Bug 24841

Summary:

"split" sets wrong restrictions for suffix length

Product:

Sisyphus

Reporter:

Sergey Vlasov <vsu>

Component:

coreutils

Assignee:

placeholder <placeholder>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

QA Contact:

qa-sisyphus

Severity:

major

Priority:

CC:

glebfm, ldv, mike, placeholder

Version:

unstable

Hardware:

all

OS:

Linux

URL:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7759

Attachments:

Description	Flags
proposed fix	none

Description

Sergey Vlasov 2010-12-29 23:47:28 MSK

coreutils-8.8-alt1

$ split -b 1024 -a 2
split: the suffix length needs to be at least 3
$ split -b 1G -a 2  
split: the suffix length needs to be at least 7

Without the explicit "-a 2" option the suffix length is set to some value depending on the "-b" option value. This behavior is obviously wrong (the suffix length should not depend on the block size) and violates POSIX (which specifies that the default suffix length is 2).

Looks like the block size is handled as the number of blocks somewhere.

Comment 1

Dmitry V. Levin 2010-12-30 00:12:33 MSK

Regression due to commit v8.7-25-gbe10739.

Comment 2

Dmitry V. Levin 2010-12-30 03:20:29 MSK

$ yes y | head -n340 | split -b 1
split: output file suffixes exhausted
$ split -a 2 -b 1E < /dev/null
split: the suffix length needs to be at least 13

Very nice bug indeed.

Comment 3

Pádraig Brady 2010-12-30 13:40:37 MSK

Created attachment 4727 [details]
proposed fix

Comment 4

Dmitry V. Levin 2010-12-30 20:19:21 MSK

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=4727) [details]
> proposed fix

v8.8-7-g44dbcae works correct, thanks.

Comment 5

Repository Robot 2010-12-30 20:33:04 MSK

coreutils-8.8-alt2 -> sisyphus:

* Thu Dec 30 2010 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux> 8.8-alt2
- Updated coreutils to v8.8-7-g44dbcae (closes: #24841).