Hi Jim, we found a buffer overflow in pr, due to the invalid
processing of backspaces and tabs.
Here is a simple input that our tool generated:
pr --e pr-bug.txt
Another input, that crashes in glibc on my machine is:
pr -e pr-bug-crash.txt
Both pr-bug.txt and pr-bug-crash.txt are
Jim Meyering wrote:
rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Patches welcome, but it's already pretty well-optimized,
since it uses fts.
Sorry, fts? My TLA guessing is DOA these days.
It's not a TLA, but rather the name of a function in the C library.
Try "man fts". Note however that th
I've received a large set of build and test results from a user who
wishes to remain anonymous. That set includes configure/make/make-check
results for 163 system/compiler/env combinations. There's no way I can
triage all of that before release. Maybe others who care about some of
the affected p
rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Patches welcome, but it's already pretty well-optimized,
>> since it uses fts.
>
> Sorry, fts? My TLA guessing is DOA these days.
It's not a TLA, but rather the name of a function in the C library.
Try "man fts". Note however that the version used in coreutils co
Jim Meyering wrote:
rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Running du -sk on an apache disk cache containing 10GB of data and
30,000 directories and files
I see du using maybe .03% of the cpu. It takes an hour for it to complete.
If you have an old version, and depending on how it's
Yes, it is io bound. Darn it. I looked at iostat and saw right away.
I first looked at vmstat but I was lulled into .believing.
Eric Blake wrote:
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According to rh on 4/16/2008 12:14 PM:
| Hello,
| Running du -sk on an apache disk cache containin
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> dd handles skip weirdly
>>>
>>> disk=/dev/sda8
>>> dd if=$disk bs=8M count=1 skip=1000 of=/dev/null #ok
>>> dd if=$disk bs=8M count=1 skip=1000K of=/dev/null #reads whole disk! as
>>> s
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> dd handles skip weirdly
>>
>> disk=/dev/sda8
>> dd if=$disk bs=8M count=1 skip=1000 of=/dev/null #ok
>> dd if=$disk bs=8M count=1 skip=1000K of=/dev/null #reads whole disk! as seek
>> fails
>>
>> I had a 10s look at the source and
