From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Long lines are causing 'less' to break in odd manners. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): less-378-11.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Works: perl -e 'print "a" x 1066;' | less Segfaults: perl -e 'print "a" x 1067;' | less Explodes: perl -e 'print "a" x 1089;' | less less: multi.c:1232: buffering_multi: Assertion `mp->intindex == 0' failed. Aborted Additional info:
I can reproduce the bug but only as a non-root user. As root everything works fine.
Created attachment 96537 [details] strace output of a sigfaulting test
works for me as root and non-root. Which locale are you using ?
I'm using en_US; I see it as both root and mortal users.