Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:42:43 +1100 (EST) From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: standards/36074: paste(1) should not accept no arguments Message-ID: <200203190242.g2J2ghC00736@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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>Number: 36074
>Category: standards
>Synopsis: paste(1) should not accept no arguments
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-standards
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 18 18:50:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tim J. Robbins
>Release: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #8: Tue Mar 19 08:46:39 EST 2002 tim@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DESCENT i386
>Description:
When invoked with no arguments, paste(1) does nothing instead of
giving a usage error message, like its usage and SYNOPSIS would indicate,
as well as the standard.
>How-To-Repeat:
paste
>Fix:
Index: paste/paste.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/paste/paste.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 paste.c
--- paste/paste.c 1999/08/28 01:04:53 1.6
+++ paste/paste.c 2002/03/02 17:40:30
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@
argc -= optind;
argv += optind;
+ if (*argv == NULL)
+ usage();
+
if (!delim) {
delimcnt = 1;
delim = "\t";
>Release-Note:
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