Paul Eggert wrote:
> >- POSIX violation or not? Is it valid to pass lines with missing fields
> > to 'join', according to POSIX [1]?
>
> It should be valid, yes. POSIX 'join' defers to POSIX 'sort' for the
> definition of fields, and POSIX 'sort' says missing fields should be
> treated
On 1/10/24 13:58, Bruno Haible wrote:
- POSIX violation or not? Is it valid to pass lines with missing fields
to 'join', according to POSIX [1]?
It should be valid, yes. POSIX 'join' defers to POSIX 'sort' for the
definition of fields, and POSIX 'sort' says missing fields should be
t
Hello Avinash,
> BSD `join` has a bug where if one of the input file contains blank
> lines then `join` fails.[0] Confirmed on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
[0] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232405
Before applying the patch, it would be useful to understand its scope and
the kind of bu
: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:40:30 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Work around BSD `join` bug.
* gnulib-tool (func_update_ignorelist): Remove blank lines as BSD
`join` fails if one of the file contains empty lines.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes
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2 files changed, 6
