NetBSD Problem Report #43358

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Subject: sort mishandles arguments
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>Number:         43358
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sort mishandles arguments
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 26 00:20:00 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 27 05:55:37 +0000 2010
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jun 05 22:40:01 +0000 2010
>Originator:     David A. Holland
>Release:        NetBSD 5.1_RC2
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD macaran.eecs.harvard.edu 5.1_RC2 NetBSD 5.1_RC2 (GENERIC) #0: Fri May 21 00:29:51 UTC 2010 builds@b7.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RC2/amd64/201005210534Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-RC2/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:

# echo foo > foo
# sort foo +5
sort: -k6.1: No such file or directory
# 

>How-To-Repeat:
as above
>Fix:
be consistent about which arguments are options

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: "David A. Holland" <dholland@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/43358 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/sort
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 05:52:29 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	dholland
 Date:		Thu May 27 05:52:29 UTC 2010

 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/sort: init.c

 Log Message:
 Don't recognize "+3" after -- or after the first non-option argument.
 This prevents converting "+3" into "-k4.1" in places where getopt
 won't recognize it, which in turn prevents silly error messages and
 lossage trying to sort files whose names begin with +. PR 43358.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.24 -r1.25 src/usr.bin/sort/init.c

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Thu, 27 May 2010 05:55:37 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
fixed


From: "David A. Holland" <dholland@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/43358 CVS commit: src/tests/util
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:38:39 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	dholland
 Date:		Sat Jun  5 22:38:39 UTC 2010

 Modified Files:
 	src/tests/util: Makefile
 Added Files:
 	src/tests/util: t_sort.sh

 Log Message:
 Add a very basic test and some tests for the problem in PR 43358.

 XXX: the sort tests in src/regress should be folded into this


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/tests/util/Makefile
 cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 src/tests/util/t_sort.sh

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

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