| Summary: | gawk-4.0.0 regression in '\' escape handling in gsub() | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Ellson <john.ellson> |
| Component: | gawk | Assignee: | Martin Bříza <mbriza> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | ismail, mbriza, vvitek |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-06-28 03:20:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 808005 | ||
This is fixed upstream, see http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/diff/?id=16de770359370224129f23df745178efe518c02c The component has changed its owner to me, so I'm assigning the bug to myself. gawk-4.0.1-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gawk-4.0.1-1.fc17 gawk-4.0.1-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gawk-4.0.1-1.fc16 Package gawk-4.0.1-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gawk-4.0.1-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9014/gawk-4.0.1-1.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback). gawk-4.0.1-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. gawk-4.0.1-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: gawk-4.0.0 regression in '\' escape handling in gsub() gawk-3.1.8 works ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gawk-4.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo '\\' | gawk '{gsub("\\\\","\\\\",$0); print($0);}' 2. 3. Actual results: \\ Expected results: \\\\ Additional info: This breaks the ~20 year old stringize.awk script in graphviz that converts postscript text into C strings. This problem has also been reported by email to bug-gawk of problem: