Bug 51887

Summary:	colrm barfs on non-ASCII chars
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Smith <jds10>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description John Smith 2001-08-16 15:45:50 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686)

Description of problem:
When colrm hits an input line containing a character higher
than decimal 127, it freezes.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.$ cat >junk1
  rubbish
  stuff
  buzz
  more rubbish
  ^D
2.$ tr "z" '\340' <junk1 >junk2
3.$ colrm 3 <junk2
	

Actual Results:  Output is
ru
st
and a frozen colrm

Expected Results:  
ru
st
bu
mo

Additional info:

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2001-12-28 21:01:13 UTC

I patched this in util-linux-2.11n-2