[illumos-Developer] Need testcases for "sed" bug... / was: Re: Need short help with testing { sed, tr, pax } replacement binaries on i386 ...

[Roland Mainz]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
>
>> I've uploaded a first _test_ version of the { /usr/bin/sed,
>> /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tr and /usr/bin pax } replacement binaries
>> for i386 to http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/solaris/illumos/posixcore20100701_i386_001.tar.bz2
>
> ast-sed has the same bug as the FreeBSD did have last year: incorrect backslash
>        handling. We cannot replace programs in a way that cause existing scripts
>        to fail.

Grumpf...
... erm... Joerg... this is the 3rd try and email in three days I'm
sending to you with the request to get a testcase:
We need one or more testcases to "see" this bug and fix it, please. We
can't fix what we can't "see".

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Bye,
Roland

P.S.: "sed"/"sedcomp" and "awk"/"awkcomp" are Olga's pet projects (and
part of her master thesis). It would be nice if we could delay making
decisions without her expertise and just wait for her.

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