Bug 234689 - /bin/ed in endless loop when searching for pattern in last line
Summary: /bin/ed in endless loop when searching for pattern in last line
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ed
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
urgent
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Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-31 10:57 UTC by guilde.nt
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 0.7-1.fc7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-07-23 15:51:07 UTC
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Description guilde.nt 2007-03-31 10:57:59 UTC 
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Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ed-0.3-0.fc6

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.echo a >test
2.ed test
3.?^a?

Actual Results:
  100% of CPU.
  This bug was not in FC5.

Expected Results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2007-07-02 13:14:12 UTC 
Bug still exists in ed-0.6, I've reported it upstream.
Fix looks easy as there's a missing check to exit a do-while loop, but I'll
wait for confirmation before I push new packages.
Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2007-07-23 11:53:08 UTC 
fixed in ed-0.7-1.fc7 and ed-0.7-1.fc8
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-07-23 15:51:04 UTC 
ed-0.7-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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