Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:00:07 +0100 From: wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/855: /bin/expr broken in 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199511302300.AAA22165@luthien.in-berlin.de> Resent-Message-ID: <199512010110.RAA10282@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 855
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /bin/expr broken in 2.1.0-RELEASE
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 30 17:10:02 PST 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Olaf Wagner
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:
>Description:
The ':'-operator fails for certain regular expressions (see below).
Due to this failure several scripts of the cnews-distribution
(eg. upact and recovact) produced an corrupted active file with
one missing field. It took me some time to isolate the problem and
to recover all the news data...
>How-To-Repeat:
[/usr/lib/news] root % expr "1111111111" : '.*\('$dots'\)$
'
1111111111
[/usr/lib/news] root % expr "0000000000" : '.*\('$dots'\)$
'
[/usr/lib/news] root %
>Fix:
As I don't have any more time to have a look at the sources, I will
install /bin/expr from the 2.0.5 distribution, wich worked correctly.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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