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Date:      Tue, 8 Dec 1998 13:37:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr
Subject:   Re: problems building world
Message-ID:  <199812082137.NAA03685@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981208222836.asmodai@wxs.nl> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Dec 8, 98 10:28:36 pm"

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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes:
> What was the problem with sed anyways? Haven't had time to compare the
> revisions... It seemed like the arguments didn't pass correctly.

The original bug was that if the substitution pattern was 4090 bytes
long, sed would substitute nothing. And > 4090 bytes you'd get a core
dump, or other weirdness.

The way it reads things into statically sized buffers makes it
confusing. My original bug fix was tripped up by this. Ah, it
looks like the commit just went through, so try it out now.

I'm still afraid there's probably more obscure bugs. This stuff
needs a rewrite.

Thanks,
-Archie

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