Re: [9fans] Very old bug in db(1)

[Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>]

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I could be wrong, but looks like nobody cares about such small fixes.

A few days ago, I've found some very old small errors (one in the 2c(1) man
page and one in col(1) that affects man pages' visualization in variable
width fonts) but had no feedback.
I guess that the most effective way to cope with such old and small bugs,
is to report them on 9fans (and other related mailing lists), possibly with
a patch.
This way, any other user that hit the bug (and find your email) can apply
the patch and fix them in his $home/bin (or somewhere else) and then bind
-b it to /bin.


Giacomo

2015-03-19 7:41 GMT+01:00 Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga@shike2.com>:

> I was doing some experiments with db(1), when I tried something like:
>
> main:b *argv/X
>
> and it gave me an error. I debugged it and I found that is a bug in the
> code due to a mix between char* and Rune*. I have created a patch
> in sources with the name unicode-db.
>
> The funny thing is this error must be at least 20 years old,
> because clearly its origin is the unicode translation of old unix tools.
> I have checked  labs, 9front and plan9port and all of them have
> the error (in some moment someone realized about a warning
> of the compiler about different pointer types and simply put a
> cast, that is not present in the code of plan9port).
>
> I send this mail here, first because I think is the error is funy,
> second because is my first patch send to plan9 and I'm not sure about
> the process, and third because it affects to all the versions of plan9
> and I'm not sure if all of them take this bug fixes from sources.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>

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