Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:42:54 GMT From: vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/142986: /dev/random can not be source for tr(1) | tr: Illegal byte sequence Message-ID: <201001191842.o0JIgseY094012@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201001191850.o0JIo61X029407@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 142986 >Category: bin >Synopsis: /dev/random can not be source for tr(1) | tr: Illegal byte sequence >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 19 18:50:05 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: vermaden >Release: 8.0-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: Stock i386 8.0-RELEASE output. >Description: While I can use /dev/random for tr(1) source (password generation for example) on Linux (CentO@ 5.4 to be precise) and also on gtr(1) from coreutils port, the BSD tr(1) does not want to cooperate with /dev/random output, as below: FreeBSD% head -c 200 /dev/random | tr -d -c 'A-Za-z0-9' tr: Illegal byte sequence FreeBSD% head -c 200 /dev/random| gtr -d -c 'A-Za-z0-9' x9SMkHI4INJOwwAHhHocHElFdrVJOEMYxgtcVndR CentOS$ head -c 200 /dev/random | tr -d -c 'A-Za-z0-9' KMLqkAymFbFlpXPNrs5PaQ6McrHW3xzeBo9zm3aaL >How-To-Repeat: FreeBSD% head -c 200 /dev/random | tr -d -c 'A-Za-z0-9' tr: Illegal byte sequence FreeBSD% head -c 200 /dev/random| gtr -d -c 'A-Za-z0-9' x9SMkHI4INJOwwAHhHocHElFdrVJOEMYxgtcVndR CentOS$ head -c 200 /dev/random | tr -d -c 'A-Za-z0-9' KMLqkAymFbFlpXPNrs5PaQ6McrHW3xzeBo9zm3aaL >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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