is with LANG=en_US.UTF-8. If I set LANG=C, it
works as expected:
$ sysctl kern.boottime | LANG=C sed -e 's/.*\([A-Z].*\)$/\1/'
Nov 5 16:18:34 2016
Testing every lowercase character separately gives even more inconsistent
results:
$ cat <<! | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sed -n -e '/^[A-Z]$/'p
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
!
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
Here sed thinks every lowercase character except for 'a' is uppercase!
This differs from the first test where sed did not think 'o' is uppercase.
Again, the above behaves as expected with LANG=C.
Does anyone have any insight into this? This is likely to break a lot of
existing code.
--
Greg
_______________________________________________
freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
