Bug 51887 - colrm barfs on non-ASCII chars
Summary: colrm barfs on non-ASCII chars
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: util-linux
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-16 15:45 UTC by John Smith
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-16 15:45:54 UTC
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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
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